Analyzing 20 years of DC sales

[The no face guy]

2006:

The third straight year where dc dominated the sales. Marvel may have had the highest selling single issue with Civil War, but throughout the year, DC pretty much dominated thanks to the all star cast of writers on 52, which saw 4 to 5 issues released each month, averaging sales in the six figures. The money DC was pulling in also meant more new titles, alongside a few cancellations in order to reboot some popular heroes. Rough year for me in comics personally, as they killed off two of my favourite DC characters (Vic Sage, Ted Kord) so IÂ’m slowly fading out.

Top Selling Title:

Justice League of America: Granted it only came out in the final months of 2006, but the new Justice League of America series written by Brad Meltzer with art by Ed Benes was simply amazing. To me, it was the perfect Justice League team. The first issue sold over 212,000 copies.

100, 000 plus range:

Infinite Crisis (Mini Series) – Geoff Johns, Jiminez, Perez, (carried on from last year), issue five selling over 205,000 copies
52 – (52 issues) – The all star cast of writers Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, and Mark Waid , releasing 4 to 5 issues per month, with all them in the six figures range. A complete cash cow for DC.
All Star Batman & Robin – Frank Miller & Jim Lee
All Star Superman – Grant Morrison
Justice oops Alex Ross art, thought I'd recognize it
DCU Brave New World (one Shot)
Justice Society of America (first issue December) Geoff Johns

90,000 range

Superman/Batman

80,000 range

Wonder Woman new series

70,000 range

Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) Geoff Johns
Batman
JLA (Cancelled) new series
Supergirl – Starts out in the 80’s Jeph Leob leaves goes down to 60’s

60,000 range

Flash Fastest Man Alive (Bart Allen) (Mini Series)
Superman mid 60Â’s
Detective Comics
Action Comics (bounces around a lot)
Teen Titans Geoff Johns

50,000 range

JSA (Cancelled) new series

40,000 range

Superman/Shazam (Mini Series)
Wonder Woman (Cancelled) new series
Adventures of Superman
Flash (Wally West) (Cancelled) new series
Green Lantern Corps – mid 40’s
Ion (Kyle Rayner)
Outsiders
JLA Classified
Superman Confidential


30,000 range

Trials of Shazam
Nightwing
Secret Six
Birds of Prey
Green Arrrow
Legion of Super Heroes
Robin
Blue Beetle (Jamie Reyes)
Gen 13
Spirit

20,000 range

Martian Manhunter
Catwoman
Checkmate
Hawkgirl (Formely Hawkman)
Hawkman (Changed to Hawkgirl)
Batgirl (Cassandra Cain) Cancelled
Uncle Sam & The Freedom Fighters
The All New Atom
Batman Legends of the Darknight
Jonah Hex
Firestorm (Jason Rusch)
OMAC
Captain Atom (mini series)
Guy Gardner (Two shot issue)

20,000 – 10, 000 range

SGT. Rock (Mini Series)
Aquaman
Connor Hawke (Mini Series)
Batman title
Gotham Central Cancelled
Creeper
Doom Patrol Cancelled – The one with the classic characters sold just as bad as the revamp, generally I think Doom Patrol’s time had past, their hey day was the 60’s and their revival was the 80’s/90’s.
Hellblazer (John Constantine) (Vertigo limited prints)
Manhunter
Omega Men
Vigalante (Mini Series)
Blood of the Demon (Jason Blood)

10,000 range

Deadman (Mini Series)
Swamp Thing (Vertigo limited print) – Cancelled

[Digifiend]

Why are all those Âs in that post?

In response to your previous post, yes, Dandy folded in 2012, but it does still have summer specials and annuals, which are edited by the Beano team.

[Dr. Ellingham]

Great idea for a thread. In prior roles I did sales analysis and revenue forecasting, and I find the included commentary and context here illuminating.

[The no face guy]

Why are all those Âs in that post?

In response to your previous post, yes, Dandy folded in 2012, but it does still have summer specials and annuals, which are edited by the Beano team.

It's probably something that happened when trying to bold and size. Unfortunately I can't just bold in microsoft word, and the CBR forum wasn't made for making stats...so it's difficult to say the least.

Great idea for a thread. In prior roles I did sales analysis and revenue forecasting, and I find the included commentary and context here illuminating.

Thanks I try to keep my opinion out of it as much as I can so it's just unbiased stats, but also because I'm more of a happy go lucky comic fan, not a hard core collector, so at any point someone else wants to step in, and to do this their welcome to,

[The no face guy]

Anyone who wants to take this thread for awhile and continue please do.

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