Monatliche Verkaufszahlen: Top 300 Issues / Top 100 TPB's
Re: Amazing Spider-Girl bricht die Kassen
Zitat: Jake Gallows Zitat: Vao Die 0 und die 1 sind wohl die sensation des Monats :daumen:Reden wir hier wirklich von Amazing Spider-Girl ? Mich haben die Zahlen der # 0 ja richtig erschreckt. Gibt es denn irgendwelche Vergleichswerte zu anderen "recap books", dass die # 0 dieser Serie so hervorsticht ?
106. SAGA OF THE SQUADRON SUPREME Feb 06 Saga of the Squadron Supreme - 18,977
9000 mehr als einer von Marvels Bestsellern, was soll man da sagen
Re: Punisher WJ bricht die Kassen
und ant-Man können wir tot schreiben.
1 288.93 CIVIL WAR #5 (Of 7)* $2.99 MAR 3 144.68 NEW AVENGERS #25 CW $2.99 MAR 4 125.95 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #536 CW $2.99 MAR 5 125.37 ASTONISHING X-MEN #18 $2.99 MAR 9 108.88 PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL #1 CW* $2.99 MAR 12 106.91 CIVIL WAR FRONT LINE #8 (Of 11) $2.99 MAR 13 105.98 WOLVERINE #48 CW $2.99 MAR 15 97.07 WOLVERINE ORIGINS #8 $2.99 MAR 17 93.89 UNCANNY X-MEN #480 $2.99 MAR 18 89.21 INCREDIBLE HULK #100* $3.99 MAR 20 84.90 X-MEN #193 $2.99 MAR 21 84.67 CAPTAIN AMERICA #24 CW $2.99 MAR 22 83.84 ONSLAUGHT REBORN #1 (Of 5)* $2.99 MAR 23 81.74 ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #102 $2.99 MAR 25 81.40 IRON MAN #13 CW $2.99 MAR 26 79.23 ULTIMATE POWER #2 (Of 9) $2.99 MAR 27 78.45 MOON KNIGHT #6* $2.99 MAR 29 76.06 CW YOUNG AVENGERS & RUNAWAYS #4 (Of 4) $2.99 MAR 31 73.19 ULTIMATE X-MEN #76 $2.99 MAR 33 70.33 ETERNALS #5 (Of 7)* $3.99 MAR 40 61.24 ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #36 $2.99 MAR 42 53.23 X-MEN PHOENIX WARSONG #3 (Of 5) $2.99 MAR 43 53.23 SENSATIONAL SPIDER-MAN #32 $2.99 MAR 44 52.29 DAREDEVIL #91 $2.99 MAR 45 50.80 GHOST RIDER #5 $2.99 MAR 46 47.05 FANTASTIC FOUR END #1 (Of 6) $2.99 MAR 47 46.08 FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN #14 $2.99 MAR 48 45.41 X-FACTOR #13 $2.99 MAR 49 44.48 SQUADRON SUPREME #7 $2.99 MAR 50 43.74 BLACK PANTHER #22 CW $2.99 MAR 52 42.40 ULTIMATE VISION #0 $2.99 MAR 54 42.02 ANNIHILATION #4 (Of 6) $2.99 MAR 55 41.26 FANTASTIC FOUR END #2 (Of 6) $2.99 MAR 56 40.89 IMMORTAL IRON FIST #1 $2.99 MAR 57 40.35 HEROES FOR HIRE #4 $2.99 MAR 58 40.19 NEW X-MEN #32 $2.99 MAR 59 40.15 MS MARVEL #9 $2.99 MAR 64 37.13 AVENGERS EARTHS MIGHTIEST II #1 (Of 8 ) $3.99 MAR 69 35.59 PUNISHER #40 (MR) $2.99 MAR 70 35.51 BULLET POINTS #1 (Of 5) $2.99 MAR 72 35.15 PUNISHER #41 (MR) $2.99 MAR 74 34.10 NEW EXCALIBUR #13 $2.99 MAR 76 33.78 AVENGERS EARTHS MIGHTIEST II #2 (Of 8 ) $3.99 MAR 78 33.08 WHAT