July 2019 Sales: Amazing Spider-Man #25 and Black Cat #2 in Top Ten!

[Mister Mets]

The top ten is out for July 2019.

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/08...5-july-charts/

House of X #1 is at first place. Powers of X #1 is in second. Amazing Spider-Man #25 is in third. The final issue of Walking Dead is in fourth. Black Cat #2 is in eighth place.

[RD155]

Glad to see Black Cat still up there. Not sure if it will last. Hoping more people give this title a shot. The book is Light hearted and fun. It’s pretty much the exact opposite of the other two events going heavy at the moment in The x verse and absolute carnage.

[Revolutionary_Jack]

Mary Jane's issue sold pretty well, that's great.

[myownlittleusername]

Glad to see Black Cat still up there. Not sure if it will last. Hoping more people give this title a shot. The book is Light hearted and fun. It’s pretty much the exact opposite of the other two events going heavy at the moment in The x verse and absolute carnage.

It will be heavily boosted by variant covers up to the 3rd issue.

https://www.cbr.com/mayo-report-june...les-explainer/

Black Cat #1 took its place at the top of the list, thanks mainly to its variant covers. The first issue had a regular cover, four open-to-order variants, one of which was an Artgerm cover, a 1-in-10 cover, a 1-in-25 cover, a 1-in-50 cover, a 1-in-100 cover and a 1-in-200 cover. The second issue has a regular cover, a single open-to-order cover with a Carnage-ized theme, a 1-in-25 cover, a 1-in-50 cover and a 1-in-100 cover. With only half the variant covers, sales will drop but since there is still a 1-in-100 cover, sales should plummet. Black Cat #3 has a regular cover, a single open-to-order cover, a 1-in-25 cover, a 1-in-50 cover and a 1-in-100 cover.

The drop from the second to third issues won't reflect a change in the promotional push from the variant covers, since they have equivalent cover gimmicks with the only real difference being the art itself. Sometimes that can make a big difference, such as we see with Stanley "Artgerm" Lau's covers. Other times, the art itself matters far less than the ratios and other aspects which make the cover rarer. Black Cat #4, however, only has a regular cover, so this is when we'll likely see a drop caused by the lack of variant covers.

[Snoop Dogg]

The kids want more Zeb Wells!

[John Ossie]

Black Cat being 8th isn't too shabby, helped by variants or not. Don't see her staying in top ten for long, in fact I'd be a bit surprised if issue 3 was in the top ten but it's still doing better than I'd expected so kudos to that. ASM being 3rd is pretty good as well so nice to see to Spidey related books in the top ten.

[Frontier]

I'm somewhat worried about how Black Cat will do once the variants become less of a factor, but it's still great to see her in the top 10, and I hope the sales for her book keep steady and strong .

I wonder how many variants they'll supply for Mary Jane's mini/potential ongoing.

[comicscollector]

Way cool as Black Cat is in the Top 10,i have not read the second issue yet,But i thought the first issue was great.

[John Ossie]

I'm somewhat worried about how Black Cat will do once the variants become less of a factor, but it's still great to see her in the top 10, and I hope the sales for her book keep steady and strong .

I wonder how many variants they'll supply for Mary Jane's mini/potential ongoing.

9000? (ten chars)

[Huntsman Spider]

9000? (ten chars)

Over 9000?

[Snoop Dogg]

3 Amazing Spider-Man 25 113,272
8 Black Cat 2 83,298
18 Amazing Spider-Man 26 59,646
20 Venom 16 56,332
21 Savage Avengers 3 56,222
35 Web of Venom Funeral Pyre 1 45,696 (omg andi made money)
37 Venom Annual 1 44,035
42 Symbiote Spider-Man 4 41,707
50 Spider-Man Life Story 5 38,193
72 Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man 9 30,564
84 Miles Morales Spider-Man 8 27,476
89 Spider-Gwen Ghost Spider 10 25,794
101 Spider-Man City At War 5 22,592
106 Superior Spider-Man 9 21,098
166 Champions 7 13,774

*Rankings not adjusted for DC Card Stocks
*Reprints not included
*Miles, Superior, FNSM, & Spider-Man Deadpool's new collections made coin in comic shops
*I'm hungry

[Celgress]

Mary Jane's issue sold pretty well, that's great.

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[Vortex85]

Ouch, that’s a big drop for ASM 26. Is the market oversaturated with too many Spider titles? I know ASM 25 had a boost with variants but numbers before that were much higher.

[Snoop Dogg]

No Zeb Wells = MONEY GO DOWN

[Vortex85]

So just to compare I check Slotts ASM #25 giant sized issue and it was 113k as well, the next month his 26 was dropped to 62k. Spencer’s was 113k and 59k in same month.

With numbers so close I’m wondering if stores just used 2017 trends to guesstimate how much to order after a giant sized #25 special.