March 2017 Comic Book Sales Report - Top 10's

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%

>>91345281
>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)

>>91345297
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.

>>91345312
>8. DEATHSTROKE VOLUME 1: THE PROFESSIONAL TP (DC)
Yes yes.

>>91345281
> 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!

>>91345281
Gabriel was right. Expect more $9.99 Marvel "specials" now

>>91345297
>> 1. DC ENTERTAINMENT - 35.46%
>> 2. MARVEL COMICS - 34.34%
Oh boy

>>91345383
Dude, it's a fucking achievement to get to 25 issues in Modern Marvel these days. Spider-fags have to celebrate

>>91345297
>1. MARVEL COMICS - 35.41%
> 2. DC ENTERTAINMENT - 28.75
DC BTFO AGAIN AND ALL IS RIGHT WITH THE WORLD

>>91345312
>> 5. DEATH OF X TP (MAR)
face it, anons, we get the trash we're asking for

>>91345312
> 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.

>>91345418
Nice falseflag, DCfriend.

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>>91345312
>8. DEATHSTROKE VOLUME 1: THE PROFESSIONAL TP (DC)
I'm happy

>>91345297
>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.

>>91345312
> 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?

>>91345476
Spiderfags have more money than common sense

>>91345476
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.

>>91345476
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.

>>91345281
>Spider-Man
>Batman
>#1s
>Star Wars
>TWD
>JL

Will humanity ever change

>>91345536
Collectors don't care about trades and the direct market is Collector-Based.

>>91345512
but the book routinely hovers at 60k. they triple the price and sales double?

fucking idiots.

>>91345281
>The Top 300 will be out Monday, right?

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

>>91345297
> 1. DC ENTERTAINMENT - 35.46%
> 2. MARVEL COMICS - 34.34%

Marvel on suicide watch

>>91345580
>Milestone issue
>return of Norman Osborn
>Immonen on art
>probably a bunch of variants
>return of Based Octopus
Lotta things going for it.

>>91345383
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.

>>91345590
I would like to see the drop. It had a lot of hype, so it probably does have pretty good #1 numbers

>>91345590
40k or 30k.

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>>91345476
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.

>>91345618
>return of Based Octopus
That's not a selling point.

>>91345297
>>UNIT MARKET SHARE
>> 1. DC ENTERTAINMENT - 35.46%
>> 2. MARVEL COMICS - 34.34%
Based Rebirth did it the absolute madman

>>91345634
>spiderfags are battered housewives
>the same has been said about X-fags

hmmm

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>>91345520
It was lowered like 20 years ago.

>>91345625
I'm actually guessing 50k-60k. The drop will be huge, but some people were asking for a solo for years

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>>91345658
This

>>91345668
I would guess around 50k too. And even that's still low for a Marvel #1. Even Gwenpool broke 100k like a year ago?

>>91345638
It's the only selling point desu senpai

>>91345668
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.

>>91345691
Gwenpool had a lot of hype behind it.

>>91345668
>some people
I'm pretty sure America Chavez doesn't have 60,000 fans.

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>>91345281
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.

>>91345281
>> 1. AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #25 (MAR)
FUCK!

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

>>91345512
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.

>>91345281
>3. BATMAN #18 (DC)
> 4. BATMAN #19 (DC)
Is there a hope that is actually below 100k?

>>91345312
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.

>>91345800
it probably already is, Comichron numbers had the last few issues at sub 100k

>>91345383
>>91345399
>>91345464
>>91345601
>>91345640
>Barely a percent
Oh wow so impressive let's see how they did with SOMETHING THAT ACTUALLY MATTERS LIKE MOVIES OR TV SHOWS

>>91345281
>2. DARK KNIGHT III: THE MASTER RACE #8 (DC)
Issue eight? This shit started years ago!

Also, who is reading it?

>>91345464
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.

>>91345281
>Raise all Monthly Books a dollar more
>Still do terrible in the dollar share
Kek, is this the end of DCfriends?