IF WOLVERINE ENEMY O/T STATE $2.99 MAR 79 32.92 WHAT IF SPIDER-MAN OTHER $2.99 MAR 80 32.78 EXILES #88 $2.99 MAR 81 32.65 X-MEN FIRST CLASS #3 (Of 8 ) $2.99 MAR 82 32.47 WHAT IF AVENGERS DISASSEMBLED $3.99 MAR 84 31.61 DOCTOR STRANGE OATH #2 (Of 5) $2.99 MAR 85 30.89 CABLE DEADPOOL #34 $2.99 MAR 86 30.56 DAREDEVIL FATHER #6 (Of 6) $2.99 MAR 88 29.82 AMAZING SPIDER-GIRL #2 $2.99 MAR 89 29.71 ANITA BLAKE GUILTY PLEASURES #2 (Of 12) $2.99 MAR 90 29.56 THUNDERBOLTS #108 $2.99 MAR 95 27.84 SHE-HULK 2 #13 $2.99 MAR 96 27.46 RUNAWAYS #22 $2.99 MAR 110 26.14 WHITE TIGER #1 (Of 6) $2.99 MAR 111 25.99 AVENGERS NEXT #1 (Of 5) $2.99 MAR 114 25.49 PUNISHER XMAS SPECIAL $3.99 MAR 121 24.69 MARVEL 1602 FANTASTICK FOUR #3 (Of 5) $3.50 MAR 122 24.58 IRREDEEMABLE ANT-MAN #2 $2.99 MAR 125 24.53 BLADE #3 $2.99 MAR 127 24.16 BEYOND #5 (Of 6) $2.99 MAR 128 23.46 POWERS #21 (MR) $2.95 MAR 130 22.94 NEXTWAVE AGENTS O/HATE #10 $2.99 MAR 132 22.55 CIVIL WAR #3 (Of 7)* $2.99 MAR 135 22.38 CRIMINAL #2 (MR) $2.99 MAR 136 22.09 AVENGERS NEXT #2 (Of 5) $2.99 MAR 140 21.22 WISDOM #1 (Of 6) (MR) $3.99 MAR 142 19.97 UNION JACK #3 (Of 4) $2.99 MAR 147 19.38 ALL NEW OFF HANDBOOK MARVEL UNI #11 $3.99 MAR 149 18.44 HELLSTORM SON O/SATAN #2 (Of 5) (MR) $3.99 MAR 151 18.31 STAN LEE MEETS DR DOOM $3.99 MAR 153 17.60 ZOMBIE #3 (Of 4) (MR) $3.99 MAR 158 15.07 ANITA BLAKE GUILTY PLEASURES #1 (Of 12)* $2.99 MAR 171 13.13 AGENTS O/ATLAS #4 (Of 6) $2.99 MAR 173 12.87 SPIDER-MAN FAMILY FEATURING SPIDER CLAN $4.99 MAR 175 12.82 MARVEL LEGACY 1980S HANDBOOK $4.99 MAR 194 10.41 FANTASTIC FOUR END #1 ROUGH CUT ED (Of 6) $3.99 MAR 207 8.67 BLACK PANTHER #21 CW 2ND PTG VAR $2.99 MAR 209 8.55 FRANKLIN RICHARDS HAPPY FRANKSGIVING $2.99 MAR 211 8.37 SPIDER-MAN & POWER PACK #1 (Of 4) $2.99 MAR 215 8.10 MARVEL ADVS AVENGERS #7 $2.99 MAR 217 7.90 CIVIL WAR CHOOSING SIDES $3.99 MAR 218 7.85 YOUNG GUNS RELOADED SKETCHBOOK $3.99 MAR 230 7.31 CW THUNDERBOLTS SWIMMING W/SHARKS $4.99 MAR 233 6.92 MARVEL ADVS SPIDER-MAN #21 $2.99 MAR 234 6.91 SPIDER-MAN LOVES MARY JANE #12 $2.99 MAR 236 6.72 MARVEL MILESTONES ONSLAUGHT $3.99 MAR 241 6.22 MARVEL SPOTLIGHT $2.99 MAR 242 6.21 WOLVERINE POSTER MAGAZINE $4.99 MAR 263 4.89 MARVEL ADVS FANTASTIC FOUR #18 $2.99 MAR 264 4.87 MAGICIAN APPRENTICE #3 (Of 12) $2.99 MAR 298 3.44 CIVIL WAR #2 (Of 7)* $2.99 MAR
Punisher War Journal 1: 102'700 und damit ein Platz in den Top 10
Moon Knight 6: 74'000
Schlechte Nachrichten:
Immortal Iron Fist 1: 38'600 Kein berauschender Start
Ms. Marvel 9: 37'900 Es sind keine Civil War Leser an Bord geblieben
Irredeemable Ant-Man 2: 23'200 R.I.P.
