Marvel Comics - January Sales

[Captain M]

Listing the ANADM titles.

1. Secret Wars #9 (149,027)
2. Spider-Man/Deadpool #1 (133,813)
3. Old Man Logan #1 (104,361)
4. Uncanny X-Men #1 (93,252)
5. Amazing Spider-Man #6 (76,517)
6. A-Force #1 (65,660)
7. Mighty Thor #3 (60,345)
8. Deadpool #5 (59,645)
9. Rocket Raccoon and Groot #1 (59,027)
10. Silver Surfer #1 (57,632)
11. ANAD Avengers #3 (57,584)
12. ANAD Avengers #4 (57,114)
13. Amazing Spider-Man #1.2 (56,673)
14. Uncanny X-Men #2 (55,803)
15. Captain Marvel #1 (52,972)
16. Doctor Strange #4 (52,387)
17. All-New X-Men #3 (50,556)
18. All-New Wolverine #4 (49,977)
19. Invincible Iron Man #5 (49,224)
20. Spider-Gwen #4 (48,663)
21. Extraordinary X-Men #6 (47,572)
22. Extraordinary X-Men #5 (47,403)
23. Uncanny Avengers #4 (47,172)
24. Guardians of the Galaxy #4 (46,215)
25. Daredevil #3 (45,884)
26. Totally Aersome Hulk #2 (39,469)
27. Agents of SHIELD #1 (35,381)
28. Uncanny Inhumans #4 (35,307)
29. Vision #3 (34,807)
30. Spidey #2(33,585)
31. Silk #3 (33,102)
32. New Avengers #5 (33,009)
33. Ms. Marvel #3 (32,364)
34. Carnage #4 (31,687)
35. Ultimates #3 (30,067)
36. Captain America: Sam Wilson #5 (29,080)
37. Howard the Duck #3 (28,971)
38. Spider-Man 2099 #5 (28,489)
39. Guardians of Infinity #2 (27,112) (Down 94k, holy ****)
40. Contest of Champions #4 (27,028)
41. All-New Hawkeye #3 (26,912)
42. Red Wolf #2 (26,661)
43. Venom: Space Knight #3 (25,770)
44. Astonishing Ant-Man #4 (25,768)
45. All-New Inhumans #3 (25,745)
46. Scarlet Witch #2 (25,727)
47. Web Warriors #3 (25,407)
48. Spider-Woman #3 (24,053)
49. Squadron Supreme #3 (23,551)
50. Nova #3 (23,464)
51. Star-Lord #3 (22,698)
52. Patsy Walker Aka Hellcat #2 (20,835)
53. Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #4 (19,922)
54. Illuminati #3 (19,024)
55. Angela: Queen of Hel #4 (18,917)
56. Drax #3 (18,836)
57. Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #3 (18,423)
58. Weirdworld #2 (17,758)
59. Black Knight #3 (17,118)
60. Hercules #3 (16,310)
61. Howling Commandos of SHIELD #4 (14,090)
62. Starbrand and Nightmask #2 (11,676)

Discuss.

[mreddie]

Starbrand and Howling are next to get axed.

[Captain M]

Who thought Starbrand & Nightmask duo book was a good idea.
I don't remember ever seeing a Marvel book going down to 11k with 2nd issue.

[Mister Ferro]

That debut for A-Force is very weak compared to the #1 in May at 114,184 units. This #1 is down 42.5% and the 2nd issue drop will be putting it in range where the final issue did at 41,337.

[Tofali]

Even thou i'm enjoying Mighty Thor i feel like with 60,345 we are about to get Odinson very soon.

[MindofShadow]

Big picture: Marvel is straight up murdering the marketplace right now.

Anywho

Illuminati on down is in some troulble....

[Marvel/DC Fan]

No matter what Marvel does, the Inhumans will never reach the popularity levels of the X-men.

[The Negative Zone]

Glad to see Nova is # 50 instead of 101. Nvm I didn't see that this was only for Marvel comics

[UltimateTy]

When did this board get so obsessed with sales figures?

[Marvel/DC Fan]

When did this board get so obsessed with sales figures?

It's kind of like movies. People enjoy talking about how big the box office will be rather than the movie itself.

[Ultra Magnotron]

Starbrand and Howling are next to get axed.

Howling Commandos of SHIELD back issues are about to become collector's items. When Glyph shows up in other comics, or maybe gets her solo, people will be looking for her first appearance/origin. :-)

[Captain M]

When did this board get so obsessed with sales figures?

I'm just interested to see which books are doing bad. I want to know which ones are in danger of getting cancelled so I can plan what I buy according to that.

I also like seeing what people love and don't love very much.

[Tofali]

It's kind of like movies. People enjoy talking about how big the box office will be rather than the movie itself.

It's very strange in this forum thou for ppl to be constantly talking about sales but considering the frequent posters that bring them up it's not hard to deduce why.

[Of Atlantis]

Source?

There are some really solid numbers in these estimated sales, particularly ANAD Avengers, Extraordinary X-Men, Thor, Deadpool and ASM. ANAD Avengers seems to have really found its footing at that 57k mark. Not a bad place to plateau at all.

Then there are some really poor numbers and some not so stellar debuts. I don't think I've seen that many Marvel books below 30k ever. At this rate, anything selling around 35k right now will only go 12 issues.

lol @ Agents of SHIELD debuting at 35k though. Retailers learning from last time not to over order that book.

[scouse mouse]

It looks like Carnage and Vision are the only two brand new ANAD launches that are succeeding. Who on Earth thought that it was a good idea to launch Starbrand and NIghtmask? A 58% drop and only 11000 in sales for issue #2! Terrible sales for Weirdworld #2 down to 17000. Marvel's push to make this a major part of the MU really hasn't worked which is a shame because Del Mundo's art is amazing. Marvel's flooding of the market with new titles is unlikely to give any of the titles a decent chance of longevity.