Re: Ventes Comparées Mois par Mois pour DC

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DC Comics Month to Month Sales: November 2012
by Marc-Oliver Frisch

While Marvel keeps rolling out its latest round of relaunches, DC is sticking to its guns in November. There’s the “Death of the Family” crossover that continues running through various Batman titles. There’s the “Rise of the Third Army” crossover that continues running through the Green Lantern books. There are three minor crossover storylines running through various other titles. And there are, finally, the Before Watchmen and “digital-first” lines of books, both of which continue to expand in November.

But while Marvel wins the market shares for dollars and units quite handsomely, that doesn’t mean it’s a bad month for DC. On the contrary: The publisher’s bottom line remains rock-solid in November, both in terms of average sales (slightly up from October) and overall sales (slightly down from October), continuing a trend of very steady overall sales figures in 2012.

The notable exception to that trend, once again, is Vertigo, which, due to various ongoing and limited series ending and not being replaced with new ones, only has eight new titles out in November — the lowest number since January 2004, and the second-lowest number overall since March 2003. As a consequence, Vertigo’s total unit sales for periodicals crumble to an estimated 92,000 in November, which is also the second-lowest ever, and only the second time that figure drops below 100K.

With Sweet Tooth, Saucer Country and Hellblazer about to end, American Vampire going on hiatus and Punk Rock Jesus concluding its run, there doesn’t seem to be much of a reason left for DC to keep Vertigo around as a label for new periodical comics, particularly after the dismissal of founding editor Karen Berger. I wrote the October column before Berger’s departure was announced, but this particular development rather underlines my points, I think.

See below for the details and, as usual, please consider the small print at the end of the column. Thanks to Milton Griepp and ICv2.com for the permission to use their figures. An overview of ICv2.com‘s estimates can be found here.

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279 - SCOOBY DOO: WHERE ARE YOU? (Johnny DC)
11/2007: Scooby Doo #126 -- 4,237
11/2008: Scooby Doo #138 -- 4,068
11/2009: Scooby Doo #150 -- 4,044
11/2010: SD:WAY? #3 -- 4,861
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11/2011: SD:WAY? #15 -- 4,701
12/2011: SD:WAY? #16 -- 4,627 (- 1.6%)
01/2012: SD:WAY? #17 -- 4,533 (- 2.0%)
02/2012: SD:WAY? #18 -- 4,655 (+ 2.7%)
03/2012: SD:WAY? #19 -- 4,677 (+ 0.5%)
04/2012: SD:WAY? #20 -- 4,752 (+ 1.6%)
05/2012: SD:WAY? #21 -- 5,269 (+10.9%)
06/2012: SD:WAY? #22 -- 4,968 (- 5.7%)
07/2012: SD:WAY? #23 -- 4,934 (- 0.7%)
08/2012: SD:WAY? #24 -- ?
09/2012: SD:WAY? #25 -- 4,979
10/2012: SD:WAY? #26 -- ?
11/2012: SD:WAY? #27 -- 5,032
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6 months: - 4.5%
1 year : + 7.0%
2 years : + 3.5%
5 years : +18.8%

The faithful five thousand Scooby-Doovians keep showing up.

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250 - GREEN LANTERN: THE ANIMATED SERIES (Johnny DC)
04/2012: GL: TAS #1 -- 12,791
05/2012: GL: TAS #2 -- 9,615 (-24.8%)
06/2012: GL: TAS #3 -- 8,716 (- 9.4%)
07/2012: GL: TAS #4 -- 7,790 (-10.6%)
08/2012: GL: TAS #5 -- 6,968 (-10.6%)
09/2012: GL: TAS #6 -- 6,619 (- 5.0%)
10/2012: GL: TAS #7 -- 6,516 (- 1.6%)
11/2012: GL: TAS #8 -- 5,961 (- 8.5%)
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6 months: -38.0%

Not quite levelled out. It’s worth repeating, though, that this is not Care Bears torture porn, despite being a Green Lantern title, so it was always going to be an uphill struggle.

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225 - SAUCER COUNTRY (Vertigo)
03/2012: Saucer Country #1 -- 15,684
04/2012: Saucer Country #2 -- 11,263 (-28.2%)
05/2012: Saucer Country #3 -- 10,656 (- 5.4%)
06/2012: Saucer Country #4 -- 9,959 (- 6.5%)
07/2012: Saucer Country #5 -- 9,470 (- 4.9%)
08/2012: Saucer Country #6 -- 8,700 (- 8.1%)
09/2012: Saucer Country #7 -- 8,152 (- 6.3%)
10/2012: Saucer Country #8 -- 7,557 (- 7.3%)
11/2012: Saucer Country #9 -- 7,102 (- 6.0%)
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6 months: -33.4%

At this rate, Saucer Country will be literally running out of readers this time next year. I don’t see the book making it past issue #15, to be quite frank. (Update: The book is cancelled with issue #14.)

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221 - SWEET TOOTH (Vertigo)
11/2009: Sweet Tooth #3 -- 10,363
11/2010: Sweet Tooth #15 -- 8,750
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11/2011: Sweet Tooth #27 -- 7,923 (- 0.5%)
12/2011: Sweet Tooth #28 -- 7,699 (- 2.8%)
01/2012: Sweet Tooth #29 -- 8,128 (+ 5.6%)
02/2012: Sweet Tooth #30 -- 7,584 (- 6.7%)
03/2012: Sweet Tooth #31 -- 7,541 (- 0.6%)
04/2012: Sweet Tooth #32 -- 7,534 (- 0.1%)
05/2012: Sweet Tooth #33 -- 7,631 (+ 1.3%)
06/2012: Sweet Tooth #34 -- 7,689 (+ 0.8%)
07/2012: Sweet Tooth #35 -- 7,558 (- 1.7%)
08/2012: Sweet Tooth #36 -- 7,441 (- 1.6%)
09/2012: Sweet Tooth #37 -- 7,333 (- 1.5%)
10/2012: Sweet Tooth #38 -- 7,354 (+ 0.3%)
11/2012: Sweet Tooth #39 -- 7,324 (- 0.4%)
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6 months: - 4.0%
1 year : - 7.6%
2 years : -16.3%

Ending with issue #40.

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220 - YOUNG JUSTICE (Johnny DC)
11/2011: Young Justice #10 -- 7,650 (- 1.1%)
12/2011: Young Justice #11 -- 7,221 (- 5.6%)
01/2012: Young Justice #12 -- 7,288 (+ 0.9%)
02/2012: Young Justice #13 -- 7,237 (- 0.7%)
03/2012: Young Justice #14 -- 7,241 (+ 0.1%)
04/2012: Young Justice #15 -- 7,273 (+ 0.4%)
05/2012: Young Justice #16 -- 7,466 (+ 2.7%)
06/2012: Young Justice #17 -- 7,459 (- 0.1%)
07/2012: Young Justice #18 -- 7,458 (- 0.0%)
08/2012: Young Justice #19 -- 7,375 (- 1.1%)
09/2012: Young Justice #20 -- 7,515 (+ 1.9%)
10/2012: Young Justice #21 -- 7,558 (+ 0.6%)
11/2012: Young Justice #22 -- 7,344 (- 2.8%)
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6 months: - 1.6%
1 year : - 4.0%

Rock-solid direct-market figures for a Johnny DC title.

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207 - SUPERMAN FAMILY ADVENTURES (Johnny DC)
05/2012: Superman Family Adventures #1 -- 13,303
06/2012: Superman Family Adventures #2 -- 10,137 (-23.8%)
07/2012: Superman Family Adventures #3 -- 9,246 (- 8.8%)
08/2012: Superman Family Adventures #4 -- 8,925 (- 3.5%)
09/2012: Superman Family Adventures #5 -- 8,572 (- 4.0%)
10/2012: Superman Family Adventures #6 -- 8,450 (- 1.4%)
11/2012: Superman Family Adventures #7 -- 8,074 (- 4.5%)
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6 months: -39.3%

Another Johnny DC book with perfectly decent direct-market numbers, it would seem. However: cancelled with issue #12.

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199 - LOT 13
10/2012: Lot 13 #1 of 5 -- 12,476
11/2012: Lot 13 #2 of 5 -- 8,767 (-29.7%)

That’s a horrendous second-issue drop for a miniseries.

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198 - THE UNWRITTEN (Vertigo)
11/2009: The Unwritten #7 -- 14,763
11/2010: The Unwritten #19 -- 12,036
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11/2011: The Unwritten #31 -- 10,434 (- 0.5%)
11/2011: The Unwritten #.5 -- 10,183 (- 2.4%)
12/2011: The Unwritten #32 -- 10,073 (- 1.1%)
12/2011: The Unwritten #.5 -- 9,759 (- 3.1%)
01/2012: The Unwritten #33 -- 9,888 (+ 1.3%)
01/2012: The Unwritten #.5 -- 9,483 (- 4.1%)
02/2012: The Unwritten #34 -- 9,789 (+ 3.2%)
02/2012: The Unwritten #.5 -- 9,595 (- 2.0%)
03/2012: The Unwritten #35 -- 9,675 (+ 0.8%)
03/2012: The Unwritten #.5 -- 9,529 (- 1.5%)
04/2012: The Unwritten #36 -- 9,678 (+ 1.6%)
05/2012: The Unwritten #37 -- 9,549 (- 1.3%)
06/2012: The Unwritten #38 -- 9,494 (- 0.6%)
07/2012: The Unwritten #39 -- 9,478 (- 0.2%)
08/2012: The Unwritten #40 -- 9,127 (- 3.7%)
09/2012: The Unwritten #41 -- 8,943 (- 2.0%)
10/2012: The Unwritten #42 -- 8,881 (- 0.7%)
11/2012: The Unwritten #43 -- 8,791 (- 1.0%)
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6 months: - 7.9%
1 year : -14.7%
2 years : -27.0%

Slowly slipping down the chart.

The Unwritten is, by a wide margin of about 5,000 units, the lowest-selling Vertigo title that hasn’t been cancelled yet, as I’m writing this. I’m presuming this is because the collections are performing comparatively (if not spectacularly) well in the direct market and actually show up on the Bookscan charts.

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193 - HELLBLAZER (Vertigo)
11/2007: Hellblazer #238 -- 12,536
11/2008: Hellblazer #249 -- 11,445
11/2009: Hellblazer #261 -- 10,553
11/2010: Hellblazer #273 -- 9,645
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11/2011: Hellblazer #285 -- 9,500 (-1.1%)
12/2011: Hellblazer #286 -- 9,404 (-1.0%)
01/2012: Hellblazer #287 -- 9,368 (-0.4%)
02/2012: Hellblazer #288 -- 9,553 (+2.0%)
03/2012: Hellblazer #289 -- 9,363 (-2.0%)
04/2012: Hellblazer #290 -- 9,472 (+1.2%)
05/2012: Hellblazer #291 -- 9,426 (-0.5%)
06/2012: Hellblazer #292 -- 9,533 (+1.1%)
07/2012: Hellblazer #293 -- 9,247 (-3.0%)
08/2012: Hellblazer #294 -- 9,396 (+1.6%)
09/2012: Hellblazer #295 -- 9,143 (-2.7%)
10/2012: Hellblazer #296 -- 9,255 (+1.2%)
11/2012: Hellblazer #297 -- 9,146 (-1.2%)
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6 months: - 3.0%
1 year : - 3.7%
2 years : - 5.2%
5 years : -27.0%

To be relaunched as a DC Universe title after issue #300.

The fact that DC shitcanned the planned creative team for the relaunch before the first issue is even solicited — presumably after realizing that you’d need someone with new writer (fingers crossed) Jeff Lemire’s type of name for the new series to survive into the double digits — inspires a great deal of confidence.

The spirit of creativity, it is always humming.

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188 - G.I. COMBAT
05/2012: G.I. Combat #1 -- 33,740
06/2012: G.I. Combat #2 -- 19,002 (-43.7%)
07/2012: G.I. Combat #3 -- 14,359 (-24.4%)
08/2012: G.I. Combat #4 -- 11,797 (-17.8%)
09/2012: G.I. Combat #0 -- 14,072 (+19.3%)
10/2012: G.I. Combat #5 -- 10,526 (-25.2%)
11/2012: G.I. Combat #6 -- 9,713 (- 7.7%)
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6 months: -71.2%

The lowest-selling “New 52″ title. Axed with issue #7.

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187 - PHANTOM LADY
08/2012: Phantom Lady #1 of 4 -- 17,043
09/2012: Phantom Lady #2 of 4 -- 12,653 (-25.8%)
10/2012: Phantom Lady #3 of 4 -- 10,535 (-16.7%)
11/2012: Phantom Lady #4 of 4 -- 10,119 (- 4.0%)

Terrible sales, but not so terrible that DC won’t have more Freedom-Fighters-related miniseries by Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti. For some reason, Phantom Lady didn’t show up in the online solicitations for November, but it doesn’t seem to have hurt the figures any further, at least.

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181 - JOE KUBERT PRESENTS
10/2012: Joe Kubert Presents #1 of 6 -- 14,842
11/2012: Joe Kubert Presents #2 of 6 -- 10,542 (-29.0%)

Another miniseries with a massive second-issue drop.

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173 - GRIFTER
11/2011: Grifter #3 -- 29,802 (-25.3%)
12/2011: Grifter #4 -- 22,486 (-24.6%)
01/2012: Grifter #5 -- 20,060 (-10.8%)
02/2012: Grifter #6 -- 18,057 (-10.0%)
03/2012: Grifter #7 -- 16,559 (- 8.3%)
04/2012: Grifter #8 -- 15,686 (- 5.3%)
05/2012: Grifter #9 -- 15,228 (- 2.9%)
06/2012: Grifter #10 -- 14,258 (- 6.4%)
07/2012: Grifter #11 -- 13,382 (- 6.1%)
08/2012: Grifter #12 -- 12,400 (- 7.3%)
09/2012: Grifter #0 -- 15,751 (+27.0%)
10/2012: Grifter #13 -- 12,142 (-22.9%)
11/2012: Grifter #14 -- 11,631 (- 4.2%)
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6 months: -23.6%
1 year : -61.0%

Axed with issue #16.

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169 - PUNK ROCK JESUS (Vertigo)
07/2012: Punk Rock Jesus #1 of 5 -- 14,571
08/2012: Punk Rock Jesus #2 of 6 -- 11,936 (-18.1%)
09/2012: Punk Rock Jesus #3 of 6 -- 11,962 (+ 0.2%)
10/2012: Punk Rock Jesus #4 of 6 -- 12,378 (+ 3.5%)
11/2012: Punk Rock Jesus #5 of 6 -- 12,276 (- 0.8%)

The Sean Murphy vehicle keeps selling very well, by Vertigo standards. Punk Rock Jesus was first solicited as a five-issue series, then expanded with the solicitation for issue #2.

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167 - BLUE BEETLE
11/2007: Blue Beetle #21 -- 15,645
11/2008: Blue Beetle #33 -- 11,452
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11/2011: Blue Beetle #3 -- 27,612 (-29.9%)
12/2011: Blue Beetle #4 -- 21,408 (-22.5%)
01/2012: Blue Beetle #5 -- 19,042 (-11.1%)
02/2012: Blue Beetle #6 -- 17,034 (-10.6%)
03/2012: Blue Beetle #7 -- 15,780 (- 7.4%)
04/2012: Blue Beetle #8 -- 15,180 (- 3.8%)
05/2012: Blue Beetle #9 -- 16,607 (+ 9.4%)
06/2012: Blue Beetle #10 -- 14,413 (-13.2%)
07/2012: Blue Beetle #11 -- 13,923 (- 3.4%)
08/2012: Blue Beetle #12 -- 13,325 (- 4.3%)
09/2012: Blue Beetle #0 -- 16,888 (+26.7%)
10/2012: Blue Beetle #13 -- 13,141 (-22.2%)
11/2012: Blue Beetle #14 -- 12,508 (- 4.8%)
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6 months: - 24.7%
1 year : - 54.7%
5 years : - 20.1%

Cancelled with issue #16.

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165 - THE FURY OF FIRESTORM: THE NUCLEAR MEN
11/2011: Firestorm #3 -- 31,654 (-28.0%)
12/2011: Firestorm #4 -- 25,610 (-19.1%)
01/2012: Firestorm #5 -- 21,329 (-16.7%)
02/2012: Firestorm #6 -- 19,162 (-10.2%)
03/2012: Firestorm #7 -- 17,786 (- 7.2%)
04/2012: Firestorm #8 -- 17,076 (- 4.0%)
05/2012: Firestorm #9 -- 17,240 (+ 1.0%)
06/2012: Firestorm #10 -- 15,789 (- 8.4%)
07/2012: Firestorm #11 -- 14,931 (- 5.4%)
08/2012: Firestorm #12 -- 14,137 (- 5.3%)
09/2012: Firestorm #0 -- 17,279 (+22.2%)
10/2012: Firestorm #13 -- 13,460 (-22.1%)
11/2012: Firestorm #14 -- 12,862 (- 4.4%)
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6 months: -25.4%
1 year : -59.4%

The lowest-selling “New 52″ title that hasn’t been cancelled. You can’t really say that sales are levelling out yet, so presumably this is a case of too many other titles already getting the axe.

Overall, there are 18 “New 52″ books selling below the 20K mark right now, five of which are ending in January, and two more of which are ending in April. This leaves at least 11 books on borrowed time, but without an official end date.

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161 - DC UNIVERSE PRESENTS
11/2011: DCU Presents #3 -- 31,019 (-25.4%)
12/2011: DCU Presents #4 -- 24,398 (-21.4%)
01/2012: DCU Presents #5 -- 22,048 (- 9.6%)
02/2012: DCU Presents #6 -- 20,188 (- 8.4%)
03/2012: DCU Presents #7 -- 17,830 (-11.7%)
04/2012: DCU Presents #8 -- 16,566 (- 7.1%)
05/2012: DCU Presents #9 -- 15,776 (- 4.8%)
06/2012: DCU Presents #10 -- 14,310 (- 9.3%)
07/2012: DCU Presents #11 -- 13,619 (- 4.8%)
08/2012: DCU Presents #12 -- 15,138 (+11.2%)
09/2012: DCU Presents #0 -- 17,528 (+15.8%)
10/2012: DCU Presents #13 -- 14,405 (-17.8%)
11/2012: DCU Presents #14 -- 13,537 (- 6.0%)
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6 months: -14.2%
1 year : -56.4%

Axed with issue #19.

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160 - AMERICAN VAMPIRE (Vertigo)
11/2010: American Vampire #8 -- 19,850
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11/2011: American Vampire #20 -- 15,685 (+ 2.6%)
12/2011: American Vampire #21 -- 15,026 (- 4.2%)
12/2011: American Vampire #22 -- 14,759 (- 1.8%)
01/2012: American Vampire #23 -- 14,240 (- 3.5%)
02/2012: American Vampire #24 -- 14,278 (+ 0.3%)
03/2012: American Vampire #25 -- 14,598 (+ 2.2%)
04/2012: American Vampire #26 -- 14,493 (- 0.7%)
05/2012: American Vampire #27 -- 14,420 (- 0.5%)
06/2012: American Vampire #28 -- 15,573 (+ 8.0%)
07/2012: American Vampire #29 -- 15,324 (- 1.6%)
08/2012: American Vampire #30 -- 15,081 (- 1.6%)
09/2012: American Vampire #31 -- 14,796 (- 1.9%)
10/2012: American Vampire #32 -- 14,857 (+ 0.4%)
11/2012: American Vampire #33 -- 13,614 (- 8.4%)
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6 months: - 5.6%
1 year : -13.2%
2 years : -31.4%

The final issue of the “Blacklist” arc doesn’t have a variant-cover edition for some reason, hence the stiff drop. The last issue without one was #27. The book goes on hiatus with issue #34.

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158 - I, VAMPIRE
11/2011: I, Vampire #3 -- 26,070 (-24.7%)
12/2011: I, Vampire #4 -- 21,601 (-17.1%)
01/2012: I, Vampire #5 -- 18,816 (-12.9%)
02/2012: I, Vampire #6 -- 18,153 (- 3.5%)
03/2012: I, Vampire #7 -- 18,440 (+ 1.6%)
04/2012: I, Vampire #8 -- 18,717 (+ 1.5%)
05/2012: I, Vampire #9 -- 17,175 (- 8.2%)
06/2012: I, Vampire #10 -- 16,517 (- 3.8%)
07/2012: I, Vampire #11 -- 15,734 (- 4.7%)
08/2012: I, Vampire #12 -- 14,788 (- 6.0%)
09/2012: I, Vampire #0 -- 17,920 (+21.2%)
10/2012: I, Vampire #13 -- 14,260 (-20.4%)
11/2012: I, Vampire #14 -- 13,666 (- 4.2%)
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6 months: -20.4%
1 year : -47.6%

Axed with issue #19.

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151 - DEATHSTROKE
11/2011: Deathstroke #3 -- 33,754 (-24.4%)
12/2011: Deathstroke #4 -- 26,367 (-21.9%)
01/2012: Deathstroke #5 -- 23,872 (- 9.5%)
02/2012: Deathstroke #6 -- 21,306 (-10.8%)
03/2012: Deathstroke #7 -- 19,744 (- 7.3%)
04/2012: Deathstroke #8 -- 18,834 (- 4.6%)
05/2012: Deathstroke #9 -- 20,878 (+10.9%)
06/2012: Deathstroke #10 -- 19,722 (- 5.5%)
07/2012: Deathstroke #11 -- 17,107 (-13.3%)
08/2012: Deathstroke #12 -- 16,772 (- 2.0%)
09/2012: Deathstroke #0 -- 20,796 (+24.0%)
10/2012: Deathstroke #13 -- 15,078 (-27.5%)
11/2012: Deathstroke #14 -- 14,452 (- 4.2%)
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6 months: -30.8%
1 year : -57.2%

Not really levelling out yet, but still ongoing.

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148 - THE SAVAGE HAWKMAN
11/2011: Savage Hawkman #3 -- 35,177 (-26.4%)
12/2011: Savage Hawkman #4 -- 28,263 (-19.7%)
01/2012: Savage Hawkman #5 -- 23,967 (-15.2%)
02/2012: Savage Hawkman #6 -- 21,316 (-11.1%)
03/2012: Savage Hawkman #7 -- 19,433 (- 8.8%)
04/2012: Savage Hawkman #8 -- 18,300 (- 5.8%)
05/2012: Savage Hawkman #9 -- 17,626 (- 3.7%)
06/2012: Savage Hawkman #10 -- 16,417 (- 6.9%)
07/2012: Savage Hawkman #11 -- 15,460 (- 5.8%)
08/2012: Savage Hawkman #12 -- 14,745 (- 4.6%)
09/2012: Savage Hawkman #0 -- 18,750 (+27.2%)
10/2012: Savage Hawkman #13 -- 14,763 (-21.3%)
11/2012: Savage Hawkman #14 -- 14,726 (- 0.3%)
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6 months: -16.5%
1 year : -58.1%

A crossover with Green Arrow is cancelling out the drop, while Hawkman itself is not officially cancelled yet, as I’m writing this.

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147 - LEGION LOST
11/2011: Legion Lost #3 -- 31,226 (-26.8%)
12/2011: Legion Lost #4 -- 24,020 (-23.1%)
01/2012: Legion Lost #5 -- 21,549 (-10.3%)
02/2012: Legion Lost #6 -- 19,447 (- 9.8%)
03/2012: Legion Lost #7 -- 18,214 (- 6.3%)
04/2012: Legion Lost #8 -- 17,984 (- 1.3%)
05/2012: Legion Lost #9 -- 23,794 (+32.3%)
06/2012: Legion Lost #10 -- 17,581 (-26.1%)
07/2012: Legion Lost #11 -- 17,037 (- 3.1%)
08/2012: Legion Lost #12 -- 16,066 (- 5.7%)
09/2012: Legion Lost #0 -- 18,786 (+16.9%)
10/2012: Legion Lost #13 -- 15,377 (-18.2%)
11/2012: Legion Lost #14 -- 14,766 (- 4.0%)
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6 months: -37.9%
1 year : -52.7%

Cancelled with issue #16.

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143 - BATWING
11/2011: Batwing #3 -- 35,110 (-17.9%)
12/2011: Batwing #4 -- 26,726 (-23.9%)
01/2012: Batwing #5 -- 24,036 (-10.1%)
02/2012: Batwing #6 -- 21,643 (-10.0%)
03/2012: Batwing #7 -- 21,058 (- 2.7%)
04/2012: Batwing #8 -- 20,373 (- 3.3%)
05/2012: Batwing #9 -- 35,731 (+75.4%)
06/2012: Batwing #10 -- 20,724 (-42.0%)
07/2012: Batwing #11 -- 20,047 (- 3.3%)
08/2012: Batwing #12 -- 18,279 (- 8.8%)
09/2012: Batwing #0 -- 22,135 (+21.1%)
10/2012: Batwing #13 -- 17,166 (-22.5%)
11/2012: Batwing #14 -- 15,967 (- 7.0%)
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6 months: -55.3%
1 year : -54.5%

Evidently not cancelled yet, amazingly, despite the free-fall.

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142 - DEMON KNIGHTS
11/2011: Demon Knights #3 -- 34,681 (-17.9%)
12/2011: Demon Knights #4 -- 28,109 (-19.0%)
01/2012: Demon Knights #5 -- 25,823 (- 8.1%)
02/2012: Demon Knights #6 -- 23,476 (- 9.1%)
03/2012: Demon Knights #7 -- 22,000 (- 6.3%)
04/2012: Demon Knights #8 -- 21,124 (- 4.0%)
05/2012: Demon Knights #9 -- 20,196 (- 4.4%)
06/2012: Demon Knights #10 -- 19,005 (- 5.9%)
07/2012: Demon Knights #11 -- 18,201 (- 4.2%)
08/2012: Demon Knights #12 -- 17,295 (- 5.0%)
09/2012: Demon Knights #0 -- 20,474 (+18.4%)
10/2012: Demon Knights #13 -- 16,805 (-17.9%)
11/2012: Demon Knights #14 -- 16,005 (- 4.8%)
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6 months: -20.8%
1 year : -53.9%

Another “New 52″ book that hasn’t found its level and remains ongoing, for the time being.

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141 - AME-COMI GIRLS
10/2012: ACG #1: Wonder Woman -- 24,966
11/2012: ACG #2: Batgirl -- 16,083 (-35.6%)

This five-parter collecting material that was first released digitally is relaunched as an ongoing series in March, so DC seems happy enough with these figures, despite the gigantic second-issue drop. Different economics apply.

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139 - FABLES (Vertigo)
11/2007: Fables #67 -- 24,841
11/2008: Fables #78 -- 23,345
11/2009: Fables #90 -- 20,882
11/2010: --
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11/2011: Fables #111 -- 17,687 (- 2.3%)
12/2011: Fables #112 -- 17,602 (- 0.5%)
01/2012: Fables #113 -- 17,588 (- 0.1%)
02/2012: Fables #114 -- 17,374 (- 1.2%)
03/2012: Fables #115 -- 17,384 (+ 0.1%)
04/2012: Fables #116 -- 17,543 (+ 0.9%)
05/2012: Fables #117 -- 17,484 (- 0.3%)
06/2012: Fables #118 -- 18,566 (+ 6.2%)
07/2012: Fables #119 -- 17,110 (- 7.8%)
08/2012: Fables #120 -- 16,704 (- 2.4%)
09/2012: Fables #121 -- 16,596 (- 0.7%)
10/2012: Fables #122 -- 16,513 (- 0.5%)
11/2012: Fables #123 -- 16,229 (- 1.7%)
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6 months: - 7.2%
1 year : - 8.2%
2 years : n.a.
5 years : -31.9%

Vertigo’s flagship title continues its slow decline. Fables is one of only three ongoing Vertigo titles that don’t have an official end date yet, and one of the other two is Fairest, a Fables spin-off. It’ll be interesting to see where, and if, Vertigo stands a year from now.

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135 - FRANKENSTEIN: AGENT OF S.H.A.D.E.
11/2011: Frankenstein #3 -- 31,869 (-21.2%)
12/2011: Frankenstein #4 -- 24,812 (-22.1%)
01/2012: Frankenstein #5 -- 22,737 (- 8.4%)
02/2012: Frankenstein #6 -- 20,463 (-10.0%)
03/2012: Frankenstein #7 -- 18,891 (- 7.7%)
04/2012: Frankenstein #8 -- 17,953 (- 5.0%)
05/2012: Frankenstein #9 -- 17,266 (- 3.8%)
06/2012: Frankenstein #10 -- 16,377 (- 5.2%)
07/2012: Frankenstein #11 -- 15,635 (- 4.5%)
08/2012: Frankenstein #12 -- 14,679 (- 6.1%)
09/2012: Frankenstein #0 -- 18,122 (+23.5%)
10/2012: Frankenstein #13 -- 16,501 (- 9.0%)
11/2012: Frankenstein #14 -- 16,444 (- 0.4%)
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6 months: - 4.8%
1 year : -48.4%

Sales remain up versus August, thanks to the “Rotworld” crossover with Animal Man and Swamp Thing.

The book is axed with issue #16.

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134 - STORMWATCH
11/2007: --
11/2008: StormWatch: PHD #16 -- 6,824
11/2009: StormWatch: PHD #24 -- 4,598
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11/2011: Stormwatch #3 -- 39,262 (-17.4%)
12/2011: Stormwatch #4 -- 30,987 (-21.1%)
01/2012: Stormwatch #5 -- 29,112 (- 6.1%)
02/2012: Stormwatch #6 -- 26,076 (-10.4%)
03/2012: Stormwatch #7 -- 24,384 (- 6.5%)
04/2012: Stormwatch #8 -- 23,212 (- 4.8%)
05/2012: Stormwatch #9 -- 22,448 (- 3.3%)
06/2012: Stormwatch #10 -- 20,592 (- 8.3%)
07/2012: Stormwatch #11 -- 19,678 (- 4.4%)
08/2012: Stormwatch #12 -- 18,531 (- 5.8%)
09/2012: Stormwatch #0 -- 21,764 (+17.5%)
10/2012: Stormwatch #13 -- 17,621 (-19.0%)
11/2012: Stormwatch #14 -- 16,559 (- 6.0%)
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6 months: - 26.2%
1 year : - 57.8%
5 years : n.a.

Sales remain in free-fall.

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130 - RAVAGERS
05/2012: Ravagers #1 -- 44,230
06/2012: Ravagers #2 -- 31,128 (-29.6%)
07/2012: Ravagers #3 -- 24,963 (-19.8%)
08/2012: Ravagers #4 -- 20,730 (-17.0%)
09/2012: Ravagers #0 -- 22,437 (+ 8.2%)
10/2012: Ravagers #5 -- 18,656 (-16.9%)
11/2012: Ravagers #6 -- 17,334 (- 7.1%)
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6 months: - 60.8%

Crashing and burning right out of the gate, with no end in sight.

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129 - FAIREST (Vertigo)
03/2012: Fairest #1 -- 31,769
04/2012: Fairest #2 -- 22,997 (-27.6%)
05/2012: Fairest #3 -- 22,329 (- 2.9%)
06/2012: Fairest #4 -- 21,156 (- 5.3%)
07/2012: Fairest #5 -- 20,371 (- 3.7%)
08/2012: Fairest #6 -- 19,446 (- 4.5%)
09/2012: Fairest #7 -- 18,626 (- 4.2%)
10/2012: Fairest #8 -- 18,376 (- 1.3%)
11/2012: Fairest #9 -- 17,417 (- 5.2%)
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6 months: -22.0%

Still holding up very well, given that Bill Willingham and Phil Jimenez left back in August.

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128 - HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE
07/2012: He-Man #1 of 6 -- 27,665
08/2012: --
09/2012: He-Man #2 of 6 -- 19,737 (-28.7%)
10/2012: He-Man #3 of 6 -- 18,269 (- 7.4%)
11/2012: He-Man #4 of 6 -- 17,499 (- 4.2%)

These figures aren’t stellar by any stretch, but they’re good enough, evidently: He-Man is to be relaunched as an ongoing title.

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124 - THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES
11/2007: SLoSH #36 -- 26,814
11/2008: LoSH #48 -- 22,917
11/2010: LoSH #7 -- 26,439
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11/2011: LoSH #3 -- 34,979 (- 25.9%)
12/2011: LoSH #4 -- 27,832 (- 20.4%)
01/2012: LoSH #5 -- 25,624 (- 7.9%)
02/2012: LoSH #6 -- 23,428 (- 8.6%)
03/2012: LoSH #7 -- 21,894 (- 6.6%)
04/2012: LoSH #8 -- 21,457 (- 2.0%)
05/2012: LoSH #9 -- 20,854 (- 2.8%)
06/2012: LoSH #10 -- 19,963 (- 4.3%)
07/2012: LoSH #11 -- 19,421 (- 2.7%)
08/2012: LoSH #12 -- 18,907 (- 2.7%)
09/2012: LoSH #0 -- 21,561 (+ 14.0%)
10/2012: LoSH #13 -- 18,487 (- 14.3%)
11/2012: LoSH #14 -- 17,767 (- 3.9%)
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6 months: - 14.8%
1 year : - 49.2%
2 years : - 32.8%
5 years : - 33.7%

These have been the lowest sales by far of any ongoing Legion series in the 10 years since March 2003 that we have consistent data on. But: still ongoing, at this time.

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123 - DIAL H
05/2012: Dial H #1 -- 45,308
06/2012: Dial H #2 -- 30,618 (-32.4%)
07/2012: Dial H #3 -- 26,109 (-14.7%)
08/2012: Dial H #4 -- 22,733 (-12.9%)
09/2012: Dial H #0 -- 24,070 (+ 5.9%)
10/2012: Dial H #5 -- 19,903 (-17.3%)
11/2012: Dial H #6 -- 17,832 (-10.4%)
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6 months: - 60.6%

Dial H for Jesus H. Christ, these are some awful numbers.

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138 - SWORD OF SORCERY
09/2012: Sword of Sorcery #0 -- 29,954
10/2012: Sword of Sorcery #1 -- 23,947 (-20.1%)
11/2012: Sword of Sorcery #2 -- 18,080 (-24.5%)

Another terrible drop, as with most of the other recent “New 52″ launches. Retailers treated the first issues like first issues, after all, despite the issue-#0 stunt.

Meanwhile, the editors at DC like writer Christy Marx’s work here so much that they went and fired another writer entirely on another title entirely that he’d just been announced as the the writer of.

It’s an exciting time to be freelancing for DC.

(Procedural note, once again: Actual sales were reduced by Diamond for the purposes of the chart, to compensate for returnability. Recently, the reduction has been a flat 10%, or very close to it, so I’m adding these presumably missing 10% to the estimate supplied by Diamond and ICv2.com. Which is why the official chart ranking doesn’t make sense here. The same applies to Team 7, Phantom Stranger, Talon and Before Watchmen: Moloch.)

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121 - BATMAN: ARKHAM UNHINGED
04/2012: Arkham Unhinged #1 -- 31,170
05/2012: Arkham Unhinged #2 -- 25,215 (-19.1%)
06/2012: Arkham Unhinged #3 -- 23,322 (- 7.5%)
07/2012: Arkham Unhinged #4 -- 21,809 (- 6.5%)
08/2012: Arkham Unhinged #5 -- 21,059 (- 3.4%)
09/2012: Arkham Unhinged #6 -- 20,259 (- 3.8%)
10/2012: Arkham Unhinged #7 -- 19,890 (- 1.8%)
11/2012: Arkham Unhinged #8 -- 18,393 (- 7.5%)
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6 months: -27.1%

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117 - BATMAN BEYOND UNLIMITED
02/2012: Unlimited #1 -- 26,589 (+21.8%) [30,683]
03/2012: Unlimited #2 -- 23,570 (-11.4%)
04/2012: Unlimited #3 -- 24,196 (+ 2.7%)
05/2012: Unlimited #4 -- 24,356 (+ 0.7%)
06/2012: Unlimited #5 -- 24,058 (- 1.2%)
07/2012: Unlimited #6 -- 22,555 (- 6.3%)
08/2012: Unlimited #7 -- 21,219 (- 5.9%)
09/2012: Unlimited #8 -- 20,897 (- 1.5%)
10/2012: Unlimited #9 -- 19,877 (- 4.9%)
11/2012: Unlimited #10 -- 19,004 (- 4.4%)
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6 months: -22.0%

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116 - SMALLVILLE SEASON 11
05/2012: Smallville S11 #1 -- 27,004
06/2012: Smallville S11 #2 -- 22,468 (-16.8%)
07/2012: Smallville S11 #3 -- 20,864 (- 7.1%)
08/2012: Smallville S11 #4 -- 19,861 (- 4.8%)
09/2012: Smallville S11 #5 -- 19,499 (- 1.8%)
10/2012: Smallville S11 #6 -- 19,663 (+ 0.8%)
11/2012: Smallville S11 #7 -- 19,104 (- 2.8%)
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6 months: -29.3%

Three titles collecting “digital-first” material with perfectly good sales.

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126 - TEAM 7
09/2012: Team 7 #0 -- 34,503
10/2012: Team 7 #1 -- 27,661 (-19.8%)
11/2012: Team 7 #2 -- 19,510 (-29.5%)

Another recent “New 52″ launch that probably won’t be around this time next year.

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114 - ALL STAR WESTERN
11/2007: Jonah Hex #25 -- 14,577
11/2008: Jonah Hex #37 -- 12,537
11/2009: Jonah Hex #49 -- 11,146
11/2010: Jonah Hex #61 -- 10,796
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11/2011: ASW #3 -- 32,776 (- 17.8%)
12/2011: ASW #4 -- 29,349 (- 10.5%)
01/2012: ASW #5 -- 27,206 (- 7.3%)
02/2012: ASW #6 -- 26,170 (- 3.8%)
03/2012: ASW #7 -- 25,349 (- 3.1%)
04/2012: ASW #8 -- 25,040 (- 1.2%)
05/2012: ASW #9 -- 31,413 (+ 25.5%)
06/2012: ASW #10 -- 25,334 (- 19.4%)
07/2012: ASW #11 -- 23,572 (- 7.0%)
08/2012: ASW #12 -- 22,767 (- 3.4%)
09/2012: ASW #0 -- 25,388 (+ 11.5%)
10/2012: ASW #13 -- 21,481 (- 15.4%)
11/2012: ASW #14 -- 20,186 (- 6.0%)
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6 months: - 35.7%
1 year : - 38.4%
2 years : + 87.0%
5 years : + 38.5%

All Star Western still sells about twice as many units as Jonah Hex did before the “New 52″ relaunch, so there should be a lot more rope until it gets into trouble. That said, the last few months have been rather rocky, sales-wise.

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103 - GREEN ARROW
11/2007: Arrow/Canary #2 -- 42,827
11/2008: Arrow/Canary #14 -- 25,599
11/2009: Arrow&Canary #26 -- 17,384
11/2010: Green Arrow #6 -- 39,575
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11/2011: Green Arrow #3 -- 46,899 (- 20.1%)
12/2011: Green Arrow #4 -- 37,116 (- 20.9%)
01/2012: Green Arrow #5 -- 33,593 (- 9.5%)
02/2012: Green Arrow #6 -- 30,097 (- 10.4%)
03/2012: Green Arrow #7 -- 29,004 (- 3.6%)
04/2012: Green Arrow #8 -- 27,433 (- 5.4%)
05/2012: Green Arrow #9 -- 26,966 (- 1.7%)
06/2012: Green Arrow #10 -- 25,769 (- 4.4%)
07/2012: Green Arrow #11 -- 24,646 (- 4.4%)
08/2012: Green Arrow #12 -- 23,126 (- 6.2%)
09/2012: Green Arrow #0 -- 28,408 (+ 22.8%)
10/2012: Green Arrow #13 -- 22,057 (- 22.4%)
11/2012: Green Arrow #14 -- 21,825 (- 1.1%)
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6 months: - 19.1%
1 year : - 53.5%
2 years : - 44.9%
5 years : - 49.0%

There’s probably a larger underlying drop here that was dampened by the crossover with Hawkman.

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98 - BATMAN: ARKHAM CITY: END GAME
11/2012: End Game #1 -- 22,212

There was a 1:25 variant-cover edition to boost sales, but this is still an excellent number for a $6.99 one-shot collecting material that was first released digitally. The success of this still expanding line of books is probably the biggest surprise in the direct market of 2012, as far as DC is concerned. If this doesn’t turn out to be a fad — and I see no reason why it should — expect this mode of publication to become a lot more common soon.

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91 - BIRDS OF PREY
11/2007: Birds of Prey #112 -- 25,117
11/2008: Birds of Prey #124 -- 20,959
11/2010: Birds of Prey #6 -- 34,440
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11/2011: Birds of Prey #3 -- 40,891 (- 23.1%)
12/2011: Birds of Prey #4 -- 34,460 (- 15.7%)
01/2012: Birds of Prey #5 -- 31,700 (- 8.0%)
02/2012: Birds of Prey #6 -- 30,376 (- 4.2%)
03/2012: Birds of Prey #7 -- 29,196 (- 3.9%)
04/2012: Birds of Prey #8 -- 28,661 (- 1.8%)
05/2012: Birds of Prey #9 -- 41,521 (+ 44.9%)
06/2012: Birds of Prey #10 -- 28,457 (- 31.5%)
07/2012: Birds of Prey #11 -- 27,389 (- 3.8%)
08/2012: Birds of Prey #12 -- 26,587 (- 2.9%)
09/2012: Birds of Prey #0 -- 30,574 (+ 15.0%)
10/2012: Birds of Prey #13 -- 25,851 (- 15.5%)
11/2012: Birds of Prey #14 -- 24,904 (- 3.7%)
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6 months: - 40.0%
1 year : - 39.1%
2 years : - 27.7%
5 years : - 0.9%

The book keeps drifting down. Meanwhile, there’s always a new creative team waiting around the corner to replace the people who think they’re the new creative team. (Not to mention, probably, half a platoon’s worth of yokels who were asked to pitch for the book.)

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97 - PHANTOM STRANGER
09/2012: Phantom Stranger #0 -- 40,103
10/2012: Phantom Stranger #1 -- 33,350 (-16.8%)
11/2012: Phantom Stranger #2 -- 24,979 (-25.1%)

Let’s be honest: These are still spectacular sales for a Phantom Stranger title.

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87 - ARROW
11/2012: Arrow #1 -- 25,442

Another new “digital-first” launch with more than decent figures, the help of a 1:5 variant notwithstanding.

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80 - SUPERBOY
11/2011: Superboy #3 -- 47,442 (- 17.4%)
12/2011: Superboy #4 -- 40,002 (- 15.7%)
01/2012: Superboy #5 -- 37,419 (- 6.5%)
02/2012: Superboy #6 -- 34,520 (- 7.8%)
03/2012: Superboy #7 -- 33,050 (- 4.3%)
04/2012: Superboy #8 -- 31,900 (- 3.5%)
05/2012: Superboy #9 -- 34,838 (+ 9.2%)
06/2012: Superboy #10 -- 31,358 (- 10.0%)
07/2012: Superboy #11 -- 29,677 (- 5.4%)
08/2012: Superboy #12 -- 27,518 (- 7.3%)
09/2012: Superboy #0 -- 31,840 (+ 15.7%)
10/2012: Superboy #13 -- 25,726 (- 19.2%)
11/2012: Superboy #14 -- 28,017 (+ 8.9%)
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6 months: - 19.6%
1 year : - 41.0%

Sales boost courtesy of a crossover with Superman and Supergirl.

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79 - JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK
11/2011: Justice League Dark #3 -- 51,674 (-18.5%)
12/2011: Justice League Dark #4 -- 44,750 (-13.4%)
01/2012: Justice League Dark #5 -- 40,996 (- 8.4%)
02/2012: Justice League Dark #6 -- 38,360 (- 6.4%)
03/2012: Justice League Dark #7 -- 36,089 (- 5.9%)
04/2012: Justice League Dark #8 -- 35,022 (- 3.0%)
05/2012: Justice League Dark #9 -- 34,649 (- 1.1%)
06/2012: Justice League Dark #10 -- 33,238 (- 4.1%)
07/2012: Justice League Dark #11 -- 31,792 (- 4.4%)
08/2012: Justice League Dark #12 -- 30,754 (- 3.3%)
09/2012: Justice League Dark #0 -- 34,287 (+11.5%)
10/2012: Justice League Dark #13 -- 30,008 (-12.5%)
11/2012: Justice League Dark #14 -- 28,966 (- 3.5%)
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6 months: -16.4%
1 year : -44.0%

Slowly drifting down the charts.

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77 - LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT
10/2012: LotDK #1 -- 42,904
11/2012: LotDK #2 -- 30,085 (-29.9%)

That’s a big drop, but issue #1 was promoted with a 1:25 variant edition, so it’s not as steep as it looks. Plus, 30K is still a spectacular number for what’s essentially a “reprint” title, even if the previous “printing” was only digital.

