TOP 10 COMIC BOOKS > 1. AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #25 (MAR) > 2. DARK KNIGHT III: THE MASTER RACE #8 (DC) > 3. BATMAN #18 (DC) > 4. BATMAN #19 (DC) > 5. IRON FIST #1 (MAR) > 6. X-MEN PRIME #1 (MAR) > 7. STAR WARS #29 (MAR) > 8. ALL-STAR BATMAN #8 (DC) > 9. THE WALKING DEAD #165 (MR) (IMA) > 10. JUSTICE LEAGUE #16 (DC)
>Among the premier publishers, P. Craig Russell and Scott Hampton's Neil Gaiman's American Gods: Shadows #1, adapting Neil Gaiman's award-winning novel to comics, was Dark Horse Comics' best-selling title in March at #36, and IDW Publishing's Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures #5, a co-production with DC Entertainment, was their best-selling title at #107.
TOP 10 GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS > 1. AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #25 (MAR) > 2. DARK KNIGHT III: THE MASTER RACE #8 (DC) > 3. BATMAN #18 (DC) > 4. BATMAN #19 (DC) > 5. IRON FIST #1 (MAR) > 6. X-MEN PRIME #1 (MAR) > 7. STAR WARS #29 (MAR) > 8. ALL-STAR BATMAN #8 (DC) > 9. THE WALKING DEAD #165 (MR) (IMA) > 10. JUSTICE LEAGUE #16 (DC)
>TOP 10 GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS Sorry for dupe of the floppies part: > 1. SAGA VOLUME 7 TP (MR) (IMA) > 2. THE WALKING DEAD VOLUME 27: THE WHISPERER WAR TP (IMA) > 3. HARLEY QUINN VOLUME 1: DIE LAUGHING TP (DC) > 4. SUICIDE SQUAD VOLUME 1: THE BLACK VAULT TP (DC) > 5. DEATH OF X TP (MAR) > 6. TITANS VOLUME 1: THE RETURN OF WALLY WEST TP (DC) > 7. WOLVERINE: OLD MAN LOGAN TP (MAR) > 8. DEATHSTROKE VOLUME 1: THE PROFESSIONAL TP (DC) > 9. BATGIRL VOLUME 1: BEYOND BURNSIDE TP (DC) > 10. DEADLY CLASS VOLUME 5: CAROUSEL TP (MR) (IMA)
Adam Nelson
And before anyone asks, Retail Market Share is how much money was made while Unit Market Share is number of copies sold. Marvel's retail market share is so much higher than DC despite DC beating them out in unit market share is because ASM #25, their highest selling comic, was $10 combined with the fact that DC's double-shipping books are all 2.99 compared to Marvel's 3.99 for monthly books.
Levi Thompson
>8. DEATHSTROKE VOLUME 1: THE PROFESSIONAL TP (DC) Yes yes.
Benjamin Reyes
> 1. AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #25 (MAR) Was that the $10 bucks issue? Are Spider-Fags retarded?
>> 5. IRON FIST #1 (MAR) Variant covers or interest caused by the TV series? Either way, good for Danny.
>UNIT MARKET SHARE > 1. DC ENTERTAINMENT - 35.46% > 2. MARVEL COMICS - 34.34% IT HAPPENED!
Hunter Walker
Gabriel was right. Expect more $9.99 Marvel "specials" now
Bentley Watson
>> 1. DC ENTERTAINMENT - 35.46% >> 2. MARVEL COMICS - 34.34% Oh boy
Bentley Taylor
Dude, it's a fucking achievement to get to 25 issues in Modern Marvel these days. Spider-fags have to celebrate
Jose Johnson
>1. MARVEL COMICS - 35.41% > 2. DC ENTERTAINMENT - 28.75 DC BTFO AGAIN AND ALL IS RIGHT WITH THE WORLD
Ian Watson
>> 5. DEATH OF X TP (MAR) face it, anons, we get the trash we're asking for
William Roberts
> 5. DEATH OF X TP (MAR) Who spends money on this?
> 8. DEATHSTROKE VOLUME 1: THE PROFESSIONAL TP (DC) FUCK YEAH! I will buy a copy just to help the book.
Zachary Bailey
Nice falseflag, DCfriend.
Joshua Perez
>8. DEATHSTROKE VOLUME 1: THE PROFESSIONAL TP (DC) I'm happy
Blake Reed
>DC ENTERTAINMENT - 35.46% And they're ahead after roughly a year of catching up, and the retail gap is still growing smaller. Not what most people would have expected after the total failure of DCYou.
Ryder Perez
> 8. DEATHSTROKE VOLUME 1: THE PROFESSIONAL TP (DC) Good. > 3. HARLEY QUINN VOLUME 1: DIE LAUGHING TP (DC) > 9. BATGIRL VOLUME 1: BEYOND BURNSIDE TP (DC) Bad.
Grayson Martin
how the fuck is a $10 book #1?
Joshua Miller
Spiderfags have more money than common sense
Wyatt Clark
Never doubt the power of the Spider-fags. They're like the X-fags except instead of buying 10 different books, they only need to buy one book.
