X-Book sales May 2021

[myownlittleusername]

Comichron published their projected rankings for May comic book sales to comic shops yesterday.

https://www.comichron.com/monthlycom...1/2021-05.html

Disclaimer:

The charts feature every new comic book released by Diamond and Lunar in May 2021. Variant editions have been merged into single entries, following longtime industry practice. The DC release dates are from Lunar.

Things to remember: As we're not characterizing order levels at this time, ranked comics could be separated by thousands of copies or as little as a single issue. Rankings are most reliable for regular series issues in the middle of the chart: orders for the highest sellers and first issues may tend to show more variation.

Rankings in these charts should also be expected to differ — often significantly — from the sales-to-consumers charts available at other outlets. Those report sell-through and not sell-in. Comichron tracks copies in circulation, a category which includes both copies on retail shelves and in consumers' hands.

X-book rankings

Unit	Dollar	Title				Issue	Price	On Sale		Publisher
11	18	X-Men				20	$3.99	05/26/21	Marvel
21	34	Wolverine			12	$3.99	05/19/21	Marvel
28	21	X-Corp				1	$4.99	05/12/21	Marvel
34	44	Way of X			2	$3.99	05/19/21	Marvel
48	57	Marauders			20	$3.99	05/05/21	Marvel
67	78	New Mutants			18	$3.99	05/26/21	Marvel
75	60	X-Men Curse Man-Thing		1	$4.99	05/05/21	Marvel
77	86	Hellions			11	$3.99	05/05/21	Marvel
81	91	X-Factor			9	$3.99	05/12/21	Marvel
88	97	Children of the Atom		3	$3.99	05/12/21	Marvel

They also finalized the rankings for December 2020.

https://www.comichron.com/monthlycom...0/2020-12.html

[Purplevit]

Hellions deserves better.

HiX-Men had a stable good sales. Interesting if it will sell as good without Hickman.

Bye Cota.

[Winter_fury]

And people ask why wolverine has a solo

[WildR]

It exacerbated my confusion about why JDW opened WOX and X-Corp

Plus I'm not saying they're bad books but the timing they came into the X-Titles was clearly a failure in commercial

[Thievery]

It exacerbated my confusion about why JDW opened WOX and X-Corp

Plus I'm not saying they're bad books but the timing they came into the X-Titles was clearly a failure in commercial

The two books aren't selling that badly. So far they are justifying their place in the publishing schedule.

Plus, the X-Titles probably need new comics to replace Cable, X-Factor, and CoTA. The X-office has to replace those comics in the schedule, and regain those canceled comics money somehow, even if WoX and X-Corp are only able to do that for a short amount of time.

Personally, I think that WoX and X-Corp should have launched sooner, when the X-Comics were still hot after HoX and PoX. I think that they would have sold better. I believe that they were meant to anyway.

Hellions and New Mutants deserve better fates. Just my opinion. It seems a large part of the readership disagrees with my opinion

[WildR]

The two books aren't selling that badly. So far they are justifying their place in the publishing schedule.

Plus, the X-Titles probably need new comics to replace Cable, X-Factor, and CoTA. The X-office has to replace those comics in the schedule, and regain those canceled comics money somehow, even if WoX and X-Corp are only able to do that for a short amount of time.

Personally, I think that WoX and X-Corp should have launched sooner, when the X-Comics were still hot after HoX and PoX. I think that they would have sold better. I believe that they were meant to anyway.

Hellions and New Mutants deserve better fates. Just my opinion. It seems a large part of the readership disagrees with my opinion

I think what you said was right

[carmoc1234]

The two books aren't selling that badly. So far they are justifying their place in the publishing schedule.

Plus, the X-Titles probably need new comics to replace Cable, X-Factor, and CoTA. The X-office has to replace those comics in the schedule, and regain those canceled comics money somehow, even if WoX and X-Corp are only able to do that for a short amount of time.

Personally, I think that WoX and X-Corp should have launched sooner, when the X-Comics were still hot after HoX and PoX. I think that they would have sold better. I believe that they were meant to anyway.

Hellions and New Mutants deserve better fates. Just my opinion. It seems a large part of the readership disagrees with my opinion

not sure about x corp but i know si spurrier was busy and was only able to start on WoX more recently. if it did launch earlier it wouldn't have had him as the writer so maybe for the best it was held back.

[Uncanny X-Man]

Thanks for posting this, myownlittleusername!

Very sad to see Hellions not doing better, and also curious and afraid to see how SWORD is faring with next month's chart.

[carmoc1234]

Hellions deserves better.

HiX-Men had a stable good sales. Interesting if it will sell as good without Hickman.

Bye Cota.

probably. its still the main x team book and the name alone draws more people in

[Rang10]

Hellions deserves better.

HiX-Men had a stable good sales. Interesting if it will sell as good without Hickman.

Bye Cota.

Hickman x-men has actually pretty mediocre sales for a flagship

[cranger]

Hickman x-men has actually pretty mediocre sales for a flagship

While I don't think these comichron numbers are worth anything and I am not all that impressed with Hickman's run so far, these show X-Men as on par with Amazing Spider-Man as the top book at Marvel, so unless you have some actual source for numbers I don't think such a claim has any basis.

[Vishop]

While I don't think these comichron numbers are worth anything and I am not all that impressed with Hickman's run so far, these show X-Men as on par with Amazing Spider-Man as the top book at Marvel, so unless you have some actual source for numbers I don't think such a claim has any basis.

Despite 20th issue being one of the best issues from this run IMO but it has been pretty mediocre compared to Batman which was below subpar with writer Tynion bc Batman isn't even the main focus of the book IMO. Duggan will bang up the sales with relaunch flagship title. I guess that was their intention but I am pretty sure it isn't gonna sale good after.

[Rang10]

Despite 20th issue being one of the best issues from this run IMO but it has been pretty mediocre compared to Batman which was below subpar with writer Tynion bc Batman isn't even the main focus of the book IMO. Duggan will bang up the sales with relaunch flagship title. I guess that was their intention but I am pretty sure it isn't gonna sale good after.

Tynion really recovered the sales from the failure of King's run.
But you are being nice Spencer spider man have been getting lots of critics and people calling it a flop but it keeps selling better than X-men even being a 3 year old run with +60 issues.
Duggan gonna do fine on first issue just based on having +20 variant covers. Time to made up for so so sales of Hickman