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73 - SUPERGIRL
11/2007: Supergirl #23 -- 45,460
11/2008: Supergirl #35 -- 45,518
11/2009: Supergirl #47 -- 29,159
11/2010: Supergirl #58 -- 25,412
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11/2011: Supergirl #3 -- 50,784 (- 17.3%)
12/2011: Supergirl #4 -- 44,180 (- 13.0%)
01/2012: Supergirl #5 -- 41,446 (- 6.2%)
02/2012: Supergirl #6 -- 38,719 (- 6.6%)
03/2012: Supergirl #7 -- 37,041 (- 4.3%)
04/2012: Supergirl #8 -- 36,042 (- 2.7%)
05/2012: Supergirl #9 -- 35,129 (- 2.5%)
06/2012: Supergirl #10 -- 33,309 (- 5.2%)
07/2012: Supergirl #11 -- 31,879 (- 4.3%)
08/2012: Supergirl #12 -- 30,420 (- 4.6%)
09/2012: Supergirl #0 -- 34,457 (+ 13.3%)
10/2012: Supergirl #13 -- 29,450 (- 14.5%)
11/2012: Supergirl #14 -- 31,270 (+ 6.2%)
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6 months: - 11.0%
1 year : - 38.4%
2 years : + 23.1%
5 years : - 31.2%

Sales increase courtesy of crossover with Superboy and Superman.

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67 - ANIMAL MAN
11/2011: Animal Man #3 -- 49,184 (- 8.0%)
12/2011: Animal Man #4 -- 42,630 (-13.3%)
01/2012: Animal Man #5 -- 40,573 (- 4.8%)
02/2012: Animal Man #6 -- 38,504 (- 5.1%)
03/2012: Animal Man #7 -- 36,860 (- 4.3%)
04/2012: Animal Man #8 -- 36,369 (- 1.3%)
05/2012: Animal Man #9 -- 35,699 (- 1.8%)
06/2012: Animal Man #10 -- 34,992 (- 2.0%)
07/2012: Animal Man #11 -- 33,909 (- 3.1%)
08/2012: Animal Man #12 -- 34,549 (+ 1.9%)
09/2012: Animal Man #0 -- 38,295 (+10.8%)
10/2012: Animal Man #13 -- 34,303 (-10.4%)
11/2012: Animal Man #14 -- 33,503 (- 2.3%)
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6 months: - 6.2%
1 year : -31.9%

Back in a slow decline, despite the “Rotworld” crossover.

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65 - WORLDS' FINEST
05/2012: Worlds' Finest #1 -- 69,531
06/2012: Worlds' Finest #2 -- 51,510 (-25.9%)
07/2012: Worlds' Finest #3 -- 45,514 (-11.6%)
08/2012: Worlds' Finest #4 -- 39,629 (-12.9%)
09/2012: Worlds' Finest #0 -- 42,770 (+ 7.9%)
10/2012: Worlds' Finest #5 -- 35,951 (-15.9%)
11/2012: Worlds' Finest #6 -- 34,338 (- 4.5%)
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6 months: -50.6%

Very steep decline, overall.

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64 - BATWOMAN
11/2011: Batwoman #3 -- 61,997 (-16.7%)
12/2011: Batwoman #4 -- 52,757 (-14.9%)
01/2012: Batwoman #5 -- 51,924 (- 1.6%)
02/2012: Batwoman #6 -- 49,227 (- 5.2%)
03/2012: Batwoman #7 -- 46,874 (- 4.8%)
04/2012: Batwoman #8 -- 45,341 (- 3.3%)
05/2012: Batwoman #9 -- 43,942 (- 3.1%)
06/2012: Batwoman #10 -- 41,014 (- 6.7%)
07/2012: Batwoman #11 -- 38,980 (- 5.0%)
08/2012: Batwoman #12 -- 38,064 (- 2.4%)
09/2012: Batwoman #0 -- 41,684 (+ 9.5%)
10/2012: Batwoman #13 -- 37,315 (-10.5%)
11/2012: Batwoman #14 -- 36,395 (- 2.5%)
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6 months: -17.2%
1 year : -41.3%

Levelling out, evidently.

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60 - RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS
11/2011: Red Hood #3 -- 50,140 (-15.6%)
12/2011: Red Hood #4 -- 44,278 (-11.7%)
01/2012: Red Hood #5 -- 42,560 (- 3.9%)
02/2012: Red Hood #6 -- 39,898 (- 6.3%)
03/2012: Red Hood #7 -- 38,630 (- 3.2%)
04/2012: Red Hood #8 -- 37,974 (- 1.7%)
05/2012: Red Hood #9 -- 54,220 (+42.8%)
06/2012: Red Hood #10 -- 37,044 (-31.7%)
07/2012: Red Hood #11 -- 35,820 (- 3.3%)
08/2012: Red Hood #12 -- 34,439 (- 3.9%)
09/2012: Red Hood #0 -- 39,511 (+14.7%)
10/2012: Red Hood #13 -- 35,420 (- 6.7%)
11/2012: Red Hood #14 -- 37,710 (+ 6.5%)
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6 months: -30.5%
1 year : -24.8%

The “Death of the Family” crossover was name-checked in the advertising copy for issue #14. Enough for a solid sales increase.

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58 - TEEN TITANS
11/2007: Teen Titans #53 -- 54,387
11/2008: Teen Titans #65 -- 37,880
11/2009: Teen Titans #77 -- 46,239
11/2010: Teen Titans #89 -- 26,444
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11/2011: Teen Titans #3 -- 60,758 (- 15.7%)
12/2011: Teen Titans #4 -- 54,929 (- 9.6%)
01/2012: Teen Titans #5 -- 54,606 (- 0.6%)
02/2012: Teen Titans #6 -- 53,123 (- 2.7%)
03/2012: Teen Titans #7 -- 51,402 (- 3.2%)
04/2012: Teen Titans #8 -- 50,814 (- 1.1%)
05/2012: Teen Titans #9 -- 50,261 (- 1.1%)
06/2012: Teen Titans #10 -- 47,491 (- 5.5%)
07/2012: Teen Titans #11 -- 45,367 (- 4.5%)
08/2012: Teen Titans #12 -- 42,817 (- 5.6%)
09/2012: Teen Titans #0 -- 47,318 (+ 10.5%)
10/2012: Teen Titans #13 -- 41,059 (- 13.2%)
11/2012: Teen Titans #14 -- 39,745 (- 3.3%)
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6 months: - 20.9%
1 year : - 34.6%
2 years : + 50.3%
5 years : - 26.9%

Sliding down the charts.

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57 - RED LANTERNS
11/2011: Red Lanterns #3 -- 60,823 (-18.0%)
12/2011: Red Lanterns #4 -- 50,271 (-17.4%)
01/2012: Red Lanterns #5 -- 46,992 (- 6.5%)
02/2012: Red Lanterns #6 -- 43,450 (- 7.5%)
03/2012: Red Lanterns #7 -- 41,628 (- 4.2%)
04/2012: Red Lanterns #8 -- 40,189 (- 3.5%)
05/2012: Red Lanterns #9 -- 39,215 (- 2.4%)
06/2012: Red Lanterns #10 -- 38,005 (- 3.1%)
07/2012: Red Lanterns #11 -- 36,462 (- 4.1%)
08/2012: Red Lanterns #12 -- 35,070 (- 3.8%)
09/2012: Red Lanterns #0 -- 38,928 (+11.0%)
10/2012: Red Lanterns #13 -- 42,804 (+10.0%)
11/2012: Red Lanterns #14 -- 40,779 (- 4.7%)
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6 months: + 4.0%
1 year : -33.0%

Sales remain up thanks to the “Rise of the Third Army” crossover.

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62 - TALON
09/2012: Talon #0 -- 59,691
10/2012: Talon #1 -- 55,737 (- 6.6%)
11/2012: Talon #2 -- 41,250 (-26.0%)

Another recently launched “New 52″ book with a stiff second-issue drop, despite Scott Snyder’s involvement and the continued presence of multiple high-ticket variant-cover editions. Don’t get me wrong: 40K isn’t bad for this type of book, in theory, but given the success of Snyder’s Batman in general and storylines such as “Night of the Owly Court” and “Death of the Family,” it’s still surprising to see Talon drop off so sharply.

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56 - SWAMP THING
11/2011: Swamp Thing #3 -- 52,300 (-10.8%)
12/2011: Swamp Thing #4 -- 44,660 (-14.6%)
01/2012: Swamp Thing #5 -- 43,806 (- 1.9%)
02/2012: Swamp Thing #6 -- 41,235 (- 5.9%)
03/2012: Swamp Thing #7 -- 40,268 (- 2.4%)
04/2012: Swamp Thing #8 -- 39,431 (- 2.1%)
05/2012: Swamp Thing #9 -- 39,385 (- 0.1%)
06/2012: Swamp Thing #10 -- 37,383 (- 5.1%)
07/2012: Swamp Thing #11 -- 36,257 (- 3.0%)
08/2012: Swamp Thing #12 -- 36,696 (+ 1.2%)
09/2012: Swamp Thing #0 -- 40,123 (+ 9.3%)
10/2012: Swamp Thing #13 -- 36,069 (-10.1%)
11/2012: Swamp Thing #14 -- 42,036 (+16.5%)
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6 months: + 6.7%
1 year : -19.6%

Special variant edition plus “Rotworld” crossover equals neat-o sales increase.

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54 - WONDER WOMAN
11/2007: Wonder Woman #14 -- 53,090
11/2008: Wonder Woman #26 -- 33,277
11/2009: Wonder Woman #38 -- 26,265
11/2010: --
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11/2011: Wonder Woman #3 -- 65,621 (- 17.0%)
12/2011: Wonder Woman #4 -- 57,675 (- 12.1%)
01/2012: Wonder Woman #5 -- 57,626 (- 0.1%)
02/2012: Wonder Woman #6 -- 54,190 (- 6.0%)
03/2012: Wonder Woman #7 -- 51,314 (- 5.3%)
04/2012: Wonder Woman #8 -- 50,450 (- 1.7%)
05/2012: Wonder Woman #9 -- 48,750 (- 3.4%)
06/2012: Wonder Woman #10 -- 47,229 (- 3.1%)
07/2012: Wonder Woman #11 -- 45,669 (- 3.3%)
08/2012: Wonder Woman #12 -- 44,584 (- 2.4%)
09/2012: Wonder Woman #0 -- 49,778 (+ 11.7%)
10/2012: Wonder Woman #13 -- 43,731 (- 12.2%)
11/2012: Wonder Woman #14 -- 42,384 (- 3.1%)
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6 months: - 13.1%
1 year : - 35.4%
2 years : n.a.
5 years : - 20.2%

Slowly drifting down. Viewed over the last 10 years, though, this isn’t bad for a Wonder Woman book.

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50 - GREEN LANTERN: NEW GUARDIANS
11/2010: Emerald Warriors #4 -- 46,319
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11/2011: New Guardians #3 -- 59,774 (-16.7%)
12/2011: New Guardians #4 -- 53,305 (-10.8%)
01/2012: New Guardians #5 -- 52,305 (- 1.9%)
02/2012: New Guardians #6 -- 50,319 (- 3.8%)
03/2012: New Guardians #7 -- 48,422 (- 3.8%)
04/2012: New Guardians #8 -- 47,320 (- 2.3%)
05/2012: New Guardians #9 -- 46,237 (- 2.3%)
06/2012: New Guardians #10 -- 44,404 (- 4.0%)
07/2012: New Guardians #11 -- 42,929 (- 3.3%)
08/2012: New Guardians #12 -- 41,479 (- 3.4%)
09/2012: New Guardians #0 -- 46,718 (+12.6%)
10/2012: New Guardians #13 -- 48,500 (+ 3.8%)
11/2012: New Guardians #14 -- 47,062 (- 3.0%)
----------------
6 months: + 1.8%
1 year : -21.3%
2 years : + 1.6%

The “Rise of the Third Army” crossover keeps the numbers up.

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49 - FLASH
11/2007: Flash #234 -- 46,435
11/2008: Flash #246 -- 27,746
11/2009: Rebirth #5 of 6 -- 73,875
11/2010: Flash #6 -- 57,673
-----------------------------------
11/2011: Flash #3 -- 90,417 (- 20.8%)
12/2011: Flash #4 -- 77,336 (- 14.5%)
01/2012: Flash #5 -- 71,611 (- 7.4%)
02/2012: Flash #6 -- 68,061 (- 5.0%)
03/2012: Flash #7 -- 64,975 (- 4.5%)
04/2012: Flash #8 -- 63,702 (- 2.0%)
05/2012: Flash #9 -- 62,807 (- 1.4%)
06/2012: Flash #10 -- 55,681 (- 11.4%)
07/2012: Flash #11 -- 53,674 (- 3.6%)
08/2012: Flash #12 -- 51,779 (- 3.5%)
09/2012: Flash #0 -- 56,890 (+ 9.9%)
10/2012: Flash #13 -- 49,936 (- 12.2%)
11/2012: Flash #14 -- 48,012 (- 3.9%)
-----------------
6 months: - 23.6%
1 year : - 46.9%
2 years : - 16.8%
5 years : + 3.4%

Sliding down the chart, but still well within the spectrum for Flash.

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47 - BEFORE WATCHMEN: OZYMANDIAS
07/2012: Ozymandias #1 of 6 -- 98,011
08/2012: Ozymandias #2 of 6 -- 64,460 (-34.2%)
09/2012: Ozymandias #3 of 6 -- 52,280 (-18.9%)
10/2012: --
11/2012: Ozymandias #4 of 6 -- 48,404 (- 7.4%)

This title by ethical people who contribute what they can to ensure that their fellow creators continue to be treated fairly hasn’t quite found its level yet.

—–

45 - GREEN LANTERN CORPS
11/2007: Green Lantern Corps #18 -- 55,838 [59,049]
11/2008: Green Lantern Corps #30 -- 43,600
11/2009: Green Lantern Corps #42 -- 80,391
11/2010: Green Lantern Corps #54 -- 57,448
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11/2011: Green Lantern Corps #3 -- 65,393 (-16.7%)
12/2011: Green Lantern Corps #4 -- 57,180 (-12.6%)
01/2012: Green Lantern Corps #5 -- 54,088 (- 5.4%)
02/2012: Green Lantern Corps #6 -- 51,168 (- 5.4%)
03/2012: Green Lantern Corps #7 -- 48,692 (- 4.8%)
04/2012: Green Lantern Corps #8 -- 47,584 (- 2.3%)
05/2012: Green Lantern Corps #9 -- 46,336 (- 2.6%)
06/2012: Green Lantern Corps #10 -- 44,615 (- 3.7%)
07/2012: Green Lantern Corps #11 -- 42,996 (- 3.6%)
08/2012: Green Lantern Corps #12 -- 41,778 (- 2.8%)
09/2012: Green Lantern Corps #0 -- 47,309 (+13.2%)
10/2012: Green Lantern Corps #13 -- 50,773 (+ 7.3%)
11/2012: Green Lantern Corps #14 -- 49,594 (- 2.3%)
----------------
6 months: + 7.0%
1 year : -24.2%
2 years : -13.7%
5 years : -11.2%

Sales remain up thanks to the “Rise of the Third Army” crossover.

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44 - BEFORE WATCHMEN: SILK SPECTRE
06/2012: Silk Spectre #1 of 4 -- 114,394
07/2012: Silk Spectre #2 of 4 -- 68,403 (-40.2%)
08/2012: --
09/2012: Silk Spectre #3 of 4 -- 53,464 (-21.8%)
10/2012: --
11/2012: Silk Spectre #4 of 4 -- 50,002 (- 6.5%)

More comics in the great North American tradition with very good sales.

—–

42 - NIGHTWING
11/2007: Nightwing #138 -- 46,757
11/2008: Nightwing #150 -- 50,993
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11/2011: Nightwing #3 -- 64,098 (-12.3%)
12/2011: Nightwing #4 -- 57,409 (-10.4%)
01/2012: Nightwing #5 -- 56,040 (- 2.4%)
02/2012: Nightwing #6 -- 53,036 (- 5.4%)
03/2012: Nightwing #7 -- 50,489 (- 4.8%)
04/2012: Nightwing #8 -- 52,063 (+ 3.1%) [61,711]
05/2012: Nightwing #9 -- 61,395 (+17.9%)
06/2012: Nightwing #10 -- 50,585 (-17.6%)
07/2012: Nightwing #11 -- 49,124 (- 2.9%)
08/2012: Nightwing #12 -- 47,484 (- 3.3%)
09/2012: Nightwing #0 -- 53,109 (+11.9%)
10/2012: Nightwing #13 -- 47,171 (-11.2%)
11/2012: Nightwing #14 -- 50,720 (+ 7.5%)
----------------
6 months: -17.4%
1 year : -20.9%
5 years : + 8.5%

As a reminder: This is what happens when the latest Scott Snyder Batman thing is name-checked in the advertising.

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41 - SUPERMAN
11/2007: Superman #670 -- 48,407
11/2008: Superman #682 -- 55,435
11/2009: Superman #694 -- 34,430
11/2010: Superman #705 -- 46,261
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11/2011: Superman #3 -- 86,386 (- 17.5%)
12/2011: Superman #4 -- 76,532 (- 11.4%)
01/2012: Superman #5 -- 73,719 (- 3.7%)
02/2012: Superman #6 -- 69,633 (- 5.5%)
03/2012: Superman #7 -- 66,588 (- 4.4%)
04/2012: Superman #8 -- 64,486 (- 3.2%)
05/2012: Superman #9 -- 62,232 (- 3.5%)
06/2012: Superman #10 -- 59,081 (- 5.1%)
07/2012: Superman #11 -- 56,066 (- 5.1%)
08/2012: Superman #12 -- 53,326 (- 4.9%)
09/2012: Superman #0 -- 60,493 (+ 13.4%)
10/2012: Superman #13 -- 52,155 (- 13.8%)
11/2012: Superman #14 -- 52,572 (+ 0.8%)
-----------------
6 months: - 15.5%
1 year : - 39.1%
2 years : + 13.6%
5 years : + 8.6%

Leading into a crossover with Superboy and Supergirl with a title I’m embarrassed to type although I’m certainly typing a lot of embarrassing shit all the time here (e.g., “AQUAMAN.” There.) so it may just be a temporary flight of over-embarrassment.

—–

38 - AQUAMAN
11/2011: Aquaman #3 -- 69,137 (-12.7%)
12/2011: Aquaman #4 -- 64,961 (- 6.0%)
01/2012: Aquaman #5 -- 65,094 (+ 0.2%)
02/2012: Aquaman #6 -- 63,450 (- 2.5%)
03/2012: Aquaman #7 -- 62,345 (- 1.7%)
04/2012: Aquaman #8 -- 61,657 (- 1.1%)
05/2012: Aquaman #9 -- 60,527 (- 1.8%)
06/2012: Aquaman #10 -- 59,288 (- 2.1%)
07/2012: Aquaman #11 -- 57,675 (- 2.7%)
08/2012: Aquaman #12 -- 61,210 (+ 6.1%)
09/2012: Aquaman #0 -- 61,227 (+ 0.0%)
10/2012: Aquaman #13 -- 54,648 (-10.8%)
11/2012: Aquaman #14 -- 53,664 (- 1.8%)
----------------
6 months: -11.3%
1 year : -22.4%

Stabilizing again, evidently.

—–

33 - BATMAN INCORPORATED
11/2010: Batman, Inc. #1 -- 95,587
------------------------------------
11/2011: --
12/2011: Lev Strikes #1 -- 43,048 (- 19.5%)
01/2012: --
02/2012: --
03/2012: --
04/2012: --
05/2012: Batman, Inc. #1 -- 96,486 (+124.1%)
06/2012: Batman, Inc. #2 -- 73,654 (- 23.7%)
07/2012: --
08/2012: Batman, Inc. #3 -- 66,720 (- 9.4%)
09/2012: Batman, Inc. #0 -- 66,112 (- 0.9%)
10/2012: Batman, Inc. #4 -- 60,888 (- 7.9%)
11/2012: Batman, Inc. #5 -- 58,172 (- 4.5%)
----------------
6 months: -39.7%
1 year : n.a.
2 years : -39.1%

Grant Morrison’s Batman sales have seen better days. Mostly that was when Scott Snyder wasn’t around.

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32 - EARTH 2
05/2012: Earth 2 #1 -- 95,742 [102,490]
06/2012: Earth 2 #2 -- 75,936 (-20.7%) [ 84,740]
07/2012: Earth 2 #3 -- 74,892 (- 1.4%)
08/2012: Earth 2 #4 -- 67,393 (-10.0%)
09/2012: Earth 2 #0 -- 69,111 (+ 2.6%)
10/2012: Earth 2 #5 -- 61,529 (-11.0%)
11/2012: Earth 2 #6 -- 58,271 (- 4.8%)
----------------
6 months: -39.1%

Swiftly declining.

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28 - BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT
11/2011: Dark Knight #3 -- 87,133 (- 13.3%)
12/2011: Dark Knight #4 -- 78,689 (- 9.7%)
01/2012: Dark Knight #5 -- 76,824 (- 2.4%)
02/2012: Dark Knight #6 -- 77,140 (+ 0.4%) [ 80,464]
03/2012: Dark Knight #7 -- 75,297 (- 2.4%)
04/2012: Dark Knight #8 -- 74,287 (- 1.3%)
05/2012: Dark Knight #9 -- 82,169 (+ 10.6%)
06/2012: Dark Knight #10 -- 71,671 (- 12.8%)
07/2012: Dark Knight #11 -- 68,632 (- 4.2%)
08/2012: Dark Knight #12 -- 67,084 (- 2.3%)
09/2012: Dark Knight #0 -- 72,919 (+ 8.7%)
10/2012: Dark Knight #13 -- 65,271 (- 10.5%)
11/2012: Dark Knight #14 -- 62,792 (- 3.8%)
-----------------
6 months: - 23.6%
1 year : - 27.9%

Not quite levelled out yet.

—–

27 - CATWOMAN
11/2007: Catwoman #73 -- 18,815
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11/2011: Catwoman #3 -- 52,196 (-17.9%)
12/2011: Catwoman #4 -- 45,581 (-12.7%)
01/2012: Catwoman #5 -- 44,034 (- 3.4%)
02/2012: Catwoman #6 -- 41,447 (- 5.9%)
03/2012: Catwoman #7 -- 39,608 (- 4.4%)
04/2012: Catwoman #8 -- 38,711 (- 2.3%)
05/2012: Catwoman #9 -- 49,726 (+28.5%)
06/2012: Catwoman #10 -- 37,158 (-25.3%)
07/2012: Catwoman #11 -- 35,551 (- 4.3%)
08/2012: Catwoman #12 -- 34,117 (- 4.0%)
09/2012: Catwoman #0 -- 39,117 (+14.7%)
10/2012: Catwoman #13 -- 40,147 (+ 2.6%) [60,257]
11/2012: Catwoman #14 -- 63,653 (+58.6%)
-----------------
6 months: + 28.0%
1 year : + 22.0%
5 years : +238.3%

—–

26 - SUICIDE SQUAD
11/2007: Raise the Flag #3 of 8 -- 19,774
-----------------------------------------
11/2011: Suicide Squad #3 -- 40,827 (- 17.6%)
12/2011: Suicide Squad #4 -- 34,550 (- 15.4%)
01/2012: Suicide Squad #5 -- 32,726 (- 5.3%)
02/2012: Suicide Squad #6 -- 30,834 (- 5.8%)
03/2012: Suicide Squad #7 -- 32,908 (+ 6.7%)
04/2012: Suicide Squad #8 -- 32,789 (- 0.4%)
05/2012: Suicide Squad #9 -- 32,581 (- 0.6%)
06/2012: Suicide Squad #10 -- 31,576 (- 3.1%)
07/2012: Suicide Squad #11 -- 29,809 (- 5.6%)
08/2012: Suicide Squad #12 -- 28,302 (- 5.1%)
09/2012: Suicide Squad #0 -- 31,875 (+ 12.6%)
10/2012: Suicide Squad #13 -- 27,644 (- 13.3%)
11/2012: Suicide Squad #14 -- 63,691 (+130.4%)
-----------------
6 months: + 95.5%
1 year : + 56.0%
5 years : +222.1%

And this is what happens when books are bona-fide “Death of the Family” titles — also see Batgirl and Batman below (i.e., above). October’s Catwoman #13, Batgirl #13 and Batman #13 sold another 20-21K each in November, thanks to the crossover, so it’s probably not a case of retailers going overboard, either.

Quite impressive.

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24 - ACTION COMICS
11/2007: Action Comics #859 -- 54,572
11/2008: Action Comics #871 -- 58,547
11/2009: Action Comics #883 -- 33,386
11/2010: Action Comics #895 -- 33,089
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11/2011: Action Comics #3 -- 134,875 (- 12.3%)
12/2011: Action Comics #4 -- 112,839 (- 16.3%)
01/2012: Action Comics #5 -- 109,350 (- 3.1%)
02/2012: Action Comics #6 -- 96,592 (- 11.7%)
03/2012: Action Comics #7 -- 91,822 (- 4.9%)
04/2012: Action Comics #8 -- 87,980 (- 4.2%)
05/2012: Action Comics #9 -- 88,796 (+ 0.9%)
06/2012: Action Comics #10 -- 80,751 (- 9.1%)
07/2012: Action Comics #11 -- 76,232 (- 5.6%)
08/2012: Action Comics #12 -- 71,203 (- 6.6%)
09/2012: Action Comics #0 -- 78,626 (+ 10.4%)
10/2012: Action Comics #13 -- 67,241 (- 14.5%)
11/2012: Action Comics #14 -- 64,341 (- 4.3%)
-----------------
6 months: - 27.5%
1 year : - 52.3%
2 years : + 94.5%
5 years : + 17.9%

Regardless of what you think about the work, it’s clear that Morrison’s sales draw has suffered over the last year.

It’s probably not the worst idea Morrison ever had to take things easier, recharge his creative batteries and maybe not say too many awful things in interviews or lengthy posts on how he invented first himself and then Alan Moore back in a draughty pawn shop in Hull 35 years ago. It might not hurt the sales numbers to do that for a month or two, is all I’m saying.

—–

30 - BEFORE WATCHMEN: MOLOCH
11/2012: Moloch #1 of 2 -- 65,876

Irony is dead, and Dollar Bill hasn’t even shipped yet.

Excellent sales for this comic book by gentlemen whose names will be sung for eons by the freelance community whose own goddamn fault it is when they sign a crummy contract going in.

—–

19 - DETECTIVE COMICS
11/2007: Detective Comics #838 -- 60,267 [65,293]
11/2008: Detective Comics #850 -- 64,196
11/2009: Detective Comics #859 -- 54,392
11/2010: Detective Comics #871 -- 36,941
-----------------------------------------
11/2011: Detective Comics #3 -- 111,197 (- 9.7%)
12/2011: Detective Comics #4 -- 99,366 (- 10.6%)
01/2012: Detective Comics #5 -- 99,342 (- 0.0%)
02/2012: Detective Comics #6 -- 94,415 (- 5.0%)
03/2012: Detective Comics #7 -- 89,891 (- 4.8%)
04/2012: Detective Comics #8 -- 87,675 (- 2.5%)
05/2012: Detective Comics #9 -- 96,016 (+ 9.5%)
06/2012: Detective Comics #10 -- 83,317 (- 13.2%)
07/2012: Detective Comics #11 -- 79,835 (- 4.2%)
08/2012: Detective Comics #12 -- 75,998 (- 4.8%)
09/2012: Detective Comics #0 -- 84,063 (+ 10.6%)
10/2012: Detective Comics #13 -- 76,392 (- 9.1%)
11/2012: Detective Comics #14 -- 74,560 (- 2.4%)
-----------------
6 months: - 22.4%
1 year : - 33.0%
2 years : +101.8%
5 years : + 23.7%

Not a bad number, given there’s no crossover boost here.

—–

18 - BATMAN AND ROBIN
11/2009: Batman and Robin #6 -- 95,690
11/2010: Batman and Robin #16 -- 80,343
11/2010: Batman and Robin #17 -- 70,600
----------------------------------------
11/2011: Batman and Robin #3 -- 86,309 (-12.7%)
12/2011: Batman and Robin #4 -- 76,000 (-11.9%)
01/2012: Batman and Robin #5 -- 72,786 (- 4.2%)
02/2012: Batman and Robin #6 -- 70,103 (- 3.7%)
03/2012: Batman and Robin #7 -- 68,010 (- 3.0%)
04/2012: Batman and Robin #8 -- 66,659 (- 2.0%)
05/2012: Batman and Robin #9 -- 75,967 (+14.0%)
06/2012: Batman and Robin #10 -- 66,894 (-11.9%)
07/2012: Batman and Robin #11 -- 65,043 (- 2.8%)
08/2012: Batman and Robin #12 -- 63,993 (- 1.6%)
09/2012: Batman and Robin #0 -- 69,146 (+ 8.1%)
10/2012: Batman and Robin #13 -- 63,097 (- 8.8%)
11/2012: Batman and Robin #14 -- 75,543 (+19.7%)
----------------
6 months: - 0.6%
1 year : -12.5%
2 years : + 7.0%

The Snyder crossover is name-checked.

—–

17 - BATGIRL
11/2008: Batgirl #5 of 6 -- 21,595
11/2009: Batgirl #4 -- 34,697
11/2010: Batgirl #15 -- 25,827
----------------------------------
11/2011: Batgirl #3 -- 69,971 (- 16.3%)
12/2011: Batgirl #4 -- 59,972 (- 14.3%)
01/2012: Batgirl #5 -- 57,030 (- 4.9%)
02/2012: Batgirl #6 -- 53,151 (- 6.8%)
03/2012: Batgirl #7 -- 50,761 (- 4.5%)
04/2012: Batgirl #8 -- 48,878 (- 3.7%)
05/2012: Batgirl #9 -- 58,710 (+ 20.1%)
06/2012: Batgirl #10 -- 47,050 (- 19.9%)
07/2012: Batgirl #11 -- 45,004 (- 4.4%)
08/2012: Batgirl #12 -- 43,804 (- 2.7%)
09/2012: Batgirl #0 -- 50,441 (+ 15.2%)
10/2012: Batgirl #13 -- 50,074 (- 0.7%) [71,109]
11/2012: Batgirl #14 -- 77,468 (+ 54.7%)
-----------------
6 months: + 32.0%
1 year : + 10.7%
2 years : +200.0%

The Snyder crossover is consummated.

The big drama here last month was Gail Simone’s firing, though, of course, which, after the hearty intervention of Team Comics, was swiftly reversed, so congratulations for being back in a professional relationship with the people who will fire you by E-mail after 10 years, then decide they liked you better than the guy they’d apparently hired as your replacement, after all, and then publicly lie about it.

—–

16 - GREEN LANTERN
11/2007: --
11/2008: --
11/2009: Green Lantern #48 -- 100,371
11/2010: Green Lantern #59 -- 76,173
--------------------------------------
11/2011: Green Lantern #3 -- 122,644 (-13.8%)
12/2011: Green Lantern #4 -- 104,199 (-15.0%)
01/2012: Green Lantern #5 -- 97,878 (- 6.0%)
02/2012: Green Lantern #6 -- 94,087 (- 3.9%)
03/2012: Green Lantern #7 -- 90,232 (- 4.1%)
04/2012: Green Lantern #8 -- 88,335 (- 2.1%)
05/2012: Green Lantern #9 -- 87,601 (- 0.8%)
06/2012: Green Lantern #10 -- 80,615 (- 8.0%)
07/2012: Green Lantern #11 -- 78,708 (- 2.4%)
08/2012: Green Lantern #12 -- 77,187 (- 1.9%)
09/2012: Green Lantern #0 -- 89,909 (+16.5%)
10/2012: Green Lantern #13 -- 91,814 (+ 2.1%)
11/2012: Green Lantern #14 -- 78,499 (-14.5%)
-----------------
6 months: - 10.4%
1 year : - 36.0%
2 years : + 3.1%
5 years : n.a.

This is part of the “Rise of the Third Army” crossover, but sales are still crashing back to the previous level, presumably because there was one special variant less than for issue #13.

—–

8 - JUSTICE LEAGUE
11/2007: --
11/2008: --
11/2009: Justice League #39 -- 89,376
11/2010: JL of America #51 -- 50,887
---------------------------------------
11/2011: Justice League #3 -- 168,679 (- 14.2%)
12/2011: Justice League #4 -- 149,314 (- 11.5%) [152,340]
01/2012: Justice League #5 -- 144,670 (- 3.1%) [148,117]
02/2012: Justice League #6 -- 140,819 (- 2.7%)
03/2012: Justice League #7 -- 136,436 (- 3.1%)
04/2012: Justice League #8 -- 133,240 (- 2.3%)
05/2012: Justice League #9 -- 131,332 (- 1.4%)
06/2012: Justice League #10 -- 130,502 (- 0.6%)
07/2012: Justice League #11 -- 123,971 (- 5.0%)
08/2012: Justice League #12 -- 120,796 (- 2.6%) [161,235]
09/2012: Justice League #0 -- 125,868 (+ 4.2%)
10/2012: Justice League #13 -- 117,752 (- 6.5%)
11/2012: Justice League #14 -- 113,094 (- 4.0%)
-----------------
6 months: - 13.9%
1 year : - 33.0%
2 years : +122.3%
5 years : n.a.

No Jim Lee, no sustained sales momentum…

—–

2 - BATMAN
11/2007: Batman #671 -- 76,764 [ 80,440]
11/2008: Batman #681 -- 103,151 [114,657]
11/2009: Batman #693 -- 68,983
11/2010: Batman #704 -- 65,212
-------------------------------
11/2011: Batman #3 -- 150,984 (- 12.4%)
12/2011: Batman #4 -- 133,781 (- 11.4%) [144,777]
01/2012: Batman #5 -- 135,145 (+ 1.0%) [142,499]
02/2012: Batman #6 -- 128,459 (- 5.0%) [135,435]
03/2012: Batman #7 -- 131,091 (+ 2.1%)
04/2012: Batman #8 -- 130,602 (- 0.4%) [136,218]
05/2012: Batman #9 -- 134,605 (+ 3.1%)
06/2012: Batman #10 -- 130,265 (- 3.2%)
07/2012: Batman #11 -- 127,210 (- 2.4%)
08/2012: Batman #12 -- 125,249 (- 1.5%)
09/2012: Batman #0 -- 156,561 (+ 25.0%)
10/2012: Batman #13 -- 148,305 (- 5.3%) [169,666]
11/2012: Batman #14 -- 159,729 (+ 7.7%)
-----------------
6 months: + 18.7%
1 year : + 5.8%
2 years : +144.9%
5 years : +108.1%

… unless you’re Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo and keep knocking them out of the park. K-Ching.

—–

6-MONTH COMPARISONS
+ 95.5%: Suicide Squad
+ 32.0%: Batgirl
+ 28.0%: Catwoman
+ 18.7%: Batman
+ 7.0%: GL Corps
+ 6.7%: Swamp Thing
+ 4.0%: Red Lanterns
+ 1.8%: New Guardians
- 0.6%: Batman and Robin
- 1.6%: Young Justice
- 3.0%: Hellblazer
- 4.0%: Sweet Tooth
- 4.5%: Scooby-Doo
- 4.8%: Frankenstein
- 5.6%: American Vampire
- 6.2%: Animal Man
- 7.2%: Fables
- 7.9%: The Unwritten
- 10.4%: Green Lantern
- 11.0%: Supergirl
- 11.3%: Aquaman
- 13.1%: Wonder Woman
- 13.9%: JLA
- 14.2%: DCU Presents
- 14.8%: LoSH
- 15.5%: Superman
- 16.4%: JLD
- 16.5%: Hawkman
- 17.2%: Batwoman
- 17.4%: Nightwing
- 19.1%: Green Arrow
- 19.6%: Superboy
- 20.4%: I, Vampire
- 20.8%: Demon Knights
- 20.9%: Teen Titans
- 22.0%: BB Unlimited
- 22.0%: Fairest
- 22.4%: Detective Comics
- 23.6%: Dark Knight
- 23.6%: Flash
- 23.6%: Grifter
- 24.7%: Blue Beetle
- 25.4%: Firestorm
- 26.2%: Stormwatch
- 27.1%: Arkham Unhinged
- 27.5%: Action Comics
- 29.3%: Smallville
- 30.5%: Red Hood
- 30.8%: Deathstroke
- 33.4%: Saucer Country
- 35.7%: ASW
- 37.9%: Legion Lost
- 38.0%: GL: TAS
- 39.1%: Earth 2
- 39.3%: Superman Family Adventures
- 39.7%: Batman, Inc.
- 40.0%: Birds of Prey
- 50.6%: Worlds' Finest
- 55.3%: Batwing
- 60.6%: Dial H
- 60.8%: Ravagers
- 71.2%: G.I. Combat

—–

1-YEAR COMPARISONS
+ 56.0%: Suicide Squad
+ 22.0%: Catwoman
+ 10.7%: Batgirl
+ 7.0%: Scooby-Doo
+ 5.8%: Batman
- 3.7%: Hellblazer
- 4.0%: Young Justice
- 7.6%: Sweet Tooth
- 8.2%: Fables
- 12.5%: Batman and Robin
- 13.2%: American Vampire
- 14.7%: Unwritten
- 19.6%: Swamp Thing
- 20.9%: Nightwing
- 21.3%: New Guardians
- 22.4%: Aquaman
- 24.2%: GL Corps
- 24.8%: Red Hood
- 27.9%: Dark Knight
- 31.9%: Animal Man
- 33.0%: Detective Comics
- 33.0%: JLA
- 33.0%: Red Lanterns
- 34.6%: Teen Titans
- 35.4%: Wonder Woman
- 36.0%: Green Lantern
- 38.4%: ASW
- 38.4%: Supergirl
- 39.1%: Birds of Prey
- 39.1%: Superman
- 41.0%: Superboy
- 41.3%: Batwoman
- 44.0%: JLD
- 46.9%: Flash
- 47.6%: I, Vampire
- 48.4%: Frankenstein
- 49.2%: LoSH
- 52.3%: Action Comics
- 52.7%: Legion Lost
- 53.5%: Green Arrow
- 53.9%: Demon Knights
- 54.5%: Batwing
- 54.7%: Blue Beetle
- 56.4%: DCU Presents
- 57.2%: Deathstroke
- 57.8%: Stormwatch
- 58.1%: Hawkman
- 59.4%: Firestorm
- 61.0%: Grifter

—–

2-YEAR COMPARISONS
+200.0%: Batgirl
+144.9%: Batman
+122.3%: JLA
+101.8%: Detective Comics
+ 94.5%: Action Comics
+ 87.0%: ASW
+ 50.3%: Teen Titans
+ 23.1%: Supergirl
+ 13.6%: Superman
+ 7.0%: Batman and Robin
+ 3.5%: Scooby-Doo
+ 3.1%: Green Lantern
+ 1.6%: New Guardians
- 5.2%: Hellblazer
- 13.7%: GL Corps
- 16.3%: Sweet Tooth
- 16.8%: Flash
- 27.0%: Unwritten
- 27.7%: Birds of Prey
- 31.4%: American Vampire
- 32.8%: LoSH
- 39.1%: Batman, Inc.
- 44.9%: Green Arrow

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5-YEAR COMPARISONS
+238.3%: Catwoman
+222.1%: Suicide Squad
+108.1%: Batman
+ 38.5%: ASW
+ 23.7%: Detective Comics
+ 18.8%: Scooby-Doo
+ 17.9%: Action Comics
+ 8.6%: Superman
+ 8.5%: Nightwing
+ 3.4%: Flash
- 0.9%: Birds of Prey
- 11.2%: GL Corps
- 20.1%: Blue Beetle
- 20.2%: Wonder Woman
- 26.9%: Teen Titans
- 27.0%: Hellblazer
- 31.2%: Supergirl
- 31.9%: Fables
- 33.7%: LoSH
- 49.0%: Green Arrow

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Average Periodical Sales (not counting reprints, reorders shipping after the initial month of release, Johnny DC titles and magazines)

DC COMICS
11/2007: 29,429
11/2008: 25,340
11/2009: 28,913**
11/2010: 25,497**
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11/2011: 41,414 (- 19.2%)**
12/2011: 35,397 (- 14.5%)**
01/2012: 33,887 (- 4.3%)**
02/2012: 31,535 (- 6.9%)**
03/2012: 29,679 (- 5.9%)
04/2012: 31,319 (+ 5.5%)
05/2012: 38,708 (+ 23.6%)
06/2012: 37,599 (- 2.9%)
07/2012: 33,837 (- 10.0%)
08/2012: 33,500 (- 1.0%)**
09/2012: 35,811 (+ 6.9%)
10/2012: 32,901 (- 8.1%)**
11/2012: 33,872 (+ 3.0%)
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6 months: - 12.5%
1 year : - 18.2%
2 years : + 32.9%
5 years : + 15.1%

DC UNIVERSE
11/2007: 37,257
11/2008: 33,096
11/2009: 38,488
11/2010: 34,180
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11/2011: 46,670 (- 21.1%)**
12/2011: 39,390 (- 15.6%)**
01/2012: 37,145 (- 5.7%)**
02/2012: 34,456 (- 7.2%)**
03/2012: 33,229 (- 3.6%)
04/2012: 35,264 (+ 6.1%)
05/2012: 44,139 (+ 25.2%)
06/2012: 43,082 (- 2.4%)
07/2012: 38,502 (- 10.6%)
08/2012: 38,047 (- 1.2%)**
09/2012: 39,408 (+ 3.6%)
10/2012: 36,571 (- 7.2%)
11/2012: 36,585 (+ 0.0%)
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6 months: - 17.1%
1 year : - 21.6%
2 years : + 7.0%
5 years : - 1.8%

VERTIGO
11/2007: 10,946
11/2008: 11,936
11/2009: 11,036
11/2010: 9,034
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11/2011: 10,355 (- 2.7%)
12/2011: 11,082 (+ 7.0%)
01/2012: 9,995 (- 9.8%)
02/2012: 10,252 (+ 2.6%)
03/2012: 12,688 (+23.8%)
04/2012: 11,595 (- 8.6%)
05/2012: 11,102 (- 4.3%)
06/2012: 11,448 (+ 3.1%)
07/2012: 11,589 (+ 1.2%)
08/2012: 10,764 (- 7.1%)**
09/2012: 11,710 (+ 8.8%)
10/2012: 11,496 (- 1.8%)**
11/2012: 11,487 (- 0.1%)
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6 months: + 3.5%
1 year : + 10.9%
2 years : + 27.2%
5 years : + 4.9%

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Disclaimers, et cetera

The numbers above are estimates for comic-book sales in the North American direct market, as calculated by ICv2.com according to the chart and index information provided by Diamond Comic Distributors.

ICv2.com‘s estimates are somewhat lower than the actual numbers, but they are consistent from month to month, so the trends they show are fairly accurate. Since it’s a “month-to-month” column, the comments, unless otherwise noted, are on the most recent month.

Bear in mind that the figures measure sales to retailers, not customers. Also, these numbers do not include sales to bookstores, newsstands, other mass-market retail chains or the United Kingdom. Re-orders are included, so long as they either reached stores in a book’s initial calendar month of release or were strong enough to make the chart again in a subsequent month.

If additional copies of an issue did appear on the chart after a book’s initial calendar month of release, you can see the total number of copies sold in parenthesis behind those issues (e.g. “[36,599]“). Should more than one issue have shipped in a month which is relevant for one of the long-term comparisons, the average between them will be used.

Titles released under the Johnny DC imprint and magazines, such as Mad, mostly sell through channels other than the direct market, so direct-market sales don’t tell us much about their performance. For most Vertigo titles, collection sales tend to be a significant factor, so the numbers for those books should be taken with a grain of salt as well. To learn (a little) more about Vertigo’s collection sales, go right here.

** Two asterisks after a given month in the average charts mean that one or more periodical release did not make the Top 300 chart in that month. In those cases, it’s assumed that said releases sold as many units as the No. 300 comic on the chart for that month for the purposes of the chart, although its actual sales are likely to be less than that.

For a more lyrical approach to discussing sales figures that covers all the essentials in a more condensed, less tedious fashion, finally, go right here.

—–
Marc-Oliver Frisch writes about comics at his weblog and at Comicgate. You can also follow him on Twitter.

http://comicsbeat.com/dc-comics-month-t ... mber-2012/

[BenjaamanLegionnaire]

138 - SWORD OF SORCERY
09/2012: Sword of Sorcery #0 -- 29,954
10/2012: Sword of Sorcery #1 -- 23,947 (-20.1%)
11/2012: Sword of Sorcery #2 -- 18,080 (-24.5%)

Si il continue a descendre ça sent la fin ... Pourtant c'est vraiment pas mal du tout

[fred le mallratAdmin-Man]

euhhhhhh
ca sent déjà la fin
peu de titres aussi bas au #3 ont survécus

[BenjaamanLegionnaire]

euhhhhhh
ca sent déjà la fin
peu de titres aussi bas au #3 ont survécus

Malheureusement je pense oui ... Le problème est-il le prix ? Pourtant il est merité car le back up est excellent.

