Sales Figures : Spider-Man and Related Titles

[ZuLuLu]

https://icv2.com/articles/markets/vi...september-2021

September 2021 (Note these rankings doesn't include DC)

#2 Amazing Spider-Man #73- 138,831
#4 Amazing Spider-Man #74- 122,219
#6 Extreme Carnage Toxin #1 - 100,810
#14 Miles Morales Spider-Man #30- 74,127
#16 Demon Days Cursed Web #1- 72,494
#25 Extreme Carnage Omega #1- 62,201
#33 Sinister War #4 - 55,466
#35 Extreme Carnage Agony #1- 54,516
#72 Non-Stop Spider-Man #5- 26,592
#74 Black Cat #10- 26,374
#101 Spider-Woman #15- 19,893

[Unspeakable Evil]

Didn't realize #30 Miles had such a boost. New costume and anniversary would help.

[wleakr]

Didn’t realize comics were selling this well! Several above 100k?? Wow.

[Jman27]

Huh people are buying the carnage stuff guess symbiotic haven’t fallen off. As for the sales being over 100k that should be a success right don’t know what sales were like in the hay day but I assume something close?

[CrimsonEchidna]

As an aside, I'm shocked that Black Cat has seemingly gotten cancelled when it stabilized in a fairly healthy range.

Didn't realize #30 Miles had such a boost. New costume and anniversary would help.

What shocks me even more that didn't get included in OP is the Facsmile reprint of Fallout #4 (Miles' first appearance) also did massive numbers, ending up in the top 10 at 92,542.

[Spiderfan001]

"These are estimates of comic sales by Diamond Comic Distributors U.S. to comic specialty stores during September 2021. "

"The differences in how the data behind these charts is collected are many. Sell-in charts like the ones below show all the launch sales happening on the same day, while sell-through sales happen over time, moving sales into different periods. Sell-in shows what retailers think they will sell, while sell-through shows what they actually do sell. Sell-in sales are influenced by incentive variants, which increase the number of copies ordered (to get a variant that can be sold at a premium price), but may not increase the number of copies sold at retail by the same amount."

These are the copies ordered by shops, which stuff like variants leads to them buying more.As much as I want it too, these numbers are nowhere near the sell-through numbers hence you see piles of these comics stocked at stores w/ no one buying them.They order a lot for variants, etc.

[NC_Yankee]

As an aside, I'm shocked that Black Cat has seemingly gotten cancelled when it stabilized in a fairly healthy range.



What shocks me even more that didn't get included in OP is the Facsmile reprint of Fallout #4 (Miles' first appearance) also did massive numbers, ending up in the top 10 at 92,542.

The Black Cat numbers are not that great ( especially considering the team involved and the favorable reviews). Why? I simply think it is hard to sell a female driven superhero comic ( even today). Why? The primary readership is male and like female sports leagues, most guys are not interested as much as something targeted at males or at all.

[Spiderfan001]

As an aside, I'm shocked that Black Cat has seemingly gotten cancelled when it stabilized in a fairly healthy range.

It's a shame but Mckay is doing Cat one shots which I feel are better than a solo, also even though they are buying it I doubt it's selling as much.

Still it def. deserved to be continued

[Lukmendes]

Huh people are buying the carnage stuff guess symbiotic haven’t fallen off. As for the sales being over 100k that should be a success right don’t know what sales were like in the hay day but I assume something close?

Comics back then sold much more on average, but they were also cheaper.

Lower end of 20k is generally cancellation numbers, so Spidey selling that much from random non-crossover issues is doing really well.

Speaking of cancellation numbers, do we know if Spider-Woman is getting cancelled too? 'Cause from these numbers, Black Cat is selling a bit more, yet I only hear about Black Cat getting cancelled.

[Spiderfan001]

Comics back then sold much more on average, but they were also cheaper.

Lower end of 20k is generally cancellation numbers, so Spidey selling that much from random non-crossover issues is doing really well.

Speaking of cancellation numbers, do we know if Spider-Woman is getting cancelled too? 'Cause from these numbers, Black Cat is selling a bit more, yet I only hear about Black Cat getting cancelled.

Same, I think it will.Also if it does don't care much about the writer but the artist needs to be put on ASM/a Spidey comic ASAP

[Frontier]

The Black Cat numbers are not that great ( especially considering the team involved and the favorable reviews). Why? I simply think it is hard to sell a female driven superhero comic ( even today). Why? The primary readership is male and like female sports leagues, most guys are not interested as much as something targeted at males or at all.

I would think of any female-led title the Black Cat book would still appeal to a male audience.

[Spiderfan001]

I would think of any female-led title the Black Cat book would still appeal to a male audience.

My thoughts exactly LOL

[Lukmendes]

Same, I think it will.Also if it does don't care much about the writer but the artist needs to be put on ASM/a Spidey comic ASAP

The writer's Pacheco I think, and she, well, she likes twists, problem is that she does twists too damn often, almost literally every issue, so they few kinda meaningless.

The art had awkward facial expressions at times, but was generally good yeah.

I would think of any female-led title the Black Cat book would still appeal to a male audience.

It does to a certain extent, but super-heroines generally sell less 'cause since super-heroes are male driven, they prefer male characters as the main characters.

Not that it means male readers only read stuff with male protagonists, but the preference being there means female characters are likely going to sell less by default.

[CrimsonEchidna]

I feel like even with keeping in mind these are "shipped to stores" you can get a good idea which series are performing well despite that by if they are getting reorders/second printings.

[Frontier]

The writer's Pacheco I think, and she, well, she likes twists, problem is that she does twists too damn often, almost literally every issue, so they few kinda meaningless.

Now that you mention it:

- Jessica Drew's employer had her infected with a deadly virus!

- Said employer is trying to cure his daughter of a disease and isn't a bad guy!

- But wait, he's her brother! The girl is her niece!

- It turns out her mom had another family! And is alive!

- But wait, said mom is a clone! And there is an army of mom clones!