Blade 3: 23'100 R.I.P.
Auf Ant Man könnte ich verzichten, aber Ms. Marvel hätte es verdient mindestens 24 Ausgaben zu überleben und auch Blade kommt langsam richtig in Fahrt.
Re: Punisher WJ bricht die Kassen
Spider-Girl kann ich dann wohl demnächst endgültig abschreiben. Auch der Start von Avengers Next ist erschreckend.
Re: Amazing Spider-Girl bricht die Kassen
Solange Moon Knight erscheint, kann ich jeden Tag mit einem Lächeln beginnen...
Actually, this is one of the few cases where the sold out PR is real. Iron Fist #1 was under-ordered because it was one of the few non-CW books launching, and retailers all over the country were actually selling out of it on the day it came out. Plus, we DID overprint it fairly heavily. I dont have the exact numbers, but with the second printing I think were over 50K sold at this point, and retailers are still telling us they cant keep it on the shelves.
Personally, it did better than I expected it to, because, you know its Iron Fist. Ill be happy if we make it to issue 16 just to beat John Byrnes record.
And if youre looking for an example of this being about actual demand, there were initially no plans to reprint issue 1 until the Directors cut in February, but so many retailers flooded Marvel with requests for a second printing right away that it went back to press immediately.
Re: Amazing Spider-Girl bricht die Kassen
Zitat: Lamond Allerdings hoffe ich, dass die Corben Ausgaben nicht zuviele Leute abschrecken. Sieht bisher überraschend gut aus:
Ist zwar wieder ein Rückgang, aber der kleinste bisher. Vielleicht hat die Serie ja tatsächlich bald ihr Publikum gefunden.
Re: Amazing Spider-Girl bricht die Kassen
Zitat: Jake Gallows Ist zwar wieder ein Rückgang, aber der kleinste bisher. Vielleicht hat die Serie ja tatsächlich bald ihr Publikum gefunden.Die Zahlen sind sehr erfreulich. Wenn jetzt nicht allzu viele nach der #6 abspringen, dann hat sich Ghost Rider richtig stabilisiert. Ich bin auch auf die Reaktionen in den Leserbriefen gespannt. Mal sehn, ob Marvel Corben kritische Briefe abdruckt.
Re: Dezember Verkaufszahlen - Analyse
Zitat: Marvel Month-to-Month Sales December 2006
[Please note these are the figures for DECEMBER, not November as I mistakenly posted Ed.]
By Paul OBrien
CIVIL WAR is still going, but with the core title running late (because you demanded it), and many of the crossover arcs having finished, its started to relinquish its grip on Marvels line. But December still saw three CIVIL WAR one-shots, along with several crossover issues. Its a relatively quiet month for new launches, but we do have the debut of Warren Ellis and Salvador Larrocas NEWUNIVERSAL, and new miniseries including NEW AVENGERS: ILLUMINATI, SPIDER-MAN: REALM, WONDER MAN and X-23: TARGET X.