[fred le mallratAdmin-Man]

le probleme c est :
-pas du superheros
-pas de star creative
-pas assez lié (pas un cross)
-un perso feminin

[BenjaamanLegionnaire]

le probleme c est :
-pas du superheros
-pas de star creative
-pas assez lié (pas un cross)
-un perso feminin

Au contraire ça fait du bien de changer d'air

[BiggyMembre du Green Lantern Corps]

le probleme c est :
-pas du superheros
-pas de star creative
-pas assez lié (pas un cross)
-un perso feminin

Effectivement ça donne pas envie mdr

[fred le mallratAdmin-Man]

Analyse des ventes DC depuis le reboot
http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/20 ... 52-titles/

[fred le mallratAdmin-Man]

DC Comics Month to Month Sales: January 2013
by Marc-Oliver Frisch

Between “Death of the Family,” “Throne of Atlantis” and “Rise of the Third Army,” any DC title selling 60,000 units or more in January took part in one of the three current major crossovers, which means all 10 of the company’s Top 25 books. In other words: Scott Snyder and Geoff Johns are running the DC Universe right now — and not much that’s not within their reach is working all that well.

Despite the tremendously successful crossovers, average DC Universe numbers are back at an estimated 33,485 units, their lowest point since March 2012. That’s still a very good number by pre-”New 52″ 2011 standards, mind you. But in 2010, it would have charted at No. 7, as far as top-selling months are concerned. Once you get below the 60K mark, the sales of most DC Universe titles keep declining briskly, including the 12 “New 52″ series that are already cancelled. And there are already eight other, still ongoing ones that sold fewer than 20,000 units in January.

Vertigo’s periodical output remains another source of concern. Although the number of new Vertigo comic books is down to six in January — the lowest number in our current set of statistics going back to March 2003 — Vertigo’s average sales failed to increase;in fact, they declined again to 10,764, the third-lowest number within the last 12 months. In November 2003, the only other time since March 2003 when there were only six new Vertigo books, Vertigo had estimated average sales of 18,008 units.

Consequently, Vertigo’s January performance represents a spectacular record low: The imprint sold an estimated total of 64,584 units — a 28.2% drop versus the previous low point. Vertigo’s previous record lows in total unit sales were January 2012 (89,957), November 2012 (91,899) and December 2012 (94,166). These are also the only four months in which fewer than 100,000 Vertigo comic books were sold to retailers.

Vertigo’s total dollar sales history is similar. With an estimated total of $209,212, January 2013 represents a new record low in that respect, as well. The previous record holders were January 2012 ($268,971), November 2012 ($274,778), December 2012 ($293,351) and November 2003 ($297,858). In any other month since March 2003, Vertigo’s estimated total dollar sales did not fall below $300,000.

Finally, despite the fact that any books officially shipping in the first week of January were already included in the December 2012 chart, DC again increased the number of titles published under its DC Universe imprint. There were 73 new DC Universe comic books in January 2013 — more than in any other month since March 2003 except August 2011, when the pre-”New 52″ deck-clearing rush pushed the number to 80.

Breaking the average monthly number of new DC Universe comic books released since March 2003 down year by year, this picture emerges: 45.6 (2003), 46.3 (2004), 47.2 (2005), 48.3 (2006), 52.8 (2007), 54.3 (2008), 50.4 (2009), 53.6 (2010), 62.3 (2011), 65.6 (2012).

So there was slow and steady growth until 2006, then a jump in 2007 and a smaller jump in 2008, before things were scaled back a notch in 2009. In 2010, production picked up again, before the monthly number of new DC Universe comic books practically exploded in 2011 and 2012. And now, in the first month of 2013, we’re starting out with 73. (Even if you discount the titles that are part of the DC imprint but don’t star DC Universe characters, we’re still at 69.)

Given the performance of most of these individual books, these numbers are cause for concern, as far as the recent perceived stability of DC’s overall unit and dollar sales is concerned. Once you look at what’s actually going on with the publisher’s individual titles, there isn’t all that much that’s particularly stable.

See below for the details and, as usual, please consider the small print at the end of the column. Thanks to Milton Griepp and ICv2.com for the permission to use their figures. An overview of ICv2.com‘s estimates can be found here.

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284 - SCOOBY DOO: WHERE ARE YOU? (Johnny DC)
01/2008: Scooby Doo #128 -- 4,147
01/2009: Scooby Doo #140 -- 3,800
01/2010: Scooby Doo #152 -- 3,724
01/2011: SD:WAY? #5 -- 4,540
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01/2012: SD:WAY? #17 -- 4,533 (- 2.0%)
02/2012: SD:WAY? #18 -- 4,655 (+ 2.7%)
03/2012: SD:WAY? #19 -- 4,677 (+ 0.5%)
04/2012: SD:WAY? #20 -- 4,752 (+ 1.6%)
05/2012: SD:WAY? #21 -- 5,269 (+10.9%)
06/2012: SD:WAY? #22 -- 4,968 (- 5.7%)
07/2012: SD:WAY? #23 -- 4,934 (- 0.7%)
08/2012: SD:WAY? #24 -- ?
09/2012: SD:WAY? #25 -- 4,979
10/2012: SD:WAY? #26 -- ?
11/2012: SD:WAY? #27 -- 5,032
12/2012: SD:WAY? #28 -- 4,879 (- 3.0%)
01/2013: SD:WAY? #29 -- 4,729 (- 3.1%)
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6 months: - 4.2%
1 year : + 4.3%
2 years : + 4.2%
5 years : +14.0%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4.5 stars, writing, “Sales remain well within the book’s established spectrum.”

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257 - GREEN LANTERN: THE ANIMATED SERIES (Johnny DC)
04/2012: GL: TAS #1 -- 12,791
05/2012: GL: TAS #2 -- 9,615 (-24.8%)
06/2012: GL: TAS #3 -- 8,716 (- 9.4%)
07/2012: GL: TAS #4 -- 7,790 (-10.6%)
08/2012: GL: TAS #5 -- 6,968 (-10.6%)
09/2012: GL: TAS #6 -- 6,619 (- 5.0%)
10/2012: GL: TAS #7 -- 6,516 (- 1.6%)
11/2012: GL: TAS #8 -- 5,961 (- 8.5%)
12/2012: GL: TAS #9 -- 5,464 (- 8.3%)
01/2013: GL: TAS #10 -- 5,263 (- 3.7%)
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6 months: -32.4%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 5 stars, writing, “Finally levelling out, it appears. And not cancelled yet, as I’m writing this.”

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231 - SAUCER COUNTRY (Vertigo)
03/2012: Saucer Country #1 -- 15,684
04/2012: Saucer Country #2 -- 11,263 (-28.2%)
05/2012: Saucer Country #3 -- 10,656 (- 5.4%)
06/2012: Saucer Country #4 -- 9,959 (- 6.5%)
07/2012: Saucer Country #5 -- 9,470 (- 4.9%)
08/2012: Saucer Country #6 -- 8,700 (- 8.1%)
09/2012: Saucer Country #7 -- 8,152 (- 6.3%)
10/2012: Saucer Country #8 -- 7,557 (- 7.3%)
11/2012: Saucer Country #9 -- 7,102 (- 6.0%)
12/2012: Saucer Country #10 -- 6,608 (- 7.0%)
01/2013: Saucer Country #11 -- 6,256 (- 5.3%)
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6 months: -33.9%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4 stars, writing, “Cancelled with issue #14.

“Given what’s coming up in the next few months, it looks like 2013 will be a make-it-or-break-it year for Vertigo as an active imprint dedicated to periodical comic books. They’re concentrating on proven commodities, and everything else is being weeded out. While the new Sandman project by Neil Gaiman will no doubt be a hit, more is probably riding on the performance of The Wake (a Scott Snyder/Sean Murphy vehicle), Trillium (by Jeff Lemire) and Brother Lono (a 100 Bullets spin-off by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso). Note that these are all limited series, not ongoing titles.

“On paper, they look like potential hits, based on their creative teams. But the last round of Vertigo projects by these same creators hasn’t exactly set the charts on fire. Scott Snyder’s American Vampire went on hiatus with estimated sales of 13,416 in December;Sean Murphy’s critically acclaimed Punk Rock Jesus sold 11,746 units in the same month;Jeff Lemire’s Sweet Tooth ends on 8,053 units in January (see below);and Azzarello and Risso’s Spaceman concluded with 11,290 copies sold in August 2012. 100 Bullets itself didn’t do any better in the single-issue department, for that matter. The concluding chapter sold an estimated 13,755 units in April 2009, and only thanks to a big final-issue boost. In its last year prior to the last issue, the book never cracked 11K.

“By current standards, a book that starts out selling 20,000 units and settles down above 12,000 is a hit for Vertigo. Whether that will suffice to convince an increasingly more scrutinous Warner management of the imprint’s necessity is doubtful, however. And, finally, the fact that Vertigo has already been stripped of some of its most recognizable properties doesn’t suggest that there’s a great deal of confidence in Vertigo, either, at this stage.”

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219 - LOT 13
10/2012: Lot 13 #1 of 5 -- 12,476
11/2012: Lot 13 #2 of 5 -- 8,767 (-29.7%)
12/2012: Lot 13 #3 of 5 -- 7,551 (-13.9%)
01/2013: Lot 13 #4 of 5 -- 6,957 (- 7.9%)

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4.5 stars, writing, “Sales on this stand-alone horror project by Steve Niles and Glenn Fabry are what one could realistically expect.”

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213 - INSURGENT
01/2013: Insurgent #1 of 6 -- 7,143

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 5 stars, writing, “Another “creator-driven” stand-alone miniseries launched under the DC imprint. Numbers are terrible, not surprisingly. I’m not sure what the point is of publishing these books — unless it’s something with an inbuilt fanbase or the involvement of a big-name creator, they’re pretty much guaranteed to tank.”

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212 - YOUNG JUSTICE (Johnny DC)
01/2011: Young Justice #0 -- 9,412
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01/2012: Young Justice #12 -- 7,288 (+ 0.9%)
02/2012: Young Justice #13 -- 7,237 (- 0.7%)
03/2012: Young Justice #14 -- 7,241 (+ 0.1%)
04/2012: Young Justice #15 -- 7,273 (+ 0.4%)
05/2012: Young Justice #16 -- 7,466 (+ 2.7%)
06/2012: Young Justice #17 -- 7,459 (- 0.1%)
07/2012: Young Justice #18 -- 7,458 (- 0.0%)
08/2012: Young Justice #19 -- 7,375 (- 1.1%)
09/2012: Young Justice #20 -- 7,515 (+ 1.9%)
10/2012: Young Justice #21 -- 7,558 (+ 0.6%)
11/2012: Young Justice #22 -- 7,344 (- 2.8%)
12/2012: Young Justice #23 -- 7,200 (- 2.0%)
01/2013: Young Justice #24 -- 7,155 (- 0.6%)
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6 months: - 4.1%
1 year : - 1.8%
2 years : -24.0%

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210 - SUPERMAN FAMILY ADVENTURES (Johnny DC)
05/2012: Superman Family Adventures #1 -- 13,303
06/2012: Superman Family Adventures #2 -- 10,137 (-23.8%)
07/2012: Superman Family Adventures #3 -- 9,246 (- 8.8%)
08/2012: Superman Family Adventures #4 -- 8,925 (- 3.5%)
09/2012: Superman Family Adventures #5 -- 8,572 (- 4.0%)
10/2012: Superman Family Adventures #6 -- 8,450 (- 1.4%)
11/2012: Superman Family Adventures #7 -- 8,074 (- 4.5%)
12/2012: Superman Family Adventures #8 -- 7,487 (- 7.3%)
01/2013: Superman Family Adventures #9 -- 7,357 (- 1.7%)
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6 months: -20.4%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 5 stars, writing, “Two cancelled all-ages comics;Young Justice ends in February, Superman Family Adventures in April.”

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198 - JOE KUBERT PRESENTS
10/2012: Joe Kubert Presents #1 of 6 -- 14,842
11/2012: Joe Kubert Presents #2 of 6 -- 10,542 (-29.0%)
12/2012: Joe Kubert Presents #3 of 6 -- 8,897 (-15.6%)
01/2013: Joe Kubert Presents #4 of 6 -- 7,876 (-11.5%)

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 5 stars, writing, “Sales on this anthology title built around some of the late Joe Kubert’s final work keep dropping quickly.”

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194 - SWEET TOOTH (Vertigo)
01/2010: Sweet Tooth #5 -- 9,787
01/2011: Sweet Tooth #17 -- 8,522
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01/2012: Sweet Tooth #29 -- 8,128 (+ 5.6%)
02/2012: Sweet Tooth #30 -- 7,584 (- 6.7%)
03/2012: Sweet Tooth #31 -- 7,541 (- 0.6%)
04/2012: Sweet Tooth #32 -- 7,534 (- 0.1%)
05/2012: Sweet Tooth #33 -- 7,631 (+ 1.3%)
06/2012: Sweet Tooth #34 -- 7,689 (+ 0.8%)
07/2012: Sweet Tooth #35 -- 7,558 (- 1.7%)
08/2012: Sweet Tooth #36 -- 7,441 (- 1.6%)
09/2012: Sweet Tooth #37 -- 7,333 (- 1.5%)
10/2012: Sweet Tooth #38 -- 7,354 (+ 0.3%)
11/2012: Sweet Tooth #39 -- 7,324 (- 0.4%)
12/2012: --
01/2013: Sweet Tooth #40 -- 8,053 (+10.0%)
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6 months: + 6.6%
1 year : - 0.9%
2 years : - 5.5%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4.5 stars, writing, “Thus ends another critically acclaimed Vertigo title by a critically acclaimed DC Universe creator that never really sold very well at all.

“The final issue was promoted with a 1:10 variant-cover edition, hence the increase.”

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193 - HUMAN BOMB
12/2012: Human Bomb #1 of 4 -- 11,212
01/2013: Human Bomb #2 of 4 -- 8,152 (-27.3%)

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4 stars, writing, “That’s a steep second-issue drop-off for a miniseries, but not unexpected these days.”

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191 - THE UNWRITTEN (Vertigo)
01/2010: The Unwritten #9 -- 13,792
01/2011: The Unwritten #21 -- 11,443
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01/2012: The Unwritten #33 -- 9,888 (+ 1.3%)
01/2012: The Unwritten #.5 -- 9,483 (- 4.1%)
02/2012: The Unwritten #34 -- 9,789 (+ 3.2%)
02/2012: The Unwritten #.5 -- 9,595 (- 2.0%)
03/2012: The Unwritten #35 -- 9,675 (+ 0.8%)
03/2012: The Unwritten #.5 -- 9,529 (- 1.5%)
04/2012: The Unwritten #36 -- 9,678 (+ 1.6%)
05/2012: The Unwritten #37 -- 9,549 (- 1.3%)
06/2012: The Unwritten #38 -- 9,494 (- 0.6%)
07/2012: The Unwritten #39 -- 9,478 (- 0.2%)
08/2012: The Unwritten #40 -- 9,127 (- 3.7%)
09/2012: The Unwritten #41 -- 8,943 (- 2.0%)
10/2012: The Unwritten #42 -- 8,881 (- 0.7%)
11/2012: The Unwritten #43 -- 8,791 (- 1.0%)
12/2012: The Unwritten #44 -- 8,532 (- 3.0%)
01/2013: The Unwritten #45 -- 8,465 (- 0.8%)
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6 months: -10.7%
1 year : -12.6%
2 years : -26.0%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 5 stars, writing, “Standard attrition.

“There’s a crossover with Fables coming up, which is unusual for two Vertigo books not part of the same franchise. Thematically, I suppose it’s not that much of a stretch here. Given the current state of affairs at Vertigo, though, it might also be a last-ditch effort to keep The Unwritten afloat for a little while longer.

“This is the lowest-selling ongoing Vertigo title that hasn’t been axed yet, after all, and sales aren’t even close to Fables, which is the next still-ongoing Vertigo book up the charts with estimated sales of about 16,000.”

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182 - HELLBLAZER (Vertigo)
01/2008: Hellblazer #240 -- 12,213
01/2009: Hellblazer #251 -- 11,290
01/2010: Hellblazer #263 -- 10,179
01/2011: Hellblazer #275 -- 9,507
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01/2012: Hellblazer #287 -- 9,368 (-0.4%)
02/2012: Hellblazer #288 -- 9,553 (+2.0%)
03/2012: Hellblazer #289 -- 9,363 (-2.0%)
04/2012: Hellblazer #290 -- 9,472 (+1.2%)
05/2012: Hellblazer #291 -- 9,426 (-0.5%)
06/2012: Hellblazer #292 -- 9,533 (+1.1%)
07/2012: Hellblazer #293 -- 9,247 (-3.0%)
08/2012: Hellblazer #294 -- 9,396 (+1.6%)
09/2012: Hellblazer #295 -- 9,143 (-2.7%)
10/2012: Hellblazer #296 -- 9,255 (+1.2%)
11/2012: Hellblazer #297 -- 9,146 (-1.2%)
12/2012: Hellblazer #298 -- 9,132 (-0.2%)
01/2013: Hellblazer #299 -- 9,329 (+2.2%)
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6 months: + 0.9%
1 year : - 0.4%
2 years : - 1.9%
5 years : -23.6%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4.5 stars, writing, “To be relaunched as a ‘New 52′ title after issue #300.”

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173 - GRIFTER
01/2012: Grifter #5 -- 20,060 (-10.8%)
02/2012: Grifter #6 -- 18,057 (-10.0%)
03/2012: Grifter #7 -- 16,559 (- 8.3%)
04/2012: Grifter #8 -- 15,686 (- 5.3%)
05/2012: Grifter #9 -- 15,228 (- 2.9%)
06/2012: Grifter #10 -- 14,258 (- 6.4%)
07/2012: Grifter #11 -- 13,382 (- 6.1%)
08/2012: Grifter #12 -- 12,400 (- 7.3%)
09/2012: Grifter #0 -- 15,751 (+27.0%)
10/2012: Grifter #13 -- 12,142 (-22.9%)
11/2012: Grifter #14 -- 11,631 (- 4.2%)
12/2012: Grifter #15 -- 10,923 (- 6.1%)
01/2013: Grifter #16 -- 10,210 (- 6.5%)
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6 months: -23.7%
1 year : -49.1%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4 stars, writing, “Axed with issue #16.

“Welcome to the killing zone. Grifter is the first of 12 ‘New 52′ titles on the chart that are being cancelled between January and May.”

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164 - THE FURY OF FIRESTORM: THE NUCLEAR MEN
01/2012: Firestorm #5 -- 21,329 (-16.7%)
02/2012: Firestorm #6 -- 19,162 (-10.2%)
03/2012: Firestorm #7 -- 17,786 (- 7.2%)
04/2012: Firestorm #8 -- 17,076 (- 4.0%)
05/2012: Firestorm #9 -- 17,240 (+ 1.0%)
06/2012: Firestorm #10 -- 15,789 (- 8.4%)
07/2012: Firestorm #11 -- 14,931 (- 5.4%)
08/2012: Firestorm #12 -- 14,137 (- 5.3%)
09/2012: Firestorm #0 -- 17,279 (+22.2%)
10/2012: Firestorm #13 -- 13,460 (-22.1%)
11/2012: Firestorm #14 -- 12,862 (- 4.4%)
12/2012: Firestorm #15 -- 11,997 (- 6.7%)
01/2013: Firestorm #16 -- 11,361 (- 5.3%)
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6 months: -23.9%
1 year : -46.7%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4 stars, writing, “Cancelled with issue #20.”

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162 - BLUE BEETLE
01/2008: Blue Beetle #23 -- 14,961
01/2009: Blue Beetle #35 -- 10,593
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01/2012: Blue Beetle #5 -- 19,042 (-11.1%)
02/2012: Blue Beetle #6 -- 17,034 (-10.6%)
03/2012: Blue Beetle #7 -- 15,780 (- 7.4%)
04/2012: Blue Beetle #8 -- 15,180 (- 3.8%)
05/2012: Blue Beetle #9 -- 16,607 (+ 9.4%)
06/2012: Blue Beetle #10 -- 14,413 (-13.2%)
07/2012: Blue Beetle #11 -- 13,923 (- 3.4%)
08/2012: Blue Beetle #12 -- 13,325 (- 4.3%)
09/2012: Blue Beetle #0 -- 16,888 (+26.7%)
10/2012: Blue Beetle #13 -- 13,141 (-22.2%)
11/2012: Blue Beetle #14 -- 12,508 (- 4.8%)
12/2012: Blue Beetle #15 -- 11,744 (- 6.1%)
01/2013: Blue Beetle #16 -- 11,487 (- 2.2%)
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6 months: - 17.5%
1 year : - 39.7%
5 years : - 23.2%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4.5 stars, writing, “Cancelled with issue #16.”

—–

160 - DC UNIVERSE PRESENTS
01/2012: DCU Presents #5 -- 22,048 (- 9.6%)
02/2012: DCU Presents #6 -- 20,188 (- 8.4%)
03/2012: DCU Presents #7 -- 17,830 (-11.7%)
04/2012: DCU Presents #8 -- 16,566 (- 7.1%)
05/2012: DCU Presents #9 -- 15,776 (- 4.8%)
06/2012: DCU Presents #10 -- 14,310 (- 9.3%)
07/2012: DCU Presents #11 -- 13,619 (- 4.8%)
08/2012: DCU Presents #12 -- 15,138 (+11.2%)
09/2012: DCU Presents #0 -- 17,528 (+15.8%)
10/2012: DCU Presents #13 -- 14,405 (-17.8%)
11/2012: DCU Presents #14 -- 13,537 (- 6.0%)
12/2012: DCU Presents #15 -- 12,561 (- 7.2%)
01/2013: DCU Presents #16 -- 12,001 (- 4.5%)
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6 months: -11.9%
1 year : -45.6%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4 stars, writing, “Cancelled with issue #19.”

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157 - I, VAMPIRE
01/2012: I, Vampire #5 -- 18,816 (-12.9%)
02/2012: I, Vampire #6 -- 18,153 (- 3.5%)
03/2012: I, Vampire #7 -- 18,440 (+ 1.6%)
04/2012: I, Vampire #8 -- 18,717 (+ 1.5%)
05/2012: I, Vampire #9 -- 17,175 (- 8.2%)
06/2012: I, Vampire #10 -- 16,517 (- 3.8%)
07/2012: I, Vampire #11 -- 15,734 (- 4.7%)
08/2012: I, Vampire #12 -- 14,788 (- 6.0%)
09/2012: I, Vampire #0 -- 17,920 (+21.2%)
10/2012: I, Vampire #13 -- 14,260 (-20.4%)
11/2012: I, Vampire #14 -- 13,666 (- 4.2%)
12/2012: I, Vampire #15 -- 12,846 (- 6.0%)
01/2013: I, Vampire #16 -- 12,310 (- 4.2%)
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6 months: -21.8%
1 year : -34.6%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4.5 stars, writing, “Cancelled with issue #19.”

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156 - AME-COMI GIRLS
10/2012: ACG #1: Wonder Woman -- 24,966
11/2012: ACG #2: Batgirl -- 16,083 (-35.6%)
12/2012: ACG #3: Duela Dent -- 13,185 (-18.0%)
01/2013: ACG #4: Power Girl -- 12,488 (- 5.3%)

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4.5 stars, writing, “This is the lowest-selling title in DC’s growing line of ‘digital-first’ titles. First solicited as an indefinite series, then turned into a five-issue miniseries with the solicitation for issue #5, then relaunched as an ongoing title in March, DC evidently took a while to figure out where to go with this one. And if sales don’t stabilize immediately now, someone may yet change their mind again.

“DC’s internal economics are probably different for these books, but it looks like we’re about to find out how low they’re willing to go on them.”

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152 - DEATHSTROKE
01/2012: Deathstroke #5 -- 23,872 (- 9.5%)
02/2012: Deathstroke #6 -- 21,306 (-10.8%)
03/2012: Deathstroke #7 -- 19,744 (- 7.3%)
04/2012: Deathstroke #8 -- 18,834 (- 4.6%)
05/2012: Deathstroke #9 -- 20,878 (+10.9%)
06/2012: Deathstroke #10 -- 19,722 (- 5.5%)
07/2012: Deathstroke #11 -- 17,107 (-13.3%)
08/2012: Deathstroke #12 -- 16,772 (- 2.0%)
09/2012: Deathstroke #0 -- 20,796 (+24.0%)
10/2012: Deathstroke #13 -- 15,078 (-27.5%)
11/2012: Deathstroke #14 -- 14,452 (- 4.2%)
12/2012: Deathstroke #15 -- 13,528 (- 6.4%)
01/2013: Deathstroke #16 -- 12,758 (- 5.7%)
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6 months: -25.4%
1 year : -46.6%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4.5 stars, writing, “Cancelled with issue #20.”

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150 - THE SAVAGE HAWKMAN
01/2012: Savage Hawkman #5 -- 23,967 (-15.2%)
02/2012: Savage Hawkman #6 -- 21,316 (-11.1%)
03/2012: Savage Hawkman #7 -- 19,433 (- 8.8%)
04/2012: Savage Hawkman #8 -- 18,300 (- 5.8%)
05/2012: Savage Hawkman #9 -- 17,626 (- 3.7%)
06/2012: Savage Hawkman #10 -- 16,417 (- 6.9%)
07/2012: Savage Hawkman #11 -- 15,460 (- 5.8%)
08/2012: Savage Hawkman #12 -- 14,745 (- 4.6%)
09/2012: Savage Hawkman #0 -- 18,750 (+27.2%)
10/2012: Savage Hawkman #13 -- 14,763 (-21.3%)
11/2012: Savage Hawkman #14 -- 14,726 (- 0.3%)
12/2012: Savage Hawkman #15 -- 13,564 (- 7.9%)
01/2013: Savage Hawkman #16 -- 12,852 (- 5.3%)
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6 months: -16.9%
1 year : -46.4%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4 stars, writing, “Cancelled with issue #20.”

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148 - ARROW
11/2012: Arrow #1 -- 25,442
12/2012: Arrow #2 -- 15,780 (-38.0%)
01/2013: Arrow #3 -- 13,090 (-17.1%)

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4.5 stars, writing, “Another supposedly ongoing ‘digital-first’ book. Once again, sales are rather low already.”

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143 - BATWING
01/2012: Batwing #5 -- 24,036 (-10.1%)
02/2012: Batwing #6 -- 21,643 (-10.0%)
03/2012: Batwing #7 -- 21,058 (- 2.7%)
04/2012: Batwing #8 -- 20,373 (- 3.3%)
05/2012: Batwing #9 -- 35,731 (+75.4%)
06/2012: Batwing #10 -- 20,724 (-42.0%)
07/2012: Batwing #11 -- 20,047 (- 3.3%)
08/2012: Batwing #12 -- 18,279 (- 8.8%)
09/2012: Batwing #0 -- 22,135 (+21.1%)
10/2012: Batwing #13 -- 17,166 (-22.5%)
11/2012: Batwing #14 -- 15,967 (- 7.0%)
12/2012: Batwing #15 -- 14,674 (- 8.1%)
01/2013: Batwing #16 -- 13,427 (- 8.5%)
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6 months: -33.0%
1 year : -44.1%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4.5 stars, writing, “The lowest-selling ‘New 52′ title that hasn’t been cancelled yet. The writing is on the wall, though.”

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142 - FRANKENSTEIN: AGENT OF S.H.A.D.E.
01/2012: Frankenstein #5 -- 22,737 (- 8.4%)
02/2012: Frankenstein #6 -- 20,463 (-10.0%)
03/2012: Frankenstein #7 -- 18,891 (- 7.7%)
04/2012: Frankenstein #8 -- 17,953 (- 5.0%)
05/2012: Frankenstein #9 -- 17,266 (- 3.8%)
06/2012: Frankenstein #10 -- 16,377 (- 5.2%)
07/2012: Frankenstein #11 -- 15,635 (- 4.5%)
08/2012: Frankenstein #12 -- 14,679 (- 6.1%)
09/2012: Frankenstein #0 -- 18,122 (+23.5%)
10/2012: Frankenstein #13 -- 16,501 (- 9.0%)
11/2012: Frankenstein #14 -- 16,444 (- 0.4%)
12/2012: Frankenstein #15 -- 15,705 (- 4.5%)
01/2013: Frankenstein #16 -- 13,429 (-14.5%)
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6 months: -14.1%
1 year : -40.9%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4 stars, writing, “Cancelled with issue #16. After the ‘Rotworld’ crossover, sales take a nose-dive with the final issue.”

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141 - LEGION LOST
01/2012: Legion Lost #5 -- 21,549 (-10.3%)
02/2012: Legion Lost #6 -- 19,447 (- 9.8%)
03/2012: Legion Lost #7 -- 18,214 (- 6.3%)
04/2012: Legion Lost #8 -- 17,984 (- 1.3%)
05/2012: Legion Lost #9 -- 23,794 (+32.3%)
06/2012: Legion Lost #10 -- 17,581 (-26.1%)
07/2012: Legion Lost #11 -- 17,037 (- 3.1%)
08/2012: Legion Lost #12 -- 16,066 (- 5.7%)
09/2012: Legion Lost #0 -- 18,786 (+16.9%)
10/2012: Legion Lost #13 -- 15,377 (-18.2%)
11/2012: Legion Lost #14 -- 14,766 (- 4.0%)
12/2012: Legion Lost #15 -- 14,005 (- 5.2%)
01/2013: Legion Lost #16 -- 13,512 (- 3.5%)
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6 months: -20.7%
1 year : -37.3%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4 stars, writing, “Cancelled with issue #16.”

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139 - SWORD OF SORCERY
09/2012: Sword of Sorcery #0 -- 29,954
10/2012: Sword of Sorcery #1 -- 23,947 (-20.1%)
11/2012: Sword of Sorcery #2 -- 18,080 (-24.5%)
12/2012: Sword of Sorcery #3 -- 15,280 (-15.5%)
01/2013: Sword of Sorcery #4 -- 13,995 (- 8.4%)

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4 stars, writing, “Cancelled with issue #8. The relaunch/replace circle is speeding up.”

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138 - DEMON KNIGHTS
01/2012: Demon Knights #5 -- 25,823 (- 8.1%)
02/2012: Demon Knights #6 -- 23,476 (- 9.1%)
03/2012: Demon Knights #7 -- 22,000 (- 6.3%)
04/2012: Demon Knights #8 -- 21,124 (- 4.0%)
05/2012: Demon Knights #9 -- 20,196 (- 4.4%)
06/2012: Demon Knights #10 -- 19,005 (- 5.9%)
07/2012: Demon Knights #11 -- 18,201 (- 4.2%)
08/2012: Demon Knights #12 -- 17,295 (- 5.0%)
09/2012: Demon Knights #0 -- 20,474 (+18.4%)
10/2012: Demon Knights #13 -- 16,805 (-17.9%)
11/2012: Demon Knights #14 -- 16,005 (- 4.8%)
12/2012: Demon Knights #15 -- 15,152 (- 5.3%)
01/2013: Demon Knights #16 -- 14,168 (- 6.5%)
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6 months: -22.2%
1 year : -45.1%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4.5 stars, writing, “Still ongoing, as I’m writing this. Not that sales seem to have much to do with it.”

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136 - STORMWATCH
01/2008: --
01/2009: Stormwatch: PHD #18 -- 6,030
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01/2012: Stormwatch #5 -- 29,112 (- 6.1%)
02/2012: Stormwatch #6 -- 26,076 (-10.4%)
03/2012: Stormwatch #7 -- 24,384 (- 6.5%)
04/2012: Stormwatch #8 -- 23,212 (- 4.8%)
05/2012: Stormwatch #9 -- 22,448 (- 3.3%)
06/2012: Stormwatch #10 -- 20,592 (- 8.3%)
07/2012: Stormwatch #11 -- 19,678 (- 4.4%)
08/2012: Stormwatch #12 -- 18,531 (- 5.8%)
09/2012: Stormwatch #0 -- 21,764 (+17.5%)
10/2012: Stormwatch #13 -- 17,621 (-19.0%)
11/2012: Stormwatch #14 -- 16,559 (- 6.0%)
12/2012: Stormwatch #15 -- 15,437 (- 6.8%)
01/2013: Stormwatch #16 -- 14,411 (- 6.7%)
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6 months: - 26.8%
1 year : - 50.5%
5 years : n.a.

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 5 stars, writing, “Another title that plainly won’t survive the next six months unless the numbers improve drastically, and yesterday.”

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134 - DIAL H
05/2012: Dial H #1 -- 45,308
06/2012: Dial H #2 -- 30,618 (-32.4%)
07/2012: Dial H #3 -- 26,109 (-14.7%)
08/2012: Dial H #4 -- 22,733 (-12.9%)
09/2012: Dial H #0 -- 24,070 (+ 5.9%)
10/2012: Dial H #5 -- 19,903 (-17.3%)
11/2012: Dial H #6 -- 17,832 (-10.4%)
12/2012: Dial H #7 -- 16,217 (- 9.1%)
01/2013: Dial H #8 -- 14,672 (- 9.5%)
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6 months: -43.8%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4.5 stars, writing, “You know the drill: abysmal sales figures.

“Dial H is seeing some critical acclaim, but it’s still shredding units by the shipload. This can’t be going on for much longer.”

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133 - TEAM 7
09/2012: Team 7 #0 -- 34,503
10/2012: Team 7 #1 -- 27,661 (-19.8%)
11/2012: Team 7 #2 -- 19,510 (-29.5%)
12/2012: Team 7 #3 -- 17,090 (-12.4%)
01/2013: Team 7 #4 -- 14,919 (-12.7%)

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 5 stars, writing, “Cancelled with issue #8.”

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132 - THE RAVAGERS
05/2012: Ravagers #1 -- 44,230
06/2012: Ravagers #2 -- 31,128 (-29.6%)
07/2012: Ravagers #3 -- 24,963 (-19.8%)
08/2012: Ravagers #4 -- 20,730 (-17.0%)
09/2012: Ravagers #0 -- 22,437 (+ 8.2%)
10/2012: Ravagers #5 -- 18,656 (-16.9%)
11/2012: Ravagers #6 -- 17,334 (- 7.1%)
12/2012: Ravagers #7 -- 16,177 (- 6.7%)
01/2013: Ravagers #8 -- 15,030 (- 7.1%)
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6 months: -39.8%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4.5 stars, writing, “Cancelled with issue #12.”

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126 - FABLES (Vertigo)
01/2008: --
01/2009: Fables #80 -- 22,617
01/2010: Fables #92 -- 20,180
01/2011: Fables #101 -- 19,183
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01/2012: Fables #113 -- 17,588 (- 0.1%)
02/2012: Fables #114 -- 17,374 (- 1.2%)
03/2012: Fables #115 -- 17,384 (+ 0.1%)
04/2012: Fables #116 -- 17,543 (+ 0.9%)
05/2012: Fables #117 -- 17,484 (- 0.3%)
06/2012: Fables #118 -- 18,566 (+ 6.2%)
07/2012: Fables #119 -- 17,110 (- 7.8%)
08/2012: Fables #120 -- 16,704 (- 2.4%)
09/2012: Fables #121 -- 16,596 (- 0.7%)
10/2012: Fables #122 -- 16,513 (- 0.5%)
11/2012: Fables #123 -- 16,229 (- 1.7%)
12/2012: Fables #124 -- 16,018 (- 1.3%)
01/2013: Fables #125 -- 15,983 (- 0.2%)
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6 months: - 6.6%
1 year : - 9.1%
2 years : -16.7%
5 years : n.a.

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4.5 stars, writing, “Relatively stable figures.

“Fables seems to be the only current Vertigo title that sells well enough in trade-paperback collections for the monthly figures not to be much of a concern.

“As I’ve said, though, good Vertigo trade sales are almost always linked to good single-issue sales anyway, so that’s a moot point.”

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125 - BATMAN: ARKHAM UNHINGED
04/2012: Arkham Unhinged #1 -- 31,170
05/2012: Arkham Unhinged #2 -- 25,215 (-19.1%)
06/2012: Arkham Unhinged #3 -- 23,322 (- 7.5%)
07/2012: Arkham Unhinged #4 -- 21,809 (- 6.5%)
08/2012: Arkham Unhinged #5 -- 21,059 (- 3.4%)
09/2012: Arkham Unhinged #6 -- 20,259 (- 3.8%)
10/2012: Arkham Unhinged #7 -- 19,890 (- 1.8%)
11/2012: Arkham Unhinged #8 -- 18,393 (- 7.5%)
12/2012: Arkham Unhinged #9 -- 17,220 (- 6.4%)
01/2013: Arkham Unhinged #10 -- 16,113 (- 6.4%)
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6 months: -26.1%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4.5 stars, writing, “Another ‘digital-first’ book. Sales keep dropping rather too fast for anyone to be happy here.”

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123 - HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE
07/2012: He-Man #1 of 6 -- 27,665
08/2012: --
09/2012: He-Man #2 of 6 -- 19,737 (-28.7%)
10/2012: He-Man #3 of 6 -- 18,269 (- 7.4%)
11/2012: He-Man #4 of 6 -- 17,499 (- 4.2%)
12/2012: He-Man #5 of 6 -- 16,858 (- 3.7%)
01/2013: He-Man #6 of 6 -- 16,441 (- 2.5%)
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6 months: -40.6%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 5 stars, writing, “To be relaunched as an ongoing title in April. Sales aren’t spectacular, but maybe decent enough to give it a try, in these challenging times. By WildStorm standards — which is where this would surely have been published, if the imprint were still officially around –, this would have been a hit.”

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122 - THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES
01/2008: LoSH #38 -- 33,045
01/2009: LoSH #50 -- 22,327
01/2011: LoSH #9 -- 24,230
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01/2012: LoSH #5 -- 25,624 (- 7.9%)
02/2012: LoSH #6 -- 23,428 (- 8.6%)
03/2012: LoSH #7 -- 21,894 (- 6.6%)
04/2012: LoSH #8 -- 21,457 (- 2.0%)
05/2012: LoSH #9 -- 20,854 (- 2.8%)
06/2012: LoSH #10 -- 19,963 (- 4.3%)
07/2012: LoSH #11 -- 19,421 (- 2.7%)
08/2012: LoSH #12 -- 18,907 (- 2.7%)
09/2012: LoSH #0 -- 21,561 (+ 14.0%)
10/2012: LoSH #13 -- 18,487 (- 14.3%)
11/2012: LoSH #14 -- 17,767 (- 3.9%)
12/2012: LoSH #15 -- 16,912 (- 4.8%)
01/2013: LoSH #16 -- 16,496 (- 2.5%)
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6 months: - 15.1%
1 year : - 35.6%
2 years : - 31.9%
5 years : - 50.1%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 5 stars, writing, “Another ‘New 52′ book selling well below the 20,000-unit mark that hasn’t been cancelled.”

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121 - FAIREST (Vertigo)
03/2012: Fairest #1 -- 31,769
04/2012: Fairest #2 -- 22,997 (-27.6%)
05/2012: Fairest #3 -- 22,329 (- 2.9%)
06/2012: Fairest #4 -- 21,156 (- 5.3%)
07/2012: Fairest #5 -- 20,371 (- 3.7%)
08/2012: Fairest #6 -- 19,446 (- 4.5%)
09/2012: Fairest #7 -- 18,626 (- 4.2%)
10/2012: Fairest #8 -- 18,376 (- 1.3%)
11/2012: Fairest #9 -- 17,417 (- 5.2%)
12/2012: Fairest #10 -- 16,919 (- 2.9%)
01/2013: Fairest #11 -- 16,498 (- 2.5%)
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6 months: -19.0%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4.5 stars, writing, “Vertigo’s best-selling ongoing series appears to be settling down above 16K. It’s a Fables spin-off, but still: It’s one bit of good news for the imprint, at least.”

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120 - JSA LIBERTY FILES: THE WHISTLING SKULL
12/2012: Whistling Skull #1 of 6 -- 21,370
01/2013: Whistling Skull #2 of 6 -- 16,593 (-22.4%)

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 5 stars, writing, “Issue #1 was promoted with a 1:10 variant-cover edition, so the drop isn’t as steep as it looks. Decent sales figures, on balance.”

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113 - BATMAN BEYOND UNLIMITED
02/2012: Unlimited #1 -- 26,589 (+21.8%) [30,683]
03/2012: Unlimited #2 -- 23,570 (-11.4%)
04/2012: Unlimited #3 -- 24,196 (+ 2.7%)
05/2012: Unlimited #4 -- 24,356 (+ 0.7%)
06/2012: Unlimited #5 -- 24,058 (- 1.2%)
07/2012: Unlimited #6 -- 22,555 (- 6.3%)
08/2012: Unlimited #7 -- 21,219 (- 5.9%)
09/2012: Unlimited #8 -- 20,897 (- 1.5%)
10/2012: Unlimited #9 -- 19,877 (- 4.9%)
11/2012: Unlimited #10 -- 19,004 (- 4.4%)
12/2012: Unlimited #11 -- 18,089 (- 4.8%)
01/2013: Unlimited #12 -- 17,446 (- 3.6%)
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6 months: -22.7%

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112 - SMALLVILLE SEASON 11
05/2012: Smallville S11 #1 -- 27,004
06/2012: Smallville S11 #2 -- 22,468 (-16.8%)
07/2012: Smallville S11 #3 -- 20,864 (- 7.1%)
08/2012: Smallville S11 #4 -- 19,861 (- 4.8%)
09/2012: Smallville S11 #5 -- 19,499 (- 1.8%)
10/2012: Smallville S11 #6 -- 19,663 (+ 0.8%)
11/2012: Smallville S11 #7 -- 19,104 (- 2.8%)
12/2012: Smallville S11 #8 -- 18,633 (- 2.5%)
01/2013: Smallville S11 #9 -- 17,845 (- 4.2%)
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6 months: -14.5%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4.5 stars, writing, “Two ‘digital-first’ titles drifting down the charts.”

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111 - MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE: ORIGIN OF HE-MAN
10/2012: Skeletor #1 -- 18,420
11/2012: --
12/2012: --
01/2013: He-Man #1 -- 17,866 (-3.0%)

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4.5 stars, writing, “Another one-shot special that outsells the mother title.”

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109 - ALL STAR WESTERN
01/2008: Jonah Hex #27 -- 13,881
01/2009: Jonah Hex #39 -- 11,705
01/2010: Jonah Hex #51 -- 11,184
01/2011: Jonah Hex #63 -- 10,752
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01/2012: ASW #5 -- 27,206 (- 7.3%)
02/2012: ASW #6 -- 26,170 (- 3.8%)
03/2012: ASW #7 -- 25,349 (- 3.1%)
04/2012: ASW #8 -- 25,040 (- 1.2%)
05/2012: ASW #9 -- 31,413 (+ 25.5%)
06/2012: ASW #10 -- 25,334 (- 19.4%)
07/2012: ASW #11 -- 23,572 (- 7.0%)
08/2012: ASW #12 -- 22,767 (- 3.4%)
09/2012: ASW #0 -- 25,388 (+ 11.5%)
10/2012: ASW #13 -- 21,481 (- 15.4%)
11/2012: ASW #14 -- 20,186 (- 6.0%)
12/2012: ASW #15 -- 19,190 (- 4.9%)
01/2013: ASW #16 -- 18,254 (- 4.9%)
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6 months: - 22.6%
1 year : - 32.9%
2 years : + 69.8%
5 years : + 31.5%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4.5 stars, writing, “Overall, 18K is still quite a jump versus the book’s pre-relaunch sales, but the sheen is off.”

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100 - GREEN ARROW
01/2008: Arrow/Canary #4 -- 35,039
01/2009: Arrow/Canary #16 -- 24,419
01/2010: Arrow&Canary #28 -- 16,482
01/2011: Green Arrow #8 -- 35,307
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01/2012: Green Arrow #5 -- 33,593 (- 9.5%)
02/2012: Green Arrow #6 -- 30,097 (- 10.4%)
03/2012: Green Arrow #7 -- 29,004 (- 3.6%)
04/2012: Green Arrow #8 -- 27,433 (- 5.4%)
05/2012: Green Arrow #9 -- 26,966 (- 1.7%)
06/2012: Green Arrow #10 -- 25,769 (- 4.4%)
07/2012: Green Arrow #11 -- 24,646 (- 4.4%)
08/2012: Green Arrow #12 -- 23,126 (- 6.2%)
09/2012: Green Arrow #0 -- 28,408 (+ 22.8%)
10/2012: Green Arrow #13 -- 22,057 (- 22.4%)
11/2012: Green Arrow #14 -- 21,825 (- 1.1%)
12/2012: Green Arrow #15 -- 20,672 (- 5.3%)
01/2013: Green Arrow #16 -- 19,888 (- 3.8%)
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6 months: - 19.3%
1 year : - 40.8%
2 years : - 43.7%
5 years : - 43.2%

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99 - PHANTOM STRANGER
09/2012: Phantom Stranger #0 -- 40,103
10/2012: Phantom Stranger #1 -- 33,350 (-16.8%)
11/2012: Phantom Stranger #2 -- 24,979 (-25.1%)
12/2012: Phantom Stranger #3 -- 23,378 (- 6.4%)
01/2013: Phantom Stranger #4 -- 19,903 (-14.9%)

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4.5 stars, writing, “Two more ‘New 52′ books dropping below 20,000 units.