Austin Williams
Remember how books used to have longer issues for celebrating publishing milestones like #50 or #100? The bar has been lowered to #25
Ayden Morgan
>A $10 trade struggles to sell 20k over the course of an entire year >A $10 floppy sells 100k in one month
Can't really understand the market behavior here.
Hudson Cook
>Spider-Man >Batman >#1s >Star Wars >TWD >JL
Will humanity ever change
David Young
Collectors don't care about trades and the direct market is Collector-Based.
Tyler Gutierrez
but the book routinely hovers at 60k. they triple the price and sales double?
fucking idiots.
Landon Young
>The Top 300 will be out Monday, right?
I really wanna see how America #1 did. Probably better than anyone here wishes.
Dylan Rivera
> 1. DC ENTERTAINMENT - 35.46% > 2. MARVEL COMICS - 34.34%
Marvel on suicide watch
Kevin Gomez
>Milestone issue >return of Norman Osborn >Immonen on art >probably a bunch of variants >return of Based Octopus Lotta things going for it.
Jace Morgan
It's probably just a variant/#1 bump on Iron Fist. Maybe you get a little retailers hoping normies will stop by after Netflix, but the #2 will drop enough to show that isn't a significant effect.
James Gonzalez
I would like to see the drop. It had a lot of hype, so it probably does have pretty good #1 numbers
Brody Howard
40k or 30k.
Ian Cox
Spiderfags are the real battered housewives of this market. X-fags are a lot louder in their whining but sooner or later always get what they want, however Spiderfags keep buying despite having the certainty they'll never obtain better stories.
Jacob Hill
>return of Based Octopus That's not a selling point.
Adam Davis
>>UNIT MARKET SHARE >> 1. DC ENTERTAINMENT - 35.46% >> 2. MARVEL COMICS - 34.34% Based Rebirth did it the absolute madman
Chase Russell
>spiderfags are battered housewives >the same has been said about X-fags
hmmm
Sebastian Baker
It was lowered like 20 years ago.
Elijah White
I'm actually guessing 50k-60k. The drop will be huge, but some people were asking for a solo for years
Eli Perez
This
Nathaniel Perez
I would guess around 50k too. And even that's still low for a Marvel #1. Even Gwenpool broke 100k like a year ago?
Luis James
It's the only selling point desu senpai
Isaiah Myers
People were asking for Rich to come back for years and yet his #1 only got 29k if you don't count the 100% overship.
Charles Rodriguez
Gwenpool had a lot of hype behind it.
Wyatt Flores
>some people I'm pretty sure America Chavez doesn't have 60,000 fans.
Cooper Murphy
One fact not presented here: The Walking Dead #163 was actually the #1 book at over 750,000 copies ordered, but that was because it was only 25 cents, and Diamond does not include any books under $1 or free books (like for FCBD) on their charts.
Alexander Sullivan
>> 1. AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #25 (MAR) FUCK!
Be prepared for a U$10 issue every six months now.
Jace Lopez
Spider-fags are the reason Marvel US can't into the superior anthology format because of these faggots. Spidey fans are the type who won't read a strip with another character in it.
Jackson Wood
>3. BATMAN #18 (DC) > 4. BATMAN #19 (DC) Is there a hope that is actually below 100k?
Wyatt Mitchell
Amusingly on amazon.com the current number one bestseller for DC is the Flintstones trade and for Marvel it's the kindle edition of Thunderbolts Classic Vol. 1.
Leo Martinez
it probably already is, Comichron numbers had the last few issues at sub 100k
William Hill
>Barely a percent Oh wow so impressive let's see how they did with SOMETHING THAT ACTUALLY MATTERS LIKE MOVIES OR TV SHOWS
Ian Rivera
>2. DARK KNIGHT III: THE MASTER RACE #8 (DC) Issue eight? This shit started years ago!
Also, who is reading it?
Jose White
Actually, the ability to sell less of what is essentially the same product and still achieve a significantly higher dollar share of the market than your nearest competitor is a good thing.
So long as the dollar share is good, Marvel has no reason to care about the unit share - because the Diamond market as a whole isn't expanding or contracting in any meaningful way.
Eli Wilson
>Raise all Monthly Books a dollar more >Still do terrible in the dollar share Kek, is this the end of DCfriends?
Zachary Morgan
Even if it did it's just barely so. No less than 98k probably. And it'll rebound with The Button soon regardless.
While it's good, Amazon's charts don't mean that much a lot. You need to look at the Bookscan numbers at least.
Jordan Thompson
Marvel publishes a ton more books than DC.
They're making more books and spending more money making those books.
Adam Long
I'm waiting for it to finish. Thankfully #9 is the last issue, and should be out by next year. This thing has been going since november 2015
Blake Parker
Wasn't the issue 17 around 98k? It's probably less than this.
Hudson Cook
March monthlies were still 2.99 dummy
This is not true anymore. The Diamond link says they both shipped 92 comics in March.
Parker Fisher
Considering they are selling more issues than marvel despite having less books on the market, I'd say no, it's not
Samuel Howard
TV SHOWS
"The Flash" was the fourth biggest TV hit of 2016, user.