Once again, Marvel comfortably beat DC in market share. In dollar terms, its 38% to 35%. In units, its 43% to 39%. And thats with DC taking most of the top 10, not to mention plenty of Marvels big sellers skipping a month.
Thanks as always to Milton Griepp and ICV2 for permission to use their figures for these calculations.
With CIVIL WAR missing, NEW AVENGERS is Marvels top book of the month, although it was beaten into third place by two issues of JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA. The CIVIL WAR tie-in arc is over, and sales duly drop straight back to their previous levels.
This month also marks the second anniversary of the books relaunch. Some purists continue to protest that this isnt really the Avengers, and that the upcoming MIGHTY AVENGERS sister title isnt the Avengers either. Metaphysically, they might have a point, but the reality is that even two years after the relaunch, its still selling more than twice as well as the previous version of the book. No wonder Marvel see this as the way forward for the franchise.
ASTONISHING X-MEN seems to have abandoned any pretence of coming out on a predictable schedule, but it still sells in huge numbers when it appears. It fluctuates more than most books, but this is comfortably within its normal range.
5. NEW AVENGERS: ILLUMINATI 12/06 #1 (of 5) - 103,952
A very good debut for this miniseries. Sales should be interesting to watch here, since despite the title, the New Avengers arent actually in the book.
7,16,31. CIVIL WAR ONE-SHOTS 12/06 Iron Man & Captain America - 100,657 12/06 War Crimes - 84,771 12/06 Winter Soldier - 59,118
Three one-shots added to the schedule at the last minute when CIVIL WAR span off the rails. Not surprisingly, they all do rather well, but the relative placings are a little surprising. IRON MAN & CAPTAIN AMERICA: CASUALTIES OF WAR has the two lead characters, so its top ten placing isnt unexpected. WAR CRIMES, on the other hand, is a book about the supervillains which doesnt have big name creators attached, and doesnt play any significant part in the wider story. It gets a very impressive top twenty placing, while WINTER SOLDIER: WINTER KILLS - a spin-off from CAPTAIN AMERICA - tails in a distant third. I would have expected the last two to be the other way around.
Fewer than 100,000 sales for once, and with the re-orders drying up, it looks like its staying there. Of course, nobodys going to be losing sleep about a supporting miniseries that took nine issues to drop below six figures. (Especially considering that this chart doesnt include sales to the UK, which would easily push it over that mark.)
Dropping back a little from recent months, but Ed Brubaker and Billy Tans run on UNCANNY is still clearly up from the inherited sales after six months. This has to be considered a success.
Now that the variant cover boosts are a thing of the past, WOLVERINE: ORIGINS is dropping far too quickly for comfort. The book has dropped by almost 20,000 in two months. That should be ringing alarm bells.
Despite appearances, this is actually a surprisingly good number. Issue #49 is a fill-in Christmas story by Rob Williams and Laurence Campbell, killing time for a month between the CIVIL WAR arc and the arrival of Jeph Loeb and Simone Bianchi in January. Obviously its going to go down - the interesting thing is that it still did better than the pre-CIVIL WAR arc, which suggests this book has some momentum behind it.
Unlike UNCANNY, this book is back where it was before Carey and Bachalo took over. But its not doing badly - X-MEN continues to sell in its normal range. The previous creative team levelled out here in their closing months, so itll be interesting to see where the book goes now. Theres a noticeable, but slow, decline going on here.
The Ultimate Clone Saga seems to have rekindled interest in this book and turned around its decline from earlier in the year. Its an unexpected result.
Levelling out, but the series certainly isnt doing event numbers. Thats not so much of a concern when you look at any individual book, but when you consider the sales on this and ULTIMATE VISION, not to mention the glaring sales declines on ULTIMATE X-MEN and ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR, you have to wonder whether the Ultimate imprint is in need of attention. At the very least, its losing its elite lustre.