“To be fair, Phantom Stranger, Team 7, Sword of Sorcery and Talon were no longer returnable in January, which means Diamond no longer reduces their sales for the purposes of the chart. To date, I’d assumed a 10% reduction for issues #0 through #3, and added those missing 10% back on, because that had worked with the previous “New 52″ launches. Now, for Team 7, Sword of Sorcery and Talon, that reduction still seems plausible, if you look at their January figures. But for Phantom Stranger, another 15% drop at this stage would be unusual, at least, so maybe the adjustment was off this time.

“For now, take the figures for issues #0 through #3 with a grain of salt: It’s possible they’re too high by up to 10%.”

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96 - INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US
01/2013: Injustice #1 -- 20,733

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4 stars, writing, “This is a new ongoing series adapting a video game starring DC Universe characters. Sales are what you’d expect.”

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92 - LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT
10/2012: LotDK #1 -- 42,904
11/2012: LotDK #2 -- 30,085 (-29.9%)
12/2012: LotDK #3 -- 25,710 (-14.5%)
01/2013: LotDK #4 -- 22,671 (-11.8%)

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 5 stars, writing, “The best-selling ‘digital-first’ title is still dropping briskly, but evidently these numbers still make enough sense for DC to keep expanding the line.”

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89 - BIRDS OF PREY
01/2008: Birds of Prey #114 -- 24,211
01/2009: Birds of Prey #126 -- 20,772
01/2011: Birds of Prey #8 -- 31,616
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01/2012: Birds of Prey #5 -- 31,700 (- 8.0%)
02/2012: Birds of Prey #6 -- 30,376 (- 4.2%)
03/2012: Birds of Prey #7 -- 29,196 (- 3.9%)
04/2012: Birds of Prey #8 -- 28,661 (- 1.8%)
05/2012: Birds of Prey #9 -- 41,521 (+ 44.9%)
06/2012: Birds of Prey #10 -- 28,457 (- 31.5%)
07/2012: Birds of Prey #11 -- 27,389 (- 3.8%)
08/2012: Birds of Prey #12 -- 26,587 (- 2.9%)
09/2012: Birds of Prey #0 -- 30,574 (+ 15.0%)
10/2012: Birds of Prey #13 -- 25,851 (- 15.5%)
11/2012: Birds of Prey #14 -- 24,904 (- 3.7%)
12/2012: Birds of Prey #15 -- 24,026 (- 3.5%)
01/2013: Birds of Prey #16 -- 23,182 (- 3.5%)
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6 months: - 15.4%
1 year : - 26.9%
2 years : - 26.7%
5 years : - 4.3%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4.5 stars, writing, “Well, at least the book is consistent in how it keeps sliding down the charts.”

—–

86 - SUPERBOY ANNUAL
01/2013: Superboy Annual #1 -- 23,694

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 5 stars, writing, “Not that far below the monthly title, thanks to a crossover tie-in. You can’t blame DC for throwing all these Annuals out there: They keep selling.”

—–

78 - JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK
01/2012: Justice League Dark #5 -- 40,996 (- 8.4%)
02/2012: Justice League Dark #6 -- 38,360 (- 6.4%)
03/2012: Justice League Dark #7 -- 36,089 (- 5.9%)
04/2012: Justice League Dark #8 -- 35,022 (- 3.0%)
05/2012: Justice League Dark #9 -- 34,649 (- 1.1%)
06/2012: Justice League Dark #10 -- 33,238 (- 4.1%)
07/2012: Justice League Dark #11 -- 31,792 (- 4.4%)
08/2012: Justice League Dark #12 -- 30,754 (- 3.3%)
09/2012: Justice League Dark #0 -- 34,287 (+11.5%)
10/2012: Justice League Dark #13 -- 30,008 (-12.5%)
11/2012: Justice League Dark #14 -- 28,966 (- 3.5%)
12/2012: Justice League Dark #15 -- 27,712 (- 4.3%)
01/2013: Justice League Dark #16 -- 26,902 (- 2.9%)
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6 months: -15.4%
1 year : -34.4%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4 stars, writing, “Slowly drifting down.”

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77 - SUICIDE SQUAD
01/2008: Raise the Flag #5 of 8 -- 17,094
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01/2012: Suicide Squad #5 -- 32,726 (- 5.3%)
02/2012: Suicide Squad #6 -- 30,834 (- 5.8%)
03/2012: Suicide Squad #7 -- 32,908 (+ 6.7%)
04/2012: Suicide Squad #8 -- 32,789 (- 0.4%)
05/2012: Suicide Squad #9 -- 32,581 (- 0.6%)
06/2012: Suicide Squad #10 -- 31,576 (- 3.1%)
07/2012: Suicide Squad #11 -- 29,809 (- 5.6%)
08/2012: Suicide Squad #12 -- 28,302 (- 5.1%)
09/2012: Suicide Squad #0 -- 31,875 (+ 12.6%)
10/2012: Suicide Squad #13 -- 27,644 (- 13.3%)
11/2012: Suicide Squad #14 -- 63,691 (+130.4%) [69,185]
12/2012: Suicide Squad #15 -- 57,132 (- 10.3%)
01/2013: Suicide Squad #16 -- 27,061 (- 52.6%)
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6 months: - 9.2%
1 year : - 17.3%
5 years : + 58.3%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 5 stars, writing, “As usual, now that the book is no longer part of the ‘Death of the Family’ crossover, sales immediately drop back to their old level.”

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76 - SUPERBOY
01/2011: Superboy #3 -- 29,550
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01/2012: Superboy #5 -- 37,419 (- 6.5%)
02/2012: Superboy #6 -- 34,520 (- 7.8%)
03/2012: Superboy #7 -- 33,050 (- 4.3%)
04/2012: Superboy #8 -- 31,900 (- 3.5%)
05/2012: Superboy #9 -- 34,838 (+ 9.2%)
06/2012: Superboy #10 -- 31,358 (- 10.0%)
07/2012: Superboy #11 -- 29,677 (- 5.4%)
08/2012: Superboy #12 -- 27,518 (- 7.3%)
09/2012: Superboy #0 -- 31,840 (+ 15.7%)
10/2012: Superboy #13 -- 25,726 (- 19.2%)
11/2012: Superboy #14 -- 28,017 (+ 8.9%)
12/2012: Superboy #15 -- 27,619 (- 1.4%)
01/2013: Superboy #16 -- 27,110 (- 1.8%)
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6 months: - 8.7%
1 year : - 27.6%
2 years : - 8.3%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4.5 stars, writing, “Sales are still slightly up, thanks to the crossover with Supergirl and Superman.”

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72 - THRESHOLD
01/2013: Threshold #1 -- 29,312

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 5 stars, writing, “A new replacement ‘New 52′ title written by Keith Giffen, starring a bunch of space superheroes and loosely connected to the Green Lantern line, evidently. There was a 1:100 variant-cover edition of the first issue, so sales will almost certainly drop below 20,000 units within a few months. Let’s wait and see, though.”

—–

70 - ANIMAL MAN
01/2012: Animal Man #5 -- 40,573 (- 4.8%)
02/2012: Animal Man #6 -- 38,504 (- 5.1%)
03/2012: Animal Man #7 -- 36,860 (- 4.3%)
04/2012: Animal Man #8 -- 36,369 (- 1.3%)
05/2012: Animal Man #9 -- 35,699 (- 1.8%)
06/2012: Animal Man #10 -- 34,992 (- 2.0%)
07/2012: Animal Man #11 -- 33,909 (- 3.1%)
08/2012: Animal Man #12 -- 34,549 (+ 1.9%)
09/2012: Animal Man #0 -- 38,295 (+10.8%)
10/2012: Animal Man #13 -- 34,303 (-10.4%)
11/2012: Animal Man #14 -- 33,503 (- 2.3%)
12/2012: Animal Man #15 -- 32,013 (- 4.5%)
01/2013: Animal Man #16 -- 30,322 (- 5.3%)
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6 months: -10.6%
1 year : -25.3%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 5 stars, writing, “The drops are increasing, quite obviously, though we’re still in the middle of the ‘Rotworld’ crossover. It looks like the crossover is actually doing significant damage. DC may have misjudged the audience here.”

—–

69 - SUPERGIRL
01/2008: Supergirl #25 -- 36,459
01/2009: Supergirl #37 -- 34,060
01/2010: Supergirl #49 -- 27,728
01/2011: Supergirl #60 -- 22,568
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01/2012: Supergirl #5 -- 41,446 (- 6.2%)
02/2012: Supergirl #6 -- 38,719 (- 6.6%)
03/2012: Supergirl #7 -- 37,041 (- 4.3%)
04/2012: Supergirl #8 -- 36,042 (- 2.7%)
05/2012: Supergirl #9 -- 35,129 (- 2.5%)
06/2012: Supergirl #10 -- 33,309 (- 5.2%)
07/2012: Supergirl #11 -- 31,879 (- 4.3%)
08/2012: Supergirl #12 -- 30,420 (- 4.6%)
09/2012: Supergirl #0 -- 34,457 (+ 13.3%)
10/2012: Supergirl #13 -- 29,450 (- 14.5%)
11/2012: Supergirl #14 -- 31,270 (+ 6.2%)
12/2012: Supergirl #15 -- 30,814 (- 1.5%)
01/2013: Supergirl #16 -- 30,350 (- 1.5%)
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6 months: - 4.8%
1 year : - 26.8%
2 years : + 34.5%
5 years : - 26.8%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4.5 stars, writing, “Sales are almost back at the book’s previous level, despite the crossover with Superman and Superboy.”

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68 - WORLDS' FINEST
05/2012: Worlds' Finest #1 -- 69,531
06/2012: Worlds' Finest #2 -- 51,510 (-25.9%)
07/2012: Worlds' Finest #3 -- 45,514 (-11.6%)
08/2012: Worlds' Finest #4 -- 39,629 (-12.9%)
09/2012: Worlds' Finest #0 -- 42,770 (+ 7.9%)
10/2012: Worlds' Finest #5 -- 35,951 (-15.9%)
11/2012: Worlds' Finest #6 -- 34,338 (- 4.5%)
12/2012: Worlds' Finest #7 -- 32,010 (- 6.8%)
01/2013: Worlds' Finest #8 -- 30,399 (- 5.0%)
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6 months: -33.2%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 5 stars, writing, “These numbers are still dropping too fast for comfort.”

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67 - TALON
09/2012: Talon #0 -- 59,691
10/2012: Talon #1 -- 55,737 (- 6.6%)
11/2012: Talon #2 -- 41,250 (-26.0%)
12/2012: Talon #3 -- 35,034 (-15.1%)
01/2013: Talon #4 -- 30,909 (-11.8%)

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 5 stars, writing, “As I said above, the drop is unusually big, but it doesn’t seem implausible in the context of this particular title’s performance so far.

“Still, it’s possible that the numbers for issues #0 through #3 are too high by up to 10%, so keep that in mind. If that’s the case, sales may actually be levelling out. If not, we’ll know next month.”

—–

64 - SWAMP THING
01/2012: Swamp Thing #5 -- 43,806 (- 1.9%)
02/2012: Swamp Thing #6 -- 41,235 (- 5.9%)
03/2012: Swamp Thing #7 -- 40,268 (- 2.4%)
04/2012: Swamp Thing #8 -- 39,431 (- 2.1%)
05/2012: Swamp Thing #9 -- 39,385 (- 0.1%)
06/2012: Swamp Thing #10 -- 37,383 (- 5.1%)
07/2012: Swamp Thing #11 -- 36,257 (- 3.0%)
08/2012: Swamp Thing #12 -- 36,696 (+ 1.2%)
09/2012: Swamp Thing #0 -- 40,123 (+ 9.3%)
10/2012: Swamp Thing #13 -- 36,069 (-10.1%)
11/2012: Swamp Thing #14 -- 42,036 (+16.5%)
12/2012: Swamp Thing #15 -- 33,916 (-19.3%)
01/2013: Swamp Thing #16 -- 32,262 (- 4.9%)
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6 months: -11.0%
1 year : -26.4%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4 stars, writing, “Like with Animal Man, the ‘Rotworld’ crossover appears to be hurting Swamp Thing sales. And given that Scott Snyder will be leaving the title soon, the numbers are unlikely to improve. For a writer with no reputation, it’s going to be an uphill struggle to stabilize sales before the book gets in trouble. Fortunately, he has a real job, as well.”

—–

64 - CATWOMAN
01/2008: Catwoman #75 -- 21,580
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01/2012: Catwoman #5 -- 44,034 (- 3.4%)
02/2012: Catwoman #6 -- 41,447 (- 5.9%)
03/2012: Catwoman #7 -- 39,608 (- 4.4%)
04/2012: Catwoman #8 -- 38,711 (- 2.3%)
05/2012: Catwoman #9 -- 49,726 (+28.5%)
06/2012: Catwoman #10 -- 37,158 (-25.3%)
07/2012: Catwoman #11 -- 35,551 (- 4.3%)
08/2012: Catwoman #12 -- 34,117 (- 4.0%)
09/2012: Catwoman #0 -- 39,117 (+14.7%)
10/2012: Catwoman #13 -- 40,147 (+ 2.6%) [60,257]
11/2012: Catwoman #14 -- 63,653 (+58.6%)
12/2012: Catwoman #15 -- 35,020 (-45.0%)
01/2013: Catwoman #16 -- 33,915 (- 3.2%)
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6 months: - 4.6%
1 year : - 23.0%
5 years : + 57.2%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4 stars, writing, “Sales are back in decline.”

—–

63 - BATWOMAN
01/2012: Batwoman #5 -- 51,924 (- 1.6%)
02/2012: Batwoman #6 -- 49,227 (- 5.2%)
03/2012: Batwoman #7 -- 46,874 (- 4.8%)
04/2012: Batwoman #8 -- 45,341 (- 3.3%)
05/2012: Batwoman #9 -- 43,942 (- 3.1%)
06/2012: Batwoman #10 -- 41,014 (- 6.7%)
07/2012: Batwoman #11 -- 38,980 (- 5.0%)
08/2012: Batwoman #12 -- 38,064 (- 2.4%)
09/2012: Batwoman #0 -- 41,684 (+ 9.5%)
10/2012: Batwoman #13 -- 37,315 (-10.5%)
11/2012: Batwoman #14 -- 36,395 (- 2.5%)
12/2012: Batwoman #15 -- 34,964 (- 3.9%)
01/2013: Batwoman #16 -- 34,103 (- 2.5%)
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6 months: -12.5%
1 year : -34.3%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 5 stars, writing, “Settling into a slow downward drift.”

—–

59 - GREEN LANTERN: NEW GUARDIANS ANNUAL
01/2013: New Guardians Annual #1 -- 36,674

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4.5 stars, writing, “Another Annual with relatively good sales.”

—–

55 - RED LANTERNS
01/2012: Red Lanterns #5 -- 46,992 (- 6.5%)
02/2012: Red Lanterns #6 -- 43,450 (- 7.5%)
03/2012: Red Lanterns #7 -- 41,628 (- 4.2%)
04/2012: Red Lanterns #8 -- 40,189 (- 3.5%)
05/2012: Red Lanterns #9 -- 39,215 (- 2.4%)
06/2012: Red Lanterns #10 -- 38,005 (- 3.1%)
07/2012: Red Lanterns #11 -- 36,462 (- 4.1%)
08/2012: Red Lanterns #12 -- 35,070 (- 3.8%)
09/2012: Red Lanterns #0 -- 38,928 (+11.0%)
10/2012: Red Lanterns #13 -- 42,804 (+10.0%)
11/2012: Red Lanterns #14 -- 40,779 (- 4.7%)
12/2012: Red Lanterns #15 -- 39,071 (- 4.2%)
01/2013: Red Lanterns #16 -- 38,223 (- 2.2%)
----------------
6 months: + 4.8%
1 year : -18.7%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4.5 stars, writing, “Sales remain up thanks to the ‘Rise of the Third Army’ crossover, but only by 3,000 units and change.”

—–

51 - WONDER WOMAN
01/2008: Wonder Woman #16 -- 42,897
01/2009: Wonder Woman #28 -- 32,622
01/2010: Wonder Woman #40 -- 25,156
01/2011: Wonder Woman #606 -- 33,601
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01/2012: Wonder Woman #5 -- 57,626 (- 0.1%)
02/2012: Wonder Woman #6 -- 54,190 (- 6.0%)
03/2012: Wonder Woman #7 -- 51,314 (- 5.3%)
04/2012: Wonder Woman #8 -- 50,450 (- 1.7%)
05/2012: Wonder Woman #9 -- 48,750 (- 3.4%)
06/2012: Wonder Woman #10 -- 47,229 (- 3.1%)
07/2012: Wonder Woman #11 -- 45,669 (- 3.3%)
08/2012: Wonder Woman #12 -- 44,584 (- 2.4%)
09/2012: Wonder Woman #0 -- 49,778 (+ 11.7%)
10/2012: Wonder Woman #13 -- 43,731 (- 12.2%)
11/2012: Wonder Woman #14 -- 42,384 (- 3.1%)
12/2012: Wonder Woman #15 -- 41,641 (- 1.8%)
01/2013: Wonder Woman #16 -- 40,105 (- 3.7%)
-----------------
6 months: - 12.2%
1 year : - 30.4%
2 years : + 19.4%
5 years : - 6.5%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4 stars, writing, “Drifting down.”

—–

49 - GREEN LANTERN CORPS ANNUAL
01/2013: GL Corps Annual #1 -- 41,836

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 5 stars, writing, “Good sales for an Annual, but rather underwhelming for the book that was billed as the conclusion of the ‘Rise of the Third Army’ crossover.”

—–

48 - BEFORE WATCHMEN: DOLLAR BILL
01/2013: Dollar Bill #1 -- 42,308

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 5 stars, writing, “There were a 1:25 variant-cover edition and a 1:200 variant-cover edition to help shift copies of this one-shot.”

—–

47 - BEFORE WATCHMEN: OZYMANDIAS
07/2012: Ozymandias #1 of 6 -- 98,011
08/2012: Ozymandias #2 of 6 -- 64,460 (-34.2%)
09/2012: Ozymandias #3 of 6 -- 52,280 (-18.9%)
10/2012: --
11/2012: Ozymandias #4 of 6 -- 48,404 (- 7.4%)
12/2012: --
01/2013: Ozymandias #5 of 6 -- 43,063 (-11.0%)
-----------------
6 months: - 56.1%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 5 stars, writing, “Another big drop for a Before Watchmen book.”

—–

46 - GREEN LANTERN: NEW GUARDIANS
01/2011: Emerald Warriors #6 -- 43,471
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01/2012: New Guardians #5 -- 52,305 (- 1.9%)
02/2012: New Guardians #6 -- 50,319 (- 3.8%)
03/2012: New Guardians #7 -- 48,422 (- 3.8%)
04/2012: New Guardians #8 -- 47,320 (- 2.3%)
05/2012: New Guardians #9 -- 46,237 (- 2.3%)
06/2012: New Guardians #10 -- 44,404 (- 4.0%)
07/2012: New Guardians #11 -- 42,929 (- 3.3%)
08/2012: New Guardians #12 -- 41,479 (- 3.4%)
09/2012: New Guardians #0 -- 46,718 (+12.6%)
10/2012: New Guardians #13 -- 48,500 (+ 3.8%)
11/2012: New Guardians #14 -- 47,062 (- 3.0%)
12/2012: New Guardians #15 -- 45,136 (- 4.1%)
01/2013: New Guardians #16 -- 43,770 (- 3.0%)
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6 months: + 2.0%
1 year : -16.3%
2 years : + 0.7%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4.5 stars, writing, “A ‘Rise of the Third Army’ crossover.”

—–

43 - BEFORE WATCHMEN: MINUTEMEN
06/2012: Minutemen #1 of 6 -- 119,463
07/2012: Minutemen #2 of 6 -- 76,409 (-36.0%)
08/2012: Minutemen #3 of 6 -- 57,208 (-25.1%)
09/2012: --
10/2012: Minutemen #4 of 6 -- 53,270 (- 6.9%)
11/2012: --
12/2012: Minutemen #5 of 6 -- 47,627 (-10.6%)
01/2013: Minutemen #6 of 6 -- 44,027 (- 7.6%)
----------------
6 months: -42.7%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4.5 stars, writing, “Thus concludes the Minutemen miniseries by Darwyn Cooke.”

—–

42 - FLASH
01/2008: Flash #236 -- 41,464
01/2010: --
01/2011: --
-----------------------------------
01/2012: Flash #5 -- 71,611 (- 7.4%)
02/2012: Flash #6 -- 68,061 (- 5.0%)
03/2012: Flash #7 -- 64,975 (- 4.5%)
04/2012: Flash #8 -- 63,702 (- 2.0%)
05/2012: Flash #9 -- 62,807 (- 1.4%)
06/2012: Flash #10 -- 55,681 (- 11.4%)
07/2012: Flash #11 -- 53,674 (- 3.6%)
08/2012: Flash #12 -- 51,779 (- 3.5%)
09/2012: Flash #0 -- 56,890 (+ 9.9%)
10/2012: Flash #13 -- 49,936 (- 12.2%)
11/2012: Flash #14 -- 48,012 (- 3.9%)
12/2012: Flash #15 -- 45,925 (- 4.4%)
01/2012: Flash #16 -- 44,093 (- 4.0%)
-----------------
6 months: - 17.9%
1 year : - 38.2%
2 years : n.a.
5 years : + 6.3%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4.5 stars, writing, “Still sliding down the charts.”

—–

39 - GREEN LANTERN CORPS
01/2008: Green Lantern Corps #20 -- 44,607 [48,577]
01/2009: Green Lantern Corps #32 -- 44,312
01/2010: Green Lantern Corps #44 -- 76,458
01/2011: Green Lantern Corps #56 -- 53,646
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01/2012: Green Lantern Corps #5 -- 54,088 (- 5.4%)
02/2012: Green Lantern Corps #6 -- 51,168 (- 5.4%)
03/2012: Green Lantern Corps #7 -- 48,692 (- 4.8%)
04/2012: Green Lantern Corps #8 -- 47,584 (- 2.3%)
05/2012: Green Lantern Corps #9 -- 46,336 (- 2.6%)
06/2012: Green Lantern Corps #10 -- 44,615 (- 3.7%)
07/2012: Green Lantern Corps #11 -- 42,996 (- 3.6%)
08/2012: Green Lantern Corps #12 -- 41,778 (- 2.8%)
09/2012: Green Lantern Corps #0 -- 47,309 (+13.2%)
10/2012: Green Lantern Corps #13 -- 50,773 (+ 7.3%)
11/2012: Green Lantern Corps #14 -- 49,594 (- 2.3%)
12/2012: Green Lantern Corps #15 -- 47,841 (- 3.5%)
01/2013: Green Lantern Corps #16 -- 45,387 (- 5.1%)
----------------
6 months: + 5.6%
1 year : -16.1%
2 years : -15.4%
5 years : + 1.8%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4.5 stars, writing, “Another ‘Rise of the Third Army’ crossover. Sales remain up, but not spectacularly so.”

—–

36 - BATMAN, INCORPORATED
01/2011: --
------------------------------------
01/2012: --
02/2012: --
03/2012: --
04/2012: --
05/2012: Batman, Inc. #1 -- 96,486 (+124.1%)
06/2012: Batman, Inc. #2 -- 73,654 (- 23.7%)
07/2012: --
08/2012: Batman, Inc. #3 -- 66,720 (- 9.4%)
09/2012: Batman, Inc. #0 -- 66,112 (- 0.9%)
10/2012: Batman, Inc. #4 -- 60,888 (- 7.9%)
11/2012: Batman, Inc. #5 -- 58,172 (- 4.5%)
12/2012: Batman, Inc. #6 -- 52,636 (- 9.5%)
01/2013: Batman, Inc. #7 -- 50,345 (- 4.4%)
----------------
6 months: n.a.
1 year : n.a.
2 years : n.a.

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 5 stars, writing, “Grant Morrison’s 7-year Batman saga is nearing its natural conclusion — commercially as well as in terms of the story.”

—–

[fred le mallratAdmin-Man]

33 - SUPERMAN
01/2008: Superman #672 -- 44,656
01/2009: Superman #684 -- 48,489
01/2010: Superman #696 -- 31,940
01/2011: Superman #707 -- 41,843
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01/2012: Superman #5 -- 73,719 (- 3.7%)
02/2012: Superman #6 -- 69,633 (- 5.5%)
03/2012: Superman #7 -- 66,588 (- 4.4%)
04/2012: Superman #8 -- 64,486 (- 3.2%)
05/2012: Superman #9 -- 62,232 (- 3.5%)
06/2012: Superman #10 -- 59,081 (- 5.1%)
07/2012: Superman #11 -- 56,066 (- 5.1%)
08/2012: Superman #12 -- 53,326 (- 4.9%)
09/2012: Superman #0 -- 60,493 (+ 13.4%)
10/2012: Superman #13 -- 52,155 (- 13.8%)
11/2012: Superman #14 -- 52,572 (+ 0.8%)
12/2012: Superman #15 -- 51,225 (- 2.6%)
01/2013: Superman #16 -- 50,621 (- 1.2%)
-----------------
6 months: - 9.7%
1 year : - 31.3%
2 years : + 21.0%
5 years : + 13.4%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 5 stars, writing, “The crossover with Superboy and Supergirl is still going on, but it has no more visible effect on the book’s numbers.”

—–

32 - EARTH 2
05/2012: Earth 2 #1 -- 95,742 [102,490]
06/2012: Earth 2 #2 -- 75,936 (-20.7%) [ 84,740]
07/2012: Earth 2 #3 -- 74,892 (- 1.4%)
08/2012: Earth 2 #4 -- 67,393 (-10.0%)
09/2012: Earth 2 #0 -- 69,111 (+ 2.6%)
10/2012: Earth 2 #5 -- 61,529 (-11.0%)
11/2012: Earth 2 #6 -- 58,271 (- 4.8%)
12/2012: Earth 2 #7 -- 54,409 (- 6.6%)
01/2013: Earth 2 #8 -- 50,860 (- 6.5%)
----------------
6 months: -32.1%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4 stars, writing, “Sales are still dropping quickly.”

—–

29 - BATMAN AND ROBIN ANNUAL
01/2013: Batman and Robin Annual #1 -- 52,244

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4.5 stars, writing, “Another Annual with perfectly good sales.”

—–

27 - BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT
01/2011: --
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01/2012: Dark Knight #5 -- 76,824 (- 2.4%)
02/2012: Dark Knight #6 -- 77,140 (+ 0.4%) [80,464]
03/2012: Dark Knight #7 -- 75,297 (- 2.4%)
04/2012: Dark Knight #8 -- 74,287 (- 1.3%)
05/2012: Dark Knight #9 -- 82,169 (+ 10.6%)
06/2012: Dark Knight #10 -- 71,671 (- 12.8%)
07/2012: Dark Knight #11 -- 68,632 (- 4.2%)
08/2012: Dark Knight #12 -- 67,084 (- 2.3%)
09/2012: Dark Knight #0 -- 72,919 (+ 8.7%)
10/2012: Dark Knight #13 -- 65,271 (- 10.5%)
11/2012: Dark Knight #14 -- 62,792 (- 3.8%)
12/2012: Dark Knight #15 -- 60,569 (- 3.6%)
01/2013: Dark Knight #16 -- 58,258 (- 3.8%)
-----------------
6 months: - 15.1%
1 year : - 24.2%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4.5 stars, writing, “Slipping down the charts.”

—–

26 - ACTION COMICS
01/2008: Action Comics #861 -- 56,093
01/2009: Action Comics #873 -- 51,940
01/2010: Action Comics #885 -- 30,678
01/2011: Action Comics #897 -- 32,134
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01/2012: Action Comics #5 -- 109,350 (- 3.1%)
02/2012: Action Comics #6 -- 96,592 (- 11.7%)
03/2012: Action Comics #7 -- 91,822 (- 4.9%)
04/2012: Action Comics #8 -- 87,980 (- 4.2%)
05/2012: Action Comics #9 -- 88,796 (+ 0.9%)
06/2012: Action Comics #10 -- 80,751 (- 9.1%)
07/2012: Action Comics #11 -- 76,232 (- 5.6%)
08/2012: Action Comics #12 -- 71,203 (- 6.6%)
09/2012: Action Comics #0 -- 78,626 (+ 10.4%)
10/2012: Action Comics #13 -- 67,241 (- 14.5%)
11/2012: Action Comics #14 -- 64,341 (- 4.3%)
12/2012: Action Comics #15 -- 61,298 (- 4.7%)
01/2013: Action Comics #16 -- 58,645 (- 4.3%)
-----------------
6 months: - 23.1%
1 year : - 46.4%
2 years : + 82.5%
5 years : + 4.6%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4.5 stars, writing, “Sliding down the charts. Grant Morrison’s run concludes with issue #18, and there’s cause to be skeptical on whether sales will improve once he’s moved on.”

—-

24 - RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS
01/2012: Red Hood #5 -- 42,560 (- 3.9%)
02/2012: Red Hood #6 -- 39,898 (- 6.3%)
03/2012: Red Hood #7 -- 38,630 (- 3.2%)
04/2012: Red Hood #8 -- 37,974 (- 1.7%)
05/2012: Red Hood #9 -- 54,220 (+42.8%)
06/2012: Red Hood #10 -- 37,044 (-31.7%)
07/2012: Red Hood #11 -- 35,820 (- 3.3%)
08/2012: Red Hood #12 -- 34,439 (- 3.9%)
09/2012: Red Hood #0 -- 39,511 (+14.7%)
10/2012: Red Hood #13 -- 35,420 (- 6.7%)
11/2012: Red Hood #14 -- 37,710 (+ 6.5%)
12/2012: Red Hood #15 -- 64,103 (+70.0%)
01/2013: Red Hood #16 -- 59,621 (- 7.0%)
----------------
6 months: +66.5%
1 year : +40.1%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 5 stars, writing, “A ‘Death of the Family’ crossover.”

—–

22 - AQUAMAN
01/2012: Aquaman #5 -- 65,094 (+ 0.2%)
02/2012: Aquaman #6 -- 63,450 (- 2.5%)
03/2012: Aquaman #7 -- 62,345 (- 1.7%)
04/2012: Aquaman #8 -- 61,657 (- 1.1%)
05/2012: Aquaman #9 -- 60,527 (- 1.8%)
06/2012: Aquaman #10 -- 59,288 (- 2.1%)
07/2012: Aquaman #11 -- 57,675 (- 2.7%)
08/2012: Aquaman #12 -- 61,210 (+ 6.1%)
09/2012: Aquaman #0 -- 61,227 (+ 0.0%)
10/2012: Aquaman #13 -- 54,648 (-10.8%)
11/2012: Aquaman #14 -- 53,664 (- 1.8%)
12/2012: Aquaman #15 -- 75,947 (+41.5%)
01/2013: Aquaman #16 -- 62,153 (-18.2%)
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6 months: + 7.8%
1 year : - 4.5%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 5 stars, writing, “The ‘Throne of Atlantis’ crossover boost isn’t quite as spectacular as it was in December, but sales are still almost 10,000 units ahead of the November figure.”

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21 - TEEN TITANS
01/2008: Teen Titans #55 -- 52,376
01/2009: Teen Titans #67 -- 35,877
01/2010: Teen Titans #79 -- 27,790
01/2011: Teen Titans #91 -- 25,443
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01/2012: Teen Titans #5 -- 54,606 (- 0.6%)
02/2012: Teen Titans #6 -- 53,123 (- 2.7%)
03/2012: Teen Titans #7 -- 51,402 (- 3.2%)
04/2012: Teen Titans #8 -- 50,814 (- 1.1%)
05/2012: Teen Titans #9 -- 50,261 (- 1.1%)
06/2012: Teen Titans #10 -- 47,491 (- 5.5%)
07/2012: Teen Titans #11 -- 45,367 (- 4.5%)
08/2012: Teen Titans #12 -- 42,817 (- 5.6%)
09/2012: Teen Titans #0 -- 47,318 (+ 10.5%)
10/2012: Teen Titans #13 -- 41,059 (- 13.2%)
11/2012: Teen Titans #14 -- 39,745 (- 3.3%)
12/2012: Teen Titans #15 -- 68,707 (+ 72.9%)
01/2013: Teen Titans #16 -- 63,726 (- 7.3%)
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6 months: + 40.5%
1 year : + 16.7%
2 years : +150.5%
5 years : + 21.7%

—–

20 - NIGHTWING
01/2008: Nightwing #140 -- 32,305
01/2009: Nightwing #152 -- 35,637
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01/2012: Nightwing #5 -- 56,040 (- 2.4%)
02/2012: Nightwing #6 -- 53,036 (- 5.4%)
03/2012: Nightwing #7 -- 50,489 (- 4.8%)
04/2012: Nightwing #8 -- 52,063 (+ 3.1%) [61,711]
05/2012: Nightwing #9 -- 61,395 (+17.9%)
06/2012: Nightwing #10 -- 50,585 (-17.6%)
07/2012: Nightwing #11 -- 49,124 (- 2.9%)
08/2012: Nightwing #12 -- 47,484 (- 3.3%)
09/2012: Nightwing #0 -- 53,109 (+11.9%)
10/2012: Nightwing #13 -- 47,171 (-11.2%)
11/2012: Nightwing #14 -- 50,720 (+ 7.5%)
12/2012: Nightwing #15 -- 74,407 (+46.7%)
01/2013: Nightwing #16 -- 69,643 (- 6.4%)
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6 months: + 41.8%
1 year : + 24.3%
5 years : +115.6%

—–

17 - BATGIRL
01/2010: Batgirl #6 -- 30,403
01/2011: Batgirl #17 -- 25,189
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01/2012: Batgirl #5 -- 57,030 (- 4.9%)
02/2012: Batgirl #6 -- 53,151 (- 6.8%)
03/2012: Batgirl #7 -- 50,761 (- 4.5%)
04/2012: Batgirl #8 -- 48,878 (- 3.7%)
05/2012: Batgirl #9 -- 58,710 (+ 20.1%)
06/2012: Batgirl #10 -- 47,050 (- 19.9%)
07/2012: Batgirl #11 -- 45,004 (- 4.4%)
08/2012: Batgirl #12 -- 43,804 (- 2.7%)
09/2012: Batgirl #0 -- 50,441 (+ 15.2%)
10/2012: Batgirl #13 -- 50,074 (- 0.7%) [71,109]
11/2012: Batgirl #14 -- 77,468 (+ 54.7%)
12/2012: Batgirl #15 -- 75,341 (- 2.8%)
01/2013: Batgirl #16 -- 72,470 (- 3.8%)
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6 months: + 61.0%
1 year : + 27.1%
2 years : +187.7%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4.5 stars, writing, “Three more ‘Death of the Family’ crossover issues. Scott Snyder ought to be getting a lot of fruit baskets these days. ‘Thank you for the royalties.’”

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16 - GREEN LANTERN
01/2008: Green Lantern #27 -- 67,600
01/2009: Green Lantern #37 -- 65,556 [71,331]
01/2010: Green Lantern #50 -- 106,444
01/2011: --
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01/2012: Green Lantern #5 -- 97,878 (- 6.0%)
02/2012: Green Lantern #6 -- 94,087 (- 3.9%)
03/2012: Green Lantern #7 -- 90,232 (- 4.1%)
04/2012: Green Lantern #8 -- 88,335 (- 2.1%)
05/2012: Green Lantern #9 -- 87,601 (- 0.8%)
06/2012: Green Lantern #10 -- 80,615 (- 8.0%)
07/2012: Green Lantern #11 -- 78,708 (- 2.4%)
08/2012: Green Lantern #12 -- 77,187 (- 1.9%)
09/2012: Green Lantern #0 -- 89,909 (+16.5%)
10/2012: Green Lantern #13 -- 91,814 (+ 2.1%)
11/2012: Green Lantern #14 -- 78,499 (-14.5%)
12/2012: Green Lantern #15 -- 74,363 (- 5.3%)
01/2013: Green Lantern #16 -- 72,884 (- 2.0%)
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6 months: - 7.4%
1 year : - 25.5%
2 years : n.a.
5 years : + 7.8%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 5 stars, writing, “The ‘Rise of the Third Army’ crossover is having no effect here anymore — unless it’s masking a bigger underlying decline. Sales are still rock-solid, historically, but the Geoff Johns run seems well past its prime, at this stage.”

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12 - BATMAN AND ROBIN
01/2010: Batman and Robin #7 -- 87,780
01/2011: Batman and Robin #19 -- 61,785
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01/2012: Batman and Robin #5 -- 72,786 (- 4.2%)
02/2012: Batman and Robin #6 -- 70,103 (- 3.7%)
03/2012: Batman and Robin #7 -- 68,010 (- 3.0%)
04/2012: Batman and Robin #8 -- 66,659 (- 2.0%)
05/2012: Batman and Robin #9 -- 75,967 (+14.0%)
06/2012: Batman and Robin #10 -- 66,894 (-11.9%)
07/2012: Batman and Robin #11 -- 65,043 (- 2.8%)
08/2012: Batman and Robin #12 -- 63,993 (- 1.6%)
09/2012: Batman and Robin #0 -- 69,146 (+ 8.1%)
10/2012: Batman and Robin #13 -- 63,097 (- 8.8%)
11/2012: Batman and Robin #14 -- 75,543 (+19.7%)
12/2012: Batman and Robin #15 -- 89,878 (+19.0%)
01/2013: Batman and Robin #16 -- 81,494 (- 9.3%)
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6 months: +25.3%
1 year : +12.0%
2 years : +31.9%

—–

8 - DETECTIVE COMICS
01/2008: Detective Comics #840 -- 51,579
01/2009: Detective Comics #852 -- 56,656
01/2010: Detective Comics #861 -- 45,937
01/2011: Detective Comics #873 -- 38,417
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01/2012: Detective Comics #5 -- 99,342 (- 0.0%)
02/2012: Detective Comics #6 -- 94,415 (- 5.0%)
03/2012: Detective Comics #7 -- 89,891 (- 4.8%)
04/2012: Detective Comics #8 -- 87,675 (- 2.5%)
05/2012: Detective Comics #9 -- 96,016 (+ 9.5%)
06/2012: Detective Comics #10 -- 83,317 (- 13.2%)
07/2012: Detective Comics #11 -- 79,835 (- 4.2%)
08/2012: Detective Comics #12 -- 75,998 (- 4.8%)
09/2012: Detective Comics #0 -- 84,063 (+ 10.6%)
10/2012: Detective Comics #13 -- 76,392 (- 9.1%)
11/2012: Detective Comics #14 -- 74,560 (- 2.4%)
12/2012: Detective Comics #15 -- 106,395 (+ 42.7%)
01/2013: Detective Comics #16 -- 92,300 (- 13.3%)
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6 months: + 15.6%
1 year : - 7.1%
2 years : +140.3%
5 years : + 79.0%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 5 stars, writing, “Two more ‘Death of the Family’ crossovers. And more fruit baskets for Scott Snyder, the Giver of Royalties.”

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3 - JUSTICE LEAGUE
01/2008: JL of America #17 -- 94,712
01/2009: JL of America #29 -- 72,116
01/2010: JL of America #41 -- 62,262
01/2011: JL of America #53 -- 47,093
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01/2012: Justice League #5 -- 144,670 (- 3.1%) [148,117]
02/2012: Justice League #6 -- 140,819 (- 2.7%)
03/2012: Justice League #7 -- 136,436 (- 3.1%)
04/2012: Justice League #8 -- 133,240 (- 2.3%)
05/2012: Justice League #9 -- 131,332 (- 1.4%)
06/2012: Justice League #10 -- 130,502 (- 0.6%)
07/2012: Justice League #11 -- 123,971 (- 5.0%)
08/2012: Justice League #12 -- 120,796 (- 2.6%) [161,235]
09/2012: Justice League #0 -- 125,868 (+ 4.2%)
10/2012: Justice League #13 -- 117,752 (- 6.5%)
11/2012: Justice League #14 -- 113,094 (- 4.0%)
12/2012: Justice League #15 -- 115,074 (+ 1.8%)
01/2013: Justice League #16 -- 117,719 (+ 2.3%)
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6 months: - 5.0%
1 year : - 18.6%
2 years : +150.0%
5 years : + 24.3%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 5 stars, writing, “Only a slight increase, but good news nonetheless. They must be doing something right.”

—–

2 - BATMAN
01/2008: Batman #673 -- 69,234
01/2009: Batman #685 -- 72,654
01/2010: Batman #695 -- 63,467
01/2011: Batman #706 -- 60,231
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01/2012: Batman #5 -- 135,145 (+ 1.0%) [142,499]
02/2012: Batman #6 -- 128,459 (- 5.0%) [135,435]
03/2012: Batman #7 -- 131,091 (+ 2.1%)
04/2012: Batman #8 -- 130,602 (- 0.4%) [136,218]
05/2012: Batman #9 -- 134,605 (+ 3.1%)
06/2012: Batman #10 -- 130,265 (- 3.2%)
07/2012: Batman #11 -- 127,210 (- 2.4%)
08/2012: Batman #12 -- 125,249 (- 1.5%)
09/2012: Batman #0 -- 156,561 (+ 25.0%)
10/2012: Batman #13 -- 148,305 (- 5.3%) [174,642]
11/2012: Batman #14 -- 159,729 (+ 7.7%)
12/2012: Batman #15 -- 151,568 (- 5.1%)
01/2013: Batman #16 -- 145,923 (- 3.7%)
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6 months: + 14.7%
1 year : + 8.0%
2 years : +142.3%
5 years : +110.8%

Marc-Oliver Frisch gives these sales 4.5 stars, writing, “Stellar sales, obviously. Wisely, Mr. Snyder is keeping most of the royalties for himself — he gives, but prudently.”

