JUNE 2016 COMIC BOOK MARKET
Analysis by Terry Hoknes hoknes@hotmail.com www.HoknesComics.com
Here are some of the highlights and sales put into perspective. Let’s see what surprises were in the market in the past month. Some big winners and many losers !
Civil War II #1 came in at a whopping 381,000 copies with a hefty $5.99 cover price and a ton of variant covers.
But it was really all the buzz of Rebirth over at DC Comics that got everyones attention and surprised retailers and readers alike with sellouts across the board on all titles. Retailers did NOT over order these books and were caught short on all titles with price increases immediately on all the early June DC releases.
Since Batman #1 from 2011 had become a $60.00 back issue even with a 180,000 print run collectors came out and hoarded copies of this new Batman #1 Volume 3 with 100,000 copies more this time and with no help from a bunch of variant covers. Batman #1 is therefore the only new DC rebirth relaunched title that retailers and speculators went heavy on but all other titles were ordered very safe.
DC therefore had the bulk of the top 20 titles this month with 4 Batman titles in the top 10 alone !
The asterisk beside each of these titles signifies that the books were returnable by retailers after a few months if they did not sell. So even with this fact retailers did not go crazy on orders playing it safe.
Not counting the Batman relaunched titles retailers ordered between 68,000 and 118,000 on all the other titles which is decent but not overly heavy.
Lets go back 5 years to September 2011 and see how big the DC New 52 launch was so we can properly compare sales.
Title |
2011 #1 |
2016 #52 |
2016 ONE-SHOT |
2016 NEW #1 |
Batman |
188420 |
102000 |
199000 |
280000 |
Action Comics |
182748 |
40000 |
75000 |
|
Green Lantern |
141682 |
32000 |
99000 |
84000 |
Flash |
129260 |
32000 |
89000 |
100000 |
Superman |
118376 |
54000 |
118000 |
105000 |
Detective Comics |
103392 |
43000 |
96000 |
|
Wonder Woman |
76214 |
29000 |
94000 |
107000 |
Aquaman |
72272 |
22000 |
68000 |
77000 |
Green Arrow |
55000 |
20000 |
81000 |
69000 |
A few points to note stand out on this chart. The launch in 2011 was actually more successful than this new launch. Retailers definitely held back overall. However everyone definitely went big on Batman this time. The only Rebirth one-shot to actually break sales records was Green Arrow Rebirth #1 at an impressive 81,000 which was way higher than anyone could have guessed as that title has NEVER sold that well in any relaunch.
Due to coming out a bit later in June retailers had more time to raise their orders and actually Wonder Woman #1 and Aqua man #1 had the highest sales ever even beating the 2011 orders. Action Comics actually had the biggest drop this time most likely due to the fact that in 2011 it got a new #1 issue but this time it went back to legacy numbering.
Star Wars Han Solo #1 came in at strong debut at 152,000 beating the other Star Wars titles by a longshot.
Star Wars #20 sold 96,000 and Darth Vader #21 sold 79,000. Both titles now get an action figure variant each month. The Star Wars ones sell amazingly well but most have skipped past the Darth Vader ones so they might prove to be popular in the long run.
Star Wars Force Awakens Adaptation #1 sold only 79,000 which is a shame that it came out 7 months after the movie. A more timely release would likely have seen double that in sales at Christmas time.
Poe Dameron #3 sold only 60,000 copies.
Civil War II #1 had a hefty 381,000 but #2 also came out in June and dropped quickly to 152,000 copies.
Black Panther #3 is holding on strong at 75,000 copies.
Civil War II Amazing Spider-man #1 is an off-shot of the big eventg at a decent 72,000 copies
Walking Dead #155 once again is the biggest Image title at a decent but not impressive 71,000 copies.
Many collectors buy 2 copies if not more each month meaning there still might be less than 50,000 humans who actually read this comic book.
Captain America Steve Rogers #2 held on fairly strong at 66,000 after the #1 issue become a hot book overnight and jumped in price.
Deadpool VS Gambit #1 came in at a decent 65,000 for this new mini-series.
Spider-Man Deadpool #6 sold 64,000 copies and will likely go to reprint soon.
$3.99 Marvel 64,630
Harley Quinn might be the most popular collected DC character but she is still only selling a decent 55,000 copies.
Invincible Iron Man #10 featured an early appearance of Riri Williams the new female Iron Man at only 49,000 and a reprint is on the way now that she is the hot character of the summer.
Punisher #2 took a big dive to 47,000 after hitting over 100,000 last month.
Dc Universe Rebirth #1 2nd printing with a new hefty $5.99 cover price still sold a whopping 42,000 copies and still sold out going to a 3rd and 4th printing quickly.
Moon Knight #3 sold a decent 40,000 copies and the first 2 issues are now increasing in price as hot back issues.
Power Rangers Pink #1 sold 39,000 at Boom proving this line is truly popular and has legs.
Paper Girls #6 had a reasonable print run of 36,000 copies but still sold out instantly and gone to 2nd printing proving the popularity of this series and writer.
Wacky Raceland #1 from DC came in at a decent 34,000 copies over a bunch of variant covers.
Gwenpool #3 held on at 33,000 copies.
Uncanny Inhumans #11 featured a ton of buzz with the 1st app of Mosaic and sales went crazy quickly on all covers with a modest 29,000 print run.
Vote Loki #1 came in at a fairly weak 29,000 copies for Marvel.
Vision #8 held on at 22,000 copies while back issues all starting jumping in price like crazy due to continuous demand and high praise.
Retailers got smart with Haunted Mansion #4 and have now raised their orders to 21,000 proving the demand is truly there for this series.
Adventures Of Supergirl #3 got a big boost in orders from retailers even higher than the debut issue. Mainly due to their also being a blank sketch cover. #3 sold 20,000 copies and #4 sold 13,000 so we can guess than that the blank sketch has a print run of approx 7,000 copies.
Lumberjanes Gotham Academy #1 this teamup of the DC Batman themed series at Boom still only sold a modest 20,000 copies and could prove to be a popular one long term.
TMNT Bebop & Rocksteady Destroy Everything #1 is a new weekly mini-series coming in at a reasonable 18,000 copies.l
TMNT Ongoing #59 rumoured to feature the death of Splinter this issue was an instant sellout and prices jumped like crazy with a 16,000 print run of numerous covers.
Black Panther #2 2nd printing had a high print run of 16,000 copies as many speculators knew ahead of time to pick up the Run With Jewels reprint variant cover.
Marvel decided to start releasing a new reprint series called Timely Comics which reprints the first 3 issues all bound together in a new cheap $3.00 priced thick comic for many of their current titles.
Timely Comics All New All Different Avengers #1 was the best selling in the series at 14,000 copies.
Timely Comics Totally Awesome Hulk #1 sold 13,000
Timely Comics Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #1 sold 13,000
Timely Comics Doctor Strange #1 sold 8,000
Timely Comics Daredevil #1 sold 6,500
Timely Comics Invincible Iron Man #1 sold 5,600 copies
Captain America Steve Rogers #1 2nd printing sold 13,000 copies featuring Hail Hydra on the cover.
Tales From The Darkside #1 based on the 1980s horror TV series came in at a decent 12,000 from IDW.
Fix #3 continued to sell out quickly for Image and go to a new printing with initial orders of only 11,000 copies.
Renato Jones One Percent #2 came in at 10,500 copies.
Hillbilly #1 from Albatross had a very impressive order of 10,300 copies from the Goon creator. Still it sold out and shot up in price to collectors immediately up to $15.00
Diamond had a big sale on Marvel back issues which allowed Amazing Spider-man #1 and Deadpool #1 to sell thousands and thousands of copies sitting in the Diamond warehouse.
She Wolf #1 the latest ongoing series from Image Comics sold only 9,100 copies and of course sold out quickly.
Sherlock A Study In Pink #1 based on the TV show at Titan Comics sold 9,000 copies across numerous variant covers.
4 Kids Walk Into A Bank #2 sold 8,700 for Black Mask - a big drop from #1 but still decent for a small indie publisher.
Pink Panther #1 was relaunched as a comic book series from American Mythology at 8,400 across a bunch of variant covers.
Black Panther #1 3rd printing sold a decent 8,200 copies.
There was lots of buzz for Lucas Stand #1 but came in at a weak 8,000 for Boom Studios causing a sellout of course.
Spider-Man Deadpool #1 6th printing with a new cover sold 7,900 copies at Marvel.
Jade Street Protection Services #1 from Black Mask debuted at 7,400 copies
Scarlet #10 once again got very little attention selling a weak 7,300 copies and this could become a hot issue with new movie rumours
Con Mans Spectrum #1 from Nathan Fillion of Castle sold a reasonable 6,600 copies at Automatic Pictures
Revisionist #1 is the latest ongoing title from Aftershock Comics and came in at a decent 5,000 copies.
La Muerta Descent #1 has a very hefty cover price of $7.99 from Coffin featuring sexy bad girl artwork and a ton of variant covers making the print run of 3,600 overall quite low.
Dreamworks Shrek #1 from Joe Books is based on the ultra successful animated movie series but nobody seemed to care this month as this book quietly appeared on shelves with a crazy low print run of 2,900 copies - could this be a popular long term seller ?
WORST SELLING TITLES OF THE BIG PUBLISHERS IN JUNE 2016
DC had 31 titles this month sell less than 20,000 copies
1 |
296 |
Sheriff of Babylon |
7 |
$3.99 |
DC |
5714 |
2 |
278 |
Batman Europa Directors Cut |
1 |
$5.99 |
DC |
6327 |
3 |
277 |
Clean Room |
9 |
$3.99 |
DC |
6335 |
4 |
247 |
Bloodlines |
3 |
$2.99 |
DC |
7371 |
5 |
240 |
Justice League |
50 |
$5.99 |
DC |
7683 |
6 |
239 |
Scooby Apocalypse |
1 |
$3.99 |
DC |
7889 |
7 |
232 |
Future Quest |
1 |
$3.99 |
DC |
8129 |
8 |
225 |
DC Universe Rebirth |
1 |
$2.99 |
DC |
8436 |
9 |
215 |
Doctor Fate |
13 |
$2.99 |
DC |
9067 |
10 |
210 |
Teen Titans Go |
16 |
$2.99 |
DC |
9324 |
11 |
205 |
Superman |
52 |
$3.99 |
DC |
9672 |
12 |
203 |
Legends of Tomorrow |
4 |
$7.99 |
DC |
9677 |
13 |
198 |
Astro City |
36 |
$3.99 |
DC |
9960 |
14 |
190 |
Lucifer |
7 |
$3.99 |
DC |
10382 |
15 |
179 |
Black Canary |
12 |
$2.99 |
DC |
12046 |
16 |
173 |
Cyborg |
12 |
$2.99 |
DC |
12411 |
17 |
171 |
Suicide Squad Most Wanted Deadshot Katana |
6 |
$4.99 |
DC |
12584 |
18 |
166 |
Batman Beyond |
13 |
$2.99 |
DC |
13025 |
19 |
163 |
Injustice Gods Among Us Year Five |
12 |
$2.99 |
DC |
13318 |
20 |
160 |
Adventures of Supergirl |
4 |
$2.99 |
DC |
13454 |
21 |
156 |
Injustice Gods Among Us Year Five |
11 |
$2.99 |
DC |
13682 |
22 |
144 |
Constantine The Hellblazer |
13 |
$2.99 |
DC |
15697 |
23 |
142 |
Legend of Wonder Woman |
7 |
$3.99 |
DC |
15820 |
24 |
136 |
Red Hood Arsenal |
13 |
$2.99 |
DC |
16389 |
25 |
133 |
Teen Titans Annual |
2 |
$4.99 |
DC |
16624 |
26 |
128 |
Earth 2 Society |
13 |
$2.99 |
DC |
17430 |
27 |
126 |
Swamp Thing |
6 |
$2.99 |
DC |
17778 |
28 |
120 |
Deathstroke Annual |
2 |
$4.99 |
DC |
18254 |
29 |
117 |
Green Lantern Corps Edge of Oblivion |
6 |
$2.99 |
DC |
18459 |
30 |
116 |
DC Comics Bombshells |
14 |
$3.99 |
DC |
18492 |
31 |
113 |
Teen Titans |
21 |
$2.99 |
DC |
18766 |
Marvel had 41 titles this month sell less than 20,000 copies
1 |
299 |
Timely Comics Invincible Iron Man |
1 |
$3.00 |
Marvel |
5601 |
2 |
298 |
Moon Knight |
2 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
5658 |
3 |
268 |
Timely Comics Daredevil |
1 |
$3.00 |
Marvel |
6557 |
4 |
266 |
Deadpool |
1 |
$4.99 |
Marvel |
6587 |
5 |
260 |
Civil War II |
0 |
$4.99 |
Marvel |
6696 |
6 |
246 |
Scarlet |
10 |
$3.95 |
Marvel |
7386 |
7 |
244 |
Dark Tower Drawing of Three Bitter Medicine |
3 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
7433 |
8 |
237 |
Spider-Man Deadpool |
1 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
7914 |
9 |
235 |
Timely Comics Doctor Strange |
1 |
$3.00 |
Marvel |
8040 |
10 |
229 |
Black Panther |
1 |
$4.99 |
Marvel |
8251 |
11 |
211 |
Amazing Spider-Man |
1 |
$5.99 |
Marvel |
9247 |
12 |
199 |
Amazing Spider-Man |
1 |
$5.99 |
Marvel |
9953 |
13 |
196 |
Year of Marvels Incredible |
1 |
$4.99 |
Marvel |
10104 |
14 |
187 |
Hyperion |
4 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
10689 |
15 |
186 |
Drax |
8 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
10707 |
16 |
183 |
X-Men Worst X-Man Ever |
5 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
11327 |
17 |
169 |
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur |
8 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
12721 |
18 |
167 |
Captain America Steve Rogers |
1 |
$4.99 |
Marvel |
13009 |
19 |
161 |
Patsy Walker Aka Hellcat |
7 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
13396 |
20 |
159 |
Timely Comics Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur |
1 |
$3.00 |
Marvel |
13473 |
21 |
155 |
Timely Comics Totally Awesome Hulk |
1 |
$3.00 |
Marvel |
13732 |
22 |
148 |
Guardians of Infinity |
7 |
$4.99 |
Marvel |
14592 |
23 |
147 |
Unbeatable Squirrel Girl |
9 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
14692 |
24 |
146 |
Timely Comics All New All Different Avengers |
1 |
$3.00 |
Marvel |
14881 |
25 |
145 |
Agents of Shield |
6 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
15689 |
26 |
141 |
Web Warriors |
8 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
15953 |
27 |
139 |
Mockingbird |
4 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
15975 |
28 |
138 |
Venom Space Knight |
9 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
16006 |
29 |
137 |
Black Panther |
2 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
16013 |
30 |
135 |
Contest of Champions |
9 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
16423 |
31 |
134 |
Nighthawk |
2 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
16522 |
32 |
132 |
Venom Space Knight |
8 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
16658 |
33 |
131 |
Star-Lord |
8 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
16762 |
34 |
129 |
Amazing Spider-Man and Silk Spiderfly Effect |
4 |
$4.99 |
Marvel |
17072 |
35 |
127 |
Howard The Duck |
8 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
17569 |
36 |
124 |
All New Inhumans |
8 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
17865 |
37 |
118 |
Astonishing Ant-Man |
9 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
18382 |
38 |
115 |
Scarlet Witch |
7 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
18496 |
39 |
114 |
Squadron Supreme |
8 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
18676 |
40 |
111 |
Spider-Woman |
8 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
19658 |
41 |
110 |
Nova |
8 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
19720 |
Image had only 4 titles this month sell MORE than 20,000 copies
1 |
293 |
Wolf |
8 |
$3.50 |
Image |
5838 |
2 |
292 |
Island |
8 |
$7.99 |
Image |
5849 |
3 |
284 |
Revival |
40 |
$3.99 |
Image |
6004 |
4 |
279 |
Nowhere Men |
10 |
$2.99 |
Image |
6307 |
5 |
257 |
Casanova Acedia |
5 |
$3.99 |
Image |
6802 |
6 |
254 |
Grizzly Shark |
3 |
$3.99 |
Image |
6873 |
7 |
253 |
Thief of Thieves |
32 |
$2.99 |
Image |
6934 |
8 |
242 |
Cry Havoc |
6 |
$3.99 |
Image |
7571 |
9 |
236 |
Head Lopper |
4 |
$5.99 |
Image |
7938 |
10 |
231 |
Rumble |
11 |
$3.50 |
Image |
8139 |
11 |
224 |
Nailbiter |
22 |
$2.99 |
Image |
8477 |
12 |
223 |
Midnight of the Soul |
1 |
$3.50 |
Image |
8478 |
13 |
218 |
Birthright |
16 |
$2.99 |
Image |
9015 |
14 |
217 |
Discipline |
4 |
$2.99 |
Image |
9017 |
15 |
214 |
She Wolf |
1 |
$3.99 |
Image |
9124 |
16 |
209 |
Manifest Destiny |
20 |
$2.99 |
Image |
9399 |
17 |
207 |
Beauty |
8 |
$3.99 |
Image |
9577 |
18 |
195 |
Pretty Deadly |
10 |
$3.50 |
Image |
10119 |
19 |
194 |
Autumnlands Tooth & Claw |
11 |
$2.99 |
Image |
10140 |
20 |
189 |
Black Road |
3 |
$3.99 |
Image |
10484 |
21 |
188 |
Renato Jones One Percent |
2 |
$3.99 |
Image |
10565 |
22 |
185 |
Deadly Class |
21 |
$3.99 |
Image |
10892 |
23 |
184 |
Fix |
3 |
$3.99 |
Image |
11128 |
24 |
181 |
Injection |
10 |
$2.99 |
Image |
11771 |
25 |
178 |
Plutona |
5 |
$2.99 |
Image |
12197 |
26 |
172 |
Invincible |
129 |
$2.99 |
Image |
12510 |
27 |
153 |
Low |
14 |
$3.99 |
Image |
13903 |
28 |
149 |
Lazarus |
22 |
$3.99 |
Image |
14117 |
29 |
125 |
Wicked & Divine |
20 |
$3.50 |
Image |
17831 |
30 |
123 |
Goddamned |
4 |
$3.99 |
Image |
18071 |
31 |
122 |
East of West |
27 |
$3.99 |
Image |
18146 |
32 |
121 |
Bitch Planet |
8 |
$3.99 |
Image |
18158 |
33 |
109 |
Descender |
12 |
$2.99 |
Image |
19782 |
34 |
89 |
I Hate Fairyland |
6 |
$3.50 |
Image |
26095 |
35 |
86 |
Jupiters Legacy Vol. 2 |
1 |
$3.99 |
Image |
28409 |
36 |
69 |
Paper Girls |
6 |
$2.99 |
Image |
36385 |
37 |
31 |
Walking Dead |
155 |
$2.99 |
Image |
71755 |
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MAY 2016 COMIC BOOK MARKET
Analysis by Terry Hoknes hoknes@hotmail.com www.HoknesComics.com
Here are some of the highlights and sales put into perspective. Let’s see what surprises were in the market in the past month. Some big winners and many losers !
