DC Sales & Estimates

[Johnny]

And the top 10 graphic novel list had Batman, Wonder Woman, Superman and Hal Jordan. Not bad.

[Frontier]

Congratulations to Super-Sons .

And good to see JLA in the top 10 as well. Hopefully there isn't a sharp drop for the proper first and second issue.

[rui no onna]

Except for Star Wars and TWD, it is all Batman and Justice League books (with Super Sons thrown in at a very impressive Top 5 debut).

And Super Sons #1 is also getting a 2nd printing.

In all fairness though, part of the sales is due to variants.

• Unknown Comics by Tyler Kirkham: 3,000 Catwoman + 1,500 Poison Ivy + 1,000 Group + 1,000 Joker B&W = 6,500
• Hall of Comics/MGC/CBCS: 3,000 Cvr A + 1,500 Cvr B + 1,000 Cvr C = 5,500
• Hip Hopf by Francesco Mattina: 3,000 Color + 1,500 B&W = 4,500
• 7Ate9 by Simone Bianchi: 3,000
• Fried Pie by Jonboy Meyers: 3,000
• Bulletproof by Mirka Andolfo: 3,000
• Most Good Hobby by EBAS: 3,000
• ComicsPRO Exclusive Giveaway by Jorge Jimenez: ?
• ECCC 2017 Foil by Jorge Jimenez: ?

Total Exclusive Variants: 28,500+

[Blackest Knight]

Check *this* out...

we did get the figure that DC Comics had sold 23,300,000 Rebirth comics since June…

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/03...etailer-lunch/

Impressive. Most impressive.

[AngryComicBookNerd]

Dayum... Marvel is f%$kin up!

[rui no onna]

Dayum... Marvel is f%$kin up!

Technically, that 23.3 million just means DC is doing well. It doesn't automatically mean or imply that Marvel is messing up.

Although yes, I do think Marvel has made some missteps completely unrelated to DC.

[Godlike13]

Anything that gets people in the store is good for all the publishers.

[skyvolt2000]

Anything that gets people in the store is good for all the publishers.

Don't tell Bleeding Cool shop owners that.

They act like Marvel is putting them out of business.

I guess they didn't order Cyborg, Blue Beetle, Cave Carson, Future Quest, Wacky Racers, Scooby Doo, Gotham Academy, Mother Night, Dr Fate, Earth 2, Flintstones, All New Superman and Southland Vigilante. Since some of those books are looking UP at many of the Marvel books that get bashed.

[golgi]

Dayum... Marvel is f%$kin up!

I don’t even bother with Marvel anymore.

[Lee Stone]

Don't tell Bleeding Cool shop owners that.

They act like Marvel is putting them out of business.

I guess they didn't order Cyborg, Blue Beetle, Cave Carson, Future Quest, Wacky Racers, Scooby Doo, Gotham Academy, Mother Night, Dr Fate, Earth 2, Flintstones, All New Superman and Southland Vigilante. Since some of those books are looking UP at many of the Marvel books that get bashed.

Of course not...
They're the reason those books ARE down there.

[KoriandrJean]

Of course not...
They're the reason those books ARE down there.

How do you mean by that?

[rui no onna]

How do you mean by that?

Comic shops aren't ordering:
Cyborg, Blue Beetle, Cave Carson, Future Quest, Wacky Racers, Scooby Doo, Gotham Academy, Mother Night, Dr Fate, Earth 2, Flintstones, All New Superman and Southland Vigilante

That's why they rank low on the charts.

I expect majority of single issue sales for those are through DCBS, Midtown, TFAW or subs only at local comic shops.

[Lee Stone]

How do you mean by that?

What rui no onna said.
Shops aren't ordering them, so they don't even think about them.

Meanwhile, they ARE still ordering plenty of DC Comics. Just not those.

And those comics listed, aside from their first issues, have little to no investment potential.

[liwanag]

And the top 10 graphic novel list had Batman, Wonder Woman, Superman and Hal Jordan. Not bad.

glad to hear that hal jordan's book got included in the top ten...

[Blackest Knight]

Diamond's Top 100 for February 2017 has been released--and it's more good news for Rebirth:

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/03...tores-diamond/

• Josh Williamson's Flash keeps climbing. Last month it was up to #20. Now it is up to #15.
• Tomasi & Gleason's Superman is climbing in tandem with Flash and is up to #17.
• If not for IVX, Wonder Woman would most likely have been Top 20. It's climbed up to #22.
• The Titans franchise hasn't seen sales this high in years--Titans is up 7 notches to #31. Teen Titans jumped 10 slots to #43.
• The GL franchise is also seeing steady improvement. Green Lanterns is up to #50 with Hal Jordan & The GLC up to #52.

I'm copying (and giving credit to) frequent CBR poster Lemurion who had this to say on BC:

Not only is Marvel behind DC 19 to 30 in the top 50, but their entries are clustered around the bottom of the list. Chop it down to the top 40 rather than top 50, and suddenly it's 11 Marvel to 28 DC. Those bottom ten books boost Marvel from barely more than a quarter of DC's representation to almost two-thirds.

Admittedly Marvel has more books in the top 100 than DC – 49 to 45 – but those 49 books represent less than half Marvel's 104 books shipped, while DC's 45 books represent more than half of their 82 book output.

If you split the top 100 into two bands, DC has exactly twice as many books in the top 50 as in the bottom 50. For Marvel, it's practically reversed with one and a half times as many books in the bottom 50 as the top 50. We don't have a complete breakdown for the top 300, but with 36% of their output in the top 50 and 55% in the top 100, DC as a whole is doing pretty well. In contrast Marvel is at 18% in the top 50 and 47% in the top 100.