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6-MONTH COMPARISONS
+ 66.5%: Red Hood
+ 61.0%: Batgirl
+ 41.8%: Nightwing
+ 40.5%: Teen Titans
+ 25.3%: Batman and Robin
+ 15.6%: Detective Comics
+ 14.7%: Batman
+ 7.8%: Aquaman
+ 6.6%: Sweet Tooth
+ 5.6%: GL Corps
+ 4.8%: Red Lanterns
+ 2.0%: New Guardians
+ 0.9%: Hellblazer
- 4.1%: Young Justice
- 4.2%: Scooby-Doo
- 4.6%: Catwoman
- 4.8%: Supergirl
- 5.0%: JL
- 6.6%: Fables
- 7.4%: Green Lantern
- 8.7%: Superboy
- 9.2%: Suicide Squad
- 9.7%: Superman
- 10.6%: Animal Man
- 10.7%: Unwritten
- 11.0%: Swamp Thing
- 11.9%: DCU Presents
- 12.2%: Wonder Woman
- 12.5%: Batwoman
- 14.1%: Frankenstein
- 14.5%: Smallville
- 15.1%: Dark Knight
- 15.1%: LoSH
- 15.4%: Birds of Prey
- 15.4%: JLD
- 16.9%: Hawkman
- 17.5%: Blue Beetle
- 17.9%: Flash
- 19.0%: Fairest
- 19.3%: Green Arrow
- 20.4%: Superman Family Adventures
- 20.7%: Legion Lost
- 21.8%: I, Vampire
- 22.2%: Demon Knights
- 22.6%: All Star Western
- 23.1%: Action Comics
- 22.7%: BB Unlimited
- 23.7%: Grifter
- 23.9%: Firestorm
- 25.4%: Deathstroke
- 26.1%: Arkham Unhinged
- 26.8%: Stormwatch
- 32.1%: Earth 2
- 32.4%: GL: TAS
- 33.0%: Batwing
- 33.2%: Worlds' Finest
- 33.9%: Saucer Country
- 39.8%: Ravagers
- 40.6%: He-Man
- 42.7%: Minutemen
- 43.8%: Dial H
- 56.1%: Ozymandias

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1-YEAR COMPARISONS
+ 40.1%: Red Hood
+ 27.1%: Batgirl
+ 24.3%: Nightwing
+ 16.7%: Teen Titans
+ 12.0%: Batman and Robin
+ 8.0%: Batman
+ 4.3%: Scooby-Doo
- 0.4%: Hellblazer
- 0.9%: Sweet Tooth
- 1.8%: Young Justice
- 4.5%: Aquaman
- 7.1%: Detective Comics
- 9.1%: Fables
- 12.6%: Unwritten
- 16.1%: GL Corps
- 16.3%: New Guardians
- 17.3%: Suicide Squad
- 18.6%: JL
- 18.7%: Red Lanterns
- 23.0%: Catwoman
- 24.2%: Dark Knight
- 25.3%: Animal Man
- 25.5%: Green Lantern
- 26.4%: Swamp Thing
- 26.8%: Supergirl
- 26.9%: Birds of Prey
- 27.6%: Superboy
- 30.4%: Wonder Woman
- 31.3%: Superman
- 32.9%: All Star Western
- 34.3%: Batwoman
- 34.4%: JLD
- 34.6%: I, Vampire
- 35.6%: LoSH
- 37.7%: Legion Lost
- 38.2%: Flash
- 39.7%: Blue Beetle
- 40.8%: Green Arrow
- 40.9%: Frankenstein
- 44.1%: Batwing
- 45.1%: Demon Knights
- 45.6%: DCU Presents
- 46.4%: Action Comics
- 46.4%: Hawkman
- 46.6%: Deathstroke
- 46.7%: Firestorm
- 49.1%: Grifter
- 50.5%: Stormwatch

—–

2-YEAR COMPARISONS
+187.7%: Batgirl
+150.5%: Teen Titans
+150.0%: JL
+142.3%: Batman
+140.3%: Detective Comics
+ 82.5%: Action Comics
+ 69.8%: All Star Western
+ 34.5%: Supergirl
+ 31.9%: Batman and Robin
+ 21.0%: Superman
+ 19.4%: Wonder Woman
+ 4.2%: Scooby-Doo
+ 0.7%: New Guardians
- 1.9%: Hellblazer
- 5.5%: Sweet Tooth
- 8.3%: Superboy
- 15.4%: GL Corps
- 16.7%: Fables
- 24.0%: Young Justice
- 26.0%: Unwritten
- 26.7%: Birds of Prey
- 31.9%: LoSH
- 43.7%: Green Arrow

—–

5-YEAR COMPARISONS
+115.6%: Nightwing
+110.8%: Batman
+ 79.0%: Detective Comics
+ 58.3%: Suicide Squad
+ 57.2%: Catwoman
+ 31.5%: All Star Western
+ 24.3%: JL
+ 21.7%: Teen Titans
+ 14.0%: Scooby-Doo
+ 13.4%: Superman
+ 7.8%: Green Lantern
+ 6.3%: Flash
+ 4.6%: Action Comics
+ 1.8%: GL Corps
- 4.3%: Birds of Prey
- 6.5%: Wonder Woman
- 23.2%: Blue Beetle
- 23.6%: Hellblazer
- 26.8%: Supergirl
- 43.2%: Green Arrow
- 50.1%: LoSH

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Average Periodical Sales (not counting reprints, reorders shipping after the initial month of release, Johnny DC titles and magazines)

DC COMICS
01/2008: 27,033
01/2009: 24,273
01/2010: 25,657**
01/2011: 21,922**
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01/2012: 33,887 (- 4.3%)**
02/2012: 31,535 (- 6.9%)**
03/2012: 29,679 (- 5.9%)
04/2012: 31,319 (+ 5.5%)
05/2012: 38,708 (+ 23.6%)
06/2012: 37,599 (- 2.9%)
07/2012: 33,837 (- 10.0%)
08/2012: 33,500 (- 1.0%)**
09/2012: 35,811 (+ 6.9%)
10/2012: 32,901 (- 8.1%)**
11/2012: 33,872 (+ 3.0%)
12/2012: 34,272 (+ 1.2%)
01/2013: 31,759 (- 7.3%)
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6 months: - 6.1%
1 year : - 6.3%
2 years : + 44.9%
5 years : + 17.5%

DC UNIVERSE
01/2008: 33,654
01/2009: 32,705
01/2010: 33,698
01/2011: 24,321**
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01/2012: 37,145 (- 5.7%)**
02/2012: 34,456 (- 7.2%)**
03/2012: 33,229 (- 3.6%)
04/2012: 35,264 (+ 6.1%)
05/2012: 44,139 (+ 25.2%)
06/2012: 43,082 (- 2.4%)
07/2012: 38,502 (- 10.6%)
08/2012: 38,047 (- 1.2%)**
09/2012: 39,408 (+ 3.6%)
10/2012: 36,571 (- 7.2%)
11/2012: 36,585 (+ 0.0%)
12/2012: 36,880 (+ 0.8%)
01/2013: 33,485 (- 9.2%)
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6 months: - 13.0%
1 year : - 9.9%
2 years : + 37.7%
5 years : - 0.5%

VERTIGO
01/2008: 10,115
01/2009: 10,980
01/2010: 11,267
01/2011: 10,145
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01/2012: 9,995 (- 9.8%)
02/2012: 10,252 (+ 2.6%)
03/2012: 12,688 (+23.8%)
04/2012: 11,595 (- 8.6%)
05/2012: 11,102 (- 4.3%)
06/2012: 11,448 (+ 3.1%)
07/2012: 11,589 (+ 1.2%)
08/2012: 10,764 (- 7.1%)**
09/2012: 11,710 (+ 8.8%)
10/2012: 11,496 (- 1.8%)**
11/2012: 11,487 (- 0.1%)
12/2012: 11,771 (+ 2.5%)
01/2013: 10,764 (- 8.6%)
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6 months: - 7.1%
1 year : + 7.7%
2 years : + 6.1%
5 years : + 6.4%

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Disclaimers, et cetera

The numbers above are estimates for comic-book sales in the North American direct market, as calculated by ICv2.com according to the chart and index information provided by Diamond Comic Distributors.

ICv2.com‘s estimates are somewhat lower than the actual numbers, but they are consistent from month to month, so the trends they show are fairly accurate. Since it’s a “month-to-month” column, the comments, unless otherwise noted, are on the most recent month.

Bear in mind that the figures measure sales to retailers, not customers. Also, these numbers do not include sales to bookstores, newsstands, other mass-market retail chains or the United Kingdom. Re-orders are included, so long as they either reached stores in a book’s initial calendar month of release or were strong enough to make the chart again in a subsequent month.

If additional copies of an issue did appear on the chart after a book’s initial calendar month of release, you can see the total number of copies sold in parenthesis behind those issues (e.g. “[36,599]“). Should more than one issue have shipped in a month which is relevant for one of the long-term comparisons, the average between them will be used.

Titles released under the Johnny DC imprint and magazines, such as Mad, mostly sell through channels other than the direct market, so direct-market sales don’t tell us much about their performance. For most Vertigo titles, collection sales tend to be a significant factor, so the numbers for those books should be taken with a grain of salt as well. To learn (a little) more about Vertigo’s collection sales, go right here.

** Two asterisks after a given month in the average charts mean that one or more periodical release did not make the Top 300 chart in that month. In those cases, it’s assumed that said releases sold as many units as the No. 300 comic on the chart for that month for the purposes of the chart, although its actual sales are likely to be less than that.

For a more lyrical approach to discussing sales figures that covers all the essentials in a more condensed, less tedious fashion, finally, go right here.
http://comicsbeat.com/dc-comics-month-t ... uary-2013/

[fred le mallratAdmin-Man]

DC Comics Month to Month Sales: February 2013
by Marc-Oliver Frisch

As DC keeps clowning around and pushing hard to single-handedly choke the concept of irony to death by summer, the company’s average and total sales figures for new comic books performed solidly in the month of February.

After hiring Bob Harras, hiring Rob Liefeld, hiring every writer and artist who worked at Marvel in 1999, releasing a Green Lantern title especially for kids, releasing more Watchmen comics several of which written by J. Michael Straczynski, making a habit of hiring, promoting, then firing creative personnel on all kinds of titles every month, releasing Before Watchmen: Dollar Bill, hiring a raging homophobe to write Superman and announcing “WTF month,” in February 2013 DC released Justice League of America #1, a new high-profile Geoff Johns vehicle promoted with not one, not three, not 12, but 54 different cover choices, thus making it something like the lynchpin of gimmick-driven market gaming. I mean, the plastic-ring thing from a couple of years back was a fair stab, but this one is bolder.

(The company has since started to celebrate “WTF month” by chasing off various creators about to take over various flagship titles and planning to kill one of its few major minority characters. On the plus side, I suppose at least DC isn’t making a big deal out of shoehorning a property that was popular in Spawn 20 years ago into the tail end of a Bendis crossover.)

Retailers gobbled up those Justice League variants, evidently, giving DC’s average sales figures a solid, if not spectacular boost. Due to the smaller number of new DC titles published in February (70, versus 79 in January), however, the company’s total unit sales still dropped from 2.5 to 2.4 million, and its overall dollar sales from 8.6 to 8.4 million.

Meanwhile, the audience seems to be awfully tired of crossovers. No matter if it’s “Rotworld,” “Throne of Atlantis,” “H’el on Earth” or “Wrath of the First Lantern,” it’s abundantly clear in February that DC badly miscalculated the audience’s patience with such shenanigans. The positive effects on the participating titles are nil, at this stage, and in some cases, the crossovers even seem to be actively hurting sales. The one that’s still working, despite being in its waning stages, is “Death of the Family,” but that’s due to Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo having a spectacularly popular Batman run. The other crossovers lack this sort of centerpiece, and, not surprisingly, it’s showing in the sales figures.

With the media attention and very real sales increases the “New 52″ relaunch brought, DC had the opportunity to make people care. Instead, what readers got were erratic storytelling, creative-team changes — many of them mid-storyline — and crossovers. This didn’t work when Marvel tried it during Bob Harras’ tenure, so it’s puzzling why they thought it might be a good idea this time. The message this sends is that nobody cares about anything, as long as books are coming out and people are dumb enough to buy them. It’s a depressing and demeaning way of running a creative enterprise, for the audience as well as for the creators.

See below for the details and, as usual, please consider the small print at the end of the column. Thanks to Milton Griepp and ICv2.com for the permission to use their figures. An overview of ICv2.com‘s estimates can be found here.

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288 - INSURGENT
01/2013: Insurgent #1 of 6 -- 7,143
02/2013: Insurgent #2 of 6 -- 4,662 (-34.7%)

DC just pulled the emergency plug on this six-issue miniseries after the release of issue #3.

It’s not the first time this has happened, but it’s been a couple of years since they last did it. Sales are terrible enough, of course, but what made DC believe throwing a no-name book out there to fend for itself was going to work? And do they realize what damage cancelling a series midway does to the audience’s confidence in future projects?

It’s always odd when Marvel or DC do this. If they can’t or won’t afford to complete a miniseries, if only as an investment in customer and talent relations, talk of a healthy market rings hollow.

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283 - SCOOBY DOO: WHERE ARE YOU? (Johnny DC)
02/2008: Scooby Doo #129 -- 4,161
02/2009: Scooby Doo #141 -- 3,861
02/2010: Scooby Doo #153 -- 3,780
02/2011: SD:WAY? #6 -- 4,456
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02/2012: SD:WAY? #18 -- 4,655 (+ 2.7%)
03/2012: SD:WAY? #19 -- 4,677 (+ 0.5%)
04/2012: SD:WAY? #20 -- 4,752 (+ 1.6%)
05/2012: SD:WAY? #21 -- 5,269 (+10.9%)
06/2012: SD:WAY? #22 -- 4,968 (- 5.7%)
07/2012: SD:WAY? #23 -- 4,934 (- 0.7%)
08/2012: SD:WAY? #24 -- ?
09/2012: SD:WAY? #25 -- 4,979
10/2012: SD:WAY? #26 -- ?
11/2012: SD:WAY? #27 -- 5,032
12/2012: SD:WAY? #28 -- 4,879 (- 3.0%)
01/2013: SD:WAY? #29 -- 4,729 (- 3.1%)
02/2013: SD:WAY? #30 -- 4,752 (+ 0.5%)
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6 months: n.a.
1 year : + 2.1%
2 years : + 6.6%
5 years : +14.2%

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269 - GREEN LANTERN: THE ANIMATED SERIES (Johnny DC)
04/2012: GL: TAS #1 -- 12,791
05/2012: GL: TAS #2 -- 9,615 (-24.8%)
06/2012: GL: TAS #3 -- 8,716 (- 9.4%)
07/2012: GL: TAS #4 -- 7,790 (-10.6%)
08/2012: GL: TAS #5 -- 6,968 (-10.6%)
09/2012: GL: TAS #6 -- 6,619 (- 5.0%)
10/2012: GL: TAS #7 -- 6,516 (- 1.6%)
11/2012: GL: TAS #8 -- 5,961 (- 8.5%)
12/2012: GL: TAS #9 -- 5,464 (- 8.3%)
01/2013: GL: TAS #10 -- 5,263 (- 3.7%)
02/2013: GL: TAS #11 -- 5,211 (- 1.0%)
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6 months: -25.2%

Scooby-Doo, as always, keeps hovering just below 5,000 units, while Green Lantern: The Animated Series appears to be settling down in the same area. Bear in mind that direct-market sales are only part of the equation for these titles, next to subscriptions, mass-market chains, bookstores and libraries. That’s presumably why these titles are still ongoing, while Superman Family Adventures and Young Justice (see below) were both axed.

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243 - SAUCER COUNTRY (Vertigo)
03/2012: Saucer Country #1 -- 15,684
04/2012: Saucer Country #2 -- 11,263 (-28.2%)
05/2012: Saucer Country #3 -- 10,656 (- 5.4%)
06/2012: Saucer Country #4 -- 9,959 (- 6.5%)
07/2012: Saucer Country #5 -- 9,470 (- 4.9%)
08/2012: Saucer Country #6 -- 8,700 (- 8.1%)
09/2012: Saucer Country #7 -- 8,152 (- 6.3%)
10/2012: Saucer Country #8 -- 7,557 (- 7.3%)
11/2012: Saucer Country #9 -- 7,102 (- 6.0%)
12/2012: Saucer Country #10 -- 6,608 (- 7.0%)
01/2013: Saucer Country #11 -- 6,256 (- 5.3%)
02/2013: Saucer Country #12 -- 6,067 (- 3.0%)
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6 months: -30.3%

Cancelled with issue #14.

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224 - HUMAN BOMB
12/2012: Human Bomb #1 of 4 -- 11,212
01/2013: Human Bomb #2 of 4 -- 8,152 (-27.3%)
02/2013: Human Bomb #3 of 4 -- 6,931 (-15.0%)

While the creators certainly have a reputation here, in principle, the problem is the same as with Insurgence: a snowball’s chance in hell to stand out in a market that’s already overcrowded.

With 16 ongoing DC Universe titles already selling below the 20,000-unit mark and “New 52″ titles launched as recently as September 2012 dropping like flies, I’m not sure what a miniseries starring a random D-list character released without promotion is supposed to accomplish, other than to tank horribly and immediately.

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217 - YOUNG JUSTICE (Johnny DC)
02/2011: Young Justice #1 -- 10,777
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02/2012: Young Justice #13 -- 7,237 (- 0.7%)
03/2012: Young Justice #14 -- 7,241 (+ 0.1%)
04/2012: Young Justice #15 -- 7,273 (+ 0.4%)
05/2012: Young Justice #16 -- 7,466 (+ 2.7%)
06/2012: Young Justice #17 -- 7,459 (- 0.1%)
07/2012: Young Justice #18 -- 7,458 (- 0.0%)
08/2012: Young Justice #19 -- 7,375 (- 1.1%)
09/2012: Young Justice #20 -- 7,515 (+ 1.9%)
10/2012: Young Justice #21 -- 7,558 (+ 0.6%)
11/2012: Young Justice #22 -- 7,344 (- 2.8%)
12/2012: Young Justice #23 -- 7,200 (- 2.0%)
01/2013: Young Justice #24 -- 7,155 (- 0.6%)
02/2013: Young Justice #25 -- 7,136 (- 0.3%)
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6 months: - 3.2%
1 year : - 1.4%
2 years : -33.8%

Cancelled with issue #25. Direct-market sales weren’t that bad, actually, but there you go.

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213 - JOE KUBERT PRESENTS
10/2012: Joe Kubert Presents #1 of 6 -- 14,842
11/2012: Joe Kubert Presents #2 of 6 -- 10,542 (-29.0%)
12/2012: Joe Kubert Presents #3 of 6 -- 8,897 (-15.6%)
01/2013: Joe Kubert Presents #4 of 6 -- 7,876 (-11.5%)
02/2013: Joe Kubert Presents #5 of 6 -- 7,288 (- 7.5%)

As a vehicle for new work by industry legend Joe Kubert, this book has a better reason to exist than most, but, once again, as one of 70 DC titles shoved out there to swim or drown on their own terms, these sales are what you get.

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203 - THE UNWRITTEN (Vertigo)
02/2010: The Unwritten #10 -- 13,644
02/2011: The Unwritten #22 -- 11,371
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02/2012: The Unwritten #34 -- 9,789 (+ 3.2%)
02/2012: The Unwritten #.5 -- 9,595 (- 2.0%)
03/2012: The Unwritten #35 -- 9,675 (+ 0.8%)
03/2012: The Unwritten #.5 -- 9,529 (- 1.5%)
04/2012: The Unwritten #36 -- 9,678 (+ 1.6%)
05/2012: The Unwritten #37 -- 9,549 (- 1.3%)
06/2012: The Unwritten #38 -- 9,494 (- 0.6%)
07/2012: The Unwritten #39 -- 9,478 (- 0.2%)
08/2012: The Unwritten #40 -- 9,127 (- 3.7%)
09/2012: The Unwritten #41 -- 8,943 (- 2.0%)
10/2012: The Unwritten #42 -- 8,881 (- 0.7%)
11/2012: The Unwritten #43 -- 8,791 (- 1.0%)
12/2012: The Unwritten #44 -- 8,532 (- 3.0%)
01/2013: The Unwritten #45 -- 8,465 (- 0.8%)
02/2013: The Unwritten #46 -- 8,352 (- 1.3%)
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6 months: - 8.5%
1 year : -13.8%
2 years : -26.6%

The Unwritten keeps slowly drifting down the charts. With Hellblazer and Saucer Country gone, it’s the lowest-selling remaining Vertigo title by 7,000 units. The upcoming arc tying in with Fables may be a final attempt to improve the book’s fortunes.

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178 - THE FURY OF FIRESTORM: THE NUCLEAR MEN
02/2012: Firestorm #6 -- 19,162 (-10.2%)
03/2012: Firestorm #7 -- 17,786 (- 7.2%)
04/2012: Firestorm #8 -- 17,076 (- 4.0%)
05/2012: Firestorm #9 -- 17,240 (+ 1.0%)
06/2012: Firestorm #10 -- 15,789 (- 8.4%)
07/2012: Firestorm #11 -- 14,931 (- 5.4%)
08/2012: Firestorm #12 -- 14,137 (- 5.3%)
09/2012: Firestorm #0 -- 17,279 (+22.2%)
10/2012: Firestorm #13 -- 13,460 (-22.1%)
11/2012: Firestorm #14 -- 12,862 (- 4.4%)
12/2012: Firestorm #15 -- 11,997 (- 6.7%)
01/2013: Firestorm #16 -- 11,361 (- 5.3%)
02/2013: Firestorm #17 -- 11,100 (- 2.3%)
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6 months: -21.5%
1 year : -42.1%

Cancelled with issue #20.

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173 - ARROW
11/2012: Arrow #1 -- 25,442
12/2012: Arrow #2 -- 15,780 (-38.0%)
01/2013: Arrow #3 -- 13,090 (-17.1%)
01/2013: Arrow #4 -- 11,581 (-11.5%)

To be frank, I don’t quite expect Arrow will make it past issue #10, at this rate, despite being a digital-first title.

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172 - I, VAMPIRE
02/2012: I, Vampire #6 -- 18,153 (- 3.5%)
03/2012: I, Vampire #7 -- 18,440 (+ 1.6%)
04/2012: I, Vampire #8 -- 18,717 (+ 1.5%)
05/2012: I, Vampire #9 -- 17,175 (- 8.2%)
06/2012: I, Vampire #10 -- 16,517 (- 3.8%)
07/2012: I, Vampire #11 -- 15,734 (- 4.7%)
08/2012: I, Vampire #12 -- 14,788 (- 6.0%)
09/2012: I, Vampire #0 -- 17,920 (+21.2%)
10/2012: I, Vampire #13 -- 14,260 (-20.4%)
11/2012: I, Vampire #14 -- 13,666 (- 4.2%)
12/2012: I, Vampire #15 -- 12,846 (- 6.0%)
01/2013: I, Vampire #16 -- 12,310 (- 4.2%)
02/2013: I, Vampire #17 -- 11,833 (- 3.9%)
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6 months: -20.0%
1 year : -34.8%

Cancelled with issue #19.

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171 - DC UNIVERSE PRESENTS
02/2012: DCU Presents #6 -- 20,188 (- 8.4%)
03/2012: DCU Presents #7 -- 17,830 (-11.7%)
04/2012: DCU Presents #8 -- 16,566 (- 7.1%)
05/2012: DCU Presents #9 -- 15,776 (- 4.8%)
06/2012: DCU Presents #10 -- 14,310 (- 9.3%)
07/2012: DCU Presents #11 -- 13,619 (- 4.8%)
08/2012: DCU Presents #12 -- 15,138 (+11.2%)
09/2012: DCU Presents #0 -- 17,528 (+15.8%)
10/2012: DCU Presents #13 -- 14,405 (-17.8%)
11/2012: DCU Presents #14 -- 13,537 (- 6.0%)
12/2012: DCU Presents #15 -- 12,561 (- 7.2%)
01/2013: DCU Presents #16 -- 12,001 (- 4.5%)
02/2013: DCU Presents #17 -- 11,985 (- 0.1%)
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6 months: -20.8%
1 year : -40.6%

Cancelled with issue #19.

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169 - SWORD OF SORCERY
09/2012: Sword of Sorcery #0 -- 29,954
10/2012: Sword of Sorcery #1 -- 23,947 (-20.1%)
11/2012: Sword of Sorcery #2 -- 18,080 (-24.5%)
12/2012: Sword of Sorcery #3 -- 15,280 (-15.5%)
01/2013: Sword of Sorcery #4 -- 13,995 (- 8.4%)
02/2013: Sword of Sorcery #5 -- 12,334 (-11.9%)

Cancelled with issue #8.

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168 - AME-COMI GIRLS
10/2012: ACG #1: Wonder Woman -- 24,966
11/2012: ACG #2: Batgirl -- 16,083 (-35.6%)
12/2012: ACG #3: Duela Dent -- 13,185 (-18.0%)
01/2013: ACG #4: Power Girl -- 12,488 (- 5.3%)
02/2013: ACG #5 of 5: Supergirl -- 12,343 (- 1.2%)

Another digital-first book, and, after it was first solicited as an ongoing series and then turned into a five-issue mini, to be relaunched once more as an ongoing title in March. Sales have been levelling out here, at least, so maybe it’s worth a shot.

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167 - THE SAVAGE HAWKMAN
02/2012: Savage Hawkman #6 -- 21,316 (-11.1%)
03/2012: Savage Hawkman #7 -- 19,433 (- 8.8%)
04/2012: Savage Hawkman #8 -- 18,300 (- 5.8%)
05/2012: Savage Hawkman #9 -- 17,626 (- 3.7%)
06/2012: Savage Hawkman #10 -- 16,417 (- 6.9%)
07/2012: Savage Hawkman #11 -- 15,460 (- 5.8%)
08/2012: Savage Hawkman #12 -- 14,745 (- 4.6%)
09/2012: Savage Hawkman #0 -- 18,750 (+27.2%)
10/2012: Savage Hawkman #13 -- 14,763 (-21.3%)
11/2012: Savage Hawkman #14 -- 14,726 (- 0.3%)
12/2012: Savage Hawkman #15 -- 13,564 (- 7.9%)
01/2013: Savage Hawkman #16 -- 12,852 (- 5.3%)
02/2013: Savage Hawkman #17 -- 12,376 (- 3.7%)
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6 months: -16.1%
1 year : -46.9%

Cancelled with issue #20.

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165 - HELLBLAZER (Vertigo)
02/2008: Hellblazer #241 -- 11,998
02/2009: Hellblazer #252 -- 11,174
02/2010: Hellblazer #264 -- 10,025
02/2011: Hellblazer #276 -- 9,466
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02/2012: Hellblazer #288 -- 9,553 (+ 2.0%)
03/2012: Hellblazer #289 -- 9,363 (- 2.0%)
04/2012: Hellblazer #290 -- 9,472 (+ 1.2%)
05/2012: Hellblazer #291 -- 9,426 (- 0.5%)
06/2012: Hellblazer #292 -- 9,533 (+ 1.1%)
07/2012: Hellblazer #293 -- 9,247 (- 3.0%)
08/2012: Hellblazer #294 -- 9,396 (+ 1.6%)
09/2012: Hellblazer #295 -- 9,143 (- 2.7%)
10/2012: Hellblazer #296 -- 9,255 (+ 1.2%)
11/2012: Hellblazer #297 -- 9,146 (- 1.2%)
12/2012: Hellblazer #298 -- 9,132 (- 0.2%)
01/2013: Hellblazer #299 -- 9,329 (+ 2.2%)
02/2013: Hellblazer #300 -- 12,522 (+34.2%)
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6 months: +33.3%
1 year : +31.1%
2 years : +32.3%
5 years : + 4.4%

Thus ends DC’s longest-running ongoing title. Hellblazer is about to move over to the DC Universe imprint and relaunch as Constantine, a “New 52″ book.

Sales on the title haven’t been spectacular by any stretch, but they’ve been unusually stable. Losing fewer than 3,000 units over five years is no small feat, these days, even if the needle continues to point down ever so slightly. (The five years before that weren’t as kind, mind you. In March 2003, when the set of statistics we’re currently using begins, Hellblazer #182 sold an estimated 17,257 units.)

Looking at recent “New 52″ launches, there’s reason to be skeptical whether a relaunch that’s essentially going to make the book more generic and taking away one of its trademark qualities — being written almost exclusively by British writers of a certain renown — is a particularly prudent move. Of course there’s bound to be a significant sales increase for March’s issue #1. But will the new Constantine title be able to achieve a comparable degree of stability before dropping back to Hellblazer sales levels? The odds aren’t great.

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162 - BATWING
02/2012: Batwing #6 -- 21,643 (-10.0%)
03/2012: Batwing #7 -- 21,058 (- 2.7%)
04/2012: Batwing #8 -- 20,373 (- 3.3%)
05/2012: Batwing #9 -- 35,731 (+75.4%)
06/2012: Batwing #10 -- 20,724 (-42.0%)
07/2012: Batwing #11 -- 20,047 (- 3.3%)
08/2012: Batwing #12 -- 18,279 (- 8.8%)
09/2012: Batwing #0 -- 22,135 (+21.1%)
10/2012: Batwing #13 -- 17,166 (-22.5%)
11/2012: Batwing #14 -- 15,967 (- 7.0%)
12/2012: Batwing #15 -- 14,674 (- 8.1%)
01/2013: Batwing #16 -- 13,427 (- 8.5%)
02/2013: Batwing #17 -- 12,595 (- 6.2%)
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6 months: -31.1%
1 year : -41.8%

Not cancelled yet, amazingly. There’s a new creative team with new plans coming on with issue #20, instead. Not that this will stop DC management to change its mind on everything yesterday.

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161 - DEATHSTROKE
02/2012: Deathstroke #6 -- 21,306 (-10.8%)
03/2012: Deathstroke #7 -- 19,744 (- 7.3%)
04/2012: Deathstroke #8 -- 18,834 (- 4.6%)
05/2012: Deathstroke #9 -- 20,878 (+10.9%)
06/2012: Deathstroke #10 -- 19,722 (- 5.5%)
07/2012: Deathstroke #11 -- 17,107 (-13.3%)
08/2012: Deathstroke #12 -- 16,772 (- 2.0%)
09/2012: Deathstroke #0 -- 20,796 (+24.0%)
10/2012: Deathstroke #13 -- 15,078 (-27.5%)
11/2012: Deathstroke #14 -- 14,452 (- 4.2%)
12/2012: Deathstroke #15 -- 13,528 (- 6.4%)
01/2013: Deathstroke #16 -- 12,758 (- 5.7%)
02/2013: Deathstroke #17 -- 12,626 (- 1.0%)
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6 months: -24.7%
1 year : -40.7%

Cancelled with issue #20.

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158 - JSA LIBERTY FILES: THE WHISTLING SKULL
12/2012: Whistling Skull #1 of 6 -- 21,370
01/2013: Whistling Skull #2 of 6 -- 16,593 (-22.4%)
02/2013: Whistling Skull #3 of 6 -- 12,851 (-22.6%)

There’s no readily evident reason for the catastrophic third-issue drop. The debut issue was promoted with a 1:10 variant-cover edition, but there’s no such factor involved between issues #2 and #3.

On the other hand, this is rather closer to what I’d have expected this miniseries to sell in the first place, so maybe there was some retailer incentive for issues #1 and #2 that I’m not aware of — or maybe retailers just heavily miscalculated on those first two issues.

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155 - TEAM 7
09/2012: Team 7 #0 -- 34,503
10/2012: Team 7 #1 -- 27,661 (-19.8%)
11/2012: Team 7 #2 -- 19,510 (-29.5%)
12/2012: Team 7 #3 -- 17,090 (-12.4%)
01/2013: Team 7 #4 -- 14,919 (-12.7%)
02/2013: Team 7 #5 -- 13,005 (-12.8%)

Cancelled with issue #8.

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151 - DIAL H
05/2012: Dial H #1 -- 45,308
06/2012: Dial H #2 -- 30,618 (-32.4%)
07/2012: Dial H #3 -- 26,109 (-14.7%)
08/2012: Dial H #4 -- 22,733 (-12.9%)
09/2012: Dial H #0 -- 24,070 (+ 5.9%)
10/2012: Dial H #5 -- 19,903 (-17.3%)
11/2012: Dial H #6 -- 17,832 (-10.4%)
12/2012: Dial H #7 -- 16,217 (- 9.1%)
01/2013: Dial H #8 -- 14,672 (- 9.5%)
02/2013: Dial H #9 -- 13,541 (- 7.7%)
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6 months: -40.4%

This this title seems to be fairly well-reviewed, but that won’t save it from meeting its demise very, very, very soon if sales don’t improve drastically.

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150 - DJANGO UNCHAINED (Vertigo)
12/2012: Django Unchained #1 of 6 -- 11,795
01/2013: --
02/2013: Django Unchained #2 of 6 -- 13,554 (+14.9%)

It’s pretty unusual for sales to increase by any standard, let alone with the second issue, so this qualifies as a small hit for Vertigo. A motion-picture adaptation selling below the 15K mark certainly won’t save the imprint’s bacon, as far as new periodical comics are concerned, though.

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149 - DEMON KNIGHTS
02/2012: Demon Knights #6 -- 23,476 (- 9.1%)
03/2012: Demon Knights #7 -- 22,000 (- 6.3%)
04/2012: Demon Knights #8 -- 21,124 (- 4.0%)
05/2012: Demon Knights #9 -- 20,196 (- 4.4%)
06/2012: Demon Knights #10 -- 19,005 (- 5.9%)
07/2012: Demon Knights #11 -- 18,201 (- 4.2%)
08/2012: Demon Knights #12 -- 17,295 (- 5.0%)
09/2012: Demon Knights #0 -- 20,474 (+18.4%)
10/2012: Demon Knights #13 -- 16,805 (-17.9%)
11/2012: Demon Knights #14 -- 16,005 (- 4.8%)
12/2012: Demon Knights #15 -- 15,152 (- 5.3%)
01/2013: Demon Knights #16 -- 14,168 (- 6.5%)
02/2013: Demon Knights #17 -- 13,571 (- 4.2%)
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6 months: -21.5%
1 year : -42.2%

It’s too early to tell if sales are genuinely levelling out. In any case, there’s cause to be amazed that Demon Knights hasn’t been axed yet.

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148 - STORMWATCH
02/2008: --
02/2009: Stormwatch: PHD #19 -- 5,708
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02/2012: Stormwatch #6 -- 26,076 (-10.4%)
03/2012: Stormwatch #7 -- 24,384 (- 6.5%)
04/2012: Stormwatch #8 -- 23,212 (- 4.8%)
05/2012: Stormwatch #9 -- 22,448 (- 3.3%)
06/2012: Stormwatch #10 -- 20,592 (- 8.3%)
07/2012: Stormwatch #11 -- 19,678 (- 4.4%)
08/2012: Stormwatch #12 -- 18,531 (- 5.8%)
09/2012: Stormwatch #0 -- 21,764 (+17.5%)
10/2012: Stormwatch #13 -- 17,621 (-19.0%)
11/2012: Stormwatch #14 -- 16,559 (- 6.0%)
12/2012: Stormwatch #15 -- 15,437 (- 6.8%)
01/2013: Stormwatch #16 -- 14,411 (- 6.7%)
02/2013: Stormwatch #17 -- 13,657 (- 5.2%)
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6 months: - 26.3%
1 year : - 47.6%
5 years : n.a.

Very slowly levelling out over the last few months. By the time the new creative team gets here with issue #19, though, it’s going to take a small miracle to prevent Stormwatch from being one the danger list.

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145 - THE RAVAGERS
05/2012: Ravagers #1 -- 44,230
06/2012: Ravagers #2 -- 31,128 (-29.6%)
07/2012: Ravagers #3 -- 24,963 (-19.8%)
08/2012: Ravagers #4 -- 20,730 (-17.0%)
09/2012: Ravagers #0 -- 22,437 (+ 8.2%)
10/2012: Ravagers #5 -- 18,656 (-16.9%)
11/2012: Ravagers #6 -- 17,334 (- 7.1%)
12/2012: Ravagers #7 -- 16,177 (- 6.7%)
01/2013: Ravagers #8 -- 15,030 (- 7.1%)
02/2013: Ravagers #9 -- 14,223 (- 5.4%)
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6 months: -31.4%

Cancelled with issue #12.

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133 - FABLES (Vertigo)
02/2008: Fables #69 -- 24,337
02/2008: Fables #70 -- 23,975
02/2009: Fables #81 -- 22,517
02/2010: --
02/2011: Fables #102 -- 19,215
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02/2012: Fables #114 -- 17,374 (- 1.2%)
03/2012: Fables #115 -- 17,384 (+ 0.1%)
04/2012: Fables #116 -- 17,543 (+ 0.9%)
05/2012: Fables #117 -- 17,484 (- 0.3%)
06/2012: Fables #118 -- 18,566 (+ 6.2%)
07/2012: Fables #119 -- 17,110 (- 7.8%)
08/2012: Fables #120 -- 16,704 (- 2.4%)
09/2012: Fables #121 -- 16,596 (- 0.7%)
10/2012: Fables #122 -- 16,513 (- 0.5%)
11/2012: Fables #123 -- 16,229 (- 1.7%)
12/2012: Fables #124 -- 16,018 (- 1.3%)
01/2013: Fables #125 -- 15,983 (- 0.2%)
02/2013: Fables #126 -- 15,480 (- 3.2%
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6 months: - 7.3%
1 year : -10.9%
2 years : -19.4%
5 years : -35.9%

Presumably, the anniversary issue in January did well enough to cover up the usual underlying decline, hence the larger drop in February. On balance, Fables sticks to its very slow but steady decline.

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132 - BATMAN: ARKHAM UNHINGED
04/2012: Arkham Unhinged #1 -- 31,170
05/2012: Arkham Unhinged #2 -- 25,215 (-19.1%)
06/2012: Arkham Unhinged #3 -- 23,322 (- 7.5%)
07/2012: Arkham Unhinged #4 -- 21,809 (- 6.5%)
08/2012: Arkham Unhinged #5 -- 21,059 (- 3.4%)
09/2012: Arkham Unhinged #6 -- 20,259 (- 3.8%)
10/2012: Arkham Unhinged #7 -- 19,890 (- 1.8%)
11/2012: Arkham Unhinged #8 -- 18,393 (- 7.5%)
12/2012: Arkham Unhinged #9 -- 17,220 (- 6.4%)
01/2013: Arkham Unhinged #10 -- 16,113 (- 6.4%)
02/2013: Arkham Unhinged #11 -- 15,703 (- 2.6%)
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6 months: -25.4%

Is this digital-first title levelling out? Too early to tell.

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130 - FAIREST (Vertigo)
03/2012: Fairest #1 -- 31,769
04/2012: Fairest #2 -- 22,997 (-27.6%)
05/2012: Fairest #3 -- 22,329 (- 2.9%)
06/2012: Fairest #4 -- 21,156 (- 5.3%)
07/2012: Fairest #5 -- 20,371 (- 3.7%)
08/2012: Fairest #6 -- 19,446 (- 4.5%)
09/2012: Fairest #7 -- 18,626 (- 4.2%)
10/2012: Fairest #8 -- 18,376 (- 1.3%)
11/2012: Fairest #9 -- 17,417 (- 5.2%)
12/2012: Fairest #10 -- 16,919 (- 2.9%)
01/2013: Fairest #11 -- 16,498 (- 2.5%)
02/2013: Fairest #12 -- 16,141 (- 2.2%)
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6 months: -17.0%

Vertigo’s best-selling ongoing title appears to be finding its level around the 16,000-unit mark.

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128 - THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES
02/2008: Supergirl &LoSH #39 -- 31,123
02/2011: LoSH #10 -- 23,738
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02/2012: LoSH #6 -- 23,428 (- 8.6%)
03/2012: LoSH #7 -- 21,894 (- 6.6%)
04/2012: LoSH #8 -- 21,457 (- 2.0%)
05/2012: LoSH #9 -- 20,854 (- 2.8%)
06/2012: LoSH #10 -- 19,963 (- 4.3%)
07/2012: LoSH #11 -- 19,421 (- 2.7%)
08/2012: LoSH #12 -- 18,907 (- 2.7%)
09/2012: LoSH #0 -- 21,561 (+ 14.0%)
10/2012: LoSH #13 -- 18,487 (- 14.3%)
11/2012: LoSH #14 -- 17,767 (- 3.9%)
12/2012: LoSH #15 -- 16,912 (- 4.8%)
01/2013: LoSH #16 -- 16,496 (- 2.5%)
02/2013: LoSH #17 -- 16,242 (- 1.5%)
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6 months: - 14.1%
1 year : - 30.7%
2 years : - 31.6%
5 years : - 47.8%

Levelling out, at long last. But with sales well below 20K already, that alone might not be enough for the book to survive 2013.

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122 - SMALLVILLE SEASON 11
05/2012: Smallville S11 #1 -- 27,004
06/2012: Smallville S11 #2 -- 22,468 (-16.8%)
07/2012: Smallville S11 #3 -- 20,864 (- 7.1%)
08/2012: Smallville S11 #4 -- 19,861 (- 4.8%)
09/2012: Smallville S11 #5 -- 19,499 (- 1.8%)
10/2012: Smallville S11 #6 -- 19,663 (+ 0.8%)
11/2012: Smallville S11 #7 -- 19,104 (- 2.8%)
12/2012: Smallville S11 #8 -- 18,633 (- 2.5%)
01/2013: Smallville S11 #9 -- 17,845 (- 4.2%)
02/2013: Smallville S11 #10 -- 17,024 (- 4.6%)
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6 months: -14.3%

Smallville, another digital-first book, hasn’t quite found its level yet.

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121 - BATMAN BEYOND UNLIMITED
02/2012: Unlimited #1 -- 26,589 (+21.8%) [30,683]
03/2012: Unlimited #2 -- 23,570 (-11.4%)
04/2012: Unlimited #3 -- 24,196 (+ 2.7%)
05/2012: Unlimited #4 -- 24,356 (+ 0.7%)
06/2012: Unlimited #5 -- 24,058 (- 1.2%)
07/2012: Unlimited #6 -- 22,555 (- 6.3%)
08/2012: Unlimited #7 -- 21,219 (- 5.9%)
09/2012: Unlimited #8 -- 20,897 (- 1.5%)
10/2012: Unlimited #9 -- 19,877 (- 4.9%)
11/2012: Unlimited #10 -- 19,004 (- 4.4%)
12/2012: Unlimited #11 -- 18,089 (- 4.8%)
01/2013: Unlimited #12 -- 17,446 (- 3.6%)
02/2013: Unlimited #13 -- 17,025 (- 2.4%)
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6 months: -19.8%
1 year : -36.0%

Also a digital-first title, and Batman Beyond Unlimited continues to level out nicely. For a collection of previously published material, sales upwards of 15K should be perfectly all right.

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120 - INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US
01/2013: Injustice #1 -- 20,733
02/2013: Injustice #2 -- 17,068 (-17.7%)

Another digital-first book. Unlike Arrow or Ame-Comi Girls, Injustice sees a very modest second-issue drop, rather increasing its chances at mid-term survival.

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118 - ALL STAR WESTERN
02/2008: Jonah Hex #28 -- 13,614
02/2009: Jonah Hex #40 -- 11,631
02/2010: Jonah Hex #52 -- 11,213
02/2011: Jonah Hex #64 -- 10,255
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02/2012: ASW #6 -- 26,170 (- 3.8%)
03/2012: ASW #7 -- 25,349 (- 3.1%)
04/2012: ASW #8 -- 25,040 (- 1.2%)
05/2012: ASW #9 -- 31,413 (+ 25.5%)
06/2012: ASW #10 -- 25,334 (- 19.4%)
07/2012: ASW #11 -- 23,572 (- 7.0%)
08/2012: ASW #12 -- 22,767 (- 3.4%)
09/2012: ASW #0 -- 25,388 (+ 11.5%)
10/2012: ASW #13 -- 21,481 (- 15.4%)
11/2012: ASW #14 -- 20,186 (- 6.0%)
12/2012: ASW #15 -- 19,190 (- 4.9%)
01/2013: ASW #16 -- 18,254 (- 4.9%)
02/2013: ASW #17 -- 17,398 (- 4.7%)
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6 months: - 23.6%
1 year : - 33.5%
2 years : + 69.7%
5 years : + 27.8%

These numbers still aren’t levelling out in any meaningful way.

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112 - PHANTOM STRANGER
09/2012: Phantom Stranger #0 -- 40,103
10/2012: Phantom Stranger #1 -- 33,350 (-16.8%)
11/2012: Phantom Stranger #2 -- 24,979 (-25.1%)
12/2012: Phantom Stranger #3 -- 23,378 (- 6.4%)
01/2013: Phantom Stranger #4 -- 19,903 (-14.9%)
02/2013: Phantom Stranger #5 -- 18,032 (- 9.4%)

After the big drop in January, I suspected that my numbers for issues #0 through #3 — which were adjusted for a 10% cut Diamond likes to knock off of returnable comics for the purposes of their charts — may have been wrong this time. But looking at the February figure now, I don’t think so anymore. Phantom Stranger just seems to be dropping quickly.

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109 - THRESHOLD
01/2013: Threshold #1 -- 29,312
02/2013: Threshold #2 -- 18,389 (-37.3%)

Looks like my guess that the book might end up below the 20K mark within a few months was rather conservative.

Issue #1 was promoted with a 1:100 variant edition, while the ratio for the issue #2 variant was 1:25 — so that explains at least part of February’s big drop. Overall, though, these sales are emphatically not good. If the numbers don’t improve immediately, Threshold will be in cancellation territory by issue #3.

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103 - YOUNG ROMANCE: NEW 52 VALENTINE'S DAY SPECIAL
02/2013: Young Romance #1 -- 20,963

For an inconsequential $7.99 special, this is a surprisingly good number.

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102 - LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT
10/2012: LotDK #1 -- 42,904
11/2012: LotDK #2 -- 30,085 (-29.9%)
12/2012: LotDK #3 -- 25,710 (-14.5%)
01/2013: LotDK #4 -- 22,671 (-11.8%)
02/2013: LotDK #5 -- 21,041 (- 7.2%)

Very slowly levelling out, though it remains the best-selling digital-first title by a few thousand units.

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99 - BIRDS OF PREY
02/2008: Birds of Prey #115 -- 23,157
02/2009: Birds of Prey #127 -- 21,424
02/2011: Birds of Prey #9 -- 30,641
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02/2012: Birds of Prey #6 -- 30,376 (- 4.2%)
03/2012: Birds of Prey #7 -- 29,196 (- 3.9%)
04/2012: Birds of Prey #8 -- 28,661 (- 1.8%)
05/2012: Birds of Prey #9 -- 41,521 (+ 44.9%)
06/2012: Birds of Prey #10 -- 28,457 (- 31.5%)
07/2012: Birds of Prey #11 -- 27,389 (- 3.8%)
08/2012: Birds of Prey #12 -- 26,587 (- 2.9%)
09/2012: Birds of Prey #0 -- 30,574 (+ 15.0%)
10/2012: Birds of Prey #13 -- 25,851 (- 15.5%)
11/2012: Birds of Prey #14 -- 24,904 (- 3.7%)
12/2012: Birds of Prey #15 -- 24,026 (- 3.5%)
01/2013: Birds of Prey #16 -- 23,182 (- 3.5%)
02/2013: Birds of Prey #17 -- 22,112 (- 4.6%)
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6 months: - 16.8%
1 year : - 27.2%
2 years : - 27.8%
5 years : - 4.5%

Another 1,000 units gone.