DC Comics cancelled all their big selling titles and are relaunching them all next month. In the meantime the new universe was given a cheap priced one-shot which had impressive orders of 235,000 copies this month putting it way in the lead for #1 place. Even then stores did not order enough for demand and reprints were announced immediately. There was a 1:100 ratio variant for this one-shot basically 1 copy per store so should be approx 2,000 copies printed.
Marvel began their big event for the summer with Civil War II cashing in on the 10th anniversary of the original Civil War series and also the recent Captain America Civil War movie. #0 with a hefty $4.99 cover price still brought in 177,000 copies
After that sales drop quickly
Punisher #1 was the best selling non-event comic of the month at 110,000 for Marvel
Batman #52 was the final issue of the acclaimed series bringing in 102,000 for DC
Captain America Steve Rogers #1 was a surprise hit even with a hefty print run of 99,000 selling out quickly and hitting up to $40.00 a copy within a week of release with reprints on the way.
Star Wars #19 continued its slow dip down to 95,000 but still enough to rank 6th of May.
Justice League #50 had lots of hype and hefty cover price at $5.99 but still sold out quickly at 92,000 copies
Darth Vader #20 with a hefty $4.99 brought in 86,000 copies - it was announced that the title will be cancelled with #25.
Black Panther #1 had massive print run of over 300,000 copies and #2 came in a more realistic 77,000 copies but still impressive and still a fast sell out with reprints on the way.
Scooby Apocalypse #1 was a new Scooby Doo series for all ages from DC and came in at a surprise 69,000 copies featuring Jim Lee cover artwork and even sold out due to 8 variant covers.
Walking Dead #154 is a key issue with 1st app of Beta at 68,000 copies selling out quickly. This will be a long term popular key issue.
Spider-man Deadpool #5 came in at 63,000 of the ever popular series that keeps selling out so expect reprints on this issue like all other issues.
Deadpool #12 is a key issue with 1st app of new character plus the 2nd app of a character at 57,000.
Superman #52 featured the death of Superman at a modest 54,000 copies and the final issue of series.
Amazing Spiderman, Old Man Logan, All New All Different Avengers, All New X-Men, Uncanny X-Men are now the best selling regular published monthly Marvel titles (not counting ones I already mentioned)
All New All Different Avengers #9 features 1st app of new female Wasp character. So far its not heating up but she is getting her own series this fall so this could yet heat up. There is a 1:50 ratio variant.
Invincible Iron Man #9 features the first full appearance of Riri Williams who will be the new teenage black female Iron Man. Media buzz came for this book later on and so this book is now a major key issue with a print run of only 49,000.
Future Quest #1 from DC features Jonny Quest and other classic 1960’s tv cartoon characters. A bunch of variant covers brought the print run up to 48,000.
Obi-Wan and Anakin #5 is the final issue of the Star Wars series dropping to only 48,000 copies.
Marvel relaunched Thunderbolts #1 at 45,000
Daredevil Punisher #1 is a new mini-series at a reasonable 42,000 copies.
Gwenpool #2 took a big dip in sales down to 38,000 copies. #0 sold only 33,000 and reprints the 1st app.
Moon Knight #2 sold out and has been increasing in price with only 35,000 copies and reprint on the way.
Batman Superman #32 heated up quickly as everyone believed it was 1st app of the new Chinese Superman. Its been debated heavily if this is true but meanwhile hundreds of copies sold up to $15.00 each quickly.
Valiant’s latest event 4001 AD #1 came in at 27,000 with a ton of variant covers.
Superman American Alien #7 is the final issue of the popular series that heated up. 26,000 copies in total making the print run of the Jock ratio variant of 1:25 at about 1,000 copies. It heated up quickly.
Invader Zim #9 staying super strong for Oni Press at 23,000 copies.
Star Wars #1 from 1977 the original comic was reprinted as a $1.00 True Believers edition at a decent 21,000 copies. This may prove to be collectable in the future. A new $1.00 printing of the current Marvel #1 was 18,000 copies. Darth Vader #1 new $1.00 printing sold 17,000. Droids #1 from 1986 was reprinted at 14,000 copies. Vader Down #1 sold 12,000 copies.
Vision #7 - the rave reviews keep coming and sales are slowly sneaking back up to 19,000 copies. Early issues are growing in price and interest.
Superman Lois and Clark #8 is the final issue of the series at only 18,000 and an instant sellout featuring Superman’s son becoming the new Superboy as a youth.
Haunted Mansion has been selling out and going to 2nd printing each issue. This month #3 came out at a decent 17,000 copies. The 1:10 ratio variant once again selling out quickly.
Supergirl has been a hit on TV this year so she got a new mini-series but retailers really held back on this only ordering 16,000 copies. This could still prove to be a potential hot book in the future. #2 sold 11,000 copies.
Black Panther #1 2nd printing had high demand coming in strong at 15,000 copies.
Renato Jones One Percent #1 from Image sold 14,000 and sold out quickly going to 2nd printing. Its slowly heating up in price.
Tank Girl 2 Girls 1 Tank #1 was a hit for Titan at 14,000 copies with a few variant covers but all sold out quickly at Diamond and may prove to go up in value over time.
Micronauts #2 took a big dive in orders at only 12,000 copies across a bunch of variant covers.
Archangel #1 had lots of buzz from IDW and came in at a so-so print run of 11,000 copies.
Penny Dreadful #1 from Titan based on the TV show sold out quickly everywhere with only 11,000 copies across many variant covers. The photo variant cover heated up the most.
Fix #2 received a lot of buzz but only sold 10,000 copies for Image Comics - not sure if we can call this a success though of course it sold out and started to heat up.
Dungeons and Dragons #1 from IDW based on the popular game came in at 9,000 copies over a couple covers.
Scarlet #8 sold only 8,000 copies for Marvel and was unnoticed by most readers and collectors but a potential new movie/tv show was rumoured. Scarlet #9 sold 7,300 copies
Spider-man Deadpool #1 5th printing came in at 7,600 copies and again sold out quickly and heated up a little bit.
Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas #1 from IDW based on the famous author book came in at 7,500 copies.
Vikings #1 based on the TV show had a bunch of variant covers and sold out quickly with lots of pre-sale buzz at only 6,700 copies for Titan Comics.
Over the Garden Wall ongoing #2 sold only 6,400 copies for Boom but a reprint is sure to come.
Disney Princess #3 sold 6,400 for Joe Books and followed the past 2 sell out issues and might heat up in the future.
Disney Magic Kingdom Comics #1 came in at a hefty $6.99 cover price and sold only 5,900 copies over 2 covers including a Carl Barks cover !.
Smosh #1 sold only 5,700 copies for Dynamite over 4 covers including a Star Wars Han Solo Carbonite variant cover which heated up to $20.00 quickly.
Moon Knight #1 2nd printing sold 5,400 copies with a 3rd printing likely to come.
Stargate Atlantis was brought back to comics with a new series but sold only 5,400 copies for American Mythology over 5 variant covers.
Disney Darkwing Duck #2 sold 5,000 for Joe Books and could be a potential collectible in the future.
As usual all the Zenescope and Aftershock titles sold in the 4,000 copies range per title. Other small indie publishers did not even chart on the Diamond top 300 this month.
DC now has 41 different titles selling less than 20,000 copies this month.
1 |
297 |
Scooby Doo Where Are You |
69 |
$2.99 |
DC |
5040 |
2 |
284 |
Suiciders King of Hella |
3 |
$3.99 |
DC |
5375 |
3 |
274 |
Sheriff of Babylon |
6 |
$3.99 |
DC |
5615 |
4 |
253 |
Clean Room |
8 |
$3.99 |
DC |
6394 |
5 |
211 |
Omega Men |
12 |
$2.99 |
DC |
8218 |
6 |
208 |
Scooby Doo Team Up |
16 |
$2.99 |
DC |
8400 |
7 |
204 |
Bloodlines |
2 |
$2.99 |
DC |
8959 |
8 |
200 |
Doctor Fate |
12 |
$2.99 |
DC |
9168 |
9 |
197 |
Midnighter |
12 |
$2.99 |
DC |
9354 |
10 |
193 |
Astro City |
35 |
$3.99 |
DC |
9996 |
11 |
184 |
Lucifer |
6 |
$3.99 |
DC |
10701 |
12 |
180 |
Batman 66 Meets The Man From Uncle |
6 |
$2.99 |
DC |
11060 |
13 |
174 |
Legends of Tomorrow |
3 |
$7.99 |
DC |
11354 |
14 |
172 |
Adventures of Supergirl |
2 |
$2.99 |
DC |
11494 |
15 |
171 |
Justice League 3001 |
12 |
$2.99 |
DC |
11623 |
16 |
161 |
Secret Six |
14 |
$2.99 |
DC |
12118 |
17 |
159 |
Gotham Academy |
18 |
$2.99 |
DC |
12410 |
18 |
158 |
Cyborg |
11 |
$2.99 |
DC |
12425 |
19 |
156 |
Martian Manhunter |
12 |
$2.99 |
DC |
12555 |
20 |
155 |
Suicide Squad Most Wanted Deadshot Katana |
5 |
$4.99 |
DC |
12725 |
21 |
151 |
Injustice Gods Among Us Year Five |
10 |
$2.99 |
DC |
13332 |
22 |
149 |
Injustice Gods Among Us Year Five |
9 |
$2.99 |
DC |
13539 |
23 |
147 |
We Are Robin |
12 |
$3.99 |
DC |
14204 |
24 |
135 |
Sinestro |
23 |
$2.99 |
DC |
15430 |
25 |
130 |
Constantine The Hellblazer |
12 |
$2.99 |
DC |
15904 |
26 |
129 |
Legend of Wonder Woman |
6 |
$3.99 |
DC |
15924 |
27 |
127 |
Catwoman |
52 |
$2.99 |
DC |
16146 |
28 |
125 |
Starfire |
12 |
$2.99 |
DC |
16361 |
29 |
124 |
Red Hood Arsenal |
12 |
$2.99 |
DC |
16402 |
30 |
122 |
Legend of Wonder Woman |
5 |
$3.99 |
DC |
16583 |
31 |
121 |
Adventures of Supergirl |
1 |
$2.99 |
DC |
16704 |
32 |
112 |
Titans Hunt |
8 |
$3.99 |
DC |
17412 |
33 |
111 |
Earth 2 Society |
12 |
$2.99 |
DC |
17492 |
34 |
109 |
Swamp Thing |
5 |
$2.99 |
DC |
18021 |
35 |
108 |
DC Comics Bombshells |
13 |
$3.99 |
DC |
18046 |
36 |
106 |
Batman Beyond |
12 |
$2.99 |
DC |
18133 |
37 |
105 |
Dark Knight III Master Race |
4 Coll. Ed. |
$12.99 |
DC |
18226 |
38 |
104 |
Superman Lois and Clark |
8 |
$3.99 |
DC |
18284 |
39 |
103 |
DC Comics Bombshells |
12 |
$3.99 |
DC |
18512 |
40 |
102 |
Teen Titans |
20 |
$2.99 |
DC |
18593 |
41 |
101 |
Green Lantern Corps Edge of Oblivion |
5 |
$2.99 |
DC |
18699 |
Marvel now has 41 different titles selling less than 20,000 copies this month.
