March 2017 Comic Book Sales Report - Top 10's

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)


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TOP COMIC BOOK PUBLISHERS

>RETAIL MARKET SHARE
> 1. MARVEL COMICS - 35.41%
> 2. DC ENTERTAINMENT - 28.75%
> 3. IMAGE COMICS - 10.71%
> 4. IDW PUBLISHING - 5.68%
> 5. DARK HORSE COMICS - 3.48%
> 6. BOOM! STUDIOS - 2.15%
> 7. DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT - 1.76%
> 8. TITAN COMICS - 1.15%
> 9. VIZ MEDIA - 1.14%
> 10. VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT LLC - 1.14%
> OTHER NON-TOP 10 - 8.62%


>UNIT MARKET SHARE
> 1. DC ENTERTAINMENT - 35.46%
> 2. MARVEL COMICS - 34.34%
> 3. IMAGE COMICS - 10.02%
> 4. IDW PUBLISHING - 4.72%
> 5. DARK HORSE COMICS - 3.09%
> 6. DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT - 2.00%
> 7. BOOM! STUDIOS - 1.86%
> 8. VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT LLC - 1.37%
> 9. TITAN COMICS - 1.06%
> 10. ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS - 0.77%
> OTHER NON-TOP 10 - 5.31%

>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)

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.

>8. DEATHSTROKE VOLUME 1: THE PROFESSIONAL TP (DC)
Yes yes.

> 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!

Gabriel was right. Expect more $9.99 Marvel "specials" now

>> 1. DC ENTERTAINMENT - 35.46%
>> 2. MARVEL COMICS - 34.34%
Oh boy

Dude, it's a fucking achievement to get to 25 issues in Modern Marvel these days. Spider-fags have to celebrate

>1. MARVEL COMICS - 35.41%
> 2. DC ENTERTAINMENT - 28.75
DC BTFO AGAIN AND ALL IS RIGHT WITH THE WORLD

>> 5. DEATH OF X TP (MAR)
face it, anons, we get the trash we're asking for

> 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.

Nice falseflag, DCfriend.

>8. DEATHSTROKE VOLUME 1: THE PROFESSIONAL TP (DC)
I'm happy

>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.

> 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.

how the fuck is a $10 book #1?

Spiderfags have more money than common sense

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.

Remember how books used to have longer issues for celebrating publishing milestones like #50 or #100? The bar has been lowered to #25

>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.

>Spider-Man
>Batman
>#1s
>Star Wars
>TWD
>JL

Will humanity ever change

Collectors don't care about trades and the direct market is Collector-Based.

but the book routinely hovers at 60k. they triple the price and sales double?

fucking idiots.

>The Top 300 will be out Monday, right?

I really wanna see how America #1 did. Probably better than anyone here wishes.

> 1. DC ENTERTAINMENT - 35.46%
> 2. MARVEL COMICS - 34.34%

Marvel on suicide watch

>Milestone issue
>return of Norman Osborn
>Immonen on art
>probably a bunch of variants
>return of Based Octopus
Lotta things going for it.

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.

I would like to see the drop. It had a lot of hype, so it probably does have pretty good #1 numbers

40k or 30k.

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.

>return of Based Octopus
That's not a selling point.

>>UNIT MARKET SHARE
>> 1. DC ENTERTAINMENT - 35.46%
>> 2. MARVEL COMICS - 34.34%
Based Rebirth did it the absolute madman

>spiderfags are battered housewives
>the same has been said about X-fags

hmmm

It was lowered like 20 years ago.

I'm actually guessing 50k-60k. The drop will be huge, but some people were asking for a solo for years

This

I would guess around 50k too. And even that's still low for a Marvel #1. Even Gwenpool broke 100k like a year ago?

It's the only selling point desu senpai

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.

Gwenpool had a lot of hype behind it.

>some people
I'm pretty sure America Chavez doesn't have 60,000 fans.

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.

>> 1. AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #25 (MAR)
FUCK!

Be prepared for a U$10 issue every six months now.

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.

>3. BATMAN #18 (DC)
> 4. BATMAN #19 (DC)
Is there a hope that is actually below 100k?

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.

it probably already is, Comichron numbers had the last few issues at sub 100k

>Barely a percent
Oh wow so impressive let's see how they did with SOMETHING THAT ACTUALLY MATTERS LIKE MOVIES OR TV SHOWS

>2. DARK KNIGHT III: THE MASTER RACE #8 (DC)
Issue eight? This shit started years ago!

Also, who is reading it?

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.

>Raise all Monthly Books a dollar more
>Still do terrible in the dollar share
Kek, is this the end of DCfriends?

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.

Marvel publishes a ton more books than DC.

They're making more books and spending more money making those books.

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

Wasn't the issue 17 around 98k? It's probably less than this.

March monthlies were still 2.99 dummy

This is not true anymore. The Diamond link says they both shipped 92 comics in March.

Considering they are selling more issues than marvel despite having less books on the market, I'd say no, it's not

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.

Monthly books are raised in April, not March

Batman 16 $2.99 DC 102,096
Batman 17 $2.99 DC 99,637

I know, but it's still great that DC has managed to recover like that after their pretty terrible pre-Rebirth numbers.

>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.

Fuck, Luke Cage was several orders of magnitude better than Iron Fist

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.

>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"?

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.

>Milestone issue
>#25
It's a sad commentary on the state of Marvel's constant relaunches that 25 is a milestone number.

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.

>deathstroke overselling batgirl

sometimes people are good

The button will definitely a temporary boost too, but it will be probably go down again during the 8 parts arc.

Marvel ALWAYS wins baby

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

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

Rebirth started like 6 months ago or something, this is Marvel collapsing more than anything.

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.

>Hi guise I come from Sup Forums and only care about shit TV shows and movies

>TItans volume 1
Shit guise. Can we finally get a Wally West solo now?

CWverse is way more popular than the Netflixverse and AoS

Rebirth started 11 months ago. Almost a year.

>just after
a year after

that's all anyone cares about

>Marvel only on beating DC because of selling a 10$ spiderman issue
>People think this means Marvel isn't dead

>That's all normalfags from Sup Forums care about

considering people in the comics divisions don't see that money I don't think they care

>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?

Who here bought Spider-Man #25? Seriously.

I don't want to point fingers, but please, don't destroy the market like that.

>The best Marvel has done all year is still worse than DC on a random month

>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

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.

>> 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.

So can Marvel finally admit it's over? Even a relaunch can't save them.

The only 80 page comic I bought in the past year cost me 2.99

(Sorry meant two months prior to march)

Just like DC and their "movies"

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

I am willing to admit that cape movies are shit. This is a comics board user.

F

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

He means in a year since DC has outselling Marvel for that long.