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85 - JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK
02/2012: Justice League Dark #6 -- 38,360 (- 6.4%)
03/2012: Justice League Dark #7 -- 36,089 (- 5.9%)
04/2012: Justice League Dark #8 -- 35,022 (- 3.0%)
05/2012: Justice League Dark #9 -- 34,649 (- 1.1%)
06/2012: Justice League Dark #10 -- 33,238 (- 4.1%)
07/2012: Justice League Dark #11 -- 31,792 (- 4.4%)
08/2012: Justice League Dark #12 -- 30,754 (- 3.3%)
09/2012: Justice League Dark #0 -- 34,287 (+11.5%)
10/2012: Justice League Dark #13 -- 30,008 (-12.5%)
11/2012: Justice League Dark #14 -- 28,966 (- 3.5%)
12/2012: Justice League Dark #15 -- 27,712 (- 4.3%)
01/2013: Justice League Dark #16 -- 26,902 (- 2.9%)
02/2013: Justice League Dark #17 -- 25,841 (- 3.9%)
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6 months: -16.0%
1 year : -32.6%

And another 1,000 units gone.

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84 - SUICIDE SQUAD
02/2008: Raise the Flag #6 of 8 -- 16,152
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02/2012: Suicide Squad #6 -- 30,834 (- 5.8%)
03/2012: Suicide Squad #7 -- 32,908 (+ 6.7%)
04/2012: Suicide Squad #8 -- 32,789 (- 0.4%)
05/2012: Suicide Squad #9 -- 32,581 (- 0.6%)
06/2012: Suicide Squad #10 -- 31,576 (- 3.1%)
07/2012: Suicide Squad #11 -- 29,809 (- 5.6%)
08/2012: Suicide Squad #12 -- 28,302 (- 5.1%)
09/2012: Suicide Squad #0 -- 31,875 (+ 12.6%)
10/2012: Suicide Squad #13 -- 27,644 (- 13.3%)
11/2012: Suicide Squad #14 -- 63,691 (+130.4%) [69,185]
12/2012: Suicide Squad #15 -- 57,132 (- 10.3%)
01/2013: Suicide Squad #16 -- 27,061 (- 52.6%)
02/2013: Suicide Squad #17 -- 26,370 (- 2.6%)
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6 months: - 6.8%
1 year : - 14.5%
5 years : + 63.3%

Suicide Squad remains fairly stable overall, on the other hand. The current creative team will still be off the book after issue #19. (This week, at any rate. You never know.)

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82 - SUPERBOY
02/2011: Superboy #4 -- 27,448
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02/2012: Superboy #6 -- 34,520 (- 7.8%)
03/2012: Superboy #7 -- 33,050 (- 4.3%)
04/2012: Superboy #8 -- 31,900 (- 3.5%)
05/2012: Superboy #9 -- 34,838 (+ 9.2%)
06/2012: Superboy #10 -- 31,358 (- 10.0%)
07/2012: Superboy #11 -- 29,677 (- 5.4%)
08/2012: Superboy #12 -- 27,518 (- 7.3%)
09/2012: Superboy #0 -- 31,840 (+ 15.7%)
10/2012: Superboy #13 -- 25,726 (- 19.2%)
11/2012: Superboy #14 -- 28,017 (+ 8.9%)
12/2012: Superboy #15 -- 27,619 (- 1.4%)
01/2013: Superboy #16 -- 27,110 (- 1.8%)
02/2013: Superboy #17 -- 26,762 (- 1.3%)
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6 months: - 2.8%
1 year : - 22.5%
2 years : - 2.5%

At first glance, it looks like sales are levelling out, but there’s still a crossover with Superman and Supergirl going on. So ultimately, it’s quite possible that there’s a much steeper underlying decline here that will become apparent in March.

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80 - KATANA
02/2013: Katana #1 -- 27,021

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78 - JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA'S VIBE
02/2013: Vibe #1 -- 27,051

Well, Threshold launched with an estimated 29K units in January, and it slipped below 20K with its second issue. So the prospects aren’t rosy here. The silver lining is that the first issues of Katana and Vibe were promoted with 1:50 variants instead of, like Threshold, 1:100 ones, so there’s a fighting chance for the second-issue drop-off not to be entirely as stiff. Even then, though, issues #3 will follow.

In any case, the fact that sales of the two new launches are within 30 units of each other doesn’t bode well. It usually means that retailers didn’t know what to do with these, which, in turn, suggests that there may not be much of an audience clamoring for them.

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77 - TALON
09/2012: Talon #0 -- 59,691
10/2012: Talon #1 -- 55,737 (- 6.6%)
11/2012: Talon #2 -- 41,250 (-26.0%)
12/2012: Talon #3 -- 35,034 (-15.1%)
01/2013: Talon #4 -- 30,909 (-11.8%)
02/2013: Talon #5 -- 28,003 (- 9.4%)

Another recently launched title that’s not levelling out in any meaningful way — despite being co-written by new golden boy Scott Snyder and spinning out of a spectacularly successful storyline.

Not good at all, in terms of what it says about the market.

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76 - WORLDS' FINEST
05/2012: Worlds' Finest #1 -- 69,531
06/2012: Worlds' Finest #2 -- 51,510 (-25.9%)
07/2012: Worlds' Finest #3 -- 45,514 (-11.6%)
08/2012: Worlds' Finest #4 -- 39,629 (-12.9%)
09/2012: Worlds' Finest #0 -- 42,770 (+ 7.9%)
10/2012: Worlds' Finest #5 -- 35,951 (-15.9%)
11/2012: Worlds' Finest #6 -- 34,338 (- 4.5%)
12/2012: Worlds' Finest #7 -- 32,010 (- 6.8%)
01/2013: Worlds' Finest #8 -- 30,399 (- 5.0%)
02/2013: Worlds' Finest #9 -- 28,332 (- 6.8%)
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6 months: -28.5%

Not remotely finding its level yet.

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75 - ANIMAL MAN
02/2012: Animal Man #6 -- 38,504 (- 5.1%)
03/2012: Animal Man #7 -- 36,860 (- 4.3%)
04/2012: Animal Man #8 -- 36,369 (- 1.3%)
05/2012: Animal Man #9 -- 35,699 (- 1.8%)
06/2012: Animal Man #10 -- 34,992 (- 2.0%)
07/2012: Animal Man #11 -- 33,909 (- 3.1%)
08/2012: Animal Man #12 -- 34,549 (+ 1.9%)
09/2012: Animal Man #0 -- 38,295 (+10.8%)
10/2012: Animal Man #13 -- 34,303 (-10.4%)
11/2012: Animal Man #14 -- 33,503 (- 2.3%)
12/2012: Animal Man #15 -- 32,013 (- 4.5%)
01/2013: Animal Man #16 -- 30,322 (- 5.3%)
02/2013: Animal Man #17 -- 29,425 (- 3.0%)
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6 months: -14.8%
1 year : -23.6%

Let’s put it this way: The “Rotworld” crossover doesn’t seem to have done Animal Man much good.

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73 - SUPERGIRL
02/2008: Supergirl #26 -- 34,186
02/2009: Supergirl #38 -- 34,225
02/2010: Supergirl #50 -- 33,338
02/2011: Supergirl #61 -- 22,048
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02/2012: Supergirl #6 -- 38,719 (- 6.6%)
03/2012: Supergirl #7 -- 37,041 (- 4.3%)
04/2012: Supergirl #8 -- 36,042 (- 2.7%)
05/2012: Supergirl #9 -- 35,129 (- 2.5%)
06/2012: Supergirl #10 -- 33,309 (- 5.2%)
07/2012: Supergirl #11 -- 31,879 (- 4.3%)
08/2012: Supergirl #12 -- 30,420 (- 4.6%)
09/2012: Supergirl #0 -- 34,457 (+ 13.3%)
10/2012: Supergirl #13 -- 29,450 (- 14.5%)
11/2012: Supergirl #14 -- 31,270 (+ 6.2%)
12/2012: Supergirl #15 -- 30,814 (- 1.5%)
01/2013: Supergirl #16 -- 30,350 (- 1.5%)
02/2013: Supergirl #17 -- 30,146 (- 0.7%)
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6 months: - 0.9%
1 year : - 22.1%
2 years : + 36.7%
5 years : - 11.8%

Sales are levelled out, it would appear, but as with Superboy, the crossover is still in full swing here. So the stability is probably deceiving.

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72 - CATWOMAN
02/2008: Catwoman #76 -- 18,798
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02/2012: Catwoman #6 -- 41,447 (- 5.9%)
03/2012: Catwoman #7 -- 39,608 (- 4.4%)
04/2012: Catwoman #8 -- 38,711 (- 2.3%)
05/2012: Catwoman #9 -- 49,726 (+28.5%)
06/2012: Catwoman #10 -- 37,158 (-25.3%)
07/2012: Catwoman #11 -- 35,551 (- 4.3%)
08/2012: Catwoman #12 -- 34,117 (- 4.0%)
09/2012: Catwoman #0 -- 39,117 (+14.7%)
10/2012: Catwoman #13 -- 40,147 (+ 2.6%) [60,257]
11/2012: Catwoman #14 -- 63,653 (+58.6%)
12/2012: Catwoman #15 -- 35,020 (-45.0%)
01/2013: Catwoman #16 -- 33,915 (- 3.2%)
02/2013: Catwoman #17 -- 30,194 (-11.0%)
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6 months: - 11.5%
1 year : - 27.2%
5 years : + 60.6%

There’s no discernible reason for the big whopping drop — no crossovers, variant covers or creative-team changes were involved. And Catwoman #17 didn’t come out in the last week of February, either, so a box of copies didn’t just fall off a truck. Very odd.

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69 - SWAMP THING
02/2012: Swamp Thing #6 -- 41,235 (- 5.9%)
03/2012: Swamp Thing #7 -- 40,268 (- 2.4%)
04/2012: Swamp Thing #8 -- 39,431 (- 2.1%)
05/2012: Swamp Thing #9 -- 39,385 (- 0.1%)
06/2012: Swamp Thing #10 -- 37,383 (- 5.1%)
07/2012: Swamp Thing #11 -- 36,257 (- 3.0%)
08/2012: Swamp Thing #12 -- 36,696 (+ 1.2%)
09/2012: Swamp Thing #0 -- 40,123 (+ 9.3%)
10/2012: Swamp Thing #13 -- 36,069 (-10.1%)
11/2012: Swamp Thing #14 -- 42,036 (+16.5%)
12/2012: Swamp Thing #15 -- 33,916 (-19.3%)
01/2013: Swamp Thing #16 -- 32,262 (- 4.9%)
02/2013: Swamp Thing #17 -- 31,497 (- 2.4%)
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6 months: -14.2%
1 year : -23.6%

Levelling out again, evidently. It’s moot, though, since Scott Snyder and Yanick Paquette will be off the book after issue #18.

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68 - BATWOMAN
02/2012: Batwoman #6 -- 49,227 (- 5.2%)
03/2012: Batwoman #7 -- 46,874 (- 4.8%)
04/2012: Batwoman #8 -- 45,341 (- 3.3%)
05/2012: Batwoman #9 -- 43,942 (- 3.1%)
06/2012: Batwoman #10 -- 41,014 (- 6.7%)
07/2012: Batwoman #11 -- 38,980 (- 5.0%)
08/2012: Batwoman #12 -- 38,064 (- 2.4%)
09/2012: Batwoman #0 -- 41,684 (+ 9.5%)
10/2012: Batwoman #13 -- 37,315 (-10.5%)
11/2012: Batwoman #14 -- 36,395 (- 2.5%)
12/2012: Batwoman #15 -- 34,964 (- 3.9%)
01/2013: Batwoman #16 -- 34,103 (- 2.5%)
02/2013: Batwoman #17 -- 32,041 (- 6.1%)
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6 months: -15.8%
1 year : -34.9%

Another title with a sales drop for no apparent reason.

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59 - RED LANTERNS
02/2012: Red Lanterns #6 -- 43,450 (- 7.5%)
03/2012: Red Lanterns #7 -- 41,628 (- 4.2%)
04/2012: Red Lanterns #8 -- 40,189 (- 3.5%)
05/2012: Red Lanterns #9 -- 39,215 (- 2.4%)
06/2012: Red Lanterns #10 -- 38,005 (- 3.1%)
07/2012: Red Lanterns #11 -- 36,462 (- 4.1%)
08/2012: Red Lanterns #12 -- 35,070 (- 3.8%)
09/2012: Red Lanterns #0 -- 38,928 (+11.0%)
10/2012: Red Lanterns #13 -- 42,804 (+10.0%)
11/2012: Red Lanterns #14 -- 40,779 (- 4.7%)
12/2012: Red Lanterns #15 -- 39,071 (- 4.2%)
01/2013: Red Lanterns #16 -- 38,223 (- 2.2%)
02/2013: Red Lanterns #17 -- 35,839 (- 6.2%)
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6 months: + 2.2%
1 year : -17.5%

Sales are still slightly ahead of the August figure, to be fair. But looking at the February drop, it’s pretty clear that people are tired of crossovers here: From September through January, the book was part of the “Rise of the Third Army” crossover, and now there’s “Wrath of the First Lantern,” which runs for another three months.

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57 - GREEN ARROW
02/2008: Arrow/Canary #5 -- 36,662
02/2009: Arrow/Canary #17 -- 23,392
02/2010: Arrow&Canary #29 -- 16,600
02/2010: Black Arrow #30 -- 42,014
02/2011: Green Arrow #9 -- 33,922
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02/2012: Green Arrow #6 -- 30,097 (- 10.4%)
03/2012: Green Arrow #7 -- 29,004 (- 3.6%)
04/2012: Green Arrow #8 -- 27,433 (- 5.4%)
05/2012: Green Arrow #9 -- 26,966 (- 1.7%)
06/2012: Green Arrow #10 -- 25,769 (- 4.4%)
07/2012: Green Arrow #11 -- 24,646 (- 4.4%)
08/2012: Green Arrow #12 -- 23,126 (- 6.2%)
09/2012: Green Arrow #0 -- 28,408 (+ 22.8%)
10/2012: Green Arrow #13 -- 22,057 (- 22.4%)
11/2012: Green Arrow #14 -- 21,825 (- 1.1%)
12/2012: Green Arrow #15 -- 20,672 (- 5.3%)
01/2013: Green Arrow #16 -- 19,888 (- 3.8%)
02/2013: Green Arrow #17 -- 36,043 (+ 81.2%)
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6 months: + 55.7%
1 year : + 53.0%
2 years : + 6.3%
5 years : - 1.7%

In February, the new creative team of Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino took over Green Arrow, promoted with a 1:50 variant-cover edition and an additional “We Can Be Heroes Blank Cover Variant.” Results are spectacular, obviously.

Now, we know Lemire has some draw as a writer, but I’m wondering what caused the major chunk of the boost here. The “We Can Be Heroes” charity variants, of which DC has been releasing one per month since September 2012, might be the key. To date, they’ve only been used on issues whose sales were — or seemed to be, at least — elevated by other factors. But Green Arrow is making me consider they might be a bigger draw than I previously gave them credit for.

Then again, maybe I’m just underestimating Jeff Lemire’s draw. Either way, we’ll get a better sense next month.

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54 - WONDER WOMAN
02/2008: Wonder Woman #17 -- 41,948
02/2009: Wonder Woman #29 -- 33,237
02/2010: Wonder Woman #41 -- 25,354
02/2011: Wonder Woman #607 -- 33,053
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02/2012: Wonder Woman #6 -- 54,190 (- 6.0%)
03/2012: Wonder Woman #7 -- 51,314 (- 5.3%)
04/2012: Wonder Woman #8 -- 50,450 (- 1.7%)
05/2012: Wonder Woman #9 -- 48,750 (- 3.4%)
06/2012: Wonder Woman #10 -- 47,229 (- 3.1%)
07/2012: Wonder Woman #11 -- 45,669 (- 3.3%)
08/2012: Wonder Woman #12 -- 44,584 (- 2.4%)
09/2012: Wonder Woman #0 -- 49,778 (+ 11.7%)
10/2012: Wonder Woman #13 -- 43,731 (- 12.2%)
11/2012: Wonder Woman #14 -- 42,384 (- 3.1%)
12/2012: Wonder Woman #15 -- 41,641 (- 1.8%)
01/2013: Wonder Woman #16 -- 40,105 (- 3.7%)
02/2013: Wonder Woman #17 -- 39,110 (- 2.5%)
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6 months: - 12.3%
1 year : - 27.8%
2 years : + 18.3%
5 years : - 6.8%

Sales appear to be levelling out, at long last. Historically, this is a solid level for a Wonder Woman title, if not a spectacular one.

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53 - TEEN TITANS
02/2008: Teen Titans #56 -- 50,283
02/2009: Teen Titans #68 -- 35,096
02/2010: Teen Titans #80 -- 26,537
02/2011: Teen Titans #92 -- 26,170
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02/2012: Teen Titans #6 -- 53,123 (- 2.7%)
03/2012: Teen Titans #7 -- 51,402 (- 3.2%)
04/2012: Teen Titans #8 -- 50,814 (- 1.1%)
05/2012: Teen Titans #9 -- 50,261 (- 1.1%)
06/2012: Teen Titans #10 -- 47,491 (- 5.5%)
07/2012: Teen Titans #11 -- 45,367 (- 4.5%)
08/2012: Teen Titans #12 -- 42,817 (- 5.6%)
09/2012: Teen Titans #0 -- 47,318 (+ 10.5%)
10/2012: Teen Titans #13 -- 41,059 (- 13.2%)
11/2012: Teen Titans #14 -- 39,745 (- 3.3%)
12/2012: Teen Titans #15 -- 68,707 (+ 72.9%)
01/2013: Teen Titans #16 -- 63,726 (- 7.3%)
02/2013: Teen Titans #17 -- 39,186 (- 38.5%)
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6 months: - 8.5%
1 year : - 26.2%
2 years : + 49.7%
5 years : - 22.1%

The “Death of the Family” crossover moves on, and so do the extra readers it brought to Teen Titans.

Curiously, the solicitation text still name-checks the crossover, and its logo continues to be on the cover. Retailers were having none of it, though. Depending on how relevant the contents actually were, we might see some significant re-order activity here in March.

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50 - GREEN LANTERN: NEW GUARDIANS
02/2011: Emerald Warriors #7 -- 44,828
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02/2012: New Guardians #6 -- 50,319 (- 3.8%)
03/2012: New Guardians #7 -- 48,422 (- 3.8%)
04/2012: New Guardians #8 -- 47,320 (- 2.3%)
05/2012: New Guardians #9 -- 46,237 (- 2.3%)
06/2012: New Guardians #10 -- 44,404 (- 4.0%)
07/2012: New Guardians #11 -- 42,929 (- 3.3%)
08/2012: New Guardians #12 -- 41,479 (- 3.4%)
09/2012: New Guardians #0 -- 46,718 (+12.6%)
10/2012: New Guardians #13 -- 48,500 (+ 3.8%)
11/2012: New Guardians #14 -- 47,062 (- 3.0%)
12/2012: New Guardians #15 -- 45,136 (- 4.1%)
01/2013: New Guardians #16 -- 43,770 (- 3.0%)
02/2013: New Guardians #17 -- 42,285 (- 3.4%)
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6 months: + 1.9%
1 year : -16.0%
2 years : - 5.7%

The “Rise of the Third Army” crossover leads seamlessly into the “Wrath of the First Lantern” crossover. Once again, sales are still marginally ahead of the book’s August 2012 figures, but at this stage, the crossovers are masking an underlying decline, at best.

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49 - FLASH
02/2008: Flash #237 -- 37,719
02/2010: Rebirth #6 of 6 -- 70,824
02/2011: Flash #9 -- 55,980
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02/2012: Flash #6 -- 68,061 (- 5.0%)
03/2012: Flash #7 -- 64,975 (- 4.5%)
04/2012: Flash #8 -- 63,702 (- 2.0%)
05/2012: Flash #9 -- 62,807 (- 1.4%)
06/2012: Flash #10 -- 55,681 (- 11.4%)
07/2012: Flash #11 -- 53,674 (- 3.6%)
08/2012: Flash #12 -- 51,779 (- 3.5%)
09/2012: Flash #0 -- 56,890 (+ 9.9%)
10/2012: Flash #13 -- 49,936 (- 12.2%)
11/2012: Flash #14 -- 48,012 (- 3.9%)
12/2012: Flash #15 -- 45,925 (- 4.4%)
01/2013: Flash #16 -- 44,093 (- 4.0%)
02/2013: Flash #17 -- 42,936 (- 2.6%)
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6 months: - 17.1%
1 year : - 36.9%
2 years : - 23.3%
5 years : + 13.8%

The book seems to be settling down just above 40K, but given the capricious figures to date, it’s probably still too early to tell.

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48 - BEFORE WATCHMEN: DOCTOR MANHATTAN
08/2012: Dr. Manhattan #1 of 4 -- 86,197
09/2012: --
10/2012: Dr. Manhattan #2 of 4 -- 57,226 (-33.6%)
11/2012: --
12/2012: Dr. Manhattan #3 of 4 -- 48,909 (-14.5%)
01/2013: --
02/2013: Dr. Manhattan #4 of 4 -- 43,273 (-11.5%)
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6 months: -49.8%

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44 - BEFORE WATCHMEN: COMEDIAN
06/2012: Comedian #1 of 6 -- 115,713
07/2012: Comedian #2 of 6 -- 70,762 (-38.9%)
08/2012: --
09/2012: Comedian #3 of 6 -- 55,114 (-22.1%)
10/2012: --
11/2012: --
12/2012: Comedian #4 of 6 -- 50,073 (- 9.2%)
01/2013: --
02/2013: Comedian #5 of 6 -- 44,393 (-11.3%)
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6 Monate: n.a.

Well, I hope it was worth the damage it’s done to creators’ rights issues for all involved. The sales figures don’t suggest that retailers were rewarded for ordering boatloads of copies early on, at least. The numbers just keep crashing with every new issue.

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43 - GREEN LANTERN CORPS
02/2008: Green Lantern Corps #21 -- 47,582
02/2009: Green Lantern Corps #33 -- 44,607 [50,171]
02/2010: Green Lantern Corps #45 -- 75,404
02/2011: Green Lantern Corps #57 -- 52,770
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02/2012: Green Lantern Corps #6 -- 51,168 (- 5.4%)
03/2012: Green Lantern Corps #7 -- 48,692 (- 4.8%)
04/2012: Green Lantern Corps #8 -- 47,584 (- 2.3%)
05/2012: Green Lantern Corps #9 -- 46,336 (- 2.6%)
06/2012: Green Lantern Corps #10 -- 44,615 (- 3.7%)
07/2012: Green Lantern Corps #11 -- 42,996 (- 3.6%)
08/2012: Green Lantern Corps #12 -- 41,778 (- 2.8%)
09/2012: Green Lantern Corps #0 -- 47,309 (+13.2%)
10/2012: Green Lantern Corps #13 -- 50,773 (+ 7.3%)
11/2012: Green Lantern Corps #14 -- 49,594 (- 2.3%)
12/2012: Green Lantern Corps #15 -- 47,841 (- 3.5%)
01/2013: Green Lantern Corps #16 -- 45,387 (- 5.1%)
02/2013: Green Lantern Corps #17 -- 44,497 (- 2.0%)
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6 months: + 6.5%
1 year : -13.0%
2 years : -15.7%
5 years : - 6.5%

Another “Wrath of the First Lantern” crossover. You know the drill.

—–

37 - EARTH 2
05/2012: Earth 2 #1 -- 95,742 [102,490]
06/2012: Earth 2 #2 -- 75,936 (-20.7%) [ 84,740]
07/2012: Earth 2 #3 -- 74,892 (- 1.4%)
08/2012: Earth 2 #4 -- 67,393 (-10.0%)
09/2012: Earth 2 #0 -- 69,111 (+ 2.6%)
10/2012: Earth 2 #5 -- 61,529 (-11.0%)
11/2012: Earth 2 #6 -- 58,271 (- 4.8%)
12/2012: Earth 2 #7 -- 54,409 (- 6.6%)
01/2013: Earth 2 #8 -- 50,860 (- 6.5%)
02/2013: Earth 2 #9 -- 48,208 (- 5.2%)
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6 months: -28.5%

Sliding down the charts, with no end in sight.

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32 - RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS
02/2012: Red Hood #6 -- 39,898 (- 6.3%)
03/2012: Red Hood #7 -- 38,630 (- 3.2%)
04/2012: Red Hood #8 -- 37,974 (- 1.7%)
05/2012: Red Hood #9 -- 54,220 (+42.8%)
06/2012: Red Hood #10 -- 37,044 (-31.7%)
07/2012: Red Hood #11 -- 35,820 (- 3.3%)
08/2012: Red Hood #12 -- 34,439 (- 3.9%)
09/2012: Red Hood #0 -- 39,511 (+14.7%)
10/2012: Red Hood #13 -- 35,420 (- 6.7%)
11/2012: Red Hood #14 -- 37,710 (+ 6.5%)
12/2012: Red Hood #15 -- 64,103 (+70.0%)
01/2013: Red Hood #16 -- 59,621 (- 7.0%)
02/2013: Red Hood #17 -- 53,076 (-11.0%)
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6 months: +54.1%
1 year : +33.0%

Interestingly, this wasn’t marketed much differently from Teen Titans in terms of its relevance to the “Death of the Family” crossover, but sales here remain significantly above pre-crossover levels. But the title character played a major role in the crossover, of course, so that’s probably why retailers ordered more heavily here.

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29 - BATMAN, INCORPORATED
02/2011: --
------------------------------------
02/2012: --
03/2012: --
04/2012: --
05/2012: Batman, Inc. #1 -- 96,486 (+124.1%)
06/2012: Batman, Inc. #2 -- 73,654 (- 23.7%)
07/2012: --
08/2012: Batman, Inc. #3 -- 66,720 (- 9.4%)
09/2012: Batman, Inc. #0 -- 66,112 (- 0.9%)
10/2012: Batman, Inc. #4 -- 60,888 (- 7.9%)
11/2012: Batman, Inc. #5 -- 58,172 (- 4.5%)
12/2012: Batman, Inc. #6 -- 52,636 (- 9.5%)
01/2013: Batman, Inc. #7 -- 50,345 (- 4.4%)
02/2013: Batman, Inc. #8 -- 55,414 (+ 10.1%)
----------------
6 months: -17.0%
1 year : n.a.
2 years : n.a.

Amazingly, killing off characters still gets a raise out of retailers.

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28 - BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT
02/2011: --
-----------------------------------
02/2012: Dark Knight #6 -- 77,140 (+ 0.4%) [80,464]
03/2012: Dark Knight #7 -- 75,297 (- 2.4%)
04/2012: Dark Knight #8 -- 74,287 (- 1.3%)
05/2012: Dark Knight #9 -- 82,169 (+ 10.6%)
06/2012: Dark Knight #10 -- 71,671 (- 12.8%)
07/2012: Dark Knight #11 -- 68,632 (- 4.2%)
08/2012: Dark Knight #12 -- 67,084 (- 2.3%)
09/2012: Dark Knight #0 -- 72,919 (+ 8.7%)
10/2012: Dark Knight #13 -- 65,271 (- 10.5%)
11/2012: Dark Knight #14 -- 62,792 (- 3.8%)
12/2012: Dark Knight #15 -- 60,569 (- 3.6%)
01/2013: Dark Knight #16 -- 58,258 (- 3.8%)
02/2013: Dark Knight #17 -- 55,990 (- 3.9%)
-----------------
6 months: - 16.5%
1 year : - 27.4%

Sliding down the charts.

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25 - ACTION COMICS
02/2008: Action Comics #862 -- 55,658
02/2009: Action Comics #874 -- 48,360
02/2010: Action Comics #886 -- 29,845
02/2011: Action Comics #898 -- 31,935
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02/2012: Action Comics #6 -- 96,592 (- 11.7%)
03/2012: Action Comics #7 -- 91,822 (- 4.9%)
04/2012: Action Comics #8 -- 87,980 (- 4.2%)
05/2012: Action Comics #9 -- 88,796 (+ 0.9%)
06/2012: Action Comics #10 -- 80,751 (- 9.1%)
07/2012: Action Comics #11 -- 76,232 (- 5.6%)
08/2012: Action Comics #12 -- 71,203 (- 6.6%)
09/2012: Action Comics #0 -- 78,626 (+ 10.4%)
10/2012: Action Comics #13 -- 67,241 (- 14.5%)
11/2012: Action Comics #14 -- 64,341 (- 4.3%)
12/2012: Action Comics #15 -- 61,298 (- 4.7%)
01/2013: Action Comics #16 -- 58,645 (- 4.3%)
02/2013: Action Comics #17 -- 57,189 (- 2.5%)
-----------------
6 months: - 19.7%
1 year : - 40.8%
2 years : + 79.1%
5 years : + 2.8%

As Grant Morrison’s run is nearing its end, DC wants to let everybody know that, once again, they’ve horribly botched the editorial management of one of their flagship titles.

—–

22 - AQUAMAN
02/2012: Aquaman #6 -- 63,450 (- 2.5%)
03/2012: Aquaman #7 -- 62,345 (- 1.7%)
04/2012: Aquaman #8 -- 61,657 (- 1.1%)
05/2012: Aquaman #9 -- 60,527 (- 1.8%)
06/2012: Aquaman #10 -- 59,288 (- 2.1%)
07/2012: Aquaman #11 -- 57,675 (- 2.7%)
08/2012: Aquaman #12 -- 61,210 (+ 6.1%)
09/2012: Aquaman #0 -- 61,227 (+ 0.0%)
10/2012: Aquaman #13 -- 54,648 (-10.8%)
11/2012: Aquaman #14 -- 53,664 (- 1.8%)
12/2012: Aquaman #15 -- 75,947 (+41.5%)
01/2013: Aquaman #16 -- 62,153 (-18.2%)
02/2013: Aquaman #17 -- 58,578 (- 5.8%)
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6 months: - 4.3%
1 year : - 7.7%

The “Throne of Atlantis” epilogue keeps the figures solidly ahead of the book’s November sales.

—–

21 - BATMAN AND ROBIN
02/2010: Batman and Robin #8 -- 87,302
02/2010: Batman and Robin #9 -- 84,562
02/2011: Batman and Robin #20 -- 60,642
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02/2012: Batman and Robin #6 -- 70,103 (- 3.7%)
03/2012: Batman and Robin #7 -- 68,010 (- 3.0%)
04/2012: Batman and Robin #8 -- 66,659 (- 2.0%)
05/2012: Batman and Robin #9 -- 75,967 (+14.0%)
06/2012: Batman and Robin #10 -- 66,894 (-11.9%)
07/2012: Batman and Robin #11 -- 65,043 (- 2.8%)
08/2012: Batman and Robin #12 -- 63,993 (- 1.6%)
09/2012: Batman and Robin #0 -- 69,146 (+ 8.1%)
10/2012: Batman and Robin #13 -- 63,097 (- 8.8%)
11/2012: Batman and Robin #14 -- 75,543 (+19.7%)
12/2012: Batman and Robin #15 -- 89,878 (+19.0%)
01/2013: Batman and Robin #16 -- 81,494 (- 9.3%)
02/2013: Batman and Robin #17 -- 60,988 (-25.2%)
----------------
6 months: - 4.7%
1 year : -13.0%
2 years : + 0.6%

As the book emerges from “Death of the Family,” another 20,000 units disappear, magically leaving Batman and Robin where it was before the crossover started — well, almost.

—–

[fred le mallratAdmin-Man]

20 - NIGHTWING
02/2008: Nightwing #141 -- 30,980
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02/2012: Nightwing #6 -- 53,036 (- 5.4%)
03/2012: Nightwing #7 -- 50,489 (- 4.8%)
04/2012: Nightwing #8 -- 52,063 (+ 3.1%) [61,711]
05/2012: Nightwing #9 -- 61,395 (+17.9%)
06/2012: Nightwing #10 -- 50,585 (-17.6%)
07/2012: Nightwing #11 -- 49,124 (- 2.9%)
08/2012: Nightwing #12 -- 47,484 (- 3.3%)
09/2012: Nightwing #0 -- 53,109 (+11.9%)
10/2012: Nightwing #13 -- 47,171 (-11.2%)
11/2012: Nightwing #14 -- 50,720 (+ 7.5%)
12/2012: Nightwing #15 -- 74,407 (+46.7%)
01/2013: Nightwing #16 -- 69,643 (- 6.4%)
02/2013: Nightwing #17 -- 62,107 (-10.8%)
-----------------
6 months: + 30.8%
1 year : + 17.0%
5 years : +100.5%

—–

18 - BATGIRL
02/2010: Batgirl #7 -- 29,524
02/2011: Batgirl #18 -- 24,390
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02/2012: Batgirl #6 -- 53,151 (- 6.8%)
03/2012: Batgirl #7 -- 50,761 (- 4.5%)
04/2012: Batgirl #8 -- 48,878 (- 3.7%)
05/2012: Batgirl #9 -- 58,710 (+ 20.1%)
06/2012: Batgirl #10 -- 47,050 (- 19.9%)
07/2012: Batgirl #11 -- 45,004 (- 4.4%)
08/2012: Batgirl #12 -- 43,804 (- 2.7%)
09/2012: Batgirl #0 -- 50,441 (+ 15.2%)
10/2012: Batgirl #13 -- 50,074 (- 0.7%) [71,109]
11/2012: Batgirl #14 -- 77,468 (+ 54.7%)
12/2012: Batgirl #15 -- 75,341 (- 2.8%)
01/2013: Batgirl #16 -- 72,470 (- 3.8%)
02/2013: Batgirl #17 -- 65,751 (- 9.6%)
-----------------
6 months: + 50.1%
1 year : + 23.7%
2 years : +169.6%

Two more Batman spin-off titles that keep profiting significantly from the “Death of the Family” aftermath.

—–

17 - GREEN LANTERN
02/2008: --
02/2009: Green Lantern #38 -- 68,908 [77,372]
02/2010: Green Lantern #51 -- 95,509
02/2011: Green Lantern #62 -- 71,517
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02/2012: Green Lantern #6 -- 94,087 (- 3.9%)
03/2012: Green Lantern #7 -- 90,232 (- 4.1%)
04/2012: Green Lantern #8 -- 88,335 (- 2.1%)
05/2012: Green Lantern #9 -- 87,601 (- 0.8%)
06/2012: Green Lantern #10 -- 80,615 (- 8.0%)
07/2012: Green Lantern #11 -- 78,708 (- 2.4%)
08/2012: Green Lantern #12 -- 77,187 (- 1.9%)
09/2012: Green Lantern #0 -- 89,909 (+16.5%)
10/2012: Green Lantern #13 -- 91,814 (+ 2.1%)
11/2012: Green Lantern #14 -- 78,499 (-14.5%)
12/2012: Green Lantern #15 -- 74,363 (- 5.3%)
01/2013: Green Lantern #16 -- 72,884 (- 2.0%)
02/2013: Green Lantern #17 -- 71,060 (- 2.5%)
-----------------
6 months: - 7.9%
1 year : - 24.5%
2 years : - 0.6%
5 years : n.a.

The flagship Green Lantern title transitions from “Rise of the Third Army” to “Wrath of the First Lantern,” and it’s nowhere more obvious than here how tired the audience is. But while the Geoff Johns run is running out of steam commercially, all signs currently point to whatever comes after him being a complete disaster.

—–

9 - DETECTIVE COMICS
02/2008: Detective Comics #841 -- 50,535
02/2009: --
02/2010: --
02/2011: Detective Comics #874 -- 39,106
-----------------------------------------
02/2012: Detective Comics #6 -- 94,415 (- 5.0%)
03/2012: Detective Comics #7 -- 89,891 (- 4.8%)
04/2012: Detective Comics #8 -- 87,675 (- 2.5%)
05/2012: Detective Comics #9 -- 96,016 (+ 9.5%)
06/2012: Detective Comics #10 -- 83,317 (- 13.2%)
07/2012: Detective Comics #11 -- 79,835 (- 4.2%)
08/2012: Detective Comics #12 -- 75,998 (- 4.8%)
09/2012: Detective Comics #0 -- 84,063 (+ 10.6%)
10/2012: Detective Comics #13 -- 76,392 (- 9.1%)
11/2012: Detective Comics #14 -- 74,560 (- 2.4%)
12/2012: Detective Comics #15 -- 106,395 (+ 42.7%)
01/2013: Detective Comics #16 -- 92,300 (- 13.3%)
02/2013: Detective Comics #17 -- 85,824 (- 7.0%)
-----------------
6 months: + 12.9%
1 year : - 9.1%
2 years : +119.5%
5 years : + 69.8%

The secondary Batman title also keeps profiting from “Death of the Family,” even though it’s firmly in the “aftermath” stage.

—–

4 - JUSTICE LEAGUE
02/2008: JL of America #18 -- 89,803
02/2009: JL of America #30 -- 69,710
02/2010: JL of America #42 -- 57,522
02/2011: JL of America #54 -- 46,269
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02/2012: Justice League #6 -- 140,819 (- 2.7%)
03/2012: Justice League #7 -- 136,436 (- 3.1%)
04/2012: Justice League #8 -- 133,240 (- 2.3%)
05/2012: Justice League #9 -- 131,332 (- 1.4%)
06/2012: Justice League #10 -- 130,502 (- 0.6%)
07/2012: Justice League #11 -- 123,971 (- 5.0%)
08/2012: Justice League #12 -- 120,796 (- 2.6%) [161,235]
09/2012: Justice League #0 -- 125,868 (+ 4.2%)
10/2012: Justice League #13 -- 117,752 (- 6.5%)
11/2012: Justice League #14 -- 113,094 (- 4.0%)
12/2012: Justice League #15 -- 115,074 (+ 1.8%)
01/2013: Justice League #16 -- 117,719 (+ 2.3%)
02/2013: Justice League #17 -- 105,304 (- 10.6%)
-----------------
6 months: - 12.8%
1 year : - 25.2%
2 years : +127.6%
5 years : + 17.3%

Last month, the book was promoted with a “We Can Be Heroes” variant, which may have masked a decline that’s now becoming more evident. Justice League looks like it’s on its way out of the 100K club.

—–

3 - BATMAN
02/2008: Batman #674 -- 68,208
02/2009: Batman #686 -- 111,353 [128,780]
02/2010: Batman #696 -- 61,290
02/2011: Batman #707 -- 58,803
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02/2012: Batman #6 -- 128,459 (- 5.0%) [135,435]
03/2012: Batman #7 -- 131,091 (+ 2.1%)
04/2012: Batman #8 -- 130,602 (- 0.4%) [136,218]
05/2012: Batman #9 -- 134,605 (+ 3.1%)
06/2012: Batman #10 -- 130,265 (- 3.2%)
07/2012: Batman #11 -- 127,210 (- 2.4%)
08/2012: Batman #12 -- 125,249 (- 1.5%)
09/2012: Batman #0 -- 156,561 (+ 25.0%)
10/2012: Batman #13 -- 148,305 (- 5.3%) [174,642]
11/2012: Batman #14 -- 159,729 (+ 7.7%)
12/2012: Batman #15 -- 151,568 (- 5.1%)
01/2013: Batman #16 -- 145,923 (- 3.7%)
02/2013: Batman #17 -- 150,684 (+ 3.3%)
-----------------
6 months: + 20.3%
1 year : + 17.3%
2 years : +156.3%
5 years : +120.9%

Well, continuously spectacular sales, obviously.

There hasn’t been a book that clicked this well this consistently with the audience and sold this well for so long based on one particular creative team in years — in decades, probably.

—–

1 - JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
02/2008: JL of America #18 -- 89,803
02/2009: JL of America #30 -- 69,710
02/2010: JL of America #42 -- 57,522
02/2011: JL of America #54 -- 46,269
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02/2013: JL of America #1 -- 307,734
-----------------
2 years : +565.1%
5 years : +242.7%

And the big one.

Retailers were able to order each of the book’s 52 “state variants” (including one each for the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico) separately, and there were also the regular cover, an Emerald City Con variant, a Combo Pack Edition and a complete set containing all the variants (the latter two not included in the above sales figure, because they had separate order codes). So, all told, there were 56 ways of buying Justice League of America #1.

And retailers and collectors love that sort of thing, as the numbers amply demonstrate. We’ve seen sales overwhelmingly driven by gimmicks before, of course, but it’s been a while since Marvel or DC employed them on this scale. While the second-issue drop-off will no doubt be huge, it’ll be interesting to see just how huge.

Mind you, even if the book loses two thirds of its sales in March, it’s still going to crack 100K, so everything’s relative.

—–

6-MONTH COMPARISONS
+ 55.7%: Green Arrow
+ 54.1%: Red Hood
+ 50.1%: Batgirl
+ 33.3%: Hellblazer
+ 30.8%: Nightwing
+ 20.3%: Batman
+ 12.9%: Detective Comics
+ 6.5%: Green Lantern Corps
+ 2.2%: Red Lanterns
+ 1.9%: New Guardians
- 0.9%: Supergirl
- 2.8%: Superboy
- 3.2%: Young Justice
- 4.3%: Aquaman
- 4.7%: Batman and Robin
- 6.8%: Suicide Squad
- 7.3%: Fables
- 7.9%: Green Lantern
- 8.5%: Teen Titans
- 8.5%: Unwritten
- 11.5%: Catwoman
- 12.3%: Wonder Woman
- 12.8%: Justice League
- 14.1%: LoSH
- 14.2%: Swamp Thing
- 14.3%: Smallville
- 14.8%: Animal Man
- 15.8%: Batwoman
- 16.0%: JLD
- 16.1%: Hawkman
- 16.5%: Dark Knight
- 16.8%: Birds of Prey
- 17.0%: Batman, Inc.
- 17.0%: Fairest
- 17.1%: Flash
- 19.7%: Action Comics
- 19.8%: BB Unlimited
- 20.0%: I, Vampire
- 20.8%: DCU Presents
- 21.5%: Demon Knights
- 21.5%: Firestorm
- 23.6%: ASW
- 24.7%: Deathstroke
- 25.2%: GL: TAS
- 25.4%: Arkham Unhinged
- 26.3%: Stormwatch
- 28.5%: Worlds' Finest
- 30.3%: Saucer Country
- 31.1%: Batwing
- 31.4%: Ravagers
- 40.4%: Dial H
- 49.8%: Dr. Manhattan

—–

1-YEAR COMPARISONS
+ 53.0%: Green Arrow
+ 33.0%: Red Hood
+ 31.1%: Hellblazer
+ 23.7%: Batgirl
+ 17.3%: Batman
+ 17.0%: Nightwing
+ 2.1%: Scooby-Doo
- 1.4%: Young Justice
- 7.7%: Aquaman
- 9.1%: Detective Comics
- 10.9%: Fables
- 13.0%: Batman and Robin
- 13.0%: GL Corps
- 13.8%: Unwritten
- 14.5%: Suicide Squad
- 16.0%: New Guardians
- 17.5%: Red Lanterns
- 22.1%: Supergirl
- 22.5%: Superboy
- 23.6%: Animal Man
- 23.6%: Swamp Thing
- 24.5%: Green Lantern
- 25.2%: Justice League
- 26.2%: Teen Titans
- 27.2%: Birds of Prey
- 27.2%: Catwoman
- 27.4%: Dark Knight
- 27.8%: Wonder Woman
- 30.7%: LoSH
- 32.6%: JLD
- 33.5%: ASW
- 34.8%: I, Vampire
- 34.9%: Batwoman
- 36.0%: BB Unlimited
- 36.9%: Flash
- 40.6%: DCU Presents
- 40.7%: Deathstroke
- 40.8%: Action Comics
- 41.8%: Batwing
- 42.1%: Firestorm
- 42.2%: Demon Knights
- 46.9%: Hawkman
- 47.6%: Stormwatch

—–

2-YEAR COMPARISONS
+565.1%: JLA
+169.6%: Batgirl
+156.3%: Batman
+127.6%: Justice League
+119.5%: Detective Comics
+ 79.1%: Action Comics
+ 69.7%: ASW
+ 49.7%: Teen Titans
+ 36.7%: Supergirl
+ 32.3%: Hellblazer
+ 18.3%: Wonder Woman
+ 6.6%: Scooby-Doo
+ 6.3%: Green Arrow
+ 0.6%: Batman and Robin
- 0.6%: Green Lantern
- 2.5%: Superboy
- 5.7%: New Guardians
- 15.7%: GL Corps
- 19.4%: Fables
- 23.3%: Flash
- 26.6%: Unwritten
- 27.8%: Birds of Prey
- 31.6%: LoSH
- 33.8%: Young Justice

—–

5-YEAR COMPARISONS
+242.7%: JLA
+120.9%: Batman
+100.5%: Nightwing
+ 69.8%: Detective Comics
+ 63.3%: Suicide Squad
+ 60.6%: Catwoman
+ 27.8%: ASW
+ 17.3%: Justice League
+ 14.5%: Scooby-Doo
+ 13.8%: Flash
+ 4.4%: Hellblazer
+ 2.8%: Action Comics
- 1.7%: Green Arrow
- 4.5%: Birds of Prey
- 6.5%: GL Corps
- 6.8%: Wonder Woman
- 11.8%: Supergirl
- 22.1%: Teen Titans
- 35.9%: Fables
- 47.8%: LoSH

—–
Average Periodical Sales (not counting reprints, reorders shipping after the initial month of release, Johnny DC titles and magazines)

DC COMICS
02/2008: 27,652
02/2009: 23,080
02/2010: 26,199**
02/2011: 23,252**
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02/2012: 31,535 (- 6.9%)**
03/2012: 29,679 (- 5.9%)
04/2012: 31,319 (+ 5.5%)
05/2012: 38,708 (+ 23.6%)
06/2012: 37,599 (- 2.9%)
07/2012: 33,837 (- 10.0%)
08/2012: 33,500 (- 1.0%)**
09/2012: 35,811 (+ 6.9%)
10/2012: 32,901 (- 8.1%)**
11/2012: 33,872 (+ 3.0%)
12/2012: 34,272 (+ 1.2%)
01/2013: 31,759 (- 7.3%)
02/2013: 34,711 (+ 9.1%)
-----------------
6 months: + 3.6%
1 year : + 10.1%
2 years : + 49.3%
5 years : + 25.2%

DC UNIVERSE
02/2008: 35,994
02/2009: 30,224
02/2010: 35,895
02/2011: 25,887**
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02/2012: 34,456 (- 7.2%)**
03/2012: 33,229 (- 3.6%)
04/2012: 35,264 (+ 6.1%)
05/2012: 44,139 (+ 25.2%)
06/2012: 43,082 (- 2.4%)
07/2012: 38,502 (- 10.6%)
08/2012: 38,047 (- 1.2%)**
09/2012: 39,408 (+ 3.6%)
10/2012: 36,571 (- 7.2%)
11/2012: 36,585 (+ 0.0%)
12/2012: 36,880 (+ 0.8%)
01/2013: 33,485 (- 9.2%)
02/2013: 36,838 (+ 10.0%)
-----------------
6 months: - 3.2%
1 year : + 6.9%
2 years : + 42.3%
5 years : + 2.4%

VERTIGO
02/2008: 10,885
02/2009: 11,353
02/2010: 9,256
02/2011: 10,295
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02/2012: 10,252 (+ 2.6%)
03/2012: 12,688 (+23.8%)
04/2012: 11,595 (- 8.6%)
05/2012: 11,102 (- 4.3%)
06/2012: 11,448 (+ 3.1%)
07/2012: 11,589 (+ 1.2%)
08/2012: 10,764 (- 7.1%)**
09/2012: 11,710 (+ 8.8%)
10/2012: 11,496 (- 1.8%)**
11/2012: 11,487 (- 0.1%)
12/2012: 11,771 (+ 2.5%)
01/2013: 10,764 (- 8.6%)
02/2013: 12,019 (+11.7%)
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6 months: + 11.7%
1 year : + 17.2%
2 years : + 16.8%
5 years : + 10.4%

—–
Disclaimers, et cetera

The numbers above are estimates for comic-book sales in the North American direct market, as calculated by ICv2.com according to the chart and index information provided by Diamond Comic Distributors.