1 |
289 |
Starbrand and Nightmask |
6 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
5216 |
2 |
287 |
Spider-Man Deadpool reprint |
3 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
5235 |
3 |
281 |
Moon Knight reprint |
1 |
$4.99 |
Marvel |
5450 |
4 |
229 |
Scarlet |
9 |
$3.95 |
Marvel |
7385 |
5 |
221 |
Dark Tower Drawing of Three Bitter Medicine |
2 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
7597 |
6 |
220 |
Spider-Man Deadpool reprint |
1 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
7601 |
7 |
217 |
Red Wolf |
6 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
7773 |
8 |
209 |
Powers |
6 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
8237 |
9 |
206 |
Scarlet |
8 |
$3.95 |
Marvel |
8492 |
10 |
195 |
Weirdworld |
6 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
9877 |
11 |
192 |
True Believers Star Wars Lando reprint |
1 |
$1.00 |
Marvel |
10013 |
12 |
185 |
True Believers Star Wars Chewbacca reprint |
1 |
$1.00 |
Marvel |
10483 |
13 |
181 |
True Believers Star Wars Kanan reprint |
1 |
$1.00 |
Marvel |
10916 |
14 |
178 |
True Believers Star Wars Shattered Empire reprint |
1 |
$1.00 |
Marvel |
11129 |
15 |
176 |
Drax |
7 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
11259 |
16 |
173 |
True Believers Star Wars Covers |
1 |
$1.00 |
Marvel |
11435 |
17 |
168 |
Patsy Walker Aka Hellcat |
6 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
11822 |
18 |
167 |
X-Men Worst X-Man Ever |
4 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
11972 |
19 |
163 |
Illuminati |
7 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
12093 |
20 |
160 |
True Believers Star Wars Vader Down reprint |
1 |
$1.00 |
Marvel |
12268 |
21 |
153 |
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur |
7 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
12879 |
22 |
152 |
Hyperion |
3 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
13204 |
23 |
148 |
True Believers Star Wars Droids reprint |
1 |
$1.00 |
Marvel |
14004 |
24 |
140 |
Unbeatable Squirrel Girl |
8 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
15131 |
25 |
139 |
Star-Lord |
7 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
15147 |
26 |
137 |
Nova |
7 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
15377 |
27 |
133 |
Black Panther reprint |
1 |
$4.99 |
Marvel |
15523 |
28 |
131 |
Guardians of Infinity |
6 |
$4.99 |
Marvel |
15728 |
29 |
123 |
Web Warriors |
7 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
16445 |
30 |
119 |
Scarlet Witch |
6 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
16842 |
31 |
117 |
Contest of Champions |
8 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
17085 |
32 |
116 |
True Believers Star Wars Darth Vader reprint |
1 |
$1.00 |
Marvel |
17109 |
33 |
115 |
Haunted Mansion |
3 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
17126 |
34 |
114 |
Venom Space Knight |
7 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
17370 |
35 |
113 |
Agents of Shield |
5 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
17410 |
36 |
107 |
Howard The Duck |
7 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
18122 |
37 |
100 |
All New Inhumans |
7 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
18833 |
38 |
99 |
True Believers Star Wars reprint |
1 |
$1.00 |
Marvel |
18950 |
39 |
97 |
Squadron Supreme |
7 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
19486 |
40 |
96 |
Vision |
7 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
19623 |
41 |
95 |
Amazing Spider-Man and Silk Spiderfly Effect |
3 |
$4.99 |
Marvel |
19949 |
Image Comics has only 3 titles that sell more than 18,000 copies this month.
1 |
299 |
Legacy of Luther Strode |
6 |
$3.50 |
Image |
5015 |
2 |
291 |
Snowfall |
4 |
$3.99 |
Image |
5142 |
3 |
277 |
Island |
7 |
$7.99 |
Image |
5503 |
4 |
275 |
Wolf |
7 |
$3.50 |
Image |
5608 |
5 |
272 |
Revival |
39 |
$3.99 |
Image |
5764 |
6 |
234 |
Grizzly Shark |
2 |
$3.99 |
Image |
7353 |
7 |
228 |
Cry Havoc |
5 |
$3.99 |
Image |
7457 |
8 |
212 |
Nailbiter |
21 |
$2.99 |
Image |
8196 |
9 |
201 |
Discipline |
3 |
$2.99 |
Image |
9161 |
10 |
199 |
Beauty |
7 |
$3.99 |
Image |
9178 |
11 |
194 |
Manifest Destiny |
19 |
$2.99 |
Image |
9900 |
12 |
191 |
3 Floyds Alpha King |
1 |
$3.99 |
Image |
10055 |
13 |
189 |
Black Road |
2 |
$3.99 |
Image |
10131 |
14 |
186 |
Fix |
2 |
$3.99 |
Image |
10433 |
15 |
177 |
Jupiters Circle Vol. 2 |
6 |
$3.99 |
Image |
11177 |
16 |
166 |
Invincible |
128 |
$2.99 |
Image |
11982 |
17 |
164 |
Rat Queens |
16 |
$3.99 |
Image |
12092 |
18 |
144 |
Renato Jones One Percent |
1 |
$3.99 |
Image |
14857 |
19 |
134 |
Southern Bastards |
14 |
$3.50 |
Image |
15437 |
20 |
128 |
Spawn |
263 |
$2.99 |
Image |
16109 |
21 |
118 |
Wicked & Divine |
19 |
$3.50 |
Image |
16929 |
22 |
110 |
East of West |
26 |
$3.50 |
Image |
17645 |
23 |
92 |
Monstress |
6 |
$3.99 |
Image |
20850 |
24 |
86 |
Tokyo Ghost |
7 |
$3.99 |
Image |
21487 |
25 |
13 |
Walking Dead |
154 |
$2.99 |
Image |
68922 |
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APRIL 2016 COMIC BOOK MARKET
Analysis by Terry Hoknes
hoknes@hotmail.com www.HoknesUSA.com www.HoknesComics.comHere are some of the highlights and sales put into perspective. Let’s see what surprises were in the market in the past month. Some big winners and many losers !
First of all only 11 comics now sell more than 70,000 comics a month to a North American population of 400 million people.
Black Panther #1 came in first place for the month but it appears there is a loot crate version or similar type of company that may have printed 200,000 copies. This would explain why this comic regular cover sold out so easily as it may only be 53,000 copies of the cover available to comic shops.
Poe Dameron came in as one of the strongest Star Wars debuts ever at 175,000 copies due to many variant covers.
It was a huge Star Wars month as a one-shot Special C3PO #1 came in at a hefty 120,000 copies even topping the sales of the regular Star Wars and Darth Vader titles which sadly are starting to dip in sales both now under 100,000 each month. Which may help lead to the cancellation of Darth Vader with #25.
Gwenpool #1 had a lot of hype but stores held back orders and only ordered 100,000 compared to Spider-Gwen #1 which sold 254,000 last year. This makes all the variants of Gwenpool quite a bit scarcer.
Harley Quinn had 4 different books out this month - the biggest seller was the Suicide Squad April Fools Special #1 at a hefty 75,000 copies. There is a 1:50 ratio variant so there is likely only 1,000 copies out there of the black and white Jim Lee variant. #27 1st full appearance of Red Tool came in at 54,000. Her Gang Of Harleys #1 came in at 52,000. Harleys Little Black Book #3 came in at only 41,000 copies despite having a Zatanna cover story and a 1:25 variant by Joseph Michael Linsner making that variant likely only about 1,000 copies and should be super popular for years to come.
Batman continues to be DC’s biggest selling regular comic at 101,000 and Amazing Spider-man is Marvel’s biggest selling regular comic at 73,000.
Walking Dead continues to be Image Comics best selling title at 67,000. So its still likely that no more than 50,000 actual people read the comic book of the huge TV show.
The hottest back issue of the year for Marvel is Spider-man Deadpool. #1 will soon have a 5th printing. The latest issue #4 came in at a strong 64,000 copies tying Deadpool #10 in sales.
Moon Knight had a huge launch with great hype and sold out quickly selling a decent 60,000 copies.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #2 took a predicted big drop from the hefty orders of #1 but still came in at a very respectable 58,000 copies which is huge for the publisher Boom.
Empress #1 from Mark Millar at Marvel debuted at 55,000 copies and quickly sold out going to 2nd print. Movie news was announced. This book has a ton of rare variants including a 1:200 which will be very hard to locate.
Obi-Wan and Anakin #4 sold only 50,000 copies in the Star Wars franchise.
Saga #36 came in at 48,000 and is the 2nd best selling title for Image.
Daredevil #6 sold 48,000 and is one of the hottest of the relaunched Marvel titles with all issues selling out and higher prices now on all 1st printings.
The big Final Days and Death of Superman storyline began in April across various DC titles. Superman #51 is part 1 and sold out quickly at only 38,000 copies and features the 1st appearance of the “flame” Superman. Batman Superman #31 sold 34,000. Action #51 sold 32,000. Superman Wonder Woman #28 sold 28,000 copies.
The latest batch of Marvel #2 issues all landed in the same sales range.
Black Widow #2 at 34,000, X-Men #92 at 33,000, Mockingbird #2 at 32,000.
Micronauts #1 was relaunched at IDW after a 12 year break from comics. A bunch of variants including 4 store exclusive covers. Hoknes USA did an exclusive Action Figure variant. Total sales of all variants was a respectable 25,000 copies. Not taking the world by storm but a strong launch for IDW.
Superman American Alien #6 sold 25,000 copies for this title that has become the biggest back issue hit of the year for DC Comics with early issues all selling for high prices and as high as $85.00 for a set.
Poison Ivy Cycle Of Life and Death #4 sold 22,000 copies but has become a huge hit as a back issue seller with all issues selling above cover price now.
Haunted Mansion #2 sold 22,000 copies based on the Disneyland ride attraction. #1 was a huge surprise hit and sold out and selling already at $25.00. #2 also quickly sold out at Diamond with its 3 covers so its expected this book has a good chance of rising in price here soon.
Monstress #5 sold 21,000 for Image. Early issues are all selling for record prices and #5 is also sold out at Diamond.
Outcast #18 sold 21,000 for Image. Robert Kirkmans TV show debuts in June - if
it’s a hit people will be hunting out complete runs of this title.
Green Arrow #51 died in this issue which had little hype - the print run was only 21,000 copies making it a tough one to find.
Swamp Thing #4 sold 18,000 for DC Comics. Another popular mini-series that back issues are now selling above cover and in sets.
4 Kids Walk Into A Bank #1 sold 17,000 for Black Mask making it possibly their biggest selling title ever for the small publisher. Even then regular covers sold out quickly leading to a 2nd printing. There many exclusive variants which help account for much of the print run.
Fix #1 from Image sold 14,000 copies - this was the first Image title to sell out in advance of release in over a year as Image now prints extra copies but this still sold out quickly and is now going to a 3rd printing. 1st and 2nd printings are already selling for 5x cover price.
Bloodlines #1 from DC is their big event book of the summer. They did not promote it and kept it low key and that also turned into low orders from retailers with a shocking low 14,000 copies.
X-Files #1 was relaunched again from IDW at 14,000 copies with a bunch of variant covers.
DC Comics Essentials Batman Death of The Family #1 sold 11,000 copies - This is a $1.00 reprint edition and may prove to be popular in the future.
Batman 66 Meets The Man From Uncle #5 sold 11,000 copies for DC. This series is now selling out at Diamond and back issues are very popular.
Strawberry Shortcake #1 sold only 10,000 copies for IDW and could prove to be a hard book to find in the future and 2nd printing is on the way.
Grizzly Shark #1 had a very weak debut from Image at only 10,000 and of course sold out.
Over Garden Wall Ongoing #1 sold only 10,000 for Boom. There is a 1:33 variant cover which should be extremely rare with likely only 100 copies printed.
Dept H #1 from Jeff Lemire at Dark Horse sold only 9,000 copies
Teen Titans Go #15 sold 9,000 copies for DC. This all ages comic has been ignored by many collectors but its surprisingly super rare to find. All issues are sold out at Diamond when released and all early issues bring high back issue prices.
Rough Riders #1 had a strong debut from Aftershock at 8,700 copies with a $1.99 cover price and did sell out.
Dark Souls #1 from Titan sold 8,200 copies with a bunch of variant covers and heated up quickly selling out everywhere.
Bruce Lee Dragon Rises #1 sold 8,000 copies for Darby Pop with 2 regular covers based on the legendary martial arts expert.
Disney Darkwing Duck #1 sold 7,700 copies for Joe Books.
House of Penance #1 sold 7,700 for Dark Horse of this cool looking horror title.
Heartthrob #1 sold 7,400 for Oni Press including a cool Fleetwood Mac album homage variant.
Disney Princess # 2 this book sold 7,200 for Joe Books and quietly sold out everywhere. This series is on a winning streak so far.
Conan The Avenger #25 final issue sold 6,900 for Dark Horse. A new Conan series is coming.
Haunted Mansion #1 2nd printing sold 6,700 copies proving the extreme success of this title. Though this #1 is fairly scarce and also selling way above cover so a 3rd print should be coming.
Joyride #1 sold 6,700 copies for Boom and quickly sold out and getting a 2nd print.
Black Eyed Kids #1 sold 6,600 copies for Aftershock at $1.99 cover price and quickly sold out with lots of hype.
Spider-man Deadpool #1 4th print sold 6,400 copies but proving to be quite a tough one to find as well - all these later printings are much rarer than the 1st one and collectors are wanting each printing.
Three Stooges Boys Are Back #1 sold 5,900 copies for American Mythology - each variant cover has about 1,000 copies printed.
Sheriff of Babylon #5 sold only 5,800 copies for DC - back issues are very popular on this title hitting higher prices.
Starbrand and Night mask #5 - could this be the rarest Marvel comic ever printed ? 5,600 copies !!
Mighty Zodiac #1 sold 4,300 copies for Oni Press.
Irwin Allen Lost In Space #2 based on the 1960’s TV show sold 3,800 copies for American Mythology.
Superzero #5 sold 3,800 copies for Aftershock - demand for back issues is growing and #1 now has a 2nd printing. A title to watch from Amanda Conner.
Lady Death Chaos Rules #1 sold only 3,100 copies for Coffin with a hefty cover price of $7.99. This print run may include all the variants including the J Scott Campbell variant cover which cost $25.00 - if so thetn its print run is going to be very small.
Madballs #1 was relaunched as a comic after a 30 year break with 2,900 copies from Lion Forge. There is a 1:5 and 1:10 ratio variants which will be extremely limited to possibly less than 100 copies each !!
