Because the anon who beat me to that only posted an iPhone screenshot incomplete.
>The Dark Knight struck again in November, with the first issue of the revival of Frank Miller's 1980s classic take on Batman selling more than 440,000 copies into the Direct Market. That's according to Comichron's estimates based on charts released this morning by Diamond Comic Distributors. Click to see the estimated sales for comics shipped in November 2015.
>Orders of Dark Knight III: The Master Race #1 were more than double the preorders for Dark Knight Strikes Again #1, back in December 2001; that title, which was priced nearly two dollars higher at $7.95, had first-month sales to retailers of more than 187,300 copies. In all, orders for Dark Knight III and the reprint volumes of earlier Dark Knight editions accounted for 5.35% of all dollars in the Direct Market in November; that would be enough to make those titles alone the fourth largest publisher in the industry last month. DC's market share without it would have been exactly 21%.
?Marvel's relaunch continued to give comics sales a boost, 13 titles had sales over 100,000 copies, 11 of them from Marvel. Marvel's dollar sales within the Top 300 Comics grouping set a new high mark for the publisher in the Diamond Exclusive Era, as did its dollar sales when the Top 300 Graphic Novels are added to that grouping.
>An ongoing thread to 2015 continued: Whereas in recent times the unit sales numbers at the top of the charts have been flattening while the sales of the lower tier titles have been increasing, the opposite has been true for most of this year. The 300th place title had orders of 4,197 copies, the lowest figure seen since March 2013. (Click to see the list of 300th place titles across time.) A lot has to do with the smaller number of titles Marvel and DC are offering: as almost everything those publishers produce charts in the Top 300, things drop off a little faster when their release slates shrink.
>The aggregate changes are as follows:
>TOP 300 COMICS UNIT SALES
>November 2015: 8.3 million copies
>Versus 1 year ago this month: +23%
>Versus 5 years ago this month: +51%
>Versus 10 years ago this month: +28%
>Versus 15 years ago this month: +45%
>YEAR TO DATE: 81.22 million copies, +7% vs. 2014, +28% vs. 2010, +17% vs. 2005, +27% vs. 2000
>ALL COMICS UNIT SALES: November 2015 versus one year ago this month: +18.19%
>YEAR TO DATE: +5.45%
>TOP 300 COMICS DOLLAR SALES
>November 2015: $34.73 million
>Versus 1 year ago this month: +38%
>Versus 5 years ago this month: +72%
>Versus 10 years ago this month: +79%
>Versus 15 years ago this month: +124%
>YEAR TO DATE: $321.02 million, +12% vs. 2014, +42% vs. 2010, +59% vs. 2005, +83% vs. 2000
>ALL COMICS DOLLAR SALES: November 2015 versus one year ago this month: +30.05%
>YEAR TO DATE: +7.54%
>TOP 300 TRADE PAPERBACK DOLLAR SALES
>November 2015: $7.12 million
>Versus 1 year ago this month: -19%
>Versus 5 years ago this month: -1%
>Versus 10 years ago this month, just the Top 100 vs. the Top 100: -4%
>Versus 15 years ago this month, just the Top 25 vs. the Top 25: -46%
>YEAR TO DATE: $82.21 million, unchanged vs. 2014
>ALL TRADE PAPERBACK SALES: November 2015 versus one year ago this month: -17.50%
>YEAR TO DATE: +2.24%
>TOP 300 COMICS + TOP 300 TRADE PAPERBACK DOLLAR SALES
>November 2015: $41.85 million
>Versus 1 year ago this month: +23%
>Versus 5 years ago this month: +43%
>Versus 10 years ago this month, counting just the Top 100 TPBs: +52%
>Versus 15 years ago this month, counting just the Top 25 TPBs: +136%
>YEAR TO DATE: $403.22 million, +9% vs. 2014
>ALL COMICS AND TRADE PAPERBACK SALES: November 2015 versus one year ago this month: +13.84%
>YEAR TO DATE: +5.89%
>Only $14 million in orders are needed in December for 2015 to top 2014. Comichron projects that 2015's Direct Market sales will finish at around $570 million, up by about 6%, or $30 million.
