August 2017 Comic Book Sales Report - Top 10's

TOP COMIC BOOK PUBLISHERS
>>RETAIL MARKET SHARE
> 1. MARVEL COMICS - 35.01%
> 2. DC ENTERTAINMENT - 28.18%
> 3. IMAGE COMICS - 10.06%
> 4. IDW PUBLISHING - 4.81%
> 5. DARK HORSE COMICS - 3.16%
> 6. DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT - 2.50%
> 7. BOOM! STUDIOS - 2.19%
> 8. TITAN COMICS - 1.48%
> 9. VIZ MEDIA - 1.42%
> 10. ONI PRESS INC. - 1.28%
> OTHER NON-TOP 10 - 9.91%

>>UNIT MARKET SHARE
> 1. MARVEL COMICS - 39.52%
> 2. DC ENTERTAINMENT - 31.09%
> 3. IMAGE COMICS - 9.23%
> 4. IDW PUBLISHING - 3.69%
> 5. DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT - 3.58%
> 6. DARK HORSE COMICS - 2.18%
> 7. BOOM! STUDIOS - 1.88%
> 8. TITAN COMICS - 1.25%
> 9. ONI PRESS INC. - 0.82%
> 10. VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT LLC - 0.77%
> OTHER NON-TOP 10 - 5.98%


>Please note that comics marked with an asterisk (*) have had their reported quantities reduced due to retailer returnability, and thus may rank lower on the charts than their actual sales would reflect.


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BookScan's Top 20 GNs for August in this Western comics vs Japanese manga thread: >>95162413

>secret empire finale that low

Wheres Hope!Didio anon

>>95189090
Jesus how low did SE go?

That top 10 is disgusting all around.

>>95189170
>batman
>marvel event
>marvel relaunch one shot
>star wars

the more things change,the more things stay the same

And it turns out that the problem with my internet is that undersea cables were hit by recent typhoons.

>>95189170
And people wonder why Comics are dying.

We've still got several stacks of SE sitting on the shelves. People still come in and buy Batman or Metal.

Fucking Marvel is single handedly ruining comic books and don't get me started on Legacy.

>>95189226
WOW .. Marvel really need help

How will Marvel break top 10 now when they're going back to original numbering ( no #1 money) and no events?

>>95189500
The same why DC is incapable of reaching top 10 without Batman or event that has Batman.

They both equally pathetic.

>>95189500
Star Wars and Milestone issues. #700 is the new #1.

>>95189547
>#700 is the new #1.
Except that's the other way around before this decade.

>>95189578
Everything is cyclical.

>>95189523
>The same why DC is incapable of reaching top 10 without Batman or event that has Batman.
Too many Marvel #1s and events taking up space?

>>95189170
I know right, why are people eating this garbage?

>>95189654
No, because don't care about anything that isn't Batman, event, SW or #1. Both Marvel and DC failed to get them interested.

>>95189690
What's wrong with Batman comics?

>>95189090
>Two regular Batman issues BTFO Marvel's big summer event.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>95189092
>RETAIL MARKET SHARE
> 1. MARVEL COMICS - 35.01%
>UNIT MARKET SHARE
> 1. MARVEL COMICS - 39.52%
Holy crap. That's like a 5% disparity from retail and unit. In July it was 36.89%/39.53%. How many free issues are Marvel shipping out to save face?

>>95189750
Enough to cause an almost 5% disparity.

>>95189744
It's not that there's a problem with his comics, it's just can't get their audience interested in anything that isn't Batman. That's isn't different with Marvel who only got events and SW.

>>95190051
Did new52 Batman sell high anyway?

>>95190107
....did you even read anything I said?

>>95190107
Yes. New 52 Batman sold high and consistently. Rebirth Batman started with way higher sales than New 52 Batman, but its sales have been dropping way faster.

>>95189090
Wasn't there a thread about manga selling better?

>>95190138
Those were BookScan numbers. These are Diamond.

>>95189750
So, how many months you are going to keep blaming Marvel doing well on "free shipping"? Let's be honest here, even with Marvel screwing up big time, DC and the rest still can't do better. This how pathetic the industry is.

>>95190128
I did but I'm asking if New52 Batman also sold high.

>>95190191
It better than rebirth, but it mostly because n52 was more involved in events than rebirth so far.

>>95190188
He's not wrong, anon. Retail Share is how much money they made. Unit Share is how many issues got shipped. If you go back a couple years, the retail share for Marvel was higher than the unit share. The only reason for the opposite being the case now (despite the fact that they charge more than DC) is that they overship free issues.

It doesn't change the fact that even with the overshipping, they still have a higher retail share, but the reason there's a 5% difference between unit and retail is the overshipping.

>>95190262
Thanks for explaining the unit/retail share part.
I never quiet understood that.

DC Metal is a Batman comic?
I was going to start getting DC Metal but I'm tired of all the Batwank

>>95190389
>I was going to start getting DC Metal but I'm tired of all the Batwank
Then yeah, stay away from DC Metal. It's Batwank: The Event. The whole premise is that the heroes of Earth-0 have to fight people from "The Dark Multiverse" and as it turns out, everyone from the Dark Multiverse is an Evil Batman version of someone else. Evil Batman/Flash. Evil Batman/Aquaman. Evil Batman/Cyborg. etc.