Issue #2 picks up re-orders of 1,901 to chart at 297. As always, theyre added into the numbers above.
See what I mean? Despite the blip from issue #75 in October, the book seems to be in long term decline.
32. X-23: TARGET X 12/06 #1 (of 6) - 58,125
A comfortable 20,000 higher than the notional parent title NEW X-MEN, showing the continuing popularity of X-23. This is a sequel to her origin miniseries from the first half of 2005, which debuted with a staggering 96K and finished off at 52K. This is a little more subdued, but thats sequels for you. Its still a number to be very happy with.
Deeply worrying numbers. The book has been bleeding readers since Mike Carey and Pasqual Ferry took over with issue #33, and the drops have actually been larger in recent months. Apparently the audience of this title doesnt want to read a six-part storyline featuring a thinly disguised version of the Forever People. Somethings clearly going wrong, anyway.
Leaping up the charts as people notice that the CIVIL WAR crossover arc actually appears to be important to the plot. Well, thats how its presented in this book, anyway - it seems to be pretty much irrelevant in CIVIL WAR itself. Still, Im sure theyll take what they can get. Be warned that BLACK PANTHER has established a track record of getting large boosts from crossovers, and crashing straight back afterwards. (See issue #18 for an example.)
The first issue of the miniseries proper - issue #0 was a reprint of some back-up strips. Its a pretty good number for an Ultimate Vision miniseries, but as noted above, you have to wonder whether the Ultimate imprint can maintain its brand image while producing mid-table miniseries like this.
Issue #1 picks up re-orders of 3,540. This is pretty much standard for a Rob Liefeld project at Marvel - high numbers for issue #1, and then it drops like a stone.
In clear decline, as is FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN. After a very short initial burst of interest, the unmasking of Spider-Man has done absolutely nothing to help sales on his titles. True, AMAZING is doing fine, but its running a lengthy CIVIL WAR tie-in arc which would have boosted sales for that reason anyway. Look at the sales on this book, and FRIENDLY, and compare the sales a year ago when they were running the Other crossover. Theres no way a stunt as well-publicised as this should be doing that much worse than a workaday crossover. This is not working; its not drawing money. And its going to be very hard to undo.
At this stage, Back in Black really needs to deliver a sales boost, because when you look beneath the CIVIL WAR boost on AMAZING, the Spider-Man line is actually looking a little sickly.
Straight back to normal after Novembers anniversary issue. The Planet Hulk story continues to sell consistently at around 48K, though, so Marvel can be happy with that.
Levelling out, and no doubt Marvel could live quite happily with the book settling down in this area of the chart.
47. NEWUNIVERSAL 12/06 #1 - 43,163
Warren Ellis and Salvador Larroca revive the New Universe, of all things. (Purists may wish to imagine the title in lower case.) Obviously theres very little built-in audience for these characters, so this audience largely reflects the drawing power of the creators. Its a solid start for an unlikely-sounding project.
An unusually large drop for a book thats generally fairly stable. The six month comparison is with a CIVIL WAR tie-in issue, so its not really representative. (Given the length of some CIVIL WAR crossover arcs, Ill be saying that a lot over the next few months.) Its also the books first anniversary, and its still over 40K. That would count as a successful mid-table launch.
Standard miniseries decline. The book is drifting off the radar a bit, but still doing very well considering the cast. Marvel might have hoped for slightly higher numbers at this stage, considering that theyre attempting to launch a NOVA ongoing title off the back of this event.
Issue #1 picks up re-orders of 2,117, and theres a Directors Cut edition still to go. The second issue drop isnt bad either, considering the re-orders. These arent fantastic numbers, but given that its Iron Fist, they could have been a lot worse.
Please remain calm and make your way to the lifeboats in an orderly fashion.