>>91345800
Even if it did it's just barely so. No less than 98k probably. And it'll rebound with The Button soon regardless.

>>91345803
While it's good, Amazon's charts don't mean that much a lot. You need to look at the Bookscan numbers at least.

>>91345864
Marvel publishes a ton more books than DC.

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

>>91345863
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

>>91345899
Wasn't the issue 17 around 98k? It's probably less than this.

>>91345896
March monthlies were still 2.99 dummy

>>91345910
This is not true anymore. The Diamond link says they both shipped 92 comics in March.

>>91345896
Considering they are selling more issues than marvel despite having less books on the market, I'd say no, it's not

>>91345835
TV SHOWS

"The Flash" was the fourth biggest TV hit of 2016, anon.

Luke Cage is the most successful Marvel TV show and was the 16th.

>>91345896
Monthly books are raised in April, not March

>>91345916
Batman 16 $2.99 DC 102,096
Batman 17 $2.99 DC 99,637

>>91345864
I know, but it's still great that DC has managed to recover like that after their pretty terrible pre-Rebirth numbers.

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>>91345297
>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.

>>91345931
Fuck, Luke Cage was several orders of magnitude better than Iron Fist

>>91345941
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.

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>>91345995
>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"?

>>91345953
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.

>>91345618
>Milestone issue
>#25
It's a sad commentary on the state of Marvel's constant relaunches that 25 is a milestone number.

>>91346027
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.

>>91345312
>deathstroke overselling batgirl

sometimes people are good

>>91346021
The button will definitely a temporary boost too, but it will be probably go down again during the 8 parts arc.

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>>91346027
Marvel ALWAYS wins baby

>>91346027
Marvel's the one that's in the middle of a relaunch while DC's is a year past, anon. This is a complete crash and burn of NOW2

>>91346071
you mean Geoff Johns anon, when Geoff Johns was outselling every Marvel book. Rip off Johns name there and it wouldn't have done half as good

>>91346027
Rebirth started like 6 months ago or something, this is Marvel collapsing more than anything.

>>91346034
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.

>>91345835
>Hi guise I come from /tv/ and only care about shit TV shows and movies

>>91345312
>TItans volume 1
Shit guise. Can we finally get a Wally West solo now?

>>91345835
CWverse is way more popular than the Netflixverse and AoS

>>91346102
Rebirth started 11 months ago. Almost a year.

>>91346027
>just after
a year after

>>91346114
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

>>91346170
>That's all normalfags from /tv/ care about

>>91346170
considering people in the comics divisions don't see that money I don't think they care

>>91346027
>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.

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

>>91345995
>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

>>91346245
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.

>>91345312
>> 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.

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

>>91346228
The only 80 page comic I bought in the past year cost me 2.99

>>91346275
(Sorry meant two months prior to march)

>>91346280
Just like DC and their "movies"

>>91346228
I agree with you: there has to be someone on /co/ who bought that overpriced issue.
I'd like these people to come out and explain why do they hate themselves so much

>>91346306
I am willing to admit that cape movies are shit. This is a comics board anon.

>>91346272
F

>>91346306
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

>>91346275
He means in a year since DC has outselling Marvel for that long.

>>91346327
>I love super heroes like Iron man and Captain America!
>What's a LCS?
>Free comic book day? What's that?
Your average Marvel Fan.

>>91346350
Not even that. I'm talking about sales from Amazon and such not comic shops.

>>91345318
Doofusanon here. LCSes are being shoveled piles of unordered, free comics, specifically America 1 and 2. How does this affect the numbers?

>>91345590
Also, when they count the top 300, do they include all the free issues they handed out?

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>>91345281
>> 2. DARK KNIGHT III: THE MASTER RACE #8 (DC)
>> 3. BATMAN #18 (DC)
>> 4. BATMAN #19 (DC)
>> 8. ALL-STAR BATMAN #8 (DC)
>> 10. JUSTICE LEAGUE #16 (DC)
Back in track. And we also congratulate Marvel, of course.