THE WORST SELLING DC COMICS OF APRIL 2016
1 |
Survivors Club |
7 |
$3.99 |
DC |
4516 |
2 |
Art Ops |
7 |
$3.99 |
DC |
4564 |
3 |
Dark and Bloody |
3 |
$3.99 |
DC |
4757 |
4 |
Unfollow |
6 |
$3.99 |
DC |
4815 |
5 |
Scooby Doo Where Are You ALL AGES |
68 |
$2.99 |
DC |
4892 |
6 |
Jacked |
6 |
$3.99 |
DC |
4917 |
7 |
Dark Knight III Master Race REPRINT |
2 |
$5.99 |
DC |
5352 |
8 |
Fables The Wolf Among Us |
16 |
$3.99 |
DC |
5723 |
9 |
Sheriff of Babylon |
5 |
$3.99 |
DC |
5810 |
10 |
Suiciders King of Hella |
2 |
$3.99 |
DC |
6123 |
11 |
Clean Room |
7 |
$3.99 |
DC |
6518 |
12 |
Dc Comics Essentials JLA REPRINT |
1 |
$1.00 |
DC |
7617 |
13 |
Omega Men |
11 |
$2.99 |
DC |
8281 |
14 |
Batman RE-ORDERS |
50 |
$5.99 |
DC |
8850 |
15 |
Teen Titans Go |
15 |
$2.99 |
DC |
9210 |
16 |
Doctor Fate |
11 |
$2.99 |
DC |
9257 |
17 |
Midnighter |
11 |
$2.99 |
DC |
9435 |
18 |
Astro City |
34 |
$3.99 |
DC |
10120 |
19 |
Lucifer |
5 |
$3.99 |
DC |
11049 |
20 |
Batman 66 Meets The Man From Uncle |
5 |
$2.99 |
DC |
11187 |
21 |
DC Comics Essentials Batman Death of The Family REPRINT |
1 |
$1.00 |
DC |
11570 |
22 |
Justice League 3001 |
11 |
$2.99 |
DC |
11960 |
23 |
Secret Six |
13 |
$2.99 |
DC |
12437 |
24 |
Black Canary |
11 |
$2.99 |
DC |
12560 |
25 |
Legends of Tomorrow |
2 |
$7.99 |
DC |
12728 |
26 |
Gotham Academy |
17 |
$2.99 |
DC |
12743 |
27 |
Wonder Woman 77 Special |
3 |
$7.99 |
DC |
12888 |
28 |
Black Canary |
10 |
$2.99 |
DC |
13061 |
29 |
Catwoman |
51 |
$2.99 |
DC |
13150 |
30 |
Suicide Squad Most Wanted Deadshot Katana |
4 |
$4.99 |
DC |
13452 |
31 |
Injustice Gods Among Us Year Five |
8 |
$2.99 |
DC |
13560 |
32 |
Injustice Gods Among Us Year Five |
7 |
$2.99 |
DC |
13823 |
33 |
Bloodlines |
1 |
$2.99 |
DC |
14941 |
34 |
Cyborg |
10 |
$2.99 |
DC |
15256 |
35 |
Martian Manhunter |
11 |
$2.99 |
DC |
15269 |
36 |
Constantine The Hellblazer |
11 |
$2.99 |
DC |
16248 |
37 |
Legend of Wonder Woman |
4 |
$3.99 |
DC |
16488 |
38 |
We Are Robin |
11 |
$3.99 |
DC |
17655 |
39 |
Earth 2 Society |
11 |
$2.99 |
DC |
17844 |
40 |
Batman Beyond |
11 |
$2.99 |
DC |
18061 |
41 |
Sinestro |
22 |
$2.99 |
DC |
18191 |
42 |
Swamp Thing |
4 |
$2.99 |
DC |
18814 |
43 |
DC Comics Bombshells |
11 |
$3.99 |
DC |
18859 |
44 |
Green Lantern Corps Edge of Oblivion |
4 |
$2.99 |
DC |
19434 |
45 |
Red Hood Arsenal |
11 |
$2.99 |
DC |
19711 |
WORST SELLING MARVEL COMICS OF APRIL 2016
1 |
Marvel Universe Guardians of Galaxy ALL AGES |
7 |
$2.99 |
Marvel |
4309 |
2 |
Marvel Universe Ult Spider-Man Contest Champions ALL AGES |
2 |
$2.99 |
Marvel |
4320 |
3 |
Marvel Universe Avengers Assemble Civil War ALL AGES |
2 |
$2.99 |
Marvel |
4899 |
4 |
Spider-Man Deadpool REPRINT |
2 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
5103 |
5 |
Starbrand and Nightmask |
5 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
5653 |
6 |
Spider-Man Deadpool REPRINT |
1 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
6439 |
7 |
Haunted Mansion REPRINT |
1 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
6774 |
8 |
Dark Tower Drawing of Three Bitter Medicine MINI-SERIES |
1 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
8252 |
9 |
Red Wolf |
5 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
8445 |
10 |
Weirdworld |
5 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
10730 |
11 |
Hercules |
6 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
12190 |
12 |
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur |
6 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
12253 |
13 |
Patsy Walker Aka Hellcat |
5 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
12703 |
14 |
A Year of Marvels Amazing ONE-SHOT |
$4.99 |
Marvel |
12717 |
|
15 |
X-Men Worst X-Man Ever MINI-SERIES |
3 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
13436 |
16 |
Drax |
6 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
13606 |
17 |
Illuminati |
6 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
13933 |
18 |
Angela Queen of Hel |
7 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
14091 |
19 |
Nova |
6 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
15795 |
20 |
Hyperion |
2 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
16178 |
21 |
Guardians of Infinity |
5 |
$4.99 |
Marvel |
16337 |
22 |
Web Warriors |
6 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
17376 |
23 |
Star-Lord |
6 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
17653 |
24 |
Scarlet Witch |
5 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
17864 |
25 |
Unbeatable Squirrel Girl |
7 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
17869 |
26 |
Contest of Champions |
7 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
17874 |
27 |
Agents of Shield |
4 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
17878 |
28 |
Venom Space Knight |
6 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
17894 |
29 |
Vision |
6 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
19028 |
30 |
Howard The Duck |
6 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
19459 |
WORST SELLING IMAGE COMICS OF APRIL 2016
1 |
Starve |
8 |
$3.99 |
Image |
4674 |
2 |
Mythic |
8 |
$3.99 |
Image |
4834 |
3 |
Mirror |
3 |
$2.99 |
Image |
4903 |
4 |
Aloha Hawaiian Dick |
1 |
$3.99 |
Image |
5095 |
5 |
Criminal 10Th Anniversary Special Deadly Ed Magazine Size |
$5.99 |
Image |
5226 |
|
6 |
Switch |
3 |
$3.99 |
Image |
6119 |
7 |
Snowfall |
3 |
$3.99 |
Image |
6144 |
8 |
Cry Havoc |
4 |
$3.99 |
Image |
7771 |
9 |
Lazarus Sourcebook |
1 |
$3.99 |
Image |
8915 |
10 |
Sex Criminals |
15 |
$4.69 |
Image |
9069 |
11 |
Pretty Deadly |
9 |
$3.50 |
Image |
9732 |
12 |
Autumnlands Tooth & Claw |
10 |
$2.99 |
Image |
9751 |
13 |
Criminal 10th Anniversary Special Ed |
$4.99 |
Image |
9966 |
|
14 |
Grizzly Shark |
1 |
$3.50 |
Image |
10221 |
15 |
Discipline |
2 |
$2.99 |
Image |
10288 |
16 |
Deadly Class |
20 |
$3.99 |
Image |
10366 |
17 |
Chew Demon Chicken Poyo |
1 |
$3.99 |
Image |
10447 |
18 |
Injection |
9 |
$2.99 |
Image |
11433 |
19 |
Invincible |
127 |
$2.99 |
Image |
12038 |
20 |
Velvet |
14 |
$3.50 |
Image |
12980 |
21 |
Jupiters Circle Vol. 2 |
5 |
$3.50 |
Image |
13418 |
22 |
Low |
13 |
$3.99 |
Image |
13956 |
23 |
Fix |
1 |
$3.99 |
Image |
14959 |
24 |
Black Road |
1 |
$3.99 |
Image |
16572 |
25 |
Sex Criminals |
15 |
$3.50 |
Image |
16898 |
26 |
Wicked & Divine |
18 |
$3.50 |
Image |
17722 |
27 |
Spawn |
262 |
$2.99 |
Image |
18775 |
28 |
East of West |
25 |
$3.50 |
Image |
19297 |
29 |
Huck |
6 |
$3.99 |
Image |
19551 |
MARCH 2016 COMIC BOOK MARKET
Analysis by Terry Hoknes hoknes@hotmail.com www.HoknesUSA.com www.HoknesComics.com
Here are some of the highlights and sales put into perspective. Let’s see what surprises were in the market in the past month. Some big winners and many losers !
Batman #50 celebrates its anniversary with a polybag variant with 3 covers which easily put it in the #1 place for the month at 163,000 copies. Doing quick math that means potentially the print run is possibly 80,000 regular cover and only approx 28,000 copies of each of the 3 variant covers. A rare Signature Edition copy was randomly inserted in the bags. We opened up 300 bags and were lucky enough to get 2 of these signed copies!!
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #1 was the huge sensation for Boom giving them their biggest selling comic ever in the companies history. This was all due to the hype and sell out of #0 the month earlier where every cover quickly sold out and tripled in price. So retailers all knew to go harder on this issue and unfortunately with every retailer going hard this guaranteed no rarity this time. So all of our sales were pre-sales for this title.
Star Wars #17 was the best selling comic of the month not tied directly to a gimmick or hype and the only comic to sell over 100,000 copies this month.
Superman rarely cracks the top 30 but this month his sales skyrocketed due to the tie in with the new movie and the polybag variants. Keep in mind Superman #50 variants are twice as scarce as the Batman #50 ones based on print run.
Amazing Spider-man #9 was the best selling new relaunched Marvel title at 88,000. Deadpool #8 was 2nd place. International Iron Man #1 debuted strongly for 3rd place.
Avengers Standoff Assault On Pleasnat Hill Alpha #1 had a surprise Gwenpool variant cover which caused an overnight hit reaching $25.00 immediately. Plus there was a a couple store party variants which were only 1 or 2 per store.
Spider-Man Deadpool #3 featuring Marvel’s 2 current most popular characters is an instant sellout and now all issues are reprinted and all issues are rising in price.
Walking Dead #152 - 67,000 copies sold - Image #1 title but 10 million people watch the TV show. This is I still find one of the saddest parts of our industry as that means likely less than 50,000 people are actually reading the comic book. Yes many TV viewers just wait for the trade paperbacks!
Extraordinary X-Men #8 at 62,000 had a decent print run but sold out quickly as the 1st part of a new Apocalypse storyline.
Captain America Sam Wilson #7 celebrated 75th anniversary of Captain America with 3 rare variants and a hefty cover price. Print run of the 1:100 might only be 100 copies and the 1:50’s might be possibly around 400 each including the return of legendary artist Jim Steranko.
DC released 10 different comics with polybags this month. While Batman #50 and Superman #50 had extremely high print runs the rest did not and might prove harder to find in the future for completists.
Detective #50 52,000 / Batman Superman #30 44,000 / Action #50 40,000 / Wonder Woman #50 36,000 / Green Lantern #50 36,000 / Grayson #18 33,000 / Robin Son Of Batman #10 32,000 / Batgirl #50 does not come out until next month but might be the rarest of all as #49 only sold 24,000.
Harley Quinn #26 had a surprise 1st appearance by Red Tool and came in at a steady 51,000 copies but the variant sold out quickly and hit up to $125.00.
Kanan #12 was the final issue of the Star Wars title and went out with only 36,000 copies making this the rarest regular Marvel Star Wars comic ever made!
Marvel has a surprise hit on their hands with the mini-series Infinity Entity which went unmentioned by most but all issues sold out quietly at Diamond. #1 sold 33,000.
Hyperion #1 from Marvel debuted fairly weak at 31,000
Haunted Mansion #1 based on the Disney horror attraction came in fairly strong at 28,000 and is possibly the highest print run for any of the all ages Marvel Disney comics. But still sold out quickly with #1 hitting up to $25.00 and all variants popular too. This one should stay popular for years.
A&A #1 (Archer And Armstrong) from Valiant debuted at 27,000 with about 8 variant covres.
Superman American Alien #5 is holding steady at 26,000 and the first 2 issues are now super hot as back issues with sets of #1-5 hitting up to $85.00
Aqua man #50 featured Mera becoming Aquawoman and this issue sold out at 24,000
Green Arrow #50 had the surprise death of Oliver Queen and sold a respectable 22,000.
Discipline #1 Image Comics sold 20,000 and quickly sold out
Legends Of Tomorrow #1 DC based on new TV show with hefty $7.99 cover price sold 18,000 copies.
Legend Of Wonder Woman #3 - this series has lots of praise but is just not selling well at only 16,000 expect 2nd printings to continue of all issues.
TMNT #56 sold 16,000 and had a new 1st appearance of Leatherhead causing a quick sellout and markups.
Doctor Who 4th #1 - the most popular Doctor ever Tom Baker from 1974-1981 finally got his own comic series from Titan hitting 14,000 across 8 titles.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #0 3rd printing sold 13,000 copies which was higher than 2nd print.
Vampirella Vol #3 #1 relaunched yet again with 12,000 at Dynamite across about 10 variant covers.
Disney Princess #1 from Joe Books had an impressive order of 12,000 copies and it still sold out.
Faith #3 Valiant sold only 12,000 copies but a 5th printing of #1 is coming.
Steven Universe & Crystal Gems #1 only sold 12,000 copies so it was a quick sellout and the 1:25 variant is extremely hard to find with only a couple hundred copies likely existing. The last Steven Universe series completely sold out and all issues have jumped in price.
Suiciders King Of Hella #1 DC Vertigo sold 8500 copies making the 1:25 variant one of the rarest DC comics made this year - print run might only be 100 copies!
Irwin Allen Lost In Space #1 from American Gothic ties into 50th anniversary of TV show at 6,300 copies and quick sell out at Diamond and very few retailers carried it at all.
True Believers Deadpool #1 (2nd printing) New Mutants #98. This one sold only 6,100 copies
Sheriff Of Babylon #4 sold 6,000 from DC Vertigo. This is one of those surprise titles that gets hot and nobody notices until its too late. Sets of #1-4 selling for $45.00 already. Very hard to find #1 anywhere.
Zombie Tramp #21 has a very strong loyal cult following. This issue featured 2 different action figure variants including 1 is nude. 5,500 copies for all 6 covers combined.
Wynonna Earp #2 - the TV show has now debuted this 2nd issue from IDW sold only 4,800 copies across 3 covers.
Superzero #4 was Aftershock Comics best seller at 4,300 copies. Dreaming Eagles #3 4,100 / Insexts #4 4,100. Other titles did not rank.
Delete #1 from Jimmy Palmiotti came in at a weak 4,200 copies for #1 from Devils Due.
Jungle Fantasy Vixens #1 $5.99 from Avatar Press had about 16 sexy variant covers but totalled only 3,500 copies.
Grimm Fairy Tales had a bunch of titles and almost every issue has 4 covers so they are averaging 800 copies per cover.