Luke Cage is the most successful Marvel TV show and was the 16th.
Evan Mitchell
Monthly books are raised in April, not March
David Allen
Batman 16 $2.99 DC 102,096 Batman 17 $2.99 DC 99,637
Levi Torres
I know, but it's still great that DC has managed to recover like that after their pretty terrible pre-Rebirth numbers.
Cooper Long
>RETAIL MARKET SHARE > 1. MARVEL COMICS - 35.41% > 2. DC ENTERTAINMENT - 28.75%
>UNIT MARKET SHARE > 1. DC ENTERTAINMENT - 35.46% > 2. MARVEL COMICS - 34.34%
MARVEL: Sure nobody's buying our books, but at least we can fuck over our existing customers with high prices to make up the difference.
Hudson Davis
Fuck, Luke Cage was several orders of magnitude better than Iron Fist
Luis Barnes
Yeah, it's definitely going to be less than 98k.
The robins appearing in issue 16 actually give it a boost since issue 14 & 15 were around 106-102k.
Jeremiah King
>UNIT MARKET SHARE > 1. DC ENTERTAINMENT - 35.46% > 2. MARVEL COMICS - 34.34% >Barely a percentage This is DC at it's "best" just after a big honking reboot event vs Marvel at it's "worst"?
Nicholas James
Man, DCYou was such a catastrophic failure.
It wasn't aimed at floppies, but at the trade market, but none of the trades did well. NONE. And the floppies tanked terribly.
The stories were good though.
Jordan Gomez
>Milestone issue >#25 It's a sad commentary on the state of Marvel's constant relaunches that 25 is a milestone number.
Jose Wilson
This isn't "DC at it's best".
DC at it's best was when Aquaman was outselling every Marvel book a few years ago.
Justin Collins
>deathstroke overselling batgirl
sometimes people are good
Henry Rogers
The button will definitely a temporary boost too, but it will be probably go down again during the 8 parts arc.
Oliver Gray
Marvel ALWAYS wins baby
Nathaniel Hall
Marvel's the one that's in the middle of a relaunch while DC's is a year past, user. This is a complete crash and burn of NOW2
Nathaniel Wood
you mean Geoff Johns user, when Geoff Johns was outselling every Marvel book. Rip off Johns name there and it wouldn't have done half as good
Austin Cruz
Rebirth started like 6 months ago or something, this is Marvel collapsing more than anything.
Matthew Gutierrez
I'd say Omega Men did well. Charted in the full-year Bookscan numbers at least. Even Midnighter didn't do that. I guess you can argue that some books that are thematically DCYou like Batgirl and Gotham Academy also did well but they launched like a year before.
Christian Martinez
>Hi guise I come from Sup Forums and only care about shit TV shows and movies
Ayden Howard
>TItans volume 1 Shit guise. Can we finally get a Wally West solo now?
Ayden Thompson
CWverse is way more popular than the Netflixverse and AoS
Carson Brooks
Rebirth started 11 months ago. Almost a year.
Isaiah Martin
>just after a year after
Samuel Jenkins
that's all anyone cares about
Jason Perez
>Marvel only on beating DC because of selling a 10$ spiderman issue >People think this means Marvel isn't dead
Owen Russell
>That's all normalfags from Sup Forums care about
Henry Harris
considering people in the comics divisions don't see that money I don't think they care
Carson Bell
>Marvel does a Relaunch and still loses to DC even with selling a 10$ spiderman comic kek. It's over. The best Marvel can hope for is still losing to DC. Isn't Rebirth like a year old by now?
William Cooper
Who here bought Spider-Man #25? Seriously.
I don't want to point fingers, but please, don't destroy the market like that.
Xavier Thomas
>The best Marvel has done all year is still worse than DC on a random month
Isaiah White
>you're comics are on average 30% more expensive >your highest selling book is three times as expensive as the average DC comic >beat DC only by 6% on the dollar market It's over. Marvel is over. Press F to pay respects
Ryan Cruz
Marvel historically has done better than DC and the year is only two months old.
I'm not trying to start company wars I'm just really confused about what you're even trying to say.
Brayden Hernandez
>> 8. DEATHSTROKE VOLUME 1: THE PROFESSIONAL TP (DC) Good for Priest. Hopefully he'll have another book coming out that i'll be more into.
Noah King
So can Marvel finally admit it's over? Even a relaunch can't save them.
Joseph Wood
The only 80 page comic I bought in the past year cost me 2.99
Isaac Roberts
(Sorry meant two months prior to march)
Julian Carter
Just like DC and their "movies"
Elijah Martin
I agree with you: there has to be someone on Sup Forums who bought that overpriced issue. I'd like these people to come out and explain why do they hate themselves so much
Kayden Allen
I am willing to admit that cape movies are shit. This is a comics board user.
Nicholas Young
F
Julian Powell
Reminder that despite being popular with normies Marvel Comics only sells half as many trades in bookstores as DC so they aren't even profiting from the success of Marvel Studios
Dylan Ward
He means in a year since DC has outselling Marvel for that long.