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>>91345312
>> 8. DEATHSTROKE VOLUME 1: THE PROFESSIONAL TP (DC)
Who can say no to this bad mutha--

>>91346387
That will be included, but retailers also hate overshipping so it might cause them to decrease their actual orders somewhat too since they don't want a ton of issues they can't tell. In the end it likely won't be too dramatic especially not past the #1. Not enough that Marvel can suggest it's a success.

Basically you can look at the Vision numbers for the last high profile time they tried this tactic (and it does kind of suck there that it didn't work since the book was worth reading).

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>>91346431

>>91345312
>The return of Wally West .6
So it's clear that the fans want more Wally. Now will DC deliver?

>>91346510
The only reason not to give him a book would be scared Barryfags in editorial who don't want a "competing" title (which would be dumb considering the main Flash book will sell better anyway).

>>91345281
>P. Craig Russell and Scott Hampton's Neil Gaiman's American Gods: Shadows #1
>ComicList not crediting good old Hampton
Fags.

>>91345835
>>>/tv/

>>91346280
I couldn't care less about your pathetic company war expect as a source for entertainment for me, but I have to say this.

Marvel currently at its worst still didn't do as bad as DC did before Rebirth and DC should have done better than they are currently doing. Both DC and Marvel aren't doing so great, but non of them is dying any time soon.

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Surely another Marvel relaunch where they bring people back to tell their replacements how awesome they are will do the trick.

>>91346636
>Marvel at it's worst
This is Marvel at it's best since it just had a relaunch.

>>91346636
>I'm not a Marvel shill, but...

>>91345835
>WAAHH STOP MAKING FUN OF THIS CORPSE OF A COMPANY
no

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>>91346327
Only 5th place in the 2016 bookscans numbers.

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>>91346779
In comparison to DC, which is in 2nd place in 2016 Bookscan numbers.

>>91346703
A relunch that happened so soon after the previous one and they were forced to overship/give free copys because no one likes their current comics.

Yes, they are at their worst state.

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>>91346791
And this is Image in 3rd place, doing much better than Marvel in the 2016 Bookscan numbers

>>91346779
Has to be at least two main issues to me: Marvel has failed to build professional relationships in this market that would allow the to have success and (probably to a lesser extent) Marvel Unlimited is undercutting whatever they might be doing right.

Lesser problems of course would be their overpriced collections with shitty paper, but at least they theoretically could easily fix these. Though they don't seem to care based on the recent comments.

>>91345281
>TOP 10 COMIC BOOKS
Where is America, you shitlords?

>>91346793
But that inflated their unit number so this is the best they are going to do number wise in a long time.

>>91347156
>in a long time
A what?

>>91346431
I wonder how much he appreciates that he doesn't have to write another black character. Didn't he want to do a Cap run but got denied?

>>91345281
>all that Batman
Christ, people really need to start reading other DC heroes too. Why are comic fans so obsessed with Batman?

>>91347259
>Didn't he want to do a Cap run but got denied?
Worse, they told him to write a Cap and Falcon book.

>>91347274
Why are they so obsessed with #1's or TWD or SW too?

>>91347293
I don't know. Batman is the mystery for me though, because DC has so many other great characters.

Yet every time it's Batman, Batman, Batman. Comics, movies, videogames, animated series, everywhere.

>>91347330
Not really, they barely touched Batman in those CW shows and they are massively popular right now. Batman has a huge fanbase and DC doesn't treat them like shit so that's why the books always sell well

>>91347377
Fox has Batman live-action TV rights, CW can't touch him

>>91345281
So, how overshipped WAS Iron Fist?

Because I'm enjoying it and good on it for being a sales success, but there's no way that isn't Marvel Bloat in action.

>>91347330
Protip: in a superhero universe, only a 10% of the characters can be really big.

>>91347377
The only reason CW shows don't have Batman is because DC didn't let them use Batman.
DC only cares about Batman so Normalfags only know about batman and only buy batman

>>91347330
People like what they like. It's entertainment not school. Ideally you do branch out just for the sake of variety but it's shit we read so we don't kill ourselves after work. Not that serious.