>>95190188
>So, how many months you are going to keep blaming Marvel doing well on "free shipping"?
Marvel sells their comics at a considerably higher price than DC, on average between 20% to 33% higher. There is NO reason for them to have that large of a disparity between the amount of comics that they sell and the amount of cash they bring in. Especially in a summer event period as well as a mini-event relaunch in Generations which they're giving NO price breaks to anyone unlike what DC did with Rebirth.

What did it look like before Secret Empire poisoned the well? March had Marvel's Dollar at 35.41% and Unit at 34.34%. February had Marvel's Dollar at 37.46% and Unit at 33.64%.

After Secret Empire fucked things over and Marvel had to rely on over shipping to save face? May had Marvel's Dollar at 38.05% and Unit at 39.91%. April had Marvel's Dollar at 34.95% and Unit at 38.23%.

The fact that the numbers are looking like this when they're releasing three event comics at $4.99 and Generations at $4.99 as well is fucking hilarious.

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>>95189090
>first = Batman
>second = Batman
>third = Batman

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>>95189090
>> 1. DARK NIGHTS: METAL #1 (DC)
>> 2. BATMAN #28 (DC)
>> 3. BATMAN #29 (DC)
Top 3? Not bad.

>batman event
>two Batmans
>3 marvel event
>2 #1s
>2 Star wars

I hate this

>>95189090
No wonder they shoved the last three issues of Secret Empire into the same month.

>>95189090
>> 1. PAPER GIRLS VOLUME 3 TP (IMA)
>> 3. GOD COUNTRY TP (MR) (IMA)
>> 4. KILL OR BE KILLED VOLUME 2 TP (MR) (IMA)
>> 7. REBORN HC (MR) (IMA)
>> 9. OLD GUARD BOOK 1: OPENING FIRE TP (MR) (IMA)

>Liefeld hope.jpg

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>>95189092
>2. DC ENTERTAINMENT - 28.18%
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE OUR MONTH BROS. SNYDER AND KING WERE SUPPOSED TO SAVE DC.

>>95190475
>What did it look like before Secret Empire poisoned the well? March had Marvel's Dollar at 35.41% and Unit at 34.34%.

Wait, what the fuck? Marvel's Dollar in August is 35.01%, Unit is 39.52% AND they had the final three issues of Secret Empire along with two Generations one-shots crammed in one month. Let's see what was going on in March...

>1. AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #25

Which had a $9.99 cover price and the only title they had doing 100,000+.

Are you fucking telling me that Marvel pumping out a lot of books during an event--with SEVEN books in the top 10--is somehow doing even worse than the month they only had an overpriced issue of ASM breaking 100000+ and only had Iron Fist #1, X-Men Prime #1, and Star Wars #29 in the top 10?

>>95192319
Do you even know what unit market share refers to?

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>>95192362

>>95189090
>4. SECRET EMPIRE #10 (MAR)
> 5. GENERATIONS: ALL-NEW WOLVERINE/WOLVERINE #1 (MAR)
> 6. SECRET EMPIRE #8 (MAR)
> 7. SECRET EMPIRE #9 (MAR)
> 8. GENERATIONS: THE MIGHTY THOR/UNWORTHY THOR #1 (MAR)
> 9. STAR WARS #34 (MAR)
> 10. STAR WARS #35 (MAR)
Why even bother showing up DChumps

>>95192403
He posted the retail market share figures tho.

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>spiderman not even in the top 10
>Spiderman Homecoming can't even reach 1 billion like TDKR did
>Arkham games more popular than spider games

>S-sipderman is the most popular hero!

>>95189092
RETAIL MARKET SHARE
> 1. MARVEL COMICS - 35.01%
> 2. DC ENTERTAINMENT - 28.18%

UNIT MARKET SHARE
> 1. MARVEL COMICS - 39.52%
> 2. DC ENTERTAINMENT - 31.09%

B-but marvel comics are dying

>>95192428
Big summer event got beaten by shitty Snyder event and 2 regular Batman issues. Really showed those Dcucks huh.

>>95192478
No, they are just a bloated toad.

>>95192493
>shitty Snyder event
Hi Spencer, is today the day you finally commit sudoku?

>>95192478
That's a big disparity over Retail market share and Unit Market share, how is that a good thing?

>>95189750
>5% disparity

5 p.p.

>>95192614
*pp

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Heroes fame come and go but Batman is ALWAYS the greatest hero, every month he wins.

Fuck Spiderman,fuck superman and fuck captain murica

Everyone is b-lister when compared to the mighty bat-god

>>95192543
No, because it's amazing and everything that happened totally mattered. BUY MY BOOK

>>95192658
>tfw want to buy fix for /ourguy/
>but don't want to pay a penny for a Spencer book
Seriously wat do. I want to ask Lieber if I can just buy copies off of him directly.

>>95192723
Just buy from your LCS, if I get how shit works they don't get a dime from what a shop makes since the shop already bought the issues.

>>95192855
>supporting the capitalistic system that perpetuates shitty practices
LMAOing @ your life nigga.

>>95192544
It's also not just a big disparity, is a big disparity because Marvel usually has a lot of high cover prices so you'd think their dollar amount would be higher.

>>95190051
DC has a serious problem of not being able to build interest in non-Bat franchises. They were onto something with Green Lantern, which became a top seller but all that fell down when Johns left the title.

>>95194935
Maybe with WW movie giant sucess and dc super girls cartoons she can return to make money like in golden age.

>>95189404
>7 out of 10 are Marvel books

Maybe you are joking, but nowadays you never know

>>95194935
>>95195204
Jeez, calm down.

>>95192428
To be first?