DC #1 issues in March
DC Comics Essentials The Dark Knight Returns |
1 |
$1.00 |
DC |
21323 |
Legends of Tomorrow |
1 |
$7.99 |
DC |
18753 |
Suiciders King of Hella |
1 |
$3.99 |
DC |
8563 |
DC Comics Essentials Superman Unchained |
1 |
$1.00 |
DC |
8274 |
Batman Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles |
1 |
$3.99 |
DC |
8022 |
IDW #1 issues in March
TMNT Deviations |
1 |
$4.99 |
IDW |
13335 |
Godzilla Oblivion |
1 |
$3.99 |
IDW |
10750 |
Transformers Deviations |
1 |
$4.99 |
IDW |
9196 |
Ghostbusters Deviations |
1 |
$4.99 |
IDW |
8798 |
X-Files Deviations |
1 |
$4.99 |
IDW |
8331 |
G.I. Joe Deviations |
1 |
$4.99 |
IDW |
7807 |
Mars Attacks Occupation |
1 |
$3.99 |
IDW |
6946 |
IMAGE #1 issues in March
Discipline |
1 |
$2.99 |
Image |
20221 |
Circuit Breaker |
1 |
$2.99 |
Image |
8326 |
Power Lines |
1 |
$3.50 |
Image |
5978 |
13th Artifact One Shot |
1 |
$3.99 |
Image |
4325 |
MARVEL #1 issues in March
International Iron Man |
1 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
70824 |
Avengers Standoff Assault on Pleasant Hill Alpha |
1 |
$4.99 |
Marvel |
68004 |
Black Widow |
1 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
62375 |
X-Men 92 |
1 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
58804 |
Mockingbird |
1 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
42335 |
Infinity Entity |
1 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
33914 |
Hyperion |
1 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
31679 |
Amazing Spider-Man and Silk Spiderfly Effect |
1 |
$4.99 |
Marvel |
30806 |
Haunted Mansion |
1 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
28739 |
All New All Different Marvel Universe |
1 |
$4.99 |
Marvel |
12217 |
Spider-Man Deadpool 3rd print |
1 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
10295 |
Marvel Universe Avengers Assemble Civil War |
1 |
$2.99 |
Marvel |
7253 |
True Believers Deadpool 2nd print |
1 |
$1.00 |
Marvel |
6120 |
Marvel Universe Ult Spider-Man Contest Champions |
1 |
$2.99 |
Marvel |
5447 |
Spider-Man 2nd print |
1 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
4474 |
MARVEL #2 issues in March
Spider-Man |
2 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
60627 |
Deadpool Mercs For Money |
2 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
52331 |
Power Man and Iron Fist |
2 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
41104 |
Infinity Entity |
2 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
29610 |
X-Men Worst X-Man Ever |
2 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
15169 |
Spider-Man Deadpool 2nd print |
2 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
5608 |
MARVEL #3 issues in March
Spider-Man Deadpool |
3 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
68003 |
Old Man Logan |
3 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
58855 |
Obi-Wan and Anakin |
3 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
53636 |
A-Force |
3 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
34133 |
Captain Marvel |
3 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
28469 |
Infinity Entity |
3 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
28135 |
Rocket Raccoon and Groot |
3 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
24855 |
Agents of Shield |
3 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
18139 |
VALIANT #1 issues in March
A&A |
1 |
$3.99 |
Valiant |
27491 |
Bloodshot Reborn Annual 2016 |
1 |
$5.99 |
Valiant |
7249 |
Faith |
3 |
$3.99 |
Valiant |
12114 |
Dr Mirage Second Lives |
4 |
$3.99 |
Valiant |
4700 |
Wrath of the Eternal Warrior |
5 |
$3.99 |
Valiant |
6523 |
Ninjak |
13 |
$3.99 |
Valiant |
7332 |
Imperium |
14 |
$3.99 |
Valiant |
4616 |
X-O Manowar |
45 |
$3.99 |
Valiant |
6049 |
WORST SELLING MARVEL COMICS in March 2016
1 |
4474 |
Spider-Man |
1 |
$3.99 |
2 |
4937 |
Marvel Universe Guardians of Galaxy |
6 |
$2.99 |
3 |
5447 |
Marvel Universe Ult Spider-Man Contest Champions |
1 |
$2.99 |
4 |
5608 |
Spider-Man Deadpool |
2 |
$3.99 |
5 |
6120 |
True Believers Deadpool |
1 |
$1.00 |
6 |
6678 |
Starbrand and Nightmask |
4 |
$3.99 |
7 |
7253 |
Marvel Universe Avengers Assemble Civil War |
1 |
$2.99 |
8 |
9932 |
Red Wolf |
4 |
$3.99 |
9 |
10295 |
Spider-Man Deadpool |
1 |
$3.99 |
10 |
11993 |
Weirdworld |
4 |
$3.99 |
11 |
12142 |
New Avengers |
7 |
$3.99 |
12 |
12217 |
All New All Different Marvel Universe |
1 |
$4.99 |
13 |
12700 |
Howling Commandos of Shield |
6 |
$3.99 |
14 |
12701 |
Hercules |
5 |
$3.99 |
15 |
13042 |
Drax |
5 |
$3.99 |
16 |
13499 |
Black Knight |
5 |
$3.99 |
17 |
13561 |
Illuminati |
5 |
$3.99 |
18 |
14771 |
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur |
5 |
$3.99 |
19 |
14946 |
Angela Queen of Hel |
6 |
$3.99 |
20 |
15169 |
X-Men Worst X-Man Ever |
2 |
$3.99 |
21 |
15971 |
Patsy Walker Aka Hellcat |
4 |
$3.99 |
22 |
16886 |
Nova |
5 |
$3.99 |
23 |
17374 |
Star-Lord |
5 |
$3.99 |
24 |
17995 |
Howard the Duck |
5 |
$3.99 |
25 |
18139 |
Agents of Shield |
3 |
$3.99 |
26 |
18598 |
Guardians of Infinity |
4 |
$4.99 |
27 |
18621 |
Web Warriors |
5 |
$3.99 |
28 |
18636 |
Vision |
5 |
$3.99 |
29 |
18807 |
Venom Space Knight |
5 |
$3.99 |
30 |
19982 |
Contest of Champions |
6 |
$3.99 |
Marvel now has 30 titles selling less than 20,000 copies a month.
Star-Brand and Red Wolf are the 2 newly launched titles that have sunk below 10,000 copies each.
FEBRUARY 2016 COMIC BOOK MARKET
Analysis by Terry Hoknes hoknes@hotmail.com www.HoknesUSA.com www.HoknesComics.com
Here are some of the highlights and sales put into perspective. Let’s see what surprises were in the market in the past month. Some big winners and many losers !
Dark Knight III #3 was the big winner ranking #1 of the month and the only comic to sell over 110,000 copies - so a fairly slow month. But this hefty cover price was super strong for a #3 issue and Diamond actually sold out of #2 and #3 even with hefty print runs.
Star Wars mania is finally cooling down a bit. #16 was a decent 110,000 copies but Darth Vader #17 has now fallen to 81,000 though this is still enough to rank in the top 10 of the month.
Marvel's 2 big new debut series came in decent but not crazy strong: Spider-man #1 at 99,000 featuring Miles Morales. Power Man And Iron Fist #1 at 79,000 copies.
The new Deadpool mini-series Mercs For Money #1 came in at a strong 90,000 which was even slightly higher than the regular ongoing series at 88,000.
Batman Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #3 at 64,000 continued its run of sellouts at Diamond so its possible with the 2nd printing coming out that this one might heat up.
Avengers Standoff Welcome Pleasant Hill #1 sold 57,000 copies and included a number of variants including a Gwenpool variant cover which heated up instantly to $25.00 a copy. Plus there was a 1 per store variant cover featuring Gwenpool as well which sold as high as $150.00 week of release.
Harley Quinn #25 sold 51,000 copies in total which included a Neal Adams variant leading a surprise sellout for the regular cover even.
Saga from Image still holding strong at 49,000 copies even at #34. Walking Dead is Image Comics best seller with #151 at 67,000 copies.
Walking Dead has over 10 million viewers of the TV show but realistically only 50,000 unique people who actually buy the comic each month and potentially even less that read it.
Neal Adams was the featured artist at DC throughout February with 25 different variant covers which helped the print runs of all applicable titles. However most retailers did not see there would be much demand and these issues sold out quickly everywhere including Diamond. This caused Detective Comics #49 Adams variant cover to sell out and become one of the hottest books of the month.
Marvel continued to NOT overprint their comics causing almost all new issues in February to sell out instantly at Diamond leading to many new 2nd printings.
So far this has not pushed the prices up on 1st prints but it may happen eventually.
Superman Coming Of The Supermen #1 sold only 37,000 copies of this debut new mini-series issue by Neal Adams. It did sell out at Diamond.
Batman Arkham Knight Batgirl and Harley Quinn #1 - this one shot received very little attention and collectors seemed to skip this one by and it only sold 33,000 copies - this could be a potential Harley Quinn book to heat up in the future.
Fight Club 2 #9 from Dark Horse was the companies best selling title at 29,000 copies
I Hate Fairyland #5 from Image sold 24,000 copies with likely 1/2 of those being the "uncensored variant cover" This popular title from Skottie Young is starting to sell out at Diamond finally and the print runs are dropping and keep in mind that its only roughly 12,000 copies of each cover.
Invader Zim #7 was the best selling small publisher comic title of the month at 22,000 copies. It ranked #91 overall of the month.
X-Men Worst X-Man Ever #1 had a very small print run for a new X-Men related #1 issue at only 21,000 copies.
Howard The Duck #4 fell to only 20,000 copies after the departure of Gwenpool who had appeared in the first 3 issues.
Snowfall #1 was Image Comics best new debuting series at 17,000
Rick And Morty #11 sold 14,000 copies but constantly stays popular as a back issue and the 5th printing of #1 is coming out soon.
Faith #2 from Valiant dropped to only 12,000 copies even with a bunch of variant covers.
Transformers #50 celebrated the big franchises anniversary with a hefty cover price but only sold 11,000 copies.
Devolution #2 from Rick Remender fell to only 8,000 copies. For some reason this high profile writer is just not selling copies of this latest title.
Wraithborn #1 from Joe Benitez sold only 6,600 copies with 2 equal covers and variants making the regular cover likely only about 3,000 copies.
Wynonna Earp #1 from IDW sold only 6,400 copies with 3 variant covers and a month before a new TV show debuts. This could potentially be a hard one to find soon.
Spider-man Deadpool #1 2nd printing sold 6,300 copies - for those who like rare Marvel printings this could be a popular one in the future as it features 2 highly collected characters.
American Monster #2 was the best selling title for Aftershock Comics at 5,300 copies. Second Sight #1 was the best selling new debut for them at 4,200 copies.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #0 was a surprise sell out in January and stores were not ready for the demand and did not order enough of the 2nd printing which came in at only 4,700 copies selling out quickly and jumping in price quickly.
Grimm Fairy Tales Escape From Monster Island #1 had 4 regular covers with a total of 4,400 copies - thats only 1,100 copies sold of each cover. There is also a 350 print run variant that heated up like crazy featuring a cosplay cover of a sexy girl as Boba Fett.
Badger #1 was brought back from the 1980s this time from Devils Due Entertainment selling 3,900 copies.
Tuki Save The Humans #4 featured 2 covers including a rare Skottie Young variant which sold out quickly at Diamond. Combined print run only 3,500 copies making the Young variant possibly only 1,500 copies - a potential future hit !
ARH Comix put out the high quality artwork of Queen Of Vampires #1 in a new mini-series but stores did not realize the demand ordering only 2,600 copies. This was the lowest selling book of the month to rank on the Diamond monthly chart.
Dusu #1 from Stranger Comics and all titles from 451 Media did NOT rank on the Diamond chart meaning sales were likely under 2,500 copies.
I personally am very concerned about the state of the comic book market. Sales seem to be dropping on everything. There was very few surprises or increases for any titles or any publishers this month. Marvel and DC are getting used to having comics only sell 12,000 copies of ongoing titles. This is pretty sad overall especially considering the Marvel books even likely have variant covers included in those quantities. Its only been 4 months since Marvel relaunched all their titles and its becoming more and more clear that most of these will not likely last one year.
Lets analyze the numbers more closely for the publishers
MARVEL - NEW #1 ISSUES
Spider-Man 1 $3.99 Marvel 99951
Deadpool Mercs For Money 1 $3.99 Marvel 90186
Power Man and Iron Fist 1 $3.99 Marvel 79069
Avengers Standoff Welcome Pleasant Hill 1 $4.99 Marvel 57559
X-Men Worst X-Man Ever 1 $3.99 Marvel 21399
MARVEL - NEW #2 ISSUES
Spider-Man Deadpool 2 $3.99 Marvel 69801
Old Man Logan 2 $3.99 Marvel 63932
Obi-Wan and Anakin 2 $3.99 Marvel 58431
A-Force 2 $3.99 Marvel 35571
Rocket Raccoon and Groot 2 $3.99 Marvel 29180
Captain Marvel 2 $3.99 Marvel 28962
Karnak 2 $3.99 Marvel 26796
Silver Surfer 2 $3.99 Marvel 25009
Agents of Shield 2 $3.99 Marvel 18771
Agents of Shield surprisingly bad at only 18,000 with issue #2 even though a few million people watch the TV show.
MARVEL - NEW #3 ISSUES
Uncanny X-Men 3 $3.99 Marvel 50382
Deadpool and Cable Split Second 3 $4.99 Marvel 36644
Totally Awesome Hulk 3 $3.99 Marvel 35709
Spidey 3 $3.99 Marvel 28161
Scarlet Witch 3 $3.99 Marvel 23900
Guardians of Infinity 3 $4.99 Marvel 22309
Patsy Walker Aka Hellcat 3 $3.99 Marvel 16587
Weirdworld 3 $3.99 Marvel 14190
Red Wolf 3 $3.99 Marvel 12211
Starbrand and Nightmask 3 $3.99 Marvel 8956
Star brand #3 at 8,900 is possibly a new record low for a new ongoing issue from Marvel. 4 titles already dropped under 17,000 copies by issue #3. Can these titles last more than 6 months ?
MARVEL - NEW #4 ISSUES
Mighty Thor 4 $3.99 Marvel 56568
All New X-Men 4 $3.99 Marvel 50160
Daredevil 4 $3.99 Marvel 43741
Ms Marvel 4 $3.99 Marvel 30916
Ultimates 4 $3.99 Marvel 27177
Silk 4 $3.99 Marvel 26786
All New Hawkeye 4 $3.99 Marvel 24903
Squadron Supreme 4 $3.99 Marvel 24182
All New Inhumans 4 $3.99 Marvel 22334
Venom Space Knight 4 $3.99 Marvel 21545
Howard The Duck 4 $3.99 Marvel 20965
Spider-Woman 4 $3.99 Marvel 20747
Web Warriors 4 $3.99 Marvel 20198
Star-Lord 4 $3.99 Marvel 19117
Vision 4 $3.99 Marvel 19070
Nova 4 $3.99 Marvel 18187
Illuminati 4 $3.99 Marvel 15280
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur 4 $3.99 Marvel 14941
Drax 4 $3.99 Marvel 14620
Black Knight 4 $3.99 Marvel 14346
Hercules 4 $3.99 Marvel 13767
Marvel Universe Ultimate Spider-Man Spider-Verse 4 $2.99 Marvel 4582
The bulk of Marvel titles are now on issue #4 since the relaunch so this gives us a good sign of where things are headed. Only 4 out of 22 titles are still selling over 30,000 ! 9 of the titles are under 20,000 copies each. Hercules #4 is the weakest regular title at 13,700 copies.
MARVEL - NEW #5 ISSUES
All New All Different Avengers 5 $3.99 Marvel 51740
Doctor Strange 5 $3.99 Marvel 47933
Spider-Gwen 5 $3.99 Marvel 43796
Uncanny Avengers 5 $3.99 Marvel 43618
All New Wolverine 5 $3.99 Marvel 43149
All New X-Men 5 $3.99 Marvel 42402
Guardians of Galaxy 5 $3.99 Marvel 40581
Uncanny Inhumans 5 $3.99 Marvel 35145
Carnage 5 $3.99 Marvel 27160
Silk 5 $3.99 Marvel 26032
Astonishing Ant-Man 5 $3.99 Marvel 22168
Contest of Champions 5 $3.99 Marvel 21430
Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 5 $3.99 Marvel 17743
Angela Queen of Hel 5 $3.99 Marvel 15968
Howling Commandos of Shield 5 $3.99 Marvel 12281
Marvel Universe Guardians of Galaxy 5 $2.99 Marvel 5198
16 titles are now up to issue #5. Popular characters Spider-Gwen and new female Wolverine are both at 43,000 copies each.
Remember when Marvel used to have series that lasted hundreds of issues.
Currently out of their 80 titles the highest issue # of any series is number #16.