A recap: this series is a spin-off from the DAUGHTERS OF THE DRAGON miniseries, which sold abysmally. The first three issues were CIVIL WAR crossovers, though, so they sold rather well. Issue #4 saw a massive drop which was only to be expected in the circumstances. But now issue #5 sees another huge drop month on month, and that suggests retailers are desperately slashing orders in the hope of finding a quantity that they can actually shift.
At this stage in a books life, an 18% drop between issues is truly horrific. This is an extremely bad sign.
Still in decline as it celebrates its first year. Obviously, months of fill-in stories, forced by the ill health of Chris Claremont, have made it difficult for the book to get traction.
68,74. WHAT IF? 11/06 Enemy of the State - 31,211 11/06 The Other - 31,060 11/06 Avengers Disassembled - 30,635 12/06 X-Men: Age of Apocalypse - 31,172 12/06 X-Men: Deadly Genesis - 29,902
All this years one-shots end up at about the same level.
Still piling on the re-orders. Issue #1 gets another 4,056, while issue #2 adds 7,497 extra orders. Taking that into account, the number for issue #3 is great - its actually a climb from issue #2s first month sales. This book is a hit, especially when you consider that the direct market serial format has traditionally been a weak area for DBPro.
73. EXILES ANNUAL 12/06 #1 - 30,033
Exactly where EXILES itself usually is. And where is EXILES, you ask? Stick around
76. X-MEN: FIRST CLASS 09/06 #1 of 8 - 39,859 10/06 #2 of 8 - 33,688 (-15.5%) 11/06 #3 of 8 - 30,805 ( -8.6%) 12/06 #4 of 8 - 28,455 ( -7.6%)
The two Fabian Nicieza titles are still holding on to some of their CIVIL WAR sales boosts, although theyre wearing off. THUNDERBOLTS gets revamped next month, and is virtually guaranteed to leap up the charts as a result.
Again, pretty standard miniseries drops. This is fine for a Dr Strange book.
82,85. AVENGERS: EARTHS MIGHTIEST HEROES II 11/06 #1 of 8 - 35,032 11/06 #2 of 8 - 31,871 ( -9.0%) 12/06 #3 of 8 - 27,015 (-15.2%) 12/06 #4 of 8 - 25,622 ( -5.2%)
This is an oddity of retailer ordering patterns: they tend to cut orders more aggressive between months. So the book gets its big drop on issue #3, not issue #2. That quirk aside, this is pretty standard.
Axed with issue #12. Theres no obvious reason for the 2.8% gain, unless possibly some retailers looked at the parody cover and figured it was a CIVIL WAR parody issue. (It isnt.)
This is the result of a distribution screw-up. Sales are only counted towards the chart if they actually reach stores within the month. EXILES #89 was meant to ship in the last week of the month, and it did - unless you live on the west coast, in which case Diamond lost your shipping container, and didnt get the books out until January. The remainder of the sales will almost certainly show up on next months chart.
This, on the other hand, is rather more attention-grabbing. Last month I said that I wouldnt bother listing the DBPro books unless they were selling well enough to make the Top 300 consistently. Well, if they keep gaining sales at this rate, thats not going to be a concern. Of course, this book is still doing most of its business elsewhere, but hooking up with Marvel does seem to be boosting DBPros direct market sales in leaps and bounds.
This book failed to chart last month, meaning that it must have sold fewer than 3,170 copies. This month it managed 5,034 and it was comfortably inside the top 250. Theres actual, significant growth here, even though these books arent going to develop typical Marvel sales patterns overnight.
Off the schedule altogether. Issues #8 and #9 were solicited, with Mike Deodato as the new regular artist. Then they were cancelled, with Deodato blaming late scripts. Then Deodato was reassigned to the THUNDERBOLTS revamp. The delayed issues havent been rescheduled. So basically, the current position is that, in theory, SQUADRON SUPREME has not been cancelled, but in practice, they havent solicited any more issues. On any view, this is a troubled comic.