>>91347506
I'm sure that some normalfags have heard of Flash or Green Arrow.

>>91347528
That's only because of the CW shows and the only reason the CW shows are Flash and GA is because DC didn't let CW use Batman.

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>>91345297
> 1. DC ENTERTAINMENT - 35.46%
> 2. MARVEL COMICS - 34.34%
Rebirth fucking deserves it

Not even surprised about ASM being on top. Comic book fans are the fucking worst.

I am surprised about Walking Dead. Does it usually sell that well?

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>ASM 25, number 1
>10 dollar book
>nothing good in it.
Wow,an I thought Xfags were the battered house wives of Marvel.

>>91345754
Is there a link for this info? I'm really curious

>>91345297
>>UNIT MARKET SHARE
>> 1. DC ENTERTAINMENT - 35.46%
>> 2. MARVEL COMICS - 34.34%
Nick Spencer on suicide watch

>>91347554
>DC didn't let CW
Or anybody else. Batman is too big.

>>91346414
Anyone has the full image of this?

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>>91347904

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>>91347933
And there is also this one.

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>>91347955
>>91347933
Thanks mate

>>91346387
>Also, when they count the top 300, do they include all the free issues they handed out?
They do since Diamond's numbers are based on units shipped. Marvel is overshipping solely to inflate their numbers much like they would do with Lootcrate and whatnot previously.

>>91346791
>>91346779
well to be fair, around the 00s DC was shitting out Modern Classics after Modern Classic. Nothing in the 00s that Marvel put out would be deeply ingrained to a character the same way most DC books were at the time. Marvel didn't have no All Star Superman, no Hush (as bleh as it was), no Sinestro Corps War, they got no Red Son, no Identity Crisis (god I hate how popular this got), no Y the Last Man. Christ the sheer number of books with lasting power that DC puts out is enormous. Marvel has what? Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe (Which they've already milked to death with all the sequels) and Civil War.

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>>91348209

>>91348209
This can even be seen in their films, when you see MoS and BvS as much deviation there was from the source material you can clearly see what books inspired these. Look at Marvel's movies and there's a broader sense of where they took inspiration from instead of just a singular storyline it's most often spread out. Civil War, Iron Man 3, The Winter Soldier are the most adaption heavy films and even they had tons of liberties.

>>91345281
>Spider-man back on top
>X-men and Iron Fist beating Batman and the entire Justice League

DShit is dead. Bury it.

>>91348425
are you blind or something? Batman beat those two thrice.

>>91345803
does amazon usually correlate to TPB sales?
I mean I buy all my trades from there but does diamond track those orders?

>>91345383
>Are Spider-Fags retarded?

Do you have to ask?

>>91348466
There was a time from the 60s to the 80s when being a spider-fag was the best ;_;

>>91345512
>>91345580
>>91345618

It's also very easy to sell big $10 "special issues" to normies since they're interested in one-off stories. People bought the fuck out of Rebirth for that reason (in addition to it being cheap.) And don't discount the speculator market.

Marvel should just sell all their books at $10.

>>91345281
DC is finished.

>>91348507
>Marvel should just sell all their books at $10.
CRASHING THE MARKET WITH NO SURVIVORS

>>91348507
>It's also very easy to sell big $10 "special issues" to normies since they're interested in one-off stories.
The $10 Deadpool special bombed at retailers and royally pissed them off. It's beaten down Spiderfags making it work this time around. Marvel's newest strategy could just revolve around reeling $10 Spider-Man and X-Men specials every six months and it may actually work because of the fans.

>>91348507
>Marvel should just sell all their books at $10.
Or stop making comics at all and license their character to DC. This is embarrassing for everyone

>>91345835
DC TV shows are orders of magnitude more successful than Marvel's.

Remember Agent Carter and Agents of SHIT?

>>91348577
>license their character to DC
Indies are cheaper. And I'd love to see SW comics from Dark Horse again.