Star Wars 16 $3.99 Marvel 110407
Darth Vader 16 $3.99 Marvel 81147
Marvel Universe Avengers Assemble Season Two 16 $2.99 Marvel 4069
AFTERSHOCK COMICS - Sales ranked in order of worst to best
Replica 3 $3.99 Aftershock 2789
Strayer 2 $3.99 Aftershock 3087
Second Sight 1 $3.99 Aftershock 4211
Insexts 3 $3.99 Aftershock 4396
Superzero 3 $3.99 Aftershock 4782
American Monster 2 $3.99 Aftershock 5329
BOOM COMICS - Sales ranked in order of worst to best
Snow Blind 3 $3.99 Boom 3879
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers 0 $3.99 Boom 4788
Big Trouble In Little China 21 $3.99 Boom 5007
Kennel Block Blues 1 $3.99 Boom 5269
Jim Hensons Storyteller Dragons 3 $3.99 Boom 5378
Adventure Time Ice King 2 $3.99 Boom 6707
Lumberjanes 23 $3.99 Boom 6952
Adventure Time 49 $3.99 Boom 7184
Jonesy 1 $3.99 Boom 9157
Bill & Ted Go To Hell 1* $3.99 Boom 9966
Klaus 3 $3.99 Boom 17183
DARK HORSE COMICS - Sales ranked in order of worst to best
Zodiac Starforce 4 $3.99 Dark Horse 4047
Usagi Yojimbo 152 $3.99 Dark Horse 4238
Dragon Age Magekiller 3 $3.99 Dark Horse 4646
Joe Golem Occult Detective 4 $3.50 Dark Horse 4732
Lara Croft Frozen Omen 5 $3.99 Dark Horse 4972
Abe Sapien 31 $3.50 Dark Horse 5664
King Conan Wolves Beyond The Border 3 $3.99 Dark Horse 6544
Conan The Avenger 23 $3.50 Dark Horse 6898
Harrow County 9 $3.99 Dark Horse 7279
Angel and Faith Season 10 23 $3.99 Dark Horse 8559
Tomb Raider 2016 1* $3.99 Dark Horse 8867
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 10 24 $3.99 Dark Horse 12852
Hellboy & BPRD 1953 Beyond The Fences 1 $3.50 Dark Horse 12944
Fight Club 2 9 $3.99 Dark Horse 29119
DC COMICS - Sales ranked in order of worst to best
DC has a LOT of comics selling under 10,000 these days
Last Gang In Town 3 $3.99 DC 3772
New Romancer 3 $3.99 DC 3999
Red Thorn 4 $3.99 DC 4867
Scooby Doo Where Are You 66 $2.99 DC 4867
Survivors Club 5 $3.99 DC 5221
Art Ops 5 $3.99 DC 5297
Jacked 4 $3.99 DC 5449
Unfollow 4 $3.99 DC 5667
Fables The Wolf Among Us 14 $3.99 DC 5991
Sheriff of Babylon 3 $3.99 DC 6385
Clean Room 5 $3.99 DC 7020
Batman Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 2nd Ptg $3.99 DC 7973
Dark and Bloody 1 $3.99 DC 8622
Teen Titans Go 14 $2.99 DC 9142
He Man The Eternity War 15 $2.99 DC 9493
Telos 5 $2.99 DC 9877
Batman Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 $3.99 DC 9987
DYNAMITE COMICS - Sales ranked in order of worst to best
Will Eisner Spirit 8 $3.99 Dynamite 4423
Aliens Vampirella 6 $3.99 Dynamite 6707
Red Sonja Vol. 3 2 $3.99 Dynamite 7292
Grumpy Cat & Pokey 1 $3.99 Dynamite 8459
Bobs Burgers Ongoing 8 $3.99 Dynamite 8486
Devolution 2 $3.99 Dynamite 8810
Dejah Thoris 1 $3.99 Dynamite 9762
James Bond 4 $3.99 Dynamite 16838
IDW COMICS - Sales ranked in order of worst to best
Dirk Gently A Spoon Too Short 1 $3.99 IDW 3744
Fistful of Blood 4 $4.99 IDW 4196
Danger Girl Renegade 4* $3.99 IDW 4233
Walt Disney Comics & Stories 728 $3.99 IDW 4593
Mickey Mouse 9 $3.99 IDW 4968
TMNT Amazing Adventures 7 $3.99 IDW 5272
Donald Duck 10 $3.99 IDW 5412
Orphan Black Helsinki 4 $3.99 IDW 5708
Uncle Scrooge 11 $3.99 IDW 5863
Transformers Vs G.I. Joe 11 $3.99 IDW 6187
Star Trek Starfleet Academy 3* $3.99 IDW 6360
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW Greatest Hits) 1 $1.00 IDW 6378
Wynonna Earp 1* $3.99 IDW 6397
Judge Dredd 3 $3.99 IDW 6624
Ghostbusters International 2 $3.99 IDW 7972
X-Files Season 11 7 $3.99 IDW 8404
Star Trek Ongoing 54 $3.99 IDW 8440
Transformers More Than Meets Eye 49 $3.99 IDW 8449
G.I. Joe A Real American Hero 225 $3.99 IDW 8584
Jem & The Holograms 12 $3.99 IDW 9401
Jem & The Holograms Valentines Day Spec 2016 $3.99 IDW 10118
Transformers 50 $7.99 IDW 11098
My Little Pony Friends Forever 25 $3.99 IDW 12606
Street Fighter X G.I. Joe 1* $4.99 IDW 18339
My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic 39 $3.99 IDW 18743
TMNT Ongoing 55 $3.99 IDW 19631
Back To The Future 5* $3.99 IDW 21196
IMAGE COMICS - Sales ranked in order of worst to best
Shutter 18 $3.99 Image 3827
Stray Bullets Sunshine & Roses 12 $3.99 Image 4092
Postal 10 $3.99 Image 4171
Citizen Jack 4 $3.99 Image 4358
Ringside 4 $3.99 Image 4637
Invisible Republic 9 $2.99 Image 5117
Mythic 7 $3.99 Image 5162
Symmetry 3* $3.99 Image 5370
Starve 6 $3.99 Image 5422
Theyre Not Like Us 11 $2.99 Image 5813
Wolf 6 $3.50 Image 6098
Nowhere Men 8 $2.99 Image 6317
Wayward 14 $3.50 Image 6397
Spread 13 $3.50 Image 6401
Nailbiter 20 $2.99 Image 8368
Chew 55 $3.50 Image 8430
Sex Criminals 14 $4.69 Image 9238
Birthright 14 $2.99 Image 9519
Cry Havoc 2 $3.99 Image 9692
Manhattan Projects Sun Beyond The Stars 4 $3.50 Image 9843
Pretty Deadly 8 $3.50 Image 10180
Autumnlands Tooth & Claw 9 $2.99 Image 10249
Plutona 4 $2.99 Image 11862
Injection 7 $2.99 Image 12459
Black Science 20 $3.50 Image 13251
Velvet 13 $3.50 Image 13585
Black Magick 5 $3.99 Image 14024
Mirror 1 $2.99 Image 14884
Low 11 $3.99 Image 14939
Spawn 261 $2.99 Image 16949
Snowfall 1 $3.99 Image 17195
Sex Criminals 14 $3.50 Image 17197
Bitch Planet 7 $3.99 Image 17221
Goddamned 3 $3.99 Image 17421
Spawn 260 $2.99 Image 17877
Descender 10 $2.99 Image 19342
Huck 4 $3.50 Image 20183
Outcast By Kirkman & Azaceta 16 $2.99 Image 21801
I Hate Fairyland 5 $3.50 Image 24793
Paper Girls 5 $2.99 Image 37206
Saga 34 $2.99 Image 49363
Walking Dead 151 $2.99 Image 67381
VALIANT COMICS - Sales ranked in order of worst to best
Imperium 13 $3.99 Valiant 5267
Dr. Mirage Second Lives 3 $3.99 Valiant 5468
X-O Manowar 44 $3.99 Valiant 6326
Ninjak 12 $3.99 Valiant 7872
Wrath of the Eternal Warrior 4 $3.99 Valiant 7982
Bloodshot Reborn 11 $3.99 Valiant 8349
Faith 2* $3.99 Valiant 12266
MARVEL COMICS - Sales ranked in order of worst to best
17 of the new relaunch titles are under 20,000 copies. Only 10 of the new relaunch titles are holding above 50,000 copies.
Marvel Universe Avengers Assemble Season Two 16 $2.99 Marvel 4069
Marvel Universe Ultimate Spider-Man Spider-Verse 4 $2.99 Marvel 4582
Guidebook Marvel Cinematic Universe Marvels Avengers $3.99 Marvel 4775
Marvel Universe Guardians of Galaxy 5 $2.99 Marvel 5198
True Believers Deadpool 1 $1.00 Marvel 5627
Spider-Man Deadpool 1 2nd Ptg $3.99 Marvel 6308
Starbrand and Nightmask 3 $3.99 Marvel 8956
Red Wolf 3 $3.99 Marvel 12211
Howling Commandos of Shield 5 $3.99 Marvel 12281
Hercules 4 $3.99 Marvel 13767
Weirdworld 3 $3.99 Marvel 14190
Black Knight 4 $3.99 Marvel 14346
Drax 4 $3.99 Marvel 14620
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur 4 $3.99 Marvel 14941
Illuminati 4 $3.99 Marvel 15280
Angela Queen of Hel 5 $3.99 Marvel 15968
Patsy Walker Aka Hellcat 3 $3.99 Marvel 16587
Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 5 $3.99 Marvel 17743
Nova 4 $3.99 Marvel 18187
New Avengers 7 $3.99 Marvel 18520
Agents of Shield 2 $3.99 Marvel 18771
Vision 4 $3.99 Marvel 19070
Star-Lord 4 $3.99 Marvel 19117
Web Warriors 4 $3.99 Marvel 20198
Spider-Woman 4 $3.99 Marvel 20747
Howard The Duck 4 $3.99 Marvel 20965
X-Men Worst X-Man Ever 1 $3.99 Marvel 21399
Contest of Champions 5 $3.99 Marvel 21430
Venom Space Knight 4 $3.99 Marvel 21545
Astonishing Ant-Man 5 $3.99 Marvel 22168
Guardians of Infinity 3 $4.99 Marvel 22309
All New Inhumans 4 $3.99 Marvel 22334
Scarlet Witch 3 $3.99 Marvel 23900
Squadron Supreme 4 $3.99 Marvel 24182
All New Hawkeye 4 $3.99 Marvel 24903
Silver Surfer 2 $3.99 Marvel 25009
Silk 5 $3.99 Marvel 26032
Spider-Man 2099 7 $3.99 Marvel 26163
Spider-Man 2099 6 $3.99 Marvel 26626
Silk 4 $3.99 Marvel 26786
Karnak 2 $3.99 Marvel 26796
Captain America Sam Wilson 6 $3.99 Marvel 27111
Carnage 5 $3.99 Marvel 27160
Ultimates 4 $3.99 Marvel 27177
Spidey 3 $3.99 Marvel 28161
Captain Marvel 2 $3.99 Marvel 28962
Rocket Raccoon and Groot 2 $3.99 Marvel 29180
Ms Marvel 4 $3.99 Marvel 30916
New Avengers 6 $3.99 Marvel 31188
Uncanny Inhumans 5 $3.99 Marvel 35145
A-Force 2 $3.99 Marvel 35571
Totally Awesome Hulk 3 $3.99 Marvel 35709
Deadpool and Cable Split Second 3 $4.99 Marvel 36644
Kanan 11 $3.99 Marvel 38370
Guardians of Galaxy 5 $3.99 Marvel 40581
All New X-Men 5 $3.99 Marvel 42402
All New Wolverine 5 $3.99 Marvel 43149
Uncanny Avengers 5 $3.99 Marvel 43618
Daredevil 4 $3.99 Marvel 43741
Spider-Gwen 5 $3.99 Marvel 43796
Extraordinary X-Men 7 $3.99 Marvel 47219
Amazing Spider-Man 1.3 $3.99 Marvel 47892
Doctor Strange 5 $3.99 Marvel 47933
All New All Different Avengers 6 $3.99 Marvel 48022
All New X-Men 4 $3.99 Marvel 50160
Uncanny X-Men 3 $3.99 Marvel 50382
All New All Different Avengers 5 $3.99 Marvel 51740
Mighty Thor 4 $3.99 Marvel 56568
Avengers Standoff Welcome Pleasant Hill 1 $4.99 Marvel 57559
Obi-Wan and Anakin 2 $3.99 Marvel 58431
Invincible Iron Man 6 $3.99 Marvel 63234
Old Man Logan 2 $3.99 Marvel 63932
Spider-Man Deadpool 2 $3.99 Marvel 69801
Amazing Spider-Man 8 $3.99 Marvel 71599
Amazing Spider-Man 7 $3.99 Marvel 75357
Power Man and Iron Fist 1 $3.99 Marvel 79069
Darth Vader 16 $3.99 Marvel 81147
Deadpool 7 $9.99 Marvel 88264
Deadpool Mercs For Money 1 $3.99 Marvel 90186
Spider-Man 1 $3.99 Marvel 99951
Star Wars 16 $3.99 Marvel 110407
JANUARY 2016 COMIC BOOK MARKET
Analysis by Terry Hoknes hoknes@hotmail.com
www.HoknesUSA.com www.HoknesComics.comHere are some of the highlights and sales put into perspective. Let’s see what surprises were in the market in the past month. Some big winners and many losers !
Walking Dead #150 predictably was the biggest comic of the month with 5 different variant covers. Note the individual print runs are actually quite low averaging at possibly only 35,000 of each cover making these an easy sell out.
Marvel dominates the top 10 with the best selling comics but note that ALL of their best selling comics regardless of having the biggest print runs all sold out quickly at Diamond as Marvel is not stocking any extra copies of their new books.
Star Wars has 4 of the 9 biggest comics !
Deadpool #6 featuring 1st app of Deadpool 2099 sold out in every shop at 59,000 as speculators bought up all the copies.
Batman TMNT #2 sold out at 52,000 which was a severe drop from the #1 print run. Both issues immediately received 2nd printings.
Saga is the biggest selling comic not tied to the big 2 or any multi-media.
New Mutants #98 from 1991 was reprinted as True Believers Deadpool 25 years later and had a hefty sell through of 46,000 copies and even is getting its own 2nd printing as Diamond sold out of this affordable $1.00 comic.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #0 was truly the surprise hit of January selling 41,000 and giving Boom Comics a comic ranking high making the top 40 overall titles. This was the biggest non big-3 publisher title of the month. All the variant covers sold out and skyrocketed in price and even the regular covers were wiped from Diamond quickly with price increases.
Poison Ivy Cycle of Life and Death #1 sold 31,000 copies making the 1:25 roughly in the 1,000 copy range which quickly heated up. This is also the case for Swamp Thing #1 at 29,000 which also has a 1:25 variant in this print run range.
Howard The Duck #3 came in with a low 28,000 copies even with the popular Gwenpool 1:25 cover making the print run of that one less than 1,000 copies and the rarest of the 3 Gwenpool variants.
Superman American Alien #1-3 all sold out at Diamond even though #3 did 28,000 copies in January.
Legend of Wonder Woman #1 sold only 25,000 making its 1:25 ratio variant less than 1,000 copies and tough to find.
Invader Zim #6 staying strong as one of the most popular comics from a smaller publisher at 23,000
Back To The Future #4 also staying super strong at 22,000
Outcast just barely made the top 100 in 100th place with issue #15 hovering at 22,000 copies before the TV show debuts.
Faith #1 from Valiant had ton of publicity and hype but still quickly sold out and only received 22,000 in orders even with a 1:20 and 1:10 ratio variant. Valiant decided to ship a 2nd printing to stores at 50% of the retailers original orders of #1 1st printing regular cover. Of course a 3rd printing is on the way.
Red Sonja Vol #3 #1 showed a very strong from Dynamite at 21,000 copies.
Monstress #3 has a ton of buzz from Image but only brought in 20,000 sales.
Archie #5 is at 20,000 across 3 covers which is only 6,500 copies each making all new Archie covers very hard to find with news of a new TV program on the way.
Deadpool was reprinted in January in 10 different $1.00 comics. The 2nd best selling title was: True Believers Deadpool Origins #1 at 20,000 copies.
Gotham Academy has been the latest hit DC title for speculators yet the latest issue #14 came in at 15,000 copies.
Rick And Morty is a goliath in back issue sales but the new releases still bring luke warm sales at 14,000 copies.
