Top selling X-Books of October (#2 will surprise you)

[butterflykyss]

arent these sales shed upon how many books the gic book stores ordered and not the actual number of books sold?

all In all, these x book stories are stale. hopefully this wakes the creative minds at marvel up.

[Maestroneto]

arent these sales shed upon how many books the gic book stores ordered and not the actual number of books sold?

all In all, these x book stories are stale. hopefully this wakes the creative minds at marvel up.

Yes, and these orders are also done months in advance.

[ButterRum]

Emma is not really a surprise. She's a popular character that both her lovers and haters want to read about.

I wonder how many more sales Return of Wolverine had than Emma.

[Star_Jammer]

I wonder how many variants each of those 1 shots had.

From what I could gather...

Magneto: 4
Mystique: 3
Juggernaut: 3
Emma: 5 (1 is being sold as a signed copy by Midtown, so not sure if you want to count this)
Mojo: 3

[Tank]

Emma is not really a surprise. She's a popular character that both her lovers and haters want to read about.

Not surprised considering the amount of variants they put out.

[Tank]

From what I could gather...

Magneto: 4
Mystique: 3
Juggernaut: 3
Emma: 5
Mojo: 3

Thanks! This falls pretty much in line with how they placed on the charts.

[ButterRum]

Not surprised considering the amount of variants they put out.

Emma's book had only 2 variants with unique artists.

Magneto and Mystique had variants too. They all had mugshot variants.

I don't think variants count for EXTRA volume because they're supposed to be special, so you'd get a variant for every 1 out of 25 issues, etc.

Additionally if a character is popular enough, they're gonna want to create more variants.

[ExodusCloak]

arent these sales shed upon how many books the gic book stores ordered and not the actual number of books sold?

all In all, these x book stories are stale. hopefully this wakes the creative minds at marvel up.

Yup but Emma Frost black sold out and had to be reported

[Tank]

Emma's book had only 2 variants.

Magneto and Mystique had variants too. They all had mugshot variants.

I don't think variants count for EXTRA volume because they're supposed to be special, so you'd get a variant for every 1 out of 25 issues, etc.

Additionally if a character is popular enough, they're gonna want to create more variants.

Variants always contribute to more volume. Even, especially cheesecakey ones like the Adam hughes one I saw.

[Tank]

Yup but Emma Frost black sold out and had to be reported

At the distributor level, there is a stack of them left at my lcs. I see similar with the other black books who got a reorder but still on shelves.

[sunofdarkchild]

Yes, and these orders are also done months in advance.

So stores ordered more Emma Frost books than Magneto books?

That's a lot more surprising than if Emma's book just sold more than Erik's.

And in this case, also relevant would be sell-through. What-If X-Men looks a lot better if there's nothing left on store-shelves, suggesting supply did not meet demand, than it would if the ranking was the only factor.

[Confuzzled]

Emma's book had only 2 variants with unique artists.

Magneto and Mystique had variants too. They all had mugshot variants.

I don't think variants count for EXTRA volume because they're supposed to be special, so you'd get a variant for every 1 out of 25 issues, etc.

Additionally if a character is popular enough, they're gonna want to create more variants.

Also, Emma just had one more variant than Magneto but has placed much higher than him.

As usual, same old story with haters rushing in to downplay Queen's victories. Maybe if they brought this kind of energy to actually saving their own faves from tanking.

[ButterRum]

Return of Wolverine #2 had 6 variants with 4 unique artists....

https://www.midtowncomics.com/store/...32+Cov_1767819

FYI, stores are going to order MORE books based on popularity and demand.

There's also a pirated comic site that shows X-Men Black Emma Frost is "HOT" and "TRENDING", unlike the other X-Men Black issues.

Not sure why there's so much suspicion.

[ExodusCloak]

At the distributor level, there is a stack of them left at my lcs. I see similar with the other black books who got a reorder but still on shelves.

Strange cause I went to 5 comic book shops to get more issues and they were all sold out on the first day

oh and no special variants were ordered at my shop because I wanted one. And in Ireland they don't usually get them

Also Frost was released on the last day of the month

[sunofdarkchild]

Return of Wolverine #2 had 6 variants with 4 unique artists....

https://www.midtowncomics.com/store/...32+Cov_1767819

FYI, stores are going to order MORE books based on popularity and demand.

There's also a pirated comic site that shows X-Men Black Emma Frost is "HOT" and "TRENDING", unlike the other X-Men Black issues.

Not sure why there's so much suspicion.

That Emma sold more isn't a big deal to me. Markets do that sort of thing. But that distributors looking at the upcoming lineup of books back in the summer decided it was a better investment to stock up on Emma books than Magneto books is surprising. Just like I expect distributors to bank on Batman over Booster Gold, I would expect Magneto to have more weight at that level with his greater name recognition. That was DC's whole strategy under Dan Didio, bank on old established names and throw newer, less iconic characters to the dogs.