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 Post subject: Marvel sales in subscritions and newstands
PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 2:06 pm 
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Found this, thoight it was interesting

Top 10 Subscription Comics for Marvel in May (March) 2008

Marvel Adventures Spider-Man: 31,479
Amazing Spider-Man: 11,936 (average/3 issues)
Ultimate Spider-Man: 7,875
Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four 6,761
New Avengers: 6,739
X-Men: Legacy 6,561
Uncanny X-Men 6,358
Marvel Adventures Avengers 5,332
Wolverine 5,183
Hulk 4,834

Top 10 Newsstand Comics for Marvel in May (March) 2008

Civil War Chronicles: 7,824
X-Men:Legacy: 5,094
Franklin Richards: Spring Break 4,987
Marvel Adventures Two-In-One: 4,819
Uncanny X-Men: 4,683
Marvel Two-In-One: 4,630
Amazing Spider-Man: 4,621 (average/ 3 issues)
Nova: 3,937
Ultimate Fantastic Four: 3,922
Ultimate Spider-Man: 3,848

It should be noted that the Stephen King Dark Tower comic was not included in the audit for unknown reasons.

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 Post subject: Marvel sales in subscritions and newstands
PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 2:11 pm 
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Direct Market for that time

1

DARK TOWER LONG ROAD HOME #1 (Of 5)*

123,839

2

NEW AVENGERS #39 SII

103,046

3

THOR #7

97,491

4

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #552*

89,835

5

UNCANNY X-MEN #496 DWS

89,054


6

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #553

82,648

7

MIGHTY AVENGERS #11

82,253

8

X-MEN LEGACY #209 DWS

82,243

9

MIGHTY AVENGERS #10

82,149

10

X-FORCE #2 DWS*

81,714

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 Post subject: Marvel sales in subscritions and newstands
PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 2:14 pm 
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This was an interesting point:

You’ve got an outright kids’ comic in Franklin Richards. Mid-list marvel Nova, an old school space opera, beats out the Ultimate line and even Wolverine (who wasn’t top 10). It’s been a long time since the newsstand was the primary driver for comics, but when you look at how different the newsstand sales chart is, you have to wonder how the balance of power would change if the newsstand could ever be expanded. You also might look to the slight evidence of diversity (Franklin Richards, Nova) in newsstand sales when seeing Marvel experiment with genres with their digital comics - another mass audience endeavor.

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 Post subject: Marvel sales in subscritions and newstands
PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 3:05 pm 
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Direct Market for that time

1

DARK TOWER LONG ROAD HOME #1 (Of 5)*

123,839

4

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #552*

89,835

6

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #553

82,648



These were the only books I read from that list, Dark Tower sold pretty well considering it's not the typical Superhero fare Marvel puts out.

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 3:07 pm 
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Very interesting..thansk for posting these!


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