ICv2.com‘s estimates are somewhat lower than the actual numbers, but they are consistent from month to month, so the trends they show are fairly accurate. Since it’s a “month-to-month” column, the comments, unless otherwise noted, are on the most recent month.

Bear in mind that the figures measure sales to retailers, not customers. Also, these numbers do not include sales to bookstores, newsstands, other mass-market retail chains or the United Kingdom. Re-orders are included, so long as they either reached stores in a book’s initial calendar month of release or were strong enough to make the chart again in a subsequent month.

If additional copies of an issue did appear on the chart after a book’s initial calendar month of release, you can see the total number of copies sold in parenthesis behind those issues (e.g. “[36,599]“). Should more than one issue have shipped in a month which is relevant for one of the long-term comparisons, the average between them will be used.

Titles released under the Johnny DC imprint and magazines, such as Mad, mostly sell through channels other than the direct market, so direct-market sales don’t tell us much about their performance. For most Vertigo titles, collection sales tend to be a significant factor, so the numbers for those books should be taken with a grain of salt as well. To learn (a little) more about Vertigo’s collection sales, go right here.

** Two asterisks after a given month in the average charts mean that one or more periodical release did not make the Top 300 chart in that month. In those cases, it’s assumed that said releases sold as many units as the No. 300 comic on the chart for that month for the purposes of the chart, although its actual sales are likely to be less than that.

For a more lyrical approach to discussing sales figures that covers all the essentials in a more condensed, less tedious fashion, finally, go right here.

http://comicsbeat.com/dc-comics-month-t ... uary-2013/

[fred le mallratAdmin-Man]

Mélange de traduction de l analyse du gars plus haut + mes propres idées..(ca vaut ce que ca vaut)
On parle des commandes des comics shops d'Amerique du Nord uniquement.
Je ne parlerais pas des série digitale, vertigo (qui vendent sous 20 000ex) ou de tout age...
1-Justice League America : Gros score mais il y a 56 variant covers... Ca aide aussi.. De toute façon cela aurait été facile au dessus de 100 000 au minimum.. A suivre mais le 2 est toujours dans le top 10... On peut penser que la série sera dans le top 5 de DC et le top 20 US.
2-Batman: Que dire? c est une réussite totale! Non seulement j aime la série, je lis peu de critique négative ou en tout cas aucune disant que la série est nulle.. mais en plus comme le dit le commentateur ca fait plus d une décennie qu'une série se vend aussi bien sur la durée avec une équipe créative inchangée. Elle sert même d'ancre aux autres séries Bat pour les remonter à coup de crossovers internes...
3-Justice League : On aurait pu dire pareil mais le commentateur indique que le déclin masqué par des variants semblent confirmer que sans Jim Lee, JL va sortir du club des 100 000 (donc y aura plus que batman quoi.. parceque chez Marvel il n y en a pas passé 2-3 numéros). Vu les ventes de la précédente incarnation : ca reste un jackpot.. La série devrait rester dans le Top 10-15 et si Jim Lee et Snyder donne une série SUperman à 100 000 ex... DC saura se consoler.
4-Detective Comics perd un peu suite à la fin du crossover recent et retourne vers 75 000 ex... ca reste trés bon : la précédente incarnation était en dessous de 40 000.
5-Green Lantern : la série, suite au crossover, perd des lecteurs. Cela revient vers la partie basse des ventes de Johns sur la série précédente. Le commentateur y voit une fatigue du lectorat, semblant indiquer un désastre pour l'aprés Johns.. Je trouve, perso, qu il joue n peu Mme Irma et que 71000 ca reste quand même de bons chiffres;même si le titre semble sortir du Top 20 (mais est ce seulement du à GL ou aussi au fait que Marvel retrouve des titres vendant entre 70 et 90 000?)
6-Nightwing et Batgirl ont gardés des lecteurs attirés lors du cross "Death Of The Family";une bonne opération.
7-Batman &Robin : c est le contraire. Le titre a perdu plus de lecteurs qu il en avait gagné avec le crossover... ce n'est pas bon (même si les ventes sont toujours trés bonnes).
8-Aquaman garde encore des lecteurs acquis lors du crossover "Throne of Atlanis"mais pas assez pour que le mois prochain on ne revienne déjà a des ventes normales (mais toujours solides)
9-Action Comics : le titre a êrdu 40% de lecteurs en 1 an et les déboires éditoriaux qui suivent (Diggle, Tony Daniel). Le titre était à 80 000 au #10. Les autres titres Superman sont loin derrière... La gestion editoriale de la franchises a été un aussi gros échec que celles de la franchise Batman a été un succes brillant.... DC doit revoir sa copie. Superman Unchained sera le titre phare mais il va falloir moins de désordres editoriaux (le titre superman de Perez) pour assurer un succès de franchise.
10-Dark Knight : Stable sans participation a un cross
11-Batman Inc : la promesse de la mort d un perso fait toujours grimper les commandes.... mais là il devrait y avoir du reassort dans les mois qui arrivent (commandes après le délais .. souvent des réimpression).
12-Red Hood &The Outlaws : Voir Nightwing et Batgirl
13-Earth 2 ne se stabilise pas
14-Green Lantern Corps : V Green Lantern . Un cross arrive ca devrait booster au moins temporairement.
15- Les Before Watchmen : Ils perdent des lecteurs trop rapidement par coup de 10 000... c est juste des minis .. donc ca va et surement que DC attend des ventes surtout dans le marché des librairies avec les TPB qui vont suivre. Ca aura fait du cash mais .. pas convaincu, semble t'il les fans de comics. (même si ca reste des ventes sympa à 40 000ex)
16-Flash : le titre semble se stabiliser mais il a déjà eu des impressions de stabilité pour rechuter. Les ventes sont passés sous le précédent volume par Johns et Manapul.
17-New Guardians : les crossovers masquent un certain déclin
18-Teen Titans a perdu tous les lecteurs venus pour Death Of The Family. Ce numéro était un epilogue mais pas vendu comme tel. Il y aura surement des reorders.
19-Wonder Woman : les ventes se stabilisent à un bon niveau pour le titre de maniere générale.
20-Green Arrow : +86% pour ce numéro. Il y a des variants et c est le 1er numéro de Lemire avec u marketting et un rapprochement avec la série TV... A voir si cela reste. Cela a en tout cas sauvé la série momentanément... qui a été un echec jusque là (dés le 6 elle était à 30 000 ex)
21-Red Lanterns : V Green Lantern
22-Batwoman : Une chute ce mois ci sans explication. En dehors de ca des ventes stables.
23-Swamp Thing semble se stabiliser mais Snyder et Paquette partent d'ici peu...
24-Catwoman : Chute importante ce mois ci sans explication (ca suit pas une hausse précédente due a des variants, cross..). A suivre
25-Supergirl et Superboy : les ventes semblent stables mais on est en plein crossover.. bref ca masuqe plutot des baisses.. la franchise superman est à rebatir.
26-Animal Man : n est pas stable. Le crossover semble ne pas avoir fait de bien à la série.
27-World's Finest : toujours pas stable
28-Talon ne se stabilise toujours pas alors que le titre est co-écrit par Snyder et est un spi-off du titre le plus vendu de DC.... ca en dit long sur l'état du marché ...
29- Justice League America's Vibe le prouve... ce #1 promet une fin rapide à cette série qui porte le nom de la série DC qui a vendu le plus de #1 depuis 1996, écrite par le scenariste star Geoff Johns. Sortir une série d'un perso inconnu même avec un auteur superstar reste impossible... Le lectorat veut pas du neuf.... il veut du personnages connus (et des cross et des variants et des morts/resurrections) . Bref il veut le contraire de ce que dit internet....
30-Katana : Ce #1 a les mêmes ventes que Threshold 1 .. on va voir ce que ca donne avec Threshold..
31-Suicide Squad : Stable mais l equipe creative part dans 2 numeros... et on est pas loin de la ligne jaune.
32-Jutice League Dark et Birds Of Prey perd encore 1000 ex....va falloir reveiller tout ca!!!
33-Threshold : déjà sous 20000 ex au #2 ... ca devait pas dépasser 8 numéros... et encore.. on est déjà sous la ligne jaune. On voit ce que vont devenir Katana et Vibe..
34-Phantom Stranger : pas stable et sous 20000 : ca craint
35-All Star Western : pas stable, sous 20 000 mais Jonah Hex vendait 6-7000 en moins. ce n est pas du superhéros.. donc ca peut continuer mais il faudrait que ca se stabilise.
36-Legion Of Super-heroes.. se stabilise mais à 16 000... ca devrait pas passer 2013
37-Ravagers s arrête au 12
38-Stormwatch : une nouvelle equipe creative arrive dans 2 numeros mais on est en dessous du 1er titre arrété.... bref ca verra pas 2014 et je suis gentil.
39-Demon Knights : c est un miracle que ce titre continue.. mais les miracles ne sont pas éternels avec de telles ventes.
40-Dial H : ca sent la fin
41-Team 7, Deathstroke sont déjà arrêtées
42-Batwing : DC y tient car une nouvelle équipe créative arrive dans 2 mois.. mais bon... faut pas rêver..
43 41-Savage Hawkman, Swords of Sorcery, DC Universe Présents, I, Vampire, Firestorm sont déjà arrêtées


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[BenjaamanLegionnaire]

Moi oui ça m'intéresse beaucoup

[BagooorMembre de Stormwatch]

Je passe rarement dans la section VO, mais j'aime bien les analyses. Cela permet de se faire une idée des ventes et du succès. (difficile d'intervenir ensuite aussi...)
Cela peut être une bonne chose de donner ce que l'on pense de ces classements.

[BagooorMembre de Stormwatch]

Je vais ajouter mes petits commentaires du coup

1-Justice League America : Gros score mais il y a 56 variant covers... Ca aide aussi.. De toute façon cela aurait été facile au dessus de 100 000 au minimum.. A suivre mais le 2 est toujours dans le top 10... On peut penser que la série sera dans le top 5 de DC et le top 20 US. Le titre a aussi été teaser depuis un bon moment, il devait être attendu. Il faudra se faire une idée d'ici à plusieurs numéros, mais cela devrait arriver au même niveau que Justice League d'après moi.
2-Batman: Que dire? c est une réussite totale! Non seulement j aime la série, je lis peu de critique négative ou en tout cas aucune disant que la série est nulle.. mais en plus comme le dit le commentateur ca fait plus d une décennie qu'une série se vend aussi bien sur la durée avec une équipe créative inchangée. Elle sert même d'ancre aux autres séries Bat pour les remonter à coup de crossovers internes... Les avis sont effectivement toujours positifs, mais je pense que c'est aussi le fait de maintenir une équipe stable en pla e qui permet de jouer comme ça sur la durée. En changeant souvent les scénaristes/dessinateurs, Superman a beaucoup perdu... (pas de vision à long terme, arcs court sans impact...)
3-Justice League : On aurait pu dire pareil mais le commentateur indique que le déclin masqué par des variants semblent confirmer que sans Jim Lee, JL va sortir du club des 100 000 (donc y aura plus que batman quoi.. parceque chez Marvel il n y en a pas passé 2-3 numéros). Vu les ventes de la précédente incarnation : ca reste un jackpot.. La série devrait rester dans le Top 10-15 et si Jim Lee et Snyder donne une série SUperman à 100 000 ex... DC saura se consoler. Avec Trinity War, les ventes des 3 titres JL devraient bien s'en sortir, mais à voir sur la durée. Il n'y a pas de vision à long terme pour la série pour le moment...
4-Detective Comics perd un peu suite à la fin du crossover recent et retourne vers 75 000 ex... ca reste trés bon : la précédente incarnation était en dessous de 40 000. A mon avis cela se maintient surtout grâce à Batman et aux cross, sinon cela ne reste pas la meilleure série Batman...
5-Green Lantern : la série, suite au crossover, perd des lecteurs. Cela revient vers la partie basse des ventes de Johns sur la série précédente. Le commentateur y voit une fatigue du lectorat, semblant indiquer un désastre pour l'aprés Johns.. Je trouve, perso, qu il joue n peu Mme Irma et que 71000 ca reste quand même de bons chiffres;même si le titre semble sortir du Top 20 (mais est ce seulement du à GL ou aussi au fait que Marvel retrouve des titres vendant entre 70 et 90 000?) Je peux imaginer la lassitude des lecteurs, après tant d'année du même scénariste. Mais Marvel Now cale pas mal de numéro 1 au top des ventes. A voir d'ici 2-3 mois, mais les Event arrivent également...
6-Nightwing et Batgirl ont gardés des lecteurs attirés lors du cross "Death Of The Family";une bonne opération.
7-Batman &Robin : c est le contraire. Le titre a perdu plus de lecteurs qu il en avait gagné avec le crossover... ce n'est pas bon (même si les ventes sont toujours trés bonnes).
8-Aquaman garde encore des lecteurs acquis lors du crossover "Throne of Atlanis"mais pas assez pour que le mois prochain on ne revienne déjà a des ventes normales (mais toujours solides). Série sympathique qui permet de lire autre chose que du Batman ou Green Lantern (et Superman)
9-Action Comics : le titre a êrdu 40% de lecteurs en 1 an et les déboires éditoriaux qui suivent (Diggle, Tony Daniel). Le titre était à 80 000 au #10. Les autres titres Superman sont loin derrière... La gestion editoriale de la franchises a été un aussi gros échec que celles de la franchise Batman a été un succes brillant.... DC doit revoir sa copie. Superman Unchained sera le titre phare mais il va falloir moins de désordres editoriaux (le titre superman de Perez) pour assurer un succès de franchise. DC a voulu recréer l'effet Batman et All Star Superman avec Morrison, mais cela n'a pas fonctionné. Les intrigues sont morcellés, donc les lecteurs se perdent... dommage, car pour une année Superman, DC a un peu merdé ses publications sur le personnage. Superman a perdu de son aura, reste à espérer que le titre de Snyder/Lee remonte la barque.
10-Dark Knight : Stable sans participation a un cross
11-Batman Inc : la promesse de la mort d un perso fait toujours grimper les commandes.... mais là il devrait y avoir du reassort dans les mois qui arrivent (commandes après le délais .. souvent des réimpression).Publication foutoir d'après moi. En continuité Pré-New52, puis New52... c'est la girouette
12-Red Hood &The Outlaws : Voir Nightwing et Batgirl
13-Earth 2 ne se stabilise pas
14-Green Lantern Corps : V Green Lantern . Un cross arrive ca devrait booster au moins temporairement.
15- Les Before Watchmen : Ils perdent des lecteurs trop rapidement par coup de 10 000... c est juste des minis .. donc ca va et surement que DC attend des ventes surtout dans le marché des librairies avec les TPB qui vont suivre. Ca aura fait du cash mais .. pas convaincu, semble t'il les fans de comics. (même si ca reste des ventes sympa à 40 000ex) L'idée pouvait être intéressante, les auteurs annonçaient du lourds, mais il y a trop de numéros et cela ne va pas à l'essentiel. Même moi, qui accroche en VF, je pense arrêté après le numéro 3 pour revenir à Marvel Now et DC Saga.
16-Flash : le titre semble se stabiliser mais il a déjà eu des impressions de stabilité pour rechuter. Les ventes sont passés sous le précédent volume par Johns et Manapul.
17-New Guardians : les crossovers masquent un certain déclin
18-Teen Titans a perdu tous les lecteurs venus pour Death Of The Family. Ce numéro était un epilogue mais pas vendu comme tel. Il y aura surement des reorders.
19-Wonder Woman : les ventes se stabilisent à un bon niveau pour le titre de maniere générale.
20-Green Arrow : +86% pour ce numéro. Il y a des variants et c est le 1er numéro de Lemire avec u marketting et un rapprochement avec la série TV... A voir si cela reste. Cela a en tout cas sauvé la série momentanément... qui a été un echec jusque là (dés le 6 elle était à 30 000 ex) Il y a l'effet rebond avec l'arrivée de Lemire. Il faudra voir d'ici 5-6 mois pour voir si le niveau s'est améliorer
21-Red Lanterns : V Green Lantern
22-Batwoman : Une chute ce mois ci sans explication. En dehors de ca des ventes stables.
23-Swamp Thing semble se stabiliser mais Snyder et Paquette partent d'ici peu...
24-Catwoman : Chute importante ce mois ci sans explication (ca suit pas une hausse précédente due a des variants, cross..). A suivre
25-Supergirl et Superboy : les ventes semblent stables mais on est en plein crossover.. bref ca masuqe plutot des baisses.. la franchise superman est à rebatir.
26-Animal Man : n est pas stable. Le crossover semble ne pas avoir fait de bien à la série. Les avis VO sur le cross semblaient dire qu'il avait été un poil trop long. Les lecteurs sont sans doute un peu lassé (après 18*2 numéros contre la nécrose !) et souhaitent peut être quelque chose de nouveau (sans forcément changer de scénariste). Le départ de Snyder de Swamp Thing permettra peut être à Animal Man de faire un peu cavalier seul.
27-World's Finest : toujours pas stable
28-Talon ne se stabilise toujours pas alors que le titre est co-écrit par Snyder et est un spi-off du titre le plus vendu de DC.... ca en dit long sur l'état du marché ... Avec la multitude de parutions Batman, il faut aussi faire un choix à un moment donné...
29- Justice League America's Vibe le prouve... ce #1 promet une fin rapide à cette série qui porte le nom de la série DC qui a vendu le plus de #1 depuis 1996, écrite par le scenariste star Geoff Johns. Sortir une série d'un perso inconnu même avec un auteur superstar reste impossible... Le lectorat veut pas du neuf.... il veut du personnages connus (et des cross et des variants et des morts/resurrections) . Bref il veut le contraire de ce que dit internet.... Je n'ai jamais compris l'intérêt de ce titre (tout comme Katana), et il n'ira pas loin du tout. Il aurait peut être plutôt fallu faire des minis sur les personnages peu connus.
30-Katana : Ce #1 a les mêmes ventes que Threshold 1 .. on va voir ce que ca donne avec Threshold..
31-Suicide Squad : Stable mais l equipe creative part dans 2 numeros... et on est pas loin de la ligne jaune.
32-Jutice League Dark et Birds Of Prey perd encore 1000 ex....va falloir reveiller tout ca!!! Trinity War va relancer JLD à mon avis. Mais à voir si les lecteurs resteront
33-Threshold : déjà sous 20000 ex au #2 ... ca devait pas dépasser 8 numéros... et encore.. on est déjà sous la ligne jaune. On voit ce que vont devenir Katana et Vibe..
34-Phantom Stranger : pas stable et sous 20000 : ca craint Tout comme pour Vibe et Katana, j'ai de gros doute sur la pérénité de ce titre... il aurai sans doute été plus intéressant de lancer une simple série sur la Trinity of Sin...
35-All Star Western : pas stable, sous 20 000 mais Jonah Hex vendait 6-7000 en moins. ce n est pas du superhéros.. donc ca peut continuer mais il faudrait que ca se stabilise.
36-Legion Of Super-heroes.. se stabilise mais à 16 000... ca devrait pas passer 2013
37-Ravagers s arrête au 12
38-Stormwatch : une nouvelle equipe creative arrive dans 2 numeros mais on est en dessous du 1er titre arrété.... bref ca verra pas 2014 et je suis gentil.
39-Demon Knights : c est un miracle que ce titre continue.. mais les miracles ne sont pas éternels avec de telles ventes.
40-Dial H : ca sent la fin
41-Team 7, Deathstroke sont déjà arrêtées
42-Batwing : DC y tient car une nouvelle équipe créative arrive dans 2 mois.. mais bon... faut pas rêver..
43 41-Savage Hawkman, Swords of Sorcery, DC Universe Présents, I, Vampire, Firestorm sont déjà arrêtées


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[BenjaamanLegionnaire]

Source :http://comicsbeat.com/dc-comics-month-to-month-sales-may-2013-viva-el-vertigo/

290 - GREEN LANTERN: THE ANIMATED SERIES (Johnny DC)
04/2012: GL: TAS #1 -- 12,791
05/2012: GL: TAS #2 -- 9,615 (-24.8%)
06/2012: GL: TAS #3 -- 8,716 (- 9.4%)
07/2012: GL: TAS #4 -- 7,790 (-10.6%)
08/2012: GL: TAS #5 -- 6,968 (-10.6%)
09/2012: GL: TAS #6 -- 6,619 (- 5.0%)
10/2012: GL: TAS #7 -- 6,516 (- 1.6%)
11/2012: GL: TAS #8 -- 5,961 (- 8.5%)
12/2012: GL: TAS #9 -- 5,464 (- 8.3%)
01/2013: GL: TAS #10 -- 5,263 (- 3.7%)
02/2013: GL: TAS #11 -- 5,211 (- 1.0%)
03/2013: GL: TAS #12 -- 5,115 (- 1.8%)
04/2013: --
05/2013: GL: TAS #13 -- 5,104 (- 0.2%)
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6 months: -14.4%
1 year : -60.1%

Cancelled with issue #14.

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234 - THE UNWRITTEN (Vertigo)
05/2009: The Unwritten #1 -- 26,915 [31,081]
05/2010: The Unwritten #13 -- 13,467
05/2011: The Unwritten #25 -- 11,137
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05/2012: The Unwritten #37 -- 9,549 (- 1.3%)
06/2012: The Unwritten #38 -- 9,494 (- 0.6%)
07/2012: The Unwritten #39 -- 9,478 (- 0.2%)
08/2012: The Unwritten #40 -- 9,127 (- 3.7%)
09/2012: The Unwritten #41 -- 8,943 (- 2.0%)
10/2012: The Unwritten #42 -- 8,881 (- 0.7%)
11/2012: The Unwritten #43 -- 8,791 (- 1.0%)
12/2012: The Unwritten #44 -- 8,532 (- 3.0%)
01/2013: The Unwritten #45 -- 8,465 (- 0.8%)
02/2013: The Unwritten #46 -- 8,352 (- 1.3%)
03/2013: The Unwritten #47 -- 8,267 (- 1.0%)
04/2013: The Unwritten #48 -- 8,226 (- 0.5%)
05/2013: The Unwritten #49 -- 8,234 (+ 0.1%)
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6 months: - 6.3%
1 year : -13.8%
2 years : -26.1%

This issue was billed as a lead-in to the storyline crossing over with Fables, but The Unwritten sales have been stabilizing over the last six months, anyway.

It’s the lowest-selling remaining Vertigo title by 7,000 units, but writer Mike Carey has indicated that there’s a predetermined ending point, and right now, there’s no reason to suspect the book won’t reach it.

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210 - JSA LIBERTY FILES: THE WHISTLING SKULL
12/2012: Whistling Skull #1 of 6 -- 21,370
01/2013: Whistling Skull #2 of 6 -- 16,593 (-22.4%)
02/2013: Whistling Skull #3 of 6 -- 12,851 (-22.6%)
03/2013: Whistling Skull #4 of 6 -- 11,569 (-10.0%)
04/2013: Whistling Skull #5 of 6 -- 10,728 (- 7.3%)
05/2013: Whistling Skull #6 of 6 -- 10,017 (- 6.6%)

Let’s be realistic: This was a repurposed stand-alone miniseries originally commissioned for WildStorm. The fact that it finished above 10K is much more than it could otherwise have hoped for.

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209 - ARROW (Digital-First)
11/2012: Arrow #1 -- 25,442
12/2012: Arrow #2 -- 15,780 (-38.0%)
01/2013: Arrow #3 -- 13,090 (-17.1%)
02/2013: Arrow #4 -- 11,581 (-11.5%)
03/2013: Arrow #5 -- 10,908 (- 5.8%)
04/2013: Arrow #6 -- 10,462 (- 4.1%)
05/2013: Arrow #7 -- 10,017 (- 4.3%)
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6 months: -60.6%

Not really levelling out. Arrow is the lowest-selling of DC’s “digital-first” books, to which different economics apply. I imagine sales upwards of 10,000 units are perfectly all right for this type of book, as well.

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205 - THE FURY OF FIRESTORM: THE NUCLEAR MEN
05/2012: Firestorm #9 -- 17,240 (+ 1.0%)
06/2012: Firestorm #10 -- 15,789 (- 8.4%)
07/2012: Firestorm #11 -- 14,931 (- 5.4%)
08/2012: Firestorm #12 -- 14,137 (- 5.3%)
09/2012: Firestorm #0 -- 17,279 (+22.2%)
10/2012: Firestorm #13 -- 13,460 (-22.1%)
11/2012: Firestorm #14 -- 12,862 (- 4.4%)
12/2012: Firestorm #15 -- 11,997 (- 6.7%)
01/2013: Firestorm #16 -- 11,361 (- 5.3%)
02/2013: Firestorm #17 -- 11,100 (- 2.3%)
03/2013: Firestorm #18 -- 10,679 (- 3.8%)
04/2013: Firestorm #19 -- 10,603 (- 0.7%)
05/2013: Firestorm #20 -- 10,235 (- 3.5%)
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6 months: -20.4%
1 year : -40.6%

Cancelled.

We’re in “New 52″ land now, where the culling never stops. In June, DC’s average sales will probably make quite the leap — not necessarily because of the big-ticket projects at the top of the charts, but more because six of the lowest-selling ones got the axe in May.

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200 - SWORD OF SORCERY
09/2012: Sword of Sorcery #0 -- 29,954
10/2012: Sword of Sorcery #1 -- 23,947 (-20.1%)
11/2012: Sword of Sorcery #2 -- 18,080 (-24.5%)
12/2012: Sword of Sorcery #3 -- 15,280 (-15.5%)
01/2013: Sword of Sorcery #4 -- 13,995 (- 8.4%)
02/2013: Sword of Sorcery #5 -- 12,334 (-11.9%)
03/2013: Sword of Sorcery #6 -- 11,776 (- 4.5%)
04/2013: Sword of Sorcery #7 -- 11,412 (- 3.1%)
05/2013: Sword of Sorcery #8 -- 10,677 (- 6.4%)
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6 months: -41.0%

Cancelled.

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198 - TEAM 7
09/2012: Team 7 #0 -- 34,503
10/2012: Team 7 #1 -- 27,661 (-19.8%)
11/2012: Team 7 #2 -- 19,510 (-29.5%)
12/2012: Team 7 #3 -- 17,090 (-12.4%)
01/2013: Team 7 #4 -- 14,919 (-12.7%)
02/2013: Team 7 #5 -- 13,005 (-12.8%)
03/2013: Team 7 #6 -- 11,805 (- 9.2%)
04/2013: Team 7 #7 -- 11,610 (- 1.7%)
05/2013: Team 7 #8 -- 10,805 (- 6.9%)
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6 months: -60.9%

Cancelled.

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193 - THE SAVAGE HAWKMAN
05/2003: Hawkman #15 -- 29,899
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05/2012: Savage Hawkman #9 -- 17,626 (- 3.7%)
06/2012: Savage Hawkman #10 -- 16,417 (- 6.9%)
07/2012: Savage Hawkman #11 -- 15,460 (- 5.8%)
08/2012: Savage Hawkman #12 -- 14,745 (- 4.6%)
09/2012: Savage Hawkman #0 -- 18,750 (+27.2%)
10/2012: Savage Hawkman #13 -- 14,763 (-21.3%)
11/2012: Savage Hawkman #14 -- 14,726 (- 0.3%)
12/2012: Savage Hawkman #15 -- 13,564 (- 7.9%)
01/2013: Savage Hawkman #16 -- 12,852 (- 5.3%)
02/2013: Savage Hawkman #17 -- 12,376 (- 3.7%)
03/2013: Savage Hawkman #18 -- 12,021 (- 2.9%)
04/2013: Savage Hawkman #19 -- 11,927 (- 0.8%)
05/2013: Savage Hawkman #20 -- 11,104 (- 6.9%)
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6 months: -24.6%
1 year : -37.0%
10 years: -62.9%

Cancelled.

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191 - THRESHOLD
01/2013: Threshold #1 -- 29,312
02/2013: Threshold #2 -- 18,389 (-37.3%)
03/2013: Threshold #3 -- 15,109 (-17.8%)
04/2013: Threshold #4 -- 12,811 (-15.2%)
05/2013: Threshold #5 -- 11,209 (-12.5%)

Cancelled with issue #8.

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184 - DEATHSTROKE
05/2012: Deathstroke #9 -- 20,878 (+10.9%)
06/2012: Deathstroke #10 -- 19,722 (- 5.5%)
07/2012: Deathstroke #11 -- 17,107 (-13.3%)
08/2012: Deathstroke #12 -- 16,772 (- 2.0%)
09/2012: Deathstroke #0 -- 20,796 (+24.0%)
10/2012: Deathstroke #13 -- 15,078 (-27.5%)
11/2012: Deathstroke #14 -- 14,452 (- 4.2%)
12/2012: Deathstroke #15 -- 13,528 (- 6.4%)
01/2013: Deathstroke #16 -- 12,758 (- 5.7%)
02/2013: Deathstroke #17 -- 12,626 (- 1.0%)
03/2013: Deathstroke #18 -- 12,306 (- 2.5%)
04/2013: Deathstroke #19 -- 12,392 (+ 0.7%)
05/2013: Deathstroke #20 -- 11,768 (- 5.0%)
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6 months: -18.6%
1 year : -43.6%

Cancelled.

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181 - AME-COMI GIRLS (Digital-First)
10/2012: ACG #1: Wonder Woman -- 24,966
11/2012: ACG #2: Batgirl -- 16,083 (-35.6%)
12/2012: ACG #3: Duela Dent -- 13,185 (-18.0%)
01/2013: ACG #4: Power Girl -- 12,488 (- 5.3%)
02/2013: ACG #5 of 5: Supergirl -- 12,343 (- 1.2%)
03/2013: Ame-Comi Girls #1 -- 16,558 (+34.2%)
04/2013: Ame-Comi Girls #2 -- 12,878 (-22.2%)
05/2013: Ame-Comi Girls #3 -- 12,007 (- 6.8%)
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6 months: -25.3%

Sales are back where they were three months ago. If the book manages to level out here, it might be around for a while.

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176 - DEMON KNIGHTS
05/2012: Demon Knights #9 -- 20,196 (- 4.4%)
06/2012: Demon Knights #10 -- 19,005 (- 5.9%)
07/2012: Demon Knights #11 -- 18,201 (- 4.2%)
08/2012: Demon Knights #12 -- 17,295 (- 5.0%)
09/2012: Demon Knights #0 -- 20,474 (+18.4%)
10/2012: Demon Knights #13 -- 16,805 (-17.9%)
11/2012: Demon Knights #14 -- 16,005 (- 4.8%)
12/2012: Demon Knights #15 -- 15,152 (- 5.3%)
01/2013: Demon Knights #16 -- 14,168 (- 6.5%)
02/2013: Demon Knights #17 -- 13,571 (- 4.2%)
03/2013: Demon Knights #18 -- 12,975 (- 4.4%)
04/2013: Demon Knights #19 -- 12,941 (- 0.3%)
05/2013: Demon Knights #20 -- 12,195 (- 5.8%)
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6 months: -23.8%
1 year : -39.6%

Cancelled with issue #23.

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175 - THE RAVAGERS
05/2012: Ravagers #1 -- 44,230
06/2012: Ravagers #2 -- 31,128 (-29.6%)
07/2012: Ravagers #3 -- 24,963 (-19.8%)
08/2012: Ravagers #4 -- 20,730 (-17.0%)
09/2012: Ravagers #0 -- 22,437 (+ 8.2%)
10/2012: Ravagers #5 -- 18,656 (-16.9%)
11/2012: Ravagers #6 -- 17,334 (- 7.1%)
12/2012: Ravagers #7 -- 16,177 (- 6.7%)
01/2013: Ravagers #8 -- 15,030 (- 7.1%)
02/2013: Ravagers #9 -- 14,223 (- 5.4%)
03/2013: Ravagers #10 -- 13,466 (- 5.3%)
04/2013: Ravagers #11 -- 13,074 (- 2.9%)
05/2013: Ravagers #12 -- 12,221 (- 6.5%)
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6 months: -34.5%
1 year : -72.4%

Cancelled.

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173 - DIAL H
05/2003: H-E-R-O #4 -- 21,023
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05/2012: Dial H #1 -- 45,308
06/2012: Dial H #2 -- 30,618 (-32.4%)
07/2012: Dial H #3 -- 26,109 (-14.7%)
08/2012: Dial H #4 -- 22,733 (-12.9%)
09/2012: Dial H #0 -- 24,070 (+ 5.9%)
10/2012: Dial H #5 -- 19,903 (-17.3%)
11/2012: Dial H #6 -- 17,832 (-10.4%)
12/2012: Dial H #7 -- 16,217 (- 9.1%)
01/2013: Dial H #8 -- 14,672 (- 9.5%)
02/2013: Dial H #9 -- 13,541 (- 7.7%)
03/2013: Dial H #10 -- 13,084 (- 3.4%)
04/2013: Dial H #11 -- 13,355 (+ 2.1%)
05/2013: Dial H #12 -- 12,381 (- 7.3%)
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6 months: -30.6%
1 year : -72.7%
10 years: -41.1%

Cancelled with issue #15, give or take an idiotically marketed epilogue issue called Justice League #23.3: Dial E.

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164 - STORMWATCH
05/2003: Stormwatch: TA #11 -- 14,078
05/2008: Stormwatch: PHD #7 -- 12,812
05/2009: Stormwatch: PHD #21 -- 5,370
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05/2012: Stormwatch #9 -- 22,448 (- 3.3%)
06/2012: Stormwatch #10 -- 20,592 (- 8.3%)
07/2012: Stormwatch #11 -- 19,678 (- 4.4%)
08/2012: Stormwatch #12 -- 18,531 (- 5.8%)
09/2012: Stormwatch #0 -- 21,764 (+17.5%)
10/2012: Stormwatch #13 -- 17,621 (-19.0%)
11/2012: Stormwatch #14 -- 16,559 (- 6.0%)
12/2012: Stormwatch #15 -- 15,437 (- 6.8%)
01/2013: Stormwatch #16 -- 14,411 (- 6.7%)
02/2013: Stormwatch #17 -- 13,657 (- 5.2%)
03/2013: Stormwatch #18 -- 13,255 (- 2.9%)
04/2013: Stormwatch #19 -- 13,626 (+ 2.8%)
05/2013: Stormwatch #20 -- 13,049 (- 4.2%)
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6 months: - 21.2%
1 year : - 41.9%
5 years : + 1.9%
10 years: - 7.3%

Still ongoing, at this time, and on balance, the decline has at least slowed down somewhat over the last three issues. I wouldn’t bet the farm on Stormwatch being around in six months, though.

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161 - BATWING
05/2012: Batwing #9 -- 35,731 (+75.4%)
06/2012: Batwing #10 -- 20,724 (-42.0%)
07/2012: Batwing #11 -- 20,047 (- 3.3%)
08/2012: Batwing #12 -- 18,279 (- 8.8%)
09/2012: Batwing #0 -- 22,135 (+21.1%)
10/2012: Batwing #13 -- 17,166 (-22.5%)
11/2012: Batwing #14 -- 15,967 (- 7.0%)
12/2012: Batwing #15 -- 14,674 (- 8.1%)
01/2013: Batwing #16 -- 13,427 (- 8.5%)
02/2013: Batwing #17 -- 12,595 (- 6.2%)
03/2013: Batwing #18 -- 12,084 (- 4.1%)
04/2013: Batwing #19 -- 13,570 (+12.3%)
05/2013: Batwing #20 -- 13,302 (- 2.0%)
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6 months: -16.7%
1 year : -62.8%

There’s still a marginal increase following the arrival of a new creative team in April. But sales are awfully low already, and so far there’s no real sign of a trend reversal, either.

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156 - SMALLVILLE SEASON 11 SPECIAL (Digital-First)
05/2013: Smallville S11 Special #1 -- 13,988

About 1,500 units below the regular series. Very good numbers for this type of thing.

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154 - BATMAN: ARKHAM UNHINGED (Digital-First)
05/2012: Arkham Unhinged #2 -- 25,215 (-19.1%)
06/2012: Arkham Unhinged #3 -- 23,322 (- 7.5%)
07/2012: Arkham Unhinged #4 -- 21,809 (- 6.5%)
08/2012: Arkham Unhinged #5 -- 21,059 (- 3.4%)
09/2012: Arkham Unhinged #6 -- 20,259 (- 3.8%)
10/2012: Arkham Unhinged #7 -- 19,890 (- 1.8%)
11/2012: Arkham Unhinged #8 -- 18,393 (- 7.5%)
12/2012: Arkham Unhinged #9 -- 17,220 (- 6.4%)
01/2013: Arkham Unhinged #10 -- 16,113 (- 6.4%)
02/2013: Arkham Unhinged #11 -- 15,703 (- 2.6%)
03/2013: Arkham Unhinged #12 -- 15,067 (- 4.1%)
04/2013: Arkham Unhinged #13 -- 14,702 (- 2.4%)
05/2013: Arkham Unhinged #14 -- 14,048 (- 4.5%)
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6 months: -23.6%
1 year : -44.3%

This digital-first title keeps sliding down the charts, but we’ve yet to see any cancellations on this line, so there’s probably a lot of rope left.

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152 - KATANA
02/2013: Katana #1 -- 27,021
03/2013: Katana #2 -- 19,247 (-28.8%)
04/2013: Katana #3 -- 16,157 (-16.1%)
05/2013: Katana #4 -- 14,804 (- 8.4%)

This “New 52″ book is clearly in cancellation territory, on the other hand. Katana isn’t crashing as badly as Threshold, but its numbers aren’t substantially better, either.

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151 - FAIREST (Vertigo)
05/2012: Fairest #3 -- 22,329 (- 2.9%)
06/2012: Fairest #4 -- 21,156 (- 5.3%)
07/2012: Fairest #5 -- 20,371 (- 3.7%)
08/2012: Fairest #6 -- 19,446 (- 4.5%)
09/2012: Fairest #7 -- 18,626 (- 4.2%)
10/2012: Fairest #8 -- 18,376 (- 1.3%)
11/2012: Fairest #9 -- 17,417 (- 5.2%)
12/2012: Fairest #10 -- 16,919 (- 2.9%)
01/2013: Fairest #11 -- 16,498 (- 2.5%)
02/2013: Fairest #12 -- 16,141 (- 2.2%)
03/2013: Fairest #13 -- 15,693 (- 2.8%)
04/2013: Fairest #14 -- 15,269 (- 2.7%)
05/2013: Fairest #15 -- 14,959 (- 2.0%)
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6 months: -14.1%
1 year : -33.0%

Standard attrition. Interestingly, the book seems totally unaffected by recent creative-team changes. Issue #14 was written by Fables creator Bill Willingham, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at the numbers.

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150 - JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA'S VIBE
02/2013: Vibe #1 -- 27,051
03/2013: Vibe #2 -- 19,092 (-29.4%)
04/2013: Vibe #3 -- 16,972 (-11.1%)
05/2013: Vibe #4 -- 14,970 (-11.8%)

Another “New 52″ book in terminal decline. The writers and the artist who launched the book have all jumped ship, or are about to, already, so a turnaround seems very unlikely.

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146 - FABLES (Vertigo)
05/2003: Fables #13 -- 25,158
05/2008: Fables #73 -- 23,785
05/2009: Fables #84 -- 23,634
05/2010: Fables #95 -- 19,932
05/2011: Fables #105 -- 18,749
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05/2012: Fables #117 -- 17,484 (- 0.3%)
06/2012: Fables #118 -- 18,566 (+ 6.2%)
07/2012: Fables #119 -- 17,110 (- 7.8%)
08/2012: Fables #120 -- 16,704 (- 2.4%)
09/2012: Fables #121 -- 16,596 (- 0.7%)
10/2012: Fables #122 -- 16,513 (- 0.5%)
11/2012: Fables #123 -- 16,229 (- 1.7%)
12/2012: Fables #124 -- 16,018 (- 1.3%)
01/2013: Fables #125 -- 15,983 (- 0.2%)
02/2013: Fables #126 -- 15,480 (- 3.2%)
03/2013: Fables #127 -- 15,529 (+ 0.3%)
04/2013: Fables #128 -- 15,606 (+ 0.5%)
05/2013: Fables #129 -- 15,380 (- 1.5%)
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6 months: - 5.2%
1 year : -12.0%
2 years : -18.0%
5 years : -35.3%
10 years: -38.9%

Rock-solid numbers over the last few months.

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145 - SMALLVILLE SEASON 11 (Digital-First)
05/2012: Smallville S11 #1 -- 27,004
06/2012: Smallville S11 #2 -- 22,468 (-16.8%)
07/2012: Smallville S11 #3 -- 20,864 (- 7.1%)
08/2012: Smallville S11 #4 -- 19,861 (- 4.8%)
09/2012: Smallville S11 #5 -- 19,499 (- 1.8%)
10/2012: Smallville S11 #6 -- 19,663 (+ 0.8%)
11/2012: Smallville S11 #7 -- 19,104 (- 2.8%)
12/2012: Smallville S11 #8 -- 18,633 (- 2.5%)
01/2013: Smallville S11 #9 -- 17,845 (- 4.2%)
02/2013: Smallville S11 #10 -- 17,024 (- 4.6%)
03/2013: Smallville S11 #11 -- 16,502 (- 3.1%)
04/2013: Smallville S11 #12 -- 15,930 (- 3.5%)
05/2013: Smallville S11 #13 -- 15,442 (- 3.1%)
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6 months: -19.2%
1 year : -42.8%

Drifting down slowly.

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142 - THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES
05/2003: Legion #20 -- 23,184
05/2008: LoSH #42 -- 27,940
05/2010: LoSH #1 -- 44,415 [50,106]
05/2011: LoSH #13 -- 23,105
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05/2012: LoSH #9 -- 20,854 (- 2.8%)
06/2012: LoSH #10 -- 19,963 (- 4.3%)
07/2012: LoSH #11 -- 19,421 (- 2.7%)
08/2012: LoSH #12 -- 18,907 (- 2.7%)
09/2012: LoSH #0 -- 21,561 (+ 14.0%)
10/2012: LoSH #13 -- 18,487 (- 14.3%)
11/2012: LoSH #14 -- 17,767 (- 3.9%)
12/2012: LoSH #15 -- 16,912 (- 4.8%)
01/2013: LoSH #16 -- 16,496 (- 2.5%)
02/2013: LoSH #17 -- 16,242 (- 1.5%)
03/2013: LoSH #18 -- 16,148 (- 0.6%)
04/2013: LoSH #19 -- 16,015 (- 0.9%)
05/2013: LoSH #20 -- 15,532 (- 3.0%)
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6 months: - 12.6%
1 year : - 25.5%
2 years : - 32.8%
5 years : - 44.4%
10 years: - 33.0%

Cancelled with issue #23.