Highlights:
>Marvel may be exaggerating Vader Down #1's received orders
>Batman outsold ASM again
>Invincible Iron Man crashes into top 30, outsold by Venom and Howard
>Hawkeye still sells decently, even beating The Walking Dead
>Batman Europa outsold Ms. Marvel
>Decent debuts for Spider-Woman and Drax
>BKV still sells to this day
>American Alien outsold Uncanny Inhumans
>Vision outsold Superman, but don't worry, the latter will be back in proper costume in March
>Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur Marvel's worst-selling November debut
>James Bond outsold Paktion
>Unbeatable Squirrel GIrl Marvel's second lowest-seling ANAD #2, outsold by Angela Queen of Lel
>Red Hood/Arsenal fell to below twenty thousand orders
>Omega Men's sales are Vertigo-tier but outsold Doomed anyway
>Doctor Fate closer to cancellation numbers
>Telos officially cancelled with the March issue because of shit sales
>American comics anthologies a shit sales-wise again
>Rick & Morty Vol. 1 had a decent debut
>The English Eternaut HC severely underperformed
>No Battleworld and Warzones TPs outside top 100 with A-Force Warzones topping their group
>USG trades hanging on
>Yo-kai Watch English-translated tankobon flopped
>>78192745
>Marvel may be exaggerating Vader Down #1's received orders
What did they say it was?
>>78192745
>>Unbeatable Squirrel GIrl Marvel's second lowest-seling ANAD #2, outsold by Angela Queen of Lel
just wait until Vision #2 comes out.
inhumans BTFO ?
>>78192940
They're giving that to retailers for free, to match #1 orders
>>78192999
Inhumans BTFO
>>78192889
Marvel reported that it had 450000 pre-orders of Vader Down Diamond's estimate of the total received orders is lower. So maybe some of the pre-orders came from outside the West or online deliveries.
>>78192716
>Omega Men 9,709
>Midnighter 12,186
>Justice League 3001 14,659
>Secret Six 15,375
>Martian Manhunter 17,038
>Constantine The Hellblazer 19,328
>Sinestro 22,331
>Superman Lois and Clark 22,898
What the fuck is wrong with people, why aren't this selling? They're easily the best books DC is putting out.Also better than literally everything Marvel is putting out
>Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 23,064
Fuck everything.
>>78193280
Because people don't bitch about them.
Make a fake controversy, get people angry. They get other people to pick up books in their rage.
There is a Squirrel Girl thread every single day.
>>78193280
Marvel is cancer, its fucking sad to see so many good books neglected.
>>78193358
>>78193280
DC's marketing team makes me sad.
>>78192745
>>Invincible Iron Man crashes into top 30, outsold by Venom and Howard
It's doing Iron Man's normal numbers. It beat Superior. That whole flagship book thing was just a fantasy that both /co/ and Marvel took too seriously.
>>78193280
>Midnighter 12,186
>Justice League 3001 14,659
Fuck this gay Earth
Fucking squirrel girl! Seriously?
I'm fucking done.
>>78192745
>>Batman outsold ASM again
Batman's been doing that since at least 2011.
The difference is that in that time ASM has either been double or triple shipping each month, with multilple issues of the same book selling the same kind of numbers just a week or two apart.
>>78193610
>Batman has more victories than ASM in their sales battles since at least 2011
ftfy
ASM #700 and ANAD ASM #1 & 2 were able to beat Batman. Those are one of the rare times in the modern era that happened.
>>78193464
Why do people act like Marvel markets anything.
They have an image that helps them out, and they write into it. Comic companies dont have nearly the profit margins to do marketing campaigns.
The best you get is maybe a View/Colbert tyoe thing once in a blue moon, and the only reason dc hasn't done so is because EW and CW are there only major continuous media outlets.
>>78192716
>660x5734
How the fuck did you get this to post? Isn't the limit 5000x5000?
Do you think the Civil War event from the Iron Man team, and the Iron Man tie-ins, will convince retailers to make Iron Man a major seller like Marvel is determined to do?
(The answer is no, because it's fucking Iron Man and his comic book version will always be mid-tier, no matter how popular the movie version is.)
>>78193467
/co/ never believed iron man would beat spider-man. it was a pipe dream only marvel held and touted around. if bendis can't make iron man sell 100k monthly, then no one can.
>>78193420
>why are DC comics not selling
>FUCKING MARVEL
kek
>>78192716
>Captain America White #4
When the fuck did that come out? Was it never ripped?
>>78193848
>How the fuck did you get this to post? Isn't the limit 5000x5000?
660 x 5734 = 3784440
5000 x 5000 = 25000000
660x5734 is therefore smaller than the post limit of 5000x5000.
>>78193950
>When the fuck did that come out?
November 11
>Was it never ripped?
It was done.
>>78192716
>Catwoman 21k
>JL3k1 14k
>Midnighter 12k
>Omega Men 9k
What. The. FUCK.