Devolution #1 from Rick Remender at Dynamite came in at a low 14,000 copies and a 2nd printing is on the way.
Lucifer TV series is now running and the first new comic is #2 from DC at only 12,000 copies.
Batman TMNT #1 came out last month but sales were so strong another 12,000 sold in January causing a sell out and a 2nd printing on the way.
Doctor Who 12th Doctor was relaunched as Year Two #1 at Titan Comics with 10,000 copies across variants.
Jem and the Holograms continues to be a popular series to collect but the latest issue #11 came in at 10,000.
Ghostbusters was relaunched as International #1 at only 9,600 copies
American Monster #1 from Aftershock received lots of buzz but came in at 9,500 copies.
Gi Joe A Real American Hero #223 featured a subscription action figure variant again this month. The complete print run was 7,800 across 3 covers making the action figure possibly only about 3,000 copies total. #224 came in at 7,400 copies making its action figure variant also likely about 3,000 copies.
Nowhere Men #7 was relaunched from Image after a 27 month delay. #7 sold out quickly but received 7,400 in orders for this popular title which debuted in 2012.
50 million people tuned in to watch the relaunch of X-Files on TV this month but the latest issue of the comic series sold 7,100 copies. For Season 11 #6
Harley Quinn polybag sales were so strong in December but due to overprinting 6,700 more copies of Justice League #47 were sold in January.
Uncle Scrooge and all the other Disney titles at IDW have started to sell out at Diamond and the latest issue #10 came in at 6,200 copies. Donald Duck #9 was at 5,300 copies. Mickey Mouse #8 at 5,100 copies.
Walt Disney Comics and Stories #727 at 4,600 copies.
Superzero #2 from Aftershock came in at 5,500 proving to be the most popular 2nd issue of an Aftershock title. Insexts #2 at 4,800 copies. Dreaming Eagles #2 at 4,500 copies. Replica #2 at 3,700 copies.
Strayer #1 from Aftershock debuted at only 5,500 sales - the smallest print run so far of this publisher.
Lucifer TV show received a $1.00 Special Edition from DC selling 5,000 copies
Grimm Fairy Tales Steam punk #1 was the best selling Zenescope title at 4,800 copies at $5.99 price
Some of the rarer indie published titles with surprisingly low print runs were:
Man Plus #1 Titan 4,400 copies
Evil Dead 2 Cradle Of The Damned #1 4,300 copies
Amazing Forest #1 IDW 4,600 copies
Luna The Vampire #1 IDW 4,000 copies
The following titles are the rarest indie books that did not even make the top 300 of the month.
Spirit Leaves #1 Chapterhouse 3,400 copies
Hip Hop Family Tree #6 Fantagraphics 3,300 copies
Welcome To Show side #3 Z2 comics at 3,300 copies
Interceptor #1 Heavy Metal at 3,200 copies
Devi Witchblade One Shot Sejic #1 Graphic India Comics at 3,100 copies featuring Witchblade from Image
Enormous V2 #4 215 Ink at 2,600 copies - that’s 1,300 copies per cover
Monster World #2 American Gothic at 2,100 copies
Top 10 best selling DC Comics of January 2016 - 37,000 copies or more.
1 |
Batman |
48 |
$3.99 |
DC |
100962 |
2 |
Batman Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles |
2 |
$3.99 |
DC |
52337 |
3 |
Justice League of America |
7 |
$3.99 |
DC |
47835 |
4 |
Detective Comics |
48 |
$3.99 |
DC |
45111 |
5 |
Harley Quinn |
24 |
$3.99 |
DC |
44967 |
6 |
Batman and Robin Eternal |
14 |
$2.99 |
DC |
39044 |
7 |
Batman and Robin Eternal |
15 |
$2.99 |
DC |
38858 |
8 |
Batman and Robin Eternal |
16 |
$2.99 |
DC |
38321 |
9 |
Superman |
48 |
$3.99 |
DC |
37690 |
10 |
Batman and Robin Eternal |
17 |
$2.99 |
DC |
37675 |
Top 10 best selling Marvel Comics of January 2016 - 65,000 copies or more.
1 |
Secret Wars |
9 |
$4.99 |
Marvel |
149028 |
2 |
Spider-Man Deadpool |
1 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
133813 |
3 |
Star Wars |
14 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
118471 |
4 |
Star Wars |
15 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
107858 |
5 |
Old Man Logan |
1 |
$4.99 |
Marvel |
104362 |
6 |
Obi-Wan and Anakin |
1 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
102861 |
7 |
Darth Vader |
15 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
98405 |
8 |
Uncanny X-Men |
1 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
93252 |
9 |
Amazing Spider-Man |
6 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
76517 |
10 |
A-Force |
1 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
65661 |
Top 10 best selling Image Comics of January 2016 - 20,000 copies or more.
1 |
Walking Dead |
150 |
$2.99 |
Image |
156166 |
2 |
Saga |
33 |
$2.99 |
Image |
50415 |
3 |
Paper Girls |
4 |
$2.99 |
Image |
38290 |
4 |
I Hate Fairyland |
4 |
$3.50 |
Image |
25708 |
5 |
Tokyo Ghost |
5 |
$3.99 |
Image |
22724 |
6 |
Outcast By Kirkman & Azaceta |
15 |
$2.99 |
Image |
22195 |
7 |
Huck |
3 |
$3.50 |
Image |
20986 |
8 |
Monstress |
3* |
$3.99 |
Image |
20859 |
9 |
Cry Havoc |
1 |
$3.99 |
Image |
20677 |
10 |
Descender |
9 |
$2.99 |
Image |
20017 |
Top 7 best selling Valiant Comics of January 2016 - 4,700 copies or more.
1 |
Faith |
1 |
$3.99 |
Valiant |
22020 |
2 |
Bloodshot Reborn |
10* |
$3.99 |
Valiant |
10756 |
3 |
Wrath of the Eternal Warrior |
3 |
$3.99 |
Valiant |
8384 |
4 |
Ninjak |
11 |
$3.99 |
Valiant |
8373 |
5 |
X-O Manowar |
43 |
$3.99 |
Valiant |
6696 |
6 |
Dr Mirage Second Lives |
2 |
$3.99 |
Valiant |
6046 |
7 |
Imperium |
12 |
$3.99 |
Valiant |
4735 |
Top 13 lowest selling DC Comics of January 2016 - 4,400 copies or more.
1 |
Slash & Burn |
3 |
$3.99 |
DC |
4403 |
2 |
Last Gang In Town |
2 |
$3.99 |
DC |
4750 |
3 |
Scooby Doo Where Are You |
65 |
$2.99 |
DC |
4906 |
4 |
Dark Knight III Master Race |
2 |
$5.99 |
DC |
5050 |
5 |
Lucifer |
1 Spec. Ed. |
$1.00 |
DC |
5074 |
6 |
New Romancer |
2 |
$3.99 |
DC |
5655 |
7 |
Survivors Club |
4 |
$3.99 |
DC |
5731 |
8 |
Art Ops |
4 |
$3.99 |
DC |
5772 |
9 |
Jacked |
3 |
$3.99 |
DC |
5787 |
10 |
Red Thorn |
3 |
$3.99 |
DC |
5802 |
11 |
DC Essentials DC The New Frontier |
1 |
$1.00 |
DC |
6051 |
12 |
Fables The Wolf Among Us |
13 |
$3.99 |
DC |
6254 |
13 |
Unfollow |
3 |
$3.99 |
DC |
6510 |
Top 20 lowest selling Marvel Comics of January 2016 - 4,000 copies or more.
1 |
Marvel Universe Avengers Assemble Season Two |
15 |
$2.99 |
Marvel |
4028 |
2 |
Spider-Gwen |
0 |
$4.99 |
Marvel |
4816 |
3 |
Marvel Universe Ult Spider-Man Spider-Verse |
3 |
$2.99 |
Marvel |
4844 |
4 |
Marvel Universe Guardians of Galaxy |
4 |
$2.99 |
Marvel |
5662 |
5 |
Guide To Marvel Cinematic Universe Ca First Avenger |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
5896 |
|
6 |
Figment 2 |
5 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
7291 |
7 |
Dark Tower Drawing of Three Lady of Shadows |
5 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
7676 |
8 |
Marvels Captain America Civil War Prelude |
4 |
$2.99 |
Marvel |
11115 |
9 |
Starbrand and Nightmask |
2 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
11677 |
10 |
Marvels Captain America Civil War Prelude |
3 |
$2.99 |
Marvel |
12828 |
11 |
Howling Commandos of Shield |
4 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
14091 |
12 |
Miracleman By Gaiman and Buckingham |
6 |
$4.99 |
Marvel |
14200 |
13 |
True Believers Groovy Deadpool |
1 |
$1.00 |
Marvel |
16281 |
14 |
True Believers Meaty Deadpool |
1 |
$1.00 |
Marvel |
16291 |
15 |
Hercules |
3 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
16310 |
16 |
True Believers Evil Deadpool |
1 |
$1.00 |
Marvel |
16426 |
17 |
True Believers Deadpool Musical |
1 |
$1.00 |
Marvel |
16565 |
18 |
True Believers Deadpool Variants |
1 |
$1.00 |
Marvel |
16861 |
19 |
Black Knight |
3 |
$3.99 |
Marvel |
17118 |
20 |
True Believers Detective Deadpool |
1 |
$1.00 |
Marvel |
17607 |
Top 20 lowest selling Image Comics of January 2016 - 4,000 copies or more.
1 |
Black Jack Ketchum |
2 |
$3.99 |
Image |
4038 |
2 |
Codename Baboushka Conclave of Death |
4 |
$3.99 |
Image |
4056 |
3 |
Limbo |
3 |
$2.99 |
Image |
4160 |
4 |
Stray Bullets Sunshine & Roses |
11 |
$3.99 |
Image |
4318 |
5 |
Postal |
9 |
$3.99 |
Image |
4382 |
6 |
Pencil Head |
1 |
$3.99 |
Image |
4805 |
7 |
Faster Than Light |
5 |
$2.99 |
Image |
5127 |
8 |
Ringside |
3 |
$3.99 |
Image |
5269 |
9 |
Legacy of Luther Strode |
4 |
$3.50 |
Image |
5467 |
10 |
Citizen Jack |
3* |
$3.99 |
Image |
5518 |
11 |
Mythic |
6 |
$3.99 |
Image |
5590 |
12 |
Island |
6 |
$7.99 |
Image |
5764 |
13 |
Prophet Earth War |
1 |
$3.99 |
Image |
6015 |
14 |
Four Eyes Hearts of Fire |
1 |
$2.99 |
Image |
6122 |
15 |
Phonogram The Immaterial Girl |
6 |
$3.99 |
Image |
6163 |
16 |
Revival |
36 |
$3.99 |
Image |
6182 |
17 |
Violent |
2 |
$2.99 |
Image |
6474 |
18 |
Wayward |
13 |
$3.50 |
Image |
6589 |
19 |
Wolf |
5 |
$3.50 |
Image |
6752 |
20 |
Odyc |
9 |
$3.99 |
Image |
7165 |
Top 20 lowest selling Marvel Comics of their relaunch = January 2016 - 4,000 copies or more.
It is becoming quickly evident which Marvel titles are sinking fast and which are likely to be cancelled very soon. These are some of the worst sales figures Marvel has ever received in its 77 year history of publishing. Note some of these actually have variant covers too which would be extremely small print runs.
1 |
Starbrand and Nightmask |
2 |
11677 |
2 |
Howling Commandos of Shield |
4 |
14091 |
3 |
Miracleman By Gaiman and Buckingham |
6 |
14200 |
4 |
Hercules |
3 |
16310 |
5 |
Black Knight |
3 |
17118 |
6 |
Weirdworld |
2 |
17759 |
7 |
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur |
3 |
18424 |
8 |
Drax |
3 |
18837 |
9 |
Angela Queen of Hel |
4 |
18917 |
10 |
Illuminati |
3 |
19025 |
11 |
Unbeatable Squirrel Girl |
4 |
19923 |
12 |
Patsy Walker Aka Hellcat |
2 |
20836 |
13 |
Star-Lord |
3 |
22698 |
14 |
Nova |
3 |
23464 |
15 |
Squadron Supreme |
3 |
23551 |
16 |
Spider-Woman |
3 |
24054 |
17 |
Web Warriors |
3 |
25407 |
18 |
Scarlet Witch |
2 |
25728 |
19 |
All New Inhumans |
3 |
25746 |
20 |
Astonishing Ant-Man |
4 |
25768 |
21 |
Venom Space Knight |
3 |
25770 |
DECEMBER 2015 COMIC BOOK MARKET Analysis by Terry Hoknes hoknes@hotmail.com
www.HoknesUSA.com www.HoknesComics.comHere are some of the highlights and sales put into perspective
Big boom for DC and Batman with 3 of the top 5 comics of the month.
Once again proving no character sells like Batman does!
Batman Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 has possibly the largest print run of any TMNT comic in history.
Harley Quinn polybag variants from DC was also a big gimmick that worked well over 10 titles.
Batman 47 127,000 sold out at diamond (106,000 last month)
Harleys Little Black Book 1 92,000 sold out at diamond
Justice League 47 84,000 (75,000 last month)
Harley Quinn 23 69,000 (58,000 last month)
Justice League 6 55,000 (52,000 last month)
Superman 47 47,000 (41,000 last month)
Green Lantern 47 45,000 (38,000 last month)
Flash 47 42,000 (36,000 last month)
Wonder Woman 47 40,000 (34,000 last month)
Green Arrow 47 30,000 (24,000 last month)
Green Arrow Harley Quinn variants are easily the scarcest of the batch of 30 Harley covers.
Sales seem to improve about 9% across all the titles due to the polybags
However overall this is not a very drastic increase and surely the bags were more than 1/5 of the entire sales of each title otherwise these polybag editions are quite scarce since the chances of getting each variant is only 1 in 3. So for example if 10,000 bags of Green Arrow were sold then that’s only 3,333 copies of each of the 3 variants making this not rare but a fairly scarce comic for all the hype it received.
Most impressive sales debut of the month is the launch of Guardians Of Infinity #1 at 121,000 and $4.99
Star Wars became the biggest movie of all time and comic sales were still impressive but holding.
Star Wars leading at 139,000 with Darth Vader at 97,000. Chewbacca 53,000, Kanan 40,000.
Best Selling Marvel titles regularly releases
Amazing Spider-Man 5 $3.99 Marvel 79,122
Deadpool 4 $3.99 Marvel 63,149 sold out in advance of release
Invincible Iron Man 4 $3.99 Marvel 57,639
Doctor Strange 3 $3.99 Marvel 57,135
Extraordinary X-Men 3 $3.99 Marvel 56,100
Spider-Gwen 3 $3.99 Marvel 54,844
Guardians of Galaxy 3 $3.99 Marvel 53,627
Uncanny Avengers 3 $3.99 Marvel 53,216
All New Wolverine 3 $3.99 Marvel 50,990
Extraordinary X-Men 4 $3.99 Marvel 49,079 sold out in advance of release
Uncanny Inhumans 3 $3.99 Marvel 43,036
Deadpool 3.1 $3.99 Marvel 42,615
New Avengers 4 $3.99 Marvel 36,669
Ultimate End 5 $4.99 Marvel 35,926
Carnage 3 $3.99 Marvel 34,852
Spider-Man 2099 4 $3.99 Marvel 32,464
Captain America White 5 $3.99 Marvel 29,600
Captain America Sam Wilson 4 $3.99 Marvel 29,512
Contest of Champions 3 $3.99 Marvel 29,165
Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 3 $3.99 Marvel 25,350
Angela Queen of Hel 3 $3.99 Marvel 20,958
Howling Commandos of Shield 3 $3.99 Marvel 18,002
Dark Tower Drawing of Three Lady of Shadows 4 $3.99 Marvel 7,935
Figment 2 4 $3.99 Marvel 6,937
Marvel Universe Guardians of the Galaxy 3 $2.99 Marvel 6,159
Sales have started to settle down for the new Marvel launches giving DC a bigger market share again.