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140 - BATMAN BEYOND UNLIMITED (Digital-First)
05/2012: Unlimited #4 -- 24,356 (+ 0.7%)
06/2012: Unlimited #5 -- 24,058 (- 1.2%)
07/2012: Unlimited #6 -- 22,555 (- 6.3%)
08/2012: Unlimited #7 -- 21,219 (- 5.9%)
09/2012: Unlimited #8 -- 20,897 (- 1.5%)
10/2012: Unlimited #9 -- 19,877 (- 4.9%)
11/2012: Unlimited #10 -- 19,004 (- 4.4%)
12/2012: Unlimited #11 -- 18,089 (- 4.8%)
01/2013: Unlimited #12 -- 17,446 (- 3.6%)
02/2013: Unlimited #13 -- 17,025 (- 2.4%)
03/2013: Unlimited #14 -- 16,456 (- 3.3%)
04/2013: Unlimited #15 -- 16,283 (- 1.1%)
05/2013: Unlimited #16 -- 15,822 (- 2.8%)
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6 months: -16.7%
1 year : -35.0%

Drifting slowly down.

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136 - ALL STAR WESTERN
05/2008: Jonah Hex #31 -- 13,140
05/2009: Jonah Hex #43 -- 11,606
05/2010: Jonah Hex #55 -- 11,327
05/2011: Jonah Hex #67 -- 10,288
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05/2012: ASW #9 -- 31,413 (+ 25.5%)
06/2012: ASW #10 -- 25,334 (- 19.4%)
07/2012: ASW #11 -- 23,572 (- 7.0%)
08/2012: ASW #12 -- 22,767 (- 3.4%)
09/2012: ASW #0 -- 25,388 (+ 11.5%)
10/2012: ASW #13 -- 21,481 (- 15.4%)
11/2012: ASW #14 -- 20,186 (- 6.0%)
12/2012: ASW #15 -- 19,190 (- 4.9%)
01/2013: ASW #16 -- 18,254 (- 4.9%)
02/2013: ASW #17 -- 17,398 (- 4.7%)
03/2013: ASW #18 -- 16,897 (- 2.9%)
04/2013: ASW #19 -- 16,838 (- 0.4%)
05/2013: ASW #20 -- 16,184 (- 3.9%)
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6 months: - 19.8%
1 year : - 48.5%
2 years : + 57.3%
5 years : + 23.2%

Slipping, but still comfortably ahead of pre-”New 52″ levels.

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135 - PHANTOM STRANGER
09/2012: Phantom Stranger #0 -- 40,103
10/2012: Phantom Stranger #1 -- 33,350 (-16.8%)
11/2012: Phantom Stranger #2 -- 24,979 (-25.1%)
12/2012: Phantom Stranger #3 -- 23,378 (- 6.4%)
01/2013: Phantom Stranger #4 -- 19,903 (-14.9%)
02/2013: Phantom Stranger #5 -- 18,032 (- 9.4%)
03/2013: Phantom Stranger #6 -- 17,375 (- 3.6%)
04/2013: Phantom Stranger #7 -- 17,326 (- 0.3%)
05/2013: Phantom Stranger #8 -- 16,269 (- 6.1%)
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6 months: -34.9%

Without Gene Ha on art, sales are back in decline.

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128 - LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT (Digital-First)
10/2012: LotDK #1 -- 42,904
11/2012: LotDK #2 -- 30,085 (-29.9%)
12/2012: LotDK #3 -- 25,710 (-14.5%)
01/2013: LotDK #4 -- 22,671 (-11.8%)
02/2013: LotDK #5 -- 21,041 (- 7.2%)
03/2013: LotDK #6 -- 19,681 (- 6.5%)
04/2013: LotDK #7 -- 18,201 (- 7.5%)
05/2013: LotDK #8 -- 17,126 (- 5.9%)
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6 months: -43.1%

Sliding down.

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122 - BATMAN: LI'L GOTHAM (Digital-First)
04/2013: Li'l Gotham #1 -- 27,591
05/2013: Li'l Gotham #2 -- 18,573 (-32.7%)

There was a 1:10 variant edition for issue #1, so some of the second-issue drop can be attributed to that. Average sales behavior for a new title, so far.

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119 - HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE
05/2003: MotU #3 of 6 -- 22,103
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07/2012: He-Man #1 of 6 -- 27,665
08/2012: --
09/2012: He-Man #2 of 6 -- 19,737 (-28.7%)
10/2012: He-Man #3 of 6 -- 18,269 (- 7.4%)
11/2012: He-Man #4 of 6 -- 17,499 (- 4.2%)
12/2012: He-Man #5 of 6 -- 16,858 (- 3.7%)
01/2013: He-Man #6 of 6 -- 16,441 (- 2.5%)
02/2013: --
03/2013: --
04/2013: He-Man #1 -- 25,254 (+53.6%)
05/2013: He-Man #2 -- 19,410 (-23.1%)
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6 months: +10.9%
10 years: -12.2%

Sales are slightly below September’s issue #2, but still ahead of the tail end of the preceding miniseries. By the standards of WildStorm, where a book like this one would have ended up a couple of years ago, these are very good numbers.

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110 - BIRDS OF PREY
05/2003: Birds of Prey #55 -- 23,227
05/2008: Birds of Prey #118 -- 21,941
05/2010: Birds of Prey #1 -- 50,428 [54,965]
05/2011: Birds of Prey #12 -- 29,690
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05/2012: Birds of Prey #9 -- 41,521 (+ 44.9%)
06/2012: Birds of Prey #10 -- 28,457 (- 31.5%)
07/2012: Birds of Prey #11 -- 27,389 (- 3.8%)
08/2012: Birds of Prey #12 -- 26,587 (- 2.9%)
09/2012: Birds of Prey #0 -- 30,574 (+ 15.0%)
10/2012: Birds of Prey #13 -- 25,851 (- 15.5%)
11/2012: Birds of Prey #14 -- 24,904 (- 3.7%)
12/2012: Birds of Prey #15 -- 24,026 (- 3.5%)
01/2013: Birds of Prey #16 -- 23,182 (- 3.5%)
02/2013: Birds of Prey #17 -- 22,112 (- 4.6%)
03/2013: Birds of Prey #18 -- 21,957 (- 0.7%)
04/2013: Birds of Prey #19 -- 21,707 (- 1.1%)
05/2013: Birds of Prey #20 -- 21,126 (- 2.7%)
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6 months: - 15.2%
1 year : - 49.1%
2 years : - 28.9%
5 years : - 3.7%
10 years: - 9.1%

Slowly drifting down.

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102 - SUPERBOY
05/2011: Superboy #7 -- 24,622
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05/2012: Superboy #9 -- 34,838 (+ 9.2%)
06/2012: Superboy #10 -- 31,358 (- 10.0%)
07/2012: Superboy #11 -- 29,677 (- 5.4%)
08/2012: Superboy #12 -- 27,518 (- 7.3%)
09/2012: Superboy #0 -- 31,840 (+ 15.7%)
10/2012: Superboy #13 -- 25,726 (- 19.2%)
11/2012: Superboy #14 -- 28,017 (+ 8.9%)
12/2012: Superboy #15 -- 27,619 (- 1.4%)
01/2013: Superboy #16 -- 27,110 (- 1.8%)
02/2013: Superboy #17 -- 26,762 (- 1.3%)
03/2013: Superboy #18 -- 24,455 (- 8.6%)
04/2013: Superboy #19 -- 24,211 (- 1.0%)
05/2013: Superboy #20 -- 22,508 (- 7.0%)
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6 months: - 19.7%
1 year : - 35.4%
2 years : - 8.6%

Fairly erratic sales. But with an army of fill-in creators passing through every other month, that’s what you get.

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101 - TALON
09/2012: Talon #0 -- 59,691
10/2012: Talon #1 -- 55,737 (- 6.6%)
11/2012: Talon #2 -- 41,250 (-26.0%)
12/2012: Talon #3 -- 35,034 (-15.1%)
01/2013: Talon #4 -- 30,909 (-11.8%)
02/2013: Talon #5 -- 28,003 (- 9.4%)
03/2013: Talon #6 -- 25,440 (- 9.2%)
04/2013: Talon #7 -- 24,045 (- 5.5%)
05/2013: Talon #8 -- 22,710 (- 5.6%)
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6 months: -45.0%

Issue #8 was the first without Scott Snyder getting a co-writer credit, so the May drop is not as steep as it might have been. Still, these numbers look far from encouraging.

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99 - SUICIDE SQUAD
05/2012: Suicide Squad #9 -- 32,581 (- 0.6%)
06/2012: Suicide Squad #10 -- 31,576 (- 3.1%)
07/2012: Suicide Squad #11 -- 29,809 (- 5.6%)
08/2012: Suicide Squad #12 -- 28,302 (- 5.1%)
09/2012: Suicide Squad #0 -- 31,875 (+ 12.6%)
10/2012: Suicide Squad #13 -- 27,644 (- 13.3%)
11/2012: Suicide Squad #14 -- 63,691 (+130.4%) [69,185]
12/2012: Suicide Squad #15 -- 57,132 (- 10.3%)
01/2013: Suicide Squad #16 -- 27,061 (- 52.6%)
02/2013: Suicide Squad #17 -- 26,370 (- 2.6%)
03/2013: Suicide Squad #18 -- 25,232 (- 4.3%)
04/2013: Suicide Squad #19 -- 24,300 (- 3.7%)
05/2013: Suicide Squad #20 -- 23,537 (- 3.1%)
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6 months: - 63.1%
1 year : - 27.8%

A new creative team took over with issue #20, but it doesn’t seem to have made any difference to sales either way.

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96 - CATWOMAN ANNUAL
05/2013: Catwoman Annual #1 -- 24,228

Slightly below the regular title, as usual. As long as annuals perform this well, DC has every reason to continue publishing them.

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93 - JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK
05/2012: Justice League Dark #9 -- 34,649 (- 1.1%)
06/2012: Justice League Dark #10 -- 33,238 (- 4.1%)
07/2012: Justice League Dark #11 -- 31,792 (- 4.4%)
08/2012: Justice League Dark #12 -- 30,754 (- 3.3%)
09/2012: Justice League Dark #0 -- 34,287 (+11.5%)
10/2012: Justice League Dark #13 -- 30,008 (-12.5%)
11/2012: Justice League Dark #14 -- 28,966 (- 3.5%)
12/2012: Justice League Dark #15 -- 27,712 (- 4.3%)
01/2013: Justice League Dark #16 -- 26,902 (- 2.9%)
02/2013: Justice League Dark #17 -- 25,841 (- 3.9%)
03/2013: Justice League Dark #18 -- 25,664 (- 0.7%)
04/2013: Justice League Dark #19 -- 25,407 (- 1.0%)
05/2013: Justice League Dark #20 -- 24,693 (- 2.8%)
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6 months: -14.8%
1 year : -28.7%

Standard attrition.

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98 - INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US (Digital-First)
01/2013: Injustice #1 -- 20,733 [35,438]
02/2013: Injustice #2 -- 17,068 (-17.7%) [29,096]
03/2013: Injustice #3 -- 18,608 (+ 9.0%) [24,469]
04/2013: Injustice #4 -- 21,669 (+16.5%) [26,739]
05/2013: Injustice #5 -- 25,215 (+16.4%)

The breakout hit of DC’s digital-first line, a videogame adaptation, keeps climbing the charts. Also, all previous issues made the chart again with sizeable reorder figures: third printings of issue #1 (9,162) and #2 (6,438), a second printing of #3 (5,861) and some plain-vanilla reorders of #4 (5,070).

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88 - ANIMAL MAN
05/2012: Animal Man #9 -- 35,699 (- 1.8%)
06/2012: Animal Man #10 -- 34,992 (- 2.0%)
07/2012: Animal Man #11 -- 33,909 (- 3.1%)
08/2012: Animal Man #12 -- 34,549 (+ 1.9%)
09/2012: Animal Man #0 -- 38,295 (+10.8%)
10/2012: Animal Man #13 -- 34,303 (-10.4%)
11/2012: Animal Man #14 -- 33,503 (- 2.3%)
12/2012: Animal Man #15 -- 32,013 (- 4.5%)
01/2013: Animal Man #16 -- 30,322 (- 5.3%)
02/2013: Animal Man #17 -- 29,425 (- 3.0%)
03/2013: Animal Man #18 -- 28,711 (- 2.4%)
04/2013: Animal Man #19 -- 27,562 (- 4.0%)
05/2013: Animal Man #20 -- 25,807 (- 6.4%)
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6 months: -23.0%
1 year : -27.7%

There’s no readily evident reason for the big drop, which tends to be a bad sign, because it suggests that readers are just abandoning the book. Animal Man hasn’t aged well over the last six months, particularly given that it used to be writer Jeff Lemire’s signature title.

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85 - CATWOMAN
05/2003: Catwoman #19 -- 23,732
05/2008: Catwoman #79 -- 17,999
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05/2012: Catwoman #9 -- 49,726 (+28.5%)
06/2012: Catwoman #10 -- 37,158 (-25.3%)
07/2012: Catwoman #11 -- 35,551 (- 4.3%)
08/2012: Catwoman #12 -- 34,117 (- 4.0%)
09/2012: Catwoman #0 -- 39,117 (+14.7%)
10/2012: Catwoman #13 -- 40,147 (+ 2.6%) [60,257]
11/2012: Catwoman #14 -- 63,653 (+58.6%)
12/2012: Catwoman #15 -- 35,020 (-45.0%)
01/2013: Catwoman #16 -- 33,915 (- 3.2%)
02/2013: Catwoman #17 -- 30,194 (-11.0%)
03/2013: Catwoman #18 -- 33,220 (+10.0%)
04/2013: Catwoman #19 -- 28,058 (-15.5%)
05/2013: Catwoman #20 -- 26,886 (- 4.2%)
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6 months: - 57.8%
1 year : - 45.9%
5 years : + 49.4%
10 years: + 13.3%

Another title that’s been in a stiff decline of late. Historically, Catwoman has seen worse sales, but the post-relaunch honeymoon period is clearly over.

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84 - WORLDS' FINEST
05/2012: Worlds' Finest #1 -- 69,531
06/2012: Worlds' Finest #2 -- 51,510 (-25.9%)
07/2012: Worlds' Finest #3 -- 45,514 (-11.6%)
08/2012: Worlds' Finest #4 -- 39,629 (-12.9%)
09/2012: Worlds' Finest #0 -- 42,770 (+ 7.9%)
10/2012: Worlds' Finest #5 -- 35,951 (-15.9%)
11/2012: Worlds' Finest #6 -- 34,338 (- 4.5%)
12/2012: Worlds' Finest #7 -- 32,010 (- 6.8%)
01/2013: Worlds' Finest #8 -- 30,399 (- 5.0%)
02/2013: Worlds' Finest #9 -- 28,332 (- 6.8%)
03/2013: Worlds' Finest #10 -- 28,469 (+ 0.5%)
04/2013: Worlds' Finest #11 -- 27,453 (- 3.6%)
05/2013: Worlds' Finest #12 -- 27,073 (- 1.4%)
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6 months: -21.2%
1 year : -61.1%

Sales appear to be levelling out.

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82 - SWAMP THING
05/2012: Swamp Thing #9 -- 39,385 (- 0.1%)
06/2012: Swamp Thing #10 -- 37,383 (- 5.1%)
07/2012: Swamp Thing #11 -- 36,257 (- 3.0%)
08/2012: Swamp Thing #12 -- 36,696 (+ 1.2%)
09/2012: Swamp Thing #0 -- 40,123 (+ 9.3%)
10/2012: Swamp Thing #13 -- 36,069 (-10.1%)
11/2012: Swamp Thing #14 -- 42,036 (+16.5%)
12/2012: Swamp Thing #15 -- 33,916 (-19.3%)
01/2013: Swamp Thing #16 -- 32,262 (- 4.9%)
02/2013: Swamp Thing #17 -- 31,497 (- 2.4%)
03/2013: Swamp Thing #18 -- 30,716 (- 2.5%)
04/2013: Swamp Thing #19 -- 29,254 (- 4.8%)
05/2013: Swamp Thing #20 -- 27,338 (- 6.6%)
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6 months: -35.0%
1 year : -30.6%

The second post-Scott Snyder issue, and now there’s a bigger drop. Not a good sign.

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81 - SUPERGIRL
05/2008: Supergirl #29 -- 30,192
05/2009: Supergirl #41 -- 33,441
05/2010: --
05/2011: Supergirl #64 -- 21,411
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05/2012: Supergirl #9 -- 35,129 (- 2.5%)
06/2012: Supergirl #10 -- 33,309 (- 5.2%)
07/2012: Supergirl #11 -- 31,879 (- 4.3%)
08/2012: Supergirl #12 -- 30,420 (- 4.6%)
09/2012: Supergirl #0 -- 34,457 (+ 13.3%)
10/2012: Supergirl #13 -- 29,450 (- 14.5%)
11/2012: Supergirl #14 -- 31,270 (+ 6.2%)
12/2012: Supergirl #15 -- 30,814 (- 1.5%)
01/2013: Supergirl #16 -- 30,350 (- 1.5%)
02/2013: Supergirl #17 -- 30,146 (- 0.7%)
03/2013: Supergirl #18 -- 28,051 (- 7.0%)
04/2013: Supergirl #19 -- 29,558 (+ 5.4%)
05/2013: Supergirl #20 -- 27,509 (- 6.9%)
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6 months: - 12.0%
1 year : - 21.7%
2 years : + 28.5%
5 years : - 8.9%

There was a special variant edition in April. Now sales resume their usual decline.

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80 - GREEN ARROW
05/2003: Green Arrow #25 -- 52,535
05/2003: Green Arrow #26 -- 50,475
05/2008: Arrow/Canary #8 -- 30,864
05/2009: Arrow/Canary #20 -- 21,445
05/2011: Green Arrow #12 -- 31,742
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05/2012: Green Arrow #9 -- 26,966 (- 1.7%)
06/2012: Green Arrow #10 -- 25,769 (- 4.4%)
07/2012: Green Arrow #11 -- 24,646 (- 4.4%)
08/2012: Green Arrow #12 -- 23,126 (- 6.2%)
09/2012: Green Arrow #0 -- 28,408 (+ 22.8%)
10/2012: Green Arrow #13 -- 22,057 (- 22.4%)
11/2012: Green Arrow #14 -- 21,825 (- 1.1%)
12/2012: Green Arrow #15 -- 20,672 (- 5.3%)
01/2013: Green Arrow #16 -- 19,888 (- 3.8%)
02/2013: Green Arrow #17 -- 36,043 (+ 81.2%)
03/2013: Green Arrow #18 -- 28,080 (- 22.1%)
04/2013: Green Arrow #19 -- 29,922 (+ 6.6%)
05/2013: Green Arrow #20 -- 27,541 (- 8.0%)
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6 months: + 26.2%
1 year : + 2.1%
2 years : - 13.2%
5 years : - 10.8%
10 years: - 46.5%

Still holding up relatively well following the arrival of the new creative team with issue #17.

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77 - GREEN TEAM
05/2013: Green Team #1 -- 27,775

These launch figures are just marginally better than those of Vibe and Katana, and slightly below those of Threshold. So unless Green Team defies the trend, it’ll be in cancellation territory by issue #4.

To be fair, it’s a new concept, and for that sort of thing, this is not a bad debut performance by any stretch, taken on its own terms. But the trends are what they are. In the market DC and Marvel have shaped in the last 10 years, barring any earth-shattering events or top-flight creators, a title like this one has a snowball’s chance in hell of reaching issue #18.

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75 - CONSTANTINE
05/2003: Hellblazer #184 -- 16,931
05/2008: Hellblazer #244 -- 11,826
05/2009: Hellblazer #255 -- 10,937
05/2010: Hellblazer #267 -- 10,155
05/2011: Hellblazer #279 -- 9,454
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05/2012: Hellblazer #291 -- 9,426 (- 0.5%)
06/2012: Hellblazer #292 -- 9,533 (+ 1.1%)
07/2012: Hellblazer #293 -- 9,247 (- 3.0%)
08/2012: Hellblazer #294 -- 9,396 (+ 1.6%)
09/2012: Hellblazer #295 -- 9,143 (- 2.7%)
10/2012: Hellblazer #296 -- 9,255 (+ 1.2%)
11/2012: Hellblazer #297 -- 9,146 (- 1.2%)
12/2012: Hellblazer #298 -- 9,132 (- 0.2%)
01/2013: Hellblazer #299 -- 9,329 (+ 2.2%)
02/2013: Hellblazer #300 -- 12,522 (+ 34.2%)
03/2013: Constantine #1 -- 37,564 (+200.0%)
04/2013: Constantine #2 -- 30,789 (- 18.0%)
05/2013: Constantine #3 -- 29,106 (- 5.5%)
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6 months: +218.2%
1 year : +208.8%
2 years : +207.9%
5 years : +146.1%
10 years: + 71.9%

Levelling out quickly. The litmus test comes when co-writer Jeff Lemire’s name vanishes from the credits, though.

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74 - THE MOVEMENT
05/2013: The Movement #1 -- 29,246

This series about a thoroughly disciplined and rational non-team of English poets taking on Ezra Pound debuts in the same area as Threshold, so see comments on Green Team, basically.

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73 - BATWOMAN
05/2012: Batwoman #9 -- 43,942 (- 3.1%)
06/2012: Batwoman #10 -- 41,014 (- 6.7%)
07/2012: Batwoman #11 -- 38,980 (- 5.0%)
08/2012: Batwoman #12 -- 38,064 (- 2.4%)
09/2012: Batwoman #0 -- 41,684 (+ 9.5%)
10/2012: Batwoman #13 -- 37,315 (-10.5%)
11/2012: Batwoman #14 -- 36,395 (- 2.5%)
12/2012: Batwoman #15 -- 34,964 (- 3.9%)
01/2013: Batwoman #16 -- 34,103 (- 2.5%)
02/2013: Batwoman #17 -- 32,041 (- 6.1%)
03/2013: Batwoman #18 -- 31,381 (- 2.1%)
04/2013: Batwoman #19 -- 31,538 (+ 0.5%)
05/2013: Batwoman #20 -- 29,698 (- 5.8%)
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6 months: -18.4%
1 year : -32.4%

Special variant in April, back in decline in May.

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72 - RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS ANNUAL
05/2013: Red Hood Annual #1 -- 30,157

Another annual selling somewhat but not substantially below the regular book. Always a good way to strengthen the line in an off-month, these days.

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69 - ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN (Digital-First)
05/2013: Adventures of Superman #1 -- 30,992

Another new addition to DC’s digital-first line.

The debut issue was not written by Orson Scott Card, who evidently is not up to the high ethical standards enforced at DC Comics.

Perfectly good numbers for this type of book.

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64 - RED LANTERNS
05/2012: Red Lanterns #9 -- 39,215 (- 2.4%)
06/2012: Red Lanterns #10 -- 38,005 (- 3.1%)
07/2012: Red Lanterns #11 -- 36,462 (- 4.1%)
08/2012: Red Lanterns #12 -- 35,070 (- 3.8%)
09/2012: Red Lanterns #0 -- 38,928 (+11.0%)
10/2012: Red Lanterns #13 -- 42,804 (+10.0%)
11/2012: Red Lanterns #14 -- 40,779 (- 4.7%)
12/2012: Red Lanterns #15 -- 39,071 (- 4.2%)
01/2013: Red Lanterns #16 -- 38,223 (- 2.2%)
02/2013: Red Lanterns #17 -- 35,839 (- 6.2%)
03/2013: Red Lanterns #18 -- 35,203 (- 1.8%)
04/2013: Red Lanterns #19 -- 34,673 (- 1.5%)
05/2013: Red Lanterns #20 -- 33,923 (- 2.2%)
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6 months: -16.8%
1 year : -13.5%

“Reign of the Blood Rippers” epilogue. New creative teams are waiting around the corner on all four Green Lantern titles.

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62 - RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS
05/2012: Red Hood #9 -- 54,220 (+42.8%)
06/2012: Red Hood #10 -- 37,044 (-31.7%)
07/2012: Red Hood #11 -- 35,820 (- 3.3%)
08/2012: Red Hood #12 -- 34,439 (- 3.9%)
09/2012: Red Hood #0 -- 39,511 (+14.7%)
10/2012: Red Hood #13 -- 35,420 (- 6.7%)
11/2012: Red Hood #14 -- 37,710 (+ 6.5%)
12/2012: Red Hood #15 -- 64,103 (+70.0%)
01/2013: Red Hood #16 -- 59,621 (- 7.0%)
02/2013: Red Hood #17 -- 53,076 (-11.0%)
03/2013: Red Hood #18 -- 37,731 (-28.9%) [42,901]
04/2013: Red Hood #19 -- 36,630 (- 2.9%)
05/2013: Red Hood #20 -- 35,542 (- 3.0%)
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6 months: - 5.8%
1 year : -34.5%

Back in a slow decline, but still doing pretty well over the last half-year.

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60 - TEEN TITANS
05/2008: Teen Titans #59 -- 46,306
05/2009: Teen Titans #71 -- 34,110
05/2010: Teen Titans #83 -- 24,960
05/2011: Teen Titans #95 -- 24,738
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05/2012: Teen Titans #9 -- 50,261 (- 1.1%)
06/2012: Teen Titans #10 -- 47,491 (- 5.5%)
07/2012: Teen Titans #11 -- 45,367 (- 4.5%)
08/2012: Teen Titans #12 -- 42,817 (- 5.6%)
09/2012: Teen Titans #0 -- 47,318 (+ 10.5%)
10/2012: Teen Titans #13 -- 41,059 (- 13.2%)
11/2012: Teen Titans #14 -- 39,745 (- 3.3%)
12/2012: Teen Titans #15 -- 68,707 (+ 72.9%)
01/2013: Teen Titans #16 -- 63,726 (- 7.3%)
02/2013: Teen Titans #17 -- 39,186 (- 38.5%)
03/2013: Teen Titans #18 -- 42,055 (+ 7.3%)
04/2013: Teen Titans #19 -- 39,532 (- 6.0%)
05/2013: Teen Titans #20 -- 36,391 (- 8.0%)
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6 months: - 8.4%
1 year : - 27.6%
2 years : + 47.1%
5 years : - 21.4%

Another big drop, but viewed over the last six months, Teen Titans is still doing okay.

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59 - WONDER WOMAN
05/2003: Wonder Woman #192 -- 25,994
05/2008: Wonder Woman #20 -- 38,116
05/2009: Wonder Woman #32 -- 33,065
05/2010: Wonder Woman #44 -- 25,443
05/2011: --
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05/2012: Wonder Woman #9 -- 48,750 (- 3.4%)
06/2012: Wonder Woman #10 -- 47,229 (- 3.1%)
07/2012: Wonder Woman #11 -- 45,669 (- 3.3%)
08/2012: Wonder Woman #12 -- 44,584 (- 2.4%)
09/2012: Wonder Woman #0 -- 49,778 (+ 11.7%)
10/2012: Wonder Woman #13 -- 43,731 (- 12.2%)
11/2012: Wonder Woman #14 -- 42,384 (- 3.1%)
12/2012: Wonder Woman #15 -- 41,641 (- 1.8%)
01/2013: Wonder Woman #16 -- 40,105 (- 3.7%)
02/2013: Wonder Woman #17 -- 39,110 (- 2.5%)
03/2013: Wonder Woman #18 -- 38,406 (- 1.8%)
04/2013: Wonder Woman #19 -- 46,492 (+ 21.1%)
05/2013: Wonder Woman #20 -- 37,132 (- 20.1%)
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6 months: - 12.4%
1 year : - 23.8%
2 years : n.a.
5 years : - 2.6%
10 years: + 42.9%

Variant-cover boost come, variant-cover boost go. Sales are right back in their usual slow decline.

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54 - FLASH
05/2003: Flash #198 -- 31,210 [33,152]
05/2008: Flash #240 -- 31,944
05/2009: Rebirth #2 of 5 -- 86,183
05/2010: Flash #2 -- 76,560
05/2011: Flash #12 -- 54,914
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05/2012: Flash #9 -- 62,807 (- 1.4%)
06/2012: Flash #10 -- 55,681 (- 11.4%)
07/2012: Flash #11 -- 53,674 (- 3.6%)
08/2012: Flash #12 -- 51,779 (- 3.5%)
09/2012: Flash #0 -- 56,890 (+ 9.9%)
10/2012: Flash #13 -- 49,936 (- 12.2%)
11/2012: Flash #14 -- 48,012 (- 3.9%)
12/2012: Flash #15 -- 45,925 (- 4.4%)
01/2013: Flash #16 -- 44,093 (- 4.0%)
02/2013: Flash #17 -- 42,936 (- 2.6%)
03/2013: Flash #18 -- 41,659 (- 3.0%)
04/2013: Flash #19 -- 42,079 (+ 1.0%)
05/2013: Flash #20 -- 39,667 (- 5.7%)
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6 months: - 17.4%
1 year : - 36.8%
2 years : - 27.8%
5 years : + 24.2%
10 years: + 27.1%

Over here, the decline has been a little steeper.

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50 - GREEN LANTERN: NEW GUARDIANS
05/2011: Emerald Warriors #10 -- 52,971
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05/2012: New Guardians #9 -- 46,237 (- 2.3%)
06/2012: New Guardians #10 -- 44,404 (- 4.0%)
07/2012: New Guardians #11 -- 42,929 (- 3.3%)
08/2012: New Guardians #12 -- 41,479 (- 3.4%)
09/2012: New Guardians #0 -- 46,718 (+12.6%)
10/2012: New Guardians #13 -- 48,500 (+ 3.8%)
11/2012: New Guardians #14 -- 47,062 (- 3.0%)
12/2012: New Guardians #15 -- 45,136 (- 4.1%)
01/2013: New Guardians #16 -- 43,770 (- 3.0%)
02/2013: New Guardians #17 -- 42,285 (- 3.4%)
03/2013: New Guardians #18 -- 42,028 (- 0.6%)
04/2013: New Guardians #19 -- 41,481 (- 1.3%)
05/2013: New Guardians #20 -- 40,569 (- 2.2%)
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6 months: -13.8%
1 year : -12.3%
2 years : -23.4%

“Race of the Red Wrath Riders” epilogue.

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49 - EARTH 2 ANNUAL
05/2013: Earth 2 Annual #1 -- 41,325

Ka-ching.

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46 - BATGIRL
05/2003: Batgirl #40 -- 30,172
05/2010: Batgirl #10 -- 28,641
05/2011: Batgirl #21 -- 24,043
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05/2012: Batgirl #9 -- 58,710 (+ 20.1%)
06/2012: Batgirl #10 -- 47,050 (- 19.9%)
07/2012: Batgirl #11 -- 45,004 (- 4.4%)
08/2012: Batgirl #12 -- 43,804 (- 2.7%)
09/2012: Batgirl #0 -- 50,441 (+ 15.2%)
10/2012: Batgirl #13 -- 50,074 (- 0.7%) [71,109]
11/2012: Batgirl #14 -- 77,468 (+ 54.7%)
12/2012: Batgirl #15 -- 75,341 (- 2.8%)
01/2013: Batgirl #16 -- 72,470 (- 3.8%)
02/2013: Batgirl #17 -- 65,751 (- 9.6%)
03/2013: Batgirl #18 -- 51,677 (- 21.4%)
04/2013: Batgirl #19 -- 45,939 (- 11.1%)
05/2013: Batgirl #20 -- 42,600 (- 7.3%)
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6 months: - 45.0%
1 year : - 27.4%
2 years : + 77.2%
10 years: + 41.2%

The stiff decline over the last six months is deceiving, because there have been a bunch of crossover tie-in issues that boosted sales to an insane degree. Overall, Batgirl is holding up pretty well, if you compare the numbers with the pre-”event” ones from June through August 2012.

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45 - GREEN LANTERN CORPS
05/2008: Green Lantern Corps #24 -- 46,948
05/2009: Green Lantern Corps #36 -- 61,591
05/2010: Green Lantern Corps #48 -- 68,826
05/2011: Green Lantern Corps #60 -- 60,964
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05/2012: Green Lantern Corps #9 -- 46,336 (- 2.6%)
06/2012: Green Lantern Corps #10 -- 44,615 (- 3.7%)
07/2012: Green Lantern Corps #11 -- 42,996 (- 3.6%)
08/2012: Green Lantern Corps #12 -- 41,778 (- 2.8%)
09/2012: Green Lantern Corps #0 -- 47,309 (+13.2%)
10/2012: Green Lantern Corps #13 -- 50,773 (+ 7.3%)
11/2012: Green Lantern Corps #14 -- 49,594 (- 2.3%)
12/2012: Green Lantern Corps #15 -- 47,841 (- 3.5%)
01/2013: Green Lantern Corps #16 -- 45,387 (- 5.1%)
02/2013: Green Lantern Corps #17 -- 44,497 (- 2.0%)
03/2013: Green Lantern Corps #18 -- 44,215 (- 0.6%)
04/2013: Green Lantern Corps #19 -- 43,903 (- 0.8%)
05/2013: Green Lantern Corps #20 -- 43,026 (- 2.0%)
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6 months: -13.2%
1 year : - 7.1%
2 years : -29.4%
5 years : - 8.4%

“Roast of the Ruddy Rumrunner” epilogue.

—–

44 - BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT ANNUAL
05/2013: Batman: The Dark Knight Annual #1 -- 43,175

Ka-ching.

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43 - EARTH 2
05/2012: Earth 2 #1 -- 95,742 [102,490]
06/2012: Earth 2 #2 -- 75,936 (-20.7%) [ 84,740]
07/2012: Earth 2 #3 -- 74,892 (- 1.4%)
08/2012: Earth 2 #4 -- 67,393 (-10.0%)
09/2012: Earth 2 #0 -- 69,111 (+ 2.6%)
10/2012: Earth 2 #5 -- 61,529 (-11.0%)
11/2012: Earth 2 #6 -- 58,271 (- 4.8%)
12/2012: Earth 2 #7 -- 54,409 (- 6.6%)
01/2013: Earth 2 #8 -- 50,860 (- 6.5%)
02/2013: Earth 2 #9 -- 48,208 (- 5.2%)
03/2013: Earth 2 #10 -- 46,213 (- 4.1%)
04/2013: Earth 2 #11 -- 45,468 (- 1.6%)
05/2013: Earth 2 #12 -- 43,983 (- 3.3%)
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6 months: -24.5%
1 year : -54.1%

Slowly drifting down the charts.

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40 - THE WAKE (Vertigo)
05/2013: The Wake #1 of 10 -- 44,867

As I say in the introduction, this is the best-selling Vertigo comic book in more than 10 years.

Since Diamond started providing data on actual sales to retailers, we’ve only had six Vertigo titles whose first-month estimates managed to break the 30K barrier: Swamp Thing #1 (March 2004, 33,382);Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere #1 (June 2005, 30,815);Sandman: Dream Hunters #1 (November 2008, 32,638);American Vampire #1 (March 2010, 33,762);I, Zombie #1 (May 2010, 33,025);and Fairest #1 (March 2012, 31,769).

The ceiling that none of them have reached, to date, was 34,000 units. So those 45K The Wake pulled in are quite a departure. (There was a 1:25 variant, but that’s unlikely to have added more than a couple thousand units.)

For a Vertigo title that sold in similar quantities as The Wake #1, we have to go back to Preacher #66, the final issue of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s signature series, which, according to John Jackson Miller’s Comichron, sold an estimated 43,328 units in advance orders in August 2000. That was before Diamond provided information on actual sales, so given the nature of advance orders, the actual number of units shipped to retailers in August was likely somewhat higher. Before that, you have to go back another 16 months, to April 1999, to find a Vertigo book in that area: Preacher #50, which sold an estimated 44,436 units in advance orders. (Preacher consistently sold around the 40-45K mark in the late 1990s — subsequent Vertigo titles Y and Fables managed something between 25,000 and 30,000 units for a while, in their best period.)

The last month in which the recorded orders for a Vertigo title unequivocally exceeded those of The Wake #1, according to Miller’s Web site, is December 1997. Back then, both Preacher #34 (44,816) and the Alex Ross vehicle Uncle Sam #2 (60,997) had estimated advance orders that beat the actual sales of The Wake #1. Advance orders for Uncle Sam #1 were an estimated 70,350 in November 1997.

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39 - NIGHTWING
05/2003: Nightwing #81 -- 29,942
05/2008: Nightwing #144 -- 29,367
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05/2012: Nightwing #9 -- 61,395 (+17.9%)
06/2012: Nightwing #10 -- 50,585 (-17.6%)
07/2012: Nightwing #11 -- 49,124 (- 2.9%)
08/2012: Nightwing #12 -- 47,484 (- 3.3%)
09/2012: Nightwing #0 -- 53,109 (+11.9%)
10/2012: Nightwing #13 -- 47,171 (-11.2%)
11/2012: Nightwing #14 -- 50,720 (+ 7.5%)
12/2012: Nightwing #15 -- 74,407 (+46.7%)
01/2013: Nightwing #16 -- 69,643 (- 6.4%)
02/2013: Nightwing #17 -- 62,107 (-10.8%)
03/2013: Nightwing #18 -- 48,223 (-22.4%) [53,978]
04/2013: Nightwing #19 -- 46,978 (- 2.6%)
05/2013: Nightwing #20 -- 45,038 (- 4.1%)
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6 months: - 11.2%
1 year : - 26.6%
5 years : + 53.4%
10 years: + 50.4%

There’s a slow underlying decline, if you ignore the crossover boosts over the last year, but historically, Nightwing is still doing exceptionally well.

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37 - SUPERMAN
05/2003: Superman #193 -- 34,927 [36,599]
05/2008: Superman #676 -- 45,644
05/2009: Superman #688 -- 41,642
05/2010: --
05/2011: Superman #711 -- 38,471
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05/2012: Superman #9 -- 62,232 (- 3.5%)
06/2012: Superman #10 -- 59,081 (- 5.1%)
07/2012: Superman #11 -- 56,066 (- 5.1%)
08/2012: Superman #12 -- 53,326 (- 4.9%)
09/2012: Superman #0 -- 60,493 (+ 13.4%)
10/2012: Superman #13 -- 52,155 (- 13.8%)
11/2012: Superman #14 -- 52,572 (+ 0.8%)
12/2012: Superman #15 -- 51,225 (- 2.6%)
01/2013: Superman #16 -- 50,621 (- 1.2%)
02/2013: --
03/2013: Superman #17 -- 49,666 (- 1.9%)
03/2013: Superman #18 -- 48,236 (- 2.9%)
04/2013: Superman #19 -- 48,598 (+ 0.8%)
05/2013: Superman #20 -- 45,458 (- 6.5%)
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6 months: - 13.5%
1 year : - 27.0%
2 years : + 18.2%
5 years : - 0.4%
10 years: + 30.2%

In April there was a special 1:25 variant edition, in May there was just a “regular” 1:25 variant edition, hence the big drop. There’s a clear downward trend here, but on balance, these sales are still all right, if you look at the long-term comparisons.

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34 - ACTION COMICS
05/2003: Action Comics #803 -- 32,118
05/2008: Action Comics #865 -- 46,764
05/2009: Action Comics #877 -- 41,772
05/2010: --
05/2011: Action Comics #901 -- 44,143
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05/2012: Action Comics #9 -- 88,796 (+ 0.9%)
06/2012: Action Comics #10 -- 80,751 (- 9.1%)
07/2012: Action Comics #11 -- 76,232 (- 5.6%)
08/2012: Action Comics #12 -- 71,203 (- 6.6%)
09/2012: Action Comics #0 -- 78,626 (+ 10.4%)
10/2012: Action Comics #13 -- 67,241 (- 14.5%)
11/2012: Action Comics #14 -- 64,341 (- 4.3%)
12/2012: Action Comics #15 -- 61,298 (- 4.7%)
01/2013: Action Comics #16 -- 58,645 (- 4.3%)
02/2013: Action Comics #17 -- 57,189 (- 2.5%)
03/2013: Action Comics #18 -- 61,879 (+ 8.2%)
04/2013: Action Comics #19 -- 52,007 (- 16.0%)
05/2013: Action Comics #20 -- 48,324 (- 7.1%)
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6 months: - 24.9%
1 year : - 45.6%
2 years : + 9.5%
5 years : + 3.3%
10 years: + 50.5%

The complete mess DC made of the book after Grant Morrison’s departure appears to be sinking in at the retail level. So far, there’s still enough of a buffer for Action Comics to keep looking good in the longer-term comparisons, though.

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25/30 - AQUAMAN
05/2003: Aquaman #6 -- 33,213
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05/2012: Aquaman #9 -- 60,527 (- 1.8%)
06/2012: Aquaman #10 -- 59,288 (- 2.1%)
07/2012: Aquaman #11 -- 57,675 (- 2.7%)
08/2012: Aquaman #12 -- 61,210 (+ 6.1%)
09/2012: Aquaman #0 -- 61,227 (+ 0.0%)
10/2012: Aquaman #13 -- 54,648 (-10.8%)
11/2012: Aquaman #14 -- 53,664 (- 1.8%)
12/2012: Aquaman #15 -- 75,947 (+41.5%)
01/2013: Aquaman #16 -- 62,153 (-18.2%)
02/2013: Aquaman #17 -- 58,578 (- 5.8%)
03/2013: Aquaman #18 -- 53,337 (- 9.0%)
04/2013: --
05/2013: Aquaman #19 -- 53,415 (+ 0.2%)
05/2013: Aquaman #20 -- 49,697 (- 7.0%)
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6 months: - 3.9%
1 year : -14.8%
10 years: +55.2%

Special variant in April, regular variant in May.

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28 - BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT
05/2011: --
-----------------------------------
05/2012: Dark Knight #9 -- 82,169 (+ 10.6%)
06/2012: Dark Knight #10 -- 71,671 (- 12.8%)
07/2012: Dark Knight #11 -- 68,632 (- 4.2%)
08/2012: Dark Knight #12 -- 67,084 (- 2.3%)
09/2012: Dark Knight #0 -- 72,919 (+ 8.7%)
10/2012: Dark Knight #13 -- 65,271 (- 10.5%)
11/2012: Dark Knight #14 -- 62,792 (- 3.8%)
12/2012: Dark Knight #15 -- 60,569 (- 3.6%)
01/2013: Dark Knight #16 -- 58,258 (- 3.8%)
02/2013: Dark Knight #17 -- 55,990 (- 3.9%)
03/2013: Dark Knight #18 -- 54,269 (- 3.1%)
04/2013: Dark Knight #19 -- 52,644 (- 3.0%)
05/2013: Dark Knight #20 -- 50,423 (- 4.2%)
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6 months: - 19.7%
1 year : - 38.6%
2 years : n.a.

Sliding down the charts.

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23 - BATMAN, INCORPORATED
05/2011: Batman, Inc. #6 -- 60,480
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05/2012: Batman, Inc. #1 -- 96,486 (+124.1%)
06/2012: Batman, Inc. #2 -- 73,654 (- 23.7%)
07/2012: --
08/2012: Batman, Inc. #3 -- 66,720 (- 9.4%)
09/2012: Batman, Inc. #0 -- 66,112 (- 0.9%)
10/2012: Batman, Inc. #4 -- 60,888 (- 7.9%)
11/2012: Batman, Inc. #5 -- 58,172 (- 4.5%)
12/2012: Batman, Inc. #6 -- 52,636 (- 9.5%)
01/2013: Batman, Inc. #7 -- 50,345 (- 4.4%)
02/2013: Batman, Inc. #8 -- 55,414 (+ 10.1%) [99,406]
03/2013: Batman, Inc. #9 -- 64,067 (+ 15.6%) [69,123]
04/2013: Batman, Inc. #10 -- 56,464 (- 11.9%)
05/2013: Batman, Inc. #11 -- 57,298 (+ 1.5%)
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6 months: - 1.5%
1 year : -40.6%
2 years : - 5.3%

A few weeks before publication, a DC press release mentioned in passing that issue #11 was not going to be written by Grant Morrison. Presumably, the May number would be lower if people had known in advance that it was going to be a fill-in issue.

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21 - BATMAN AND RED HOOD
05/2010: Batman and Robin #12 -- 84,843
05/2011: Batman and Robin #23 -- 57,525
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05/2012: Batman and Robin #9 -- 75,967 (+14.0%)
06/2012: Batman and Robin #10 -- 66,894 (-11.9%)
07/2012: Batman and Robin #11 -- 65,043 (- 2.8%)
08/2012: Batman and Robin #12 -- 63,993 (- 1.6%)
09/2012: Batman and Robin #0 -- 69,146 (+ 8.1%)
10/2012: Batman and Robin #13 -