>DC fans already screaming at Marvel because comics aren't selling
Gee I wonder why comics aren't selling, could it be that people see DC fans constantly angry at every little thing or is it because they can't market shit.
NOPE better scream at Marvel somoe more
>>78194124
I don't think it's Marvel's fault that DC isn't selling, it's DC's fault that they aren't selling. I am just separately disgusted by Marvel's shitty tactics and frustrated that Marvel's crappy relaunches can sell 50k easy but DC's best stuff can barely break 12k.
>>78193946
Drone
>>78193839
Yeah yeah, but we're talking consistent sales. If we're going issue by issue Batman is the clear victor; if we're talking volume of sales for a single title, ASM wins hands down.
>>78194177
Though it's clear Marvel is partially devouring the sales of everything that isn't their own high sellers. And I mean their high sellers not their company since a lot of their lower sellers seem to be going down as well.
>>78194026
How the fuck did I miss that shit?
>>78194177
Marvel knows exactly how to get people to buy their books.
It's shitty, manipulative but they're a business so they don't care.
>>78193467
>It's doing Iron Man's normal numbers. It beat Superior. That whole flagship book thing was just a fantasy that both /co/ and Marvel took too seriously.
This is actually the story of the ANAD relaunch: the #1 bumps are still working, but they have no legs, almost all books are immediately going back to their old numbers.
Which while not a bad thing, shows that pushing #1's is increasingly not a performance booster anymore.
Maybe you guys should make threads about good books sometimes instead of making a dozen threads on Whor, what Bendis did this week or Squirrel Girl.
>>78194462
>Maybe you guys should make threads about good books sometimes instead of making a dozen threads on the most cancerous current Marvel titles and writers.
ftfy
I'm honestly glad Scarlet Witch got outrage with her first issue.
I like her book.
I want it to continue.
>>78194613
We're getting Dillon after Rudy. Prepare for a lot of outrage.
>>78194089
Catwoman is bad now, it's ok
Really, Midnighter is your own fault. You guys couldn't create some fake outrage for a gay protagonist?
You could have used tumblr's power for good by creating a /co/ hates fags narrative so easily to get them to buy the books.
>>78194849
Middy is too perfect, shitposting in his honor would feel immoral
>>78194849
This
You all should've thrown a fit everywhere about DC pandering to gays, then maybe more people would've heard about it.
>>78194849
Yeah. Most of the outrage was just shippers being upset that Middy wasn't with Apollo. If others heard about it, they either don't care or they empathize, and neither of those reactions are optimal.
>>78194849
>Hating on based Middy
I don't wanna go to hell, anon.
>>78194972
>>78194873
It would have been for him.
Cruel to be kind.
You all failed him.
>>78193909
Jim Lee can.
>>78195061
;_;
at least it does legitimately do well digitally
>>78195100
He takes a year to draw one page.
Lee can't do anything.
At least Vision is getting outrage for Virginia's emotional abuse. That's good.
>>78195147
Where?
Next book you like. Nitpick it until you find a believable controversy in it. Make a thread and blow it out of proportion because somebody will be stupid enough to believe you deeply care about it.
And wait for the sales.
>>78195167
Tumblr.
Vision is such a monster to poor Virginia. Free Virginia! Is stuff I've seen.
I'm surprised no one ever tries to give the new Dr. fate some shit because he's Muslim too.
Why are you letting Kamala get all of that /pol/ attention? Her book has sales.
Give it to the guy who needs it.
>>78194796
What? Tieri's first issue was pretty good caper opening. I was pleasantly surprised.
>>78195368
/pol/ racists don't secretly want to be Dr Fate's boyfriend
>>78194849
>You guys couldn't create some fake outrage for a gay protagonist?
So we need a "Middy was raped by Prometheus!!" campaign? #Gayrapesmatter?
>>78195453
Nah, they'd agree with that.
Anyway it's too late to bitch about DC pandering to gays. It's had 7 issues already. We're just gonna have to wait until it's cancelled and people start bitching for real.
>>78195453
>#gayrapematters
Too socially conscious. You got to get more retarded.
>>78195445
Why not though?
>>78195453
We could've fake complained about Midnighter just existing AND complained about him ruining Dick by making Dick gayer.Too bad /co/ likes the latter
Yeah. Midnighter is too late.
What upcoming book are you most excited for?
You better make a dozen threads the day it debuts about how it's shitty pandering.
>>78192745
Rick and Mortys trade sold about as well as one of it's floppies. Why bother with floppies at all?
So how much more leeway will Midnighter get before it gets cancelled? Being their only gay leading title can only save him for so long
>>78195617
>implying /co/ has any impact on sales.