Howling Commandos is the first new Marvel title to drop under 20,000 copies.
Note that only 2 of the entire line of new Marvel titles is still selling more than 60,000 copies a month that have passed issue #3.
The 2 big Star Wars titles are outselling ALL Marvel ongoing titles.
Deadpool #1 was listed as selling an incredible 81,000 a month after release - not sure how that is possible as Diamond did not have that many extras ever in inventory for re-orders.
Extraordinary X-Men #3 4 5 have all sold out at Diamond immediately proving this could be the first true hit title of the Marvel relaunches.
Deadpool 3.1 is a Spanish special issue which had much smaller print run than the other issues of the series.
Best Selling new Marvel #1’s
Guardians of Infinity 1 $4.99 Marvel 121,407
Daredevil 1 $3.99 Marvel 84,500
All New X-Men 1 $3.99 Marvel 81,342
Gwenpool Special 1 $5.99 Marvel 80,768 4 variant covers - one-shot
Totally Awesome Hulk 1 $4.99 Marvel 74,471 1st Amadeus Cho Hulk
Spidey 1 $3.99 Marvel 65,503
All New Inhumans 1 $4.99 Marvel 58,123
Scarlet Witch 1 $3.99 Marvel 57,835
Deadpool and Cable Split Second 1 $4.99 Marvel 57,198 Cable mini-series
Squadron Supreme 1 $3.99 Marvel 48,247 Death of Namor
Patsy Walker AKA Hellcat 1 $3.99 Marvel 46,198 Jessica Jones character
Red Wolf 1 $3.99 Marvel 39,288
Weirdworld 1 $3.99 Marvel 30,288 1st Becca
Starbrand and Nightmask 1 $3.99 Marvel 27,969
Marvels Captain America Civil War Prelude 1 $2.99 Marvel 15,396 movie tie-in
Star Wars (7th printing) 1 $4.99 Marvel 10,070 latest printing sold out at Diamond
Darth Vader (5th printing) 1 $4.99 Marvel 7,844 latest printing
Howard The Duck 1 $4.99 Marvel 7,821 Gwenpool 2nd printing
This was the 3rd big month of relaunches of titles for Marvel.
Marvel had been drastically overprinting their new #1’s in October. But they have now stopped doing that so the print runs overall of these new #1’s and #2’s is much smaller now and many titles are selling out at Diamond.
DC - new series and any sales noteworthy.
Robin War 1 $4.99 DC 45,058
Batman 66 Meets The Man From Uncle 1 $2.99 DC 17,363
Lucifer 1 $3.99 DC 17,306
Batman 66 30 $2.99 DC 14,000
Sheriff of Babylon 1 $3.99 DC 10,234
Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman 17 $3.99 DC 9,138
New Romancer 1 $3.99 DC 8,639
Last Gang In Town 1 $3.99 DC 8,396
Unfollow 2 $3.99 DC 7,082
The majority of the DC Vertigo series are all under 9,000 copies each.
Unfollow #2 sold out and has a new printing and a potential TV show in the works.
Sensation Comics #17 is the poorest selling DC mainstream superhero book.
Some Batman related titles are selling under 20,000 copies.
Best Selling Marvel #2 issues
Mighty Thor 2 $3.99 Marvel 70,331
All New All Different Avengers 2 $3.99 Marvel 67,154
All New X-Men 2 $3.99 Marvel 56,168
Daredevil 2 $3.99 Marvel 49,758
Ms Marvel 2 $3.99 Marvel 46,610
Silk 2 $3.99 Marvel 38,356
Ultimates 2 $3.99 Marvel 37,055
Vision 2 $3.99 Marvel 36,107
All New Hawkeye 2 $3.99 Marvel 35,363
All New Inhumans 2 $3.99 Marvel 34,471
Howard The Duck 2 $4.99 Marvel 33,578 Gwenpool storyline
Venom Space Knight 2 $3.99 Marvel 32,210
Web Warriors 2 $3.99 Marvel 31,614
Spider-Woman 2 $3.99 Marvel 27,801
Squadron Supreme 2 $3.99 Marvel 27,643
Nova 2 $3.99 Marvel 27,120
Star-Lord 2 $3.99 Marvel 26,348
Illuminati 2 $3.99 Marvel 23,090
Drax 2 $3.99 Marvel 23,054
Black Knight 2 $3.99 Marvel 22,081
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur 2 $3.99 Marvel 21,715
Hercules 2 $3.99 Marvel 20,719
Marvels Captain America Civil War Prelude 2 $2.99 Marvel 13,634
Sales are definitely dropping on all new titles with their 2nd issues. Many fell below 30,000 immediately.
Best Selling IMAGE comics of December 2015
33 Image titles.
Walking Dead 149 $2.99 Image 65,406
Saga 32 $2.99 Image 51,850
Paper Girls 3 $2.99 Image 43,737
We Stand On Guard 6 $2.99 Image 35,177
I Hate Fairyland 3 $3.50 Image 27,843
Tokyo Ghost 4 $3.99 Image 24,133
Outcast 14 $2.99 Image 23,319
Huck 2 $3.50 Image 22,937
Monstress 2* $3.99 Image 21,243
Descender 8 $2.99 Image 20,999
Goddamned 2 $3.99 Image 20,415
East of West 23 $3.50 Image 19,184
Wicked & Divine 17 $3.50 Image 18,479
Symmetry 1* $3.99 Image 17,522 #1 ISSUE
Black Magick 3 $3.99 Image 15,070
Black Science 18 $3.50 Image 14,465
Plutona 3 $2.99 Image 13,948
Lazarus 21 $3.50 Image 13,390
Trees 13 $2.99 Image 12,728
Rat Queens 14 $3.99 Image 12,468
Invincible 126 $2.99 Image 12,436
Violent 1 $2.99 Image 11,751 #1 ISSUE
Beauty 5 $3.50 Image 11,514
Pretty Deadly 7 $3.50 Image 11,277
Autumnlands Tooth & Claw 8 $2.99 Image 11,104
Deadly Class 17 $3.99 Image 11,035
Birthright 12 $2.99 Image 10,633
Nailbiter 18 $2.99 Image 8,853
Chew 53 $3.50 Image 8,829
Head Lopper 2 $5.99 Image 8,755
Citizen Jack 2* $3.99 Image 8,402
Black Jack Ketchum 1 $3.99 Image 8,022 #1 ISSUE
Wayward 12 $3.50 Image 7,015
Monstress is #9 best selling Image book but selling out with lots of hype and reprints.
Latest #1 debuts all had poor sales.
Interesting INDIE books of note:
86 Invader Zim 5 $3.99 Oni 30,106
143 Klaus 2 $3.99 Boom 18,247
146 James Bond 3 $3.99 Dynamite 17,730
168 Rick & Morty 9 $3.99 Oni 14,526
178 Dr Mirage Second Lives 1 $3.99 Valiant 12,844
182 Jughead 3 $3.99 Archie 12,229
187 Judge Dredd 1 $3.99 IDW 11,602
184 Jem & The Holograms 10* $3.99 IDW 11,845
198 G.I. Joe A Real American Hero 221 $3.99 IDW 10,450
210 Star Trek Starfleet Academy 1 $3.99 IDW 9,519
206 Superzero 1 $3.99 Aftershock 10,001
217 Jim Hensons Storyteller Dragons 1 $3.99 Boom 9,121
228 Bobs Burgers Ongoing 6 $3.99 Dynamite 8,644
240 Back To The Future 1 $3.99 IDW 8,014
244 G.I. Joe A Real American Hero 222 $3.99 IDW 7,760
249 Insexts 1 $3.99 Aftershock 7,673
252 King Conan Wolves Beyond The Border 1 $3.99 Dark Horse 7,641
253 Bobs Burgers Ongoing 7 $3.99 Dynamite 7,492
260 Snow Blind 1 $3.99 Boom 7,067
266 Dreaming Eagles 1 $3.99 Aftershock 6,927
295 Replica 1 $3.99 Aftershock 6,002
298 Code Pru 1 $3.99 Avatar 5,935
299 Call of Duty Black Ops III 2* $3.99 Dark Horse 5,893
316 Venus 1 $3.99 Boom 5,217
327 Carver Paris Story 1 $3.99 Z2 4,809
329 We Can Never Go Home 5 $3.99 Black Mask 4,808
330 Xed 1 $3.99 Black Mask 4,798
394 Hip Hop Family Tree 4 $3.99 Fantagraphics 3,318
401 Welcome To Showside 2 $3.99 Z2 3,255
Aftershock Comics debuted with their first 4 titles and Superzero did the best at 10,000 copies.
Some big TV property comics had small print runs like Bobs Burgers, Jim Henson, Gi Joe, Rick and Morty.
Black Mask comics both sold under 5,000 copies even with lots of hype.
Carver Paris Story #1 surprisingly sold way more than Show side #2.
Keep in mind most books at the bottom of the sales list actually have more than 1 cover making copies of each individual cover actually much rarer yet.
NOVEMBER 2015 COMIC BOOK MARKET Analysis by Terry Hoknes hoknes@hotmail.com
Batman had possibly his biggest single month sales in 22 years with the huge variety of exclusive and variant covers of the new Frank Miller series. 440,000 copies
The majority of new comics launched in the top 10 have higher cover prices making $4.99 the average price!!
Vader Down and related titles had a big bump in sales.
Both Dark Knight and Vader Down had a 1:5000 variant cover - the first time in history this has happened and both of those books were able to sell for about $4,000.00 each even though it cost retailers closer to $12,000.00 to get one qualifying with all the other covers.
5 Star Wars titles in the top 16 shows a big push before the movie debuts.
Secret Wars sales are actually increasing up to a hefty 177,000 for #7
The best selling new #1 from Marvel are Deadpool, Extraordinary X-Men, All New Avengers.
Batman is the best selling regular DC comic ranking at only #13 at 106,000
13 comics sold over 100,000 copies this month.
Interesting sales of note:
Ms Marvel #1 79,000
Howard The Duck #1 61,000 1st Gwenpool sold out quickly
Silk #1 57,000 sold out quickly
Image best selling titles are Walking Dead, Saga, Paper Girls, We Stand On Guard
Weak launches for Marvel
Drax #1 49,000
Star-Lord #1 47,000
Nova #1 45,000
Hercules #1 44,000
Illuminati #1 44,000
Vision #1 42,000
Black Knight #1 39,000
Moon Girl #1 38,000
Marvel Universe Ult Spider-Man Spider-Verse #1 7,144
Max Ride #1 5,877
Kanan is the rarest of all the new Marvel star wars titles at only 42,000 now and sells out fast at diamond each issue.
Batman & Robin Eternal #8 new key issue 42,000
Superman is the #55 best selling title for the worlds greatest superhero at 41,000
New miniseries American Alien #1 sold 41,000
James Bond made a big splash #1 at 35,000
Huck #1 optioned for new movie came out at only 35,000 for Image
Jason Aaron new title Goddamned #1 came out at only 33,000 for Image
Justice League Darkseid War titles all sold out and went to 2nd printings and all sold around 33,000 each
Spider-Gwen mania continued with #0 selling out in advance of release at only 30,000 copies
Image had a big hit on their hand with Monstress #1 which sold 30,000 copies of 1st printing
Klaus #1 sold out quickly and went to 3rd printing but had a 25,000 print run from Boom
Marvel poor selling #2 issues
Angela Queen of Hel 2 $3.99 Marvel 23,264
Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 2 $3.99 Marvel 23,064
Secret Wars Too 1 $4.99 Marvel 21,347
Howling Commandos of Shield 2 $3.99 Marvel 20,498
Marvel Universe Guardians of Galaxy 2 $2.99 Marvel 7,364
Death of Superman and Harley Quinn 3001 in Justice League 3001
Justice League 3001 6 $2.99 DC 14,659
New Image titles
Citizen Jack 1* $3.99 Image 15,095
Ringside 1 $3.99 Image 14,205
Limbo 1 $2.99 Image 10,869
Rick and Morty issues continue to sell out and yet print runs are still initially very low
Rick & Morty 8 $3.99 Oni 14,603
Surprise hit of the month for Dark Horse Comics sold out super quick
Call of Duty Black Ops III 1* $3.99 Dark Horse 13,104
Unfollow #1 optioned for new TV show DC Vertigo and #1 and #2 sell out quickly at Diamond and heat up in price
Unfollow 1 $3.99 DC 10,740
Action Figure variant covers
Gi Joe #219 starts a continuous series of action figure variant subscription covers which may have a print run of only 5,000 copies each
G.I. Joe A Real American Hero 219 $3.99 IDW 8,771
G.I. Joe A Real American Hero 220 $3.99 IDW 8,237
Disney titles continue to have 1:25 ratio variants but these have to be getting super rare now that the print runs are so small. So print run is likely only about 280 copies of each 1:25 variant. My prediction is years from now these are going to be ultra valuable books with Disney collectors.
Uncle Scrooge 8* $3.99 IDW 7,667
Donald Duck 7* $3.99 IDW 7,451
Mickey Mouse 6* $3.99 IDW 7,239
Walt Disney Comics & Stories 725* $3.99 IDW 6,264
Garth Ennis new title had 3 covers and yet small print run
Johnny Red 1 $3.99 Titan 6,198
Star Wars achieved a 7th printing and sales are starting to fall for sure making this a rare one !
Star Wars 1 $4.99 Marvel 4,773
Classic Canadian superhero sales stay steady
Captain Canuck 2015 5 $3.99 Chapter House 4,197
Local Comic Shop Day happened on Nov 28th in only 20% of comic shops with rare exclusive books that actually made the diamond chart
LCSD 2015 Invader Zim Treasury Ed $14.99 Oni 3,927
LCSD 2015 Rick & Morty Treasury Ed $14.99 Oni 3,212
Invader Zim is one of the best selling back issue titles on the market and sold almost an extra 4,000 re-orders from stores a month after release
Invader Zim 4 $3.99 Oni 3,918
Welcome To Showside was another huge re-order title selling almost as many copies in re-order as it did the month before.
Welcome To Showside 1 $3.99 Z2 2,726
Grimm Fairy Tales has a loyal following but print runs are crazy small considering there are usually at least 4 covers for each issue so divide the print runs by 4 and realize these books have less than 1,000 copies made of regular covers
Grimm Fairy Tales Wonderland 41 $3.99 Zenescope 3,883
Grimm Fairy Tales Oz Reign of Witch Queen 6 $3.99 Zenescope 3,817
Grimm Fairy Tales Robyn Hood Ongoing 16 $3.99 Zenescope 3,810
Grimm Fairy Tales Coven 4 $3.99 Zenescope 3,789
Grimm Fairy Tales Grimm Tales of Terror Vol. 2 2 $3.99 Zenescope 3,286
Worst Selling new comics of the month
These had such small limited print runs they did not even make the top 300 best selling titles.
This either is a speculators dream for quick profits OR it its just a title that retailers didn’t think anyone would want.
Exodus Life After 1* $3.99 Oni 3,641
Niobe She Is Life 1 $3.99 Stranger 3,443
451 Media Group
Oddly none of their titles made the chart at all even though I am led to believe print runs should have been high enough to chart but perhaps they were not giving these a better chance for increasing in value over time.
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