>>91345995
How many more books does Marvel publish than DC again?

>>91348464
Diamond does not report those numbers. Bookscan is the service that does though and the publisher would also know so it's still good to buy from there if it's best for you.

>>91345281
Bison says YES!

>>91348612
It's the same number right now. Reported in OP's link.

PUBLISHER COMICS SHIPPED GRAPHIC NOVELS SHIPPED MAGAZINES SHIPPED TOTAL SHIPPED
MARVEL COMICS 92 39 0 131
DC ENTERTAINMENT 92 31 0 123

>>91345297
Make mine DC

>>91348209
>Which they've already milked to death with all the sequels

Well they're gonna milk it even more with "Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe Again!"

So, if I understand correctly, Marvel ripped off its fans for money, while more people read DC?

How expensive marvel books will have to be, to keep their dollar share that high?

>>91345421
>>91345423
DoX was actually good, because Cyclops was shown as based, while shithumans were shown as... shithumans

I would be more worried had IvX sold better

>>91345634
I was always saying that, but the x-men memes are stronger. Also, it's worth noting that Spider-Man has more books than X-Men currently

>>91345754
damn, that's a shame. Fuck you diamon

>>91348612
>>91348645
Marvel put out fewer books this month, and DC had those Flintstones/BoosterGold specials that count as a new book

>>91346387
>How does this affect the numbers?
Increases unit share but doesn't effect retail share.

>>91348756
Well last year with Deadpool they've been doing the $9.99 special issues... like three or four times. And of course all the regular issues are like $3.99 now, debut issues being $4.99 or $5.99 depending on certain factors.

>>91345418
>$10 for 40 pages
How the fuck are spiderfags so retarded

>>91345318
>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.
"UHM THANKS FOR THESE SPIDERMAN BOOKS MARVEL CAN I HAVE SOME MORE SHIT IN MY MOUTH PLEASE NOM NOM SO TASTY HERE HAVE 1000 BUCKS JUST ONE MORE LICK OHHHH"
t. every spiderman fan right now

>>91345835
Warners makes a billion a year from DC TV alone:

http://lrmonline.com/news/dc-tv-shows-make-over-1-billion-a-year-in-revenue-for-time-warner

>>91349537
>40 pages
It was 76.

>>91345281
>> 1. AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #25 (MAR)
>> 2. DARK KNIGHT III: THE MASTER RACE #8 (DC)
DC is OVER

New Rebirth 52 when?

>>91345297
> 1. DC ENTERTAINMENT - 35.46%
> 2. MARVEL COMICS - 34.34%

Rip in pieces Marlel you'll be missed

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>>91345312
>8. DEATHSTROKE VOLUME 1: THE PROFESSIONAL TP (DC)
>9. BATGIRL VOLUME 1: BEYOND BURNSIDE TP (DC)


>a good book selling better than a bad one

>>91351321
Also it seems Burnside Barbara has worn off... time for another change like getting rid of Barbara

>>91351522
Not with the upcoming Whedon movie

>>91351537
Maybe it'll be so shit they'll change her so people forget about her

>>91345281
Even with another DARK KNIGHT they can't topple based Spider-Man. Too bad! Ha!

>>91352007
well it's DC so the odds are pretty good

>>91349537
Marvel already charge $5 just because an issue is a "#1" (but not really seeing as the last #1 was just 6 months before).

>>91352122
You mean they can't topple Spider-fags autism.

>>91345297
>UNIT MARKET SHARE
>> 1. DC ENTERTAINMENT - 35.46%
>> 2. MARVEL COMICS - 34.34%
Absolutely btfo.

>>91352007
>>91352191
Casscucks are still here?

>>91353154
>Barbfags are this insecure

>>91351522
Can you imagine the hypocritical whining that would ensue if she went back to being Oracle?
I want her back so bad.

>>91351537
I seriously doubt the movie's gonna happen.

>>91352619
>Spider-fags autism.
That was very rude. Please apologize.