I do wonder how much Midnighter does digitally though.
>>78195617
Fucking Starbrand and Nightmask! I'm tired of Weisman's shitty headcanon of black men actually being able to do something with their lives!
Am I doing it right?
>>78195368
Because they didn't plaster him everywhere and tell everyone "we've got a fresh new Muslim that's gonna blow your minds but not in a bomb kind of way because that'd perpetuate negative islamaphobic stereotypes" DC just made a Muslim legacy and released him like it was no real big deal. Which is why it failed, hell even Cho gets a handful of articles saying "People won't like that he's Asian" and hyping up that fact.
>>78195683
He'll be selling under 10k by #12, so not much leeway.
The best we hope for is a Midnighter/Apollo mini or a Stormwatch relaunch. ;_;
>>78195707
>hell even Cho gets a handful of articles saying "People won't like that he's Asian" and hyping up that fact.
Cho's book is kinda fun if you're up for a slightly more cheeky, juvenile Hulk and I was initially pretty disinterested in because Cho as Hulk sounded kinda dull.
>>78195707
Yeah, I had a Muslim friend pick up Ms M. I brought up Doctor Fate. She had absolutely no idea he was a thing.
>>78195690
It's usually in the top 15-20 in the weeks that it comes out. We don't really get more than that from Comixology.
>>78195617
I'm excited for Swamp Thing. I expect it to get 20,000 for issue #1. Are Metamorpho, Metal Men, Firestorm and Sugar and Spike still happening?
>>78195802
They're all being packaged together into a "Legends of Tomorrow" sampler book
>>78195445
>/pol/ racists
Your tumblr is showing.
>>78195802
All those got lumped into an anthology series.
Katana also got put into an athology series.
And Raven is the only one left. I can see it standing by itself if they get a relatively liked or well known artist.
>>78195818
It's not going to be some $7.99 Monstrosity is it? That's never going to sell
>>78195802
You know what you have to do.
Get outraged.
Super outraged.
>>78195849
That's exactly what it is
I'm guessing it will be less painful for them to have one shitty selling book than to have 4+ mediocre to shitty selling books.
>>78195838
>>78195818
Even Swamp Thing?
>>78195900
Nah, Swamp Thing and Poison Ivy are on their own. So they have some faith in there.
>>78195849
It won't but I like the notion of DC doing an anthology book like this.
>>78195703
I just want it to break the Weisman curse.
3 issues. Get to three issues.
>>78195969
It will. It'll just last two arcs though.
>>78195644
IIRC, many comics live or die based on their floppy sales, not their trade sales. Trades can come out so cheaply largely thanks to their floppies subsidizing most of the costs beforehand.
>>78195445
What are they? Gay?
>>78195762
I'm not saying it needs it but it's trying to play a little bit of that negativity, which is a good promotional tool apparently.
I like Cholk, it's actually a well drawn and fun book.
>>78195690
Its digital numbers are around the same as Green Lantern, and GL sells around 38-40k in floppies
>>78194613
Her powers from being a woman. She's gonna get so much outrage Robinson will be guaranteed 50 issues.
I'm already preparing my shitposting for Wanda's sake.
>>78195938
So do I but why call it Legends of Tomorrow if you aren't showcasing the characters that will be on their tv show? DC sucks at cross medium promotion
>>78196344
So far we just had one thread, Did anyone else even say anything? I think Cap outrage took like a weekend.
>>78197032
There were two rage threads when he preview came out with the explanation. One outrage thread when her actual solo dropped.
I plan to shitpost the page with the explanation of her powers once a week to get some butt mad people scream SJW!
Because Wanda deserves attention.
>It's too late to shitpost about books like Prez/Midnighter/Omega Men/etc to drum up interest
I guess in a decade or so when DC has the confidence to try books like that again I will be ready to shitpost the hell out of them
>>78197120
HAHAHA! YOU FOOL! NOW I HAVE PROOF! WANDA IS DAMNED TO BE KNOWN IN COMICS AS SOME BITCH WHO FUCKED UP THE X-MEN FOREVER OR MY NAME ISN'T BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS!
>>78197120
Do it for her.
>>78197191
You shit post like you never have before.
For her sake I will not break character.
>>78192745
>Red Hood/Arsenal fell to below twenty thousand orders
New writer and rise of Batpunisher, r-right?
>>78197184
>>78197191
>>78197206
I actually kind of like this. I mean at least they're giving her a chance to atone and rebuild.
>>78197444
Pity Frank never atoned her.
>>78197734
Why would Frank care that she killed some stupid muties?
They're not people.
>>78197368
That's dedication, something DC fags fail to realize for their own books.
>>78197835
You do what you have to do for the ones you love.
What do I have to do to save Rose then?
>>78197155
DC has been trying stuff like this since the New 52 started. A lot of great books get ignored because of character fags
Please join me in shitting on my waifu. In the SW I just made.
Let's see if this works.
>>78198142
>A lot of great books get ignored because of character fags
Don't give me that bullshit, it's because DC sucks ass at marketing, plain and simple.
>>78196344
Wanda just generates controversy, if sales lag they can just undo Axis now that Marvel and Fox are all buddy buddy again and just ride another wave of fan anger
>>78197772
Upvoted XDDD
>>78198353
Fuck off mate. The New 52 was marketed heavily but nobody cares about the smaller books. Comic fans are shit eaters, plain and simple. Nobody gives a fuck if Batman and Spider-Man are shit, they all just munch it down and ask for seconds. The current state of comics is what we deserve
>>78198553
I need her to beat Squirrel Girl and Cap Marvel.
>>78197120
Eh, I don't know, if you force it too much it might come off too insincere.
>>78198733
Not that guy. But you give this board too much credit.
All you need to do is cry SJW and /pol/ will come running.
>>78198648
that happen naturally once they find someone who can draw women.
>>78198771
Eh, things aren't so simple now a days. I've seen threads try to do it and they just end up talking about how /pol/ is gonna show up any minute.
>>78198771
>All you need to do is cry SJW and /pol/ will come running.
Even that's been coming off forced the past month or so. It's been feeling more like a skit then genuine fear of /pol/ or tumblr or Reddit or whatever.
>>78192745
>Telos officially cancelled with the March issue because of shit sales
Who's idea was it to make that book anyways? Convergence was ass. Telos was ass. Literally nobody wanted that.
>>78193847
Well, they do press releases like this, talking about how much more money they're about to shove into marketing.
http://comicbook.com/blog/2013/12/06/marvel-comics-launching-largest-marketing-campaign-in-their-history-in-2014/
But I mean, you can keep talking out your ass if you like.
Hah ANAD Avengers is at 6. Such that naysayers
>>78193280
>DC Makes JL3001 All Girl in hopes of inspiring people to bitch about muh feminism
>/co/ actually likes these characters and doesn't mind at all
It never works anon.
Marvel march solicitations when ?
>>78201581
>none of the men that died were gay or black so you can't spin it that way
well shit
even the fuss about transphobia didn't even make it catch on
>>78195849
it's 80 Pages, plus it's 4 DC Comics for the price of 2 Marvel Comics so yeah.... it's gonna sell horribly.
>>78197413
it's a containment book anon, nobody cares.
>>78193280
I'm surprised Sinestro is selling that well. I like the character and am following the book, but storywise its done nothing but tread water. Looks like writers who know there is no need to bother setting up a storyline because the second something happens in the parent book they'll be forced to toss everything overboard and follow along blindly.
>>78201871
Who doesn't love the adventures of Smugman and his minions?
>>78199381
I had no idea.
Must be working
>>78201871
>but storywise its done nothing but tread water.
It was for a while, that's why I'm glad the Paling has come back up
I'm still amused that Lost Army's debut issue sold beneath that month's GL issue and now it's performing lower than Sinestro
>sales in the hundreds of thousands
I don't look at sales threads, but that feels really small. Are cape comics really that niche? Does manga sell more than comics in the US?
>>78203688
Not only that, this is ridiculously high for comics.
Though they allegedly sell higher in a few nonDiamond markets but yeah Manga sells more.
>>78203688
Comics are technically more expensive than Manga.
>>78203648
Surprised? HEAT is real, there are people who love Hal. John's fans are based around muh PoC Lantern from cartoon. And Guy never had much fans because he was dick to everyone for decades.
>>78203804
To be fair they did that to themselves in so many ways.
Though allegedly they couldn't make it cheap if they tried at this point.
>>78198831
It's because the retards that cry /pol/ are just newfags who haven't gotten used to board culture. This sites lifeblood is based on shitposting. The ones that get triggered by people calling things nigger, faggot, or sjw are the easiest targets. When you have such a sensitive userbase from tumblr and reddit on this board, it's only natural for the faggots to shitpost in full force. /pol/ doesn't give a shit about any other board except for maybe /int/, /tv/, and /v/. If /pol/ was here, you'd know about it, since you'd see more porn from blacked.
>>78203874
No I'm just surprised (and pleased) that Sinestro has some measure of popularity now, to the extent that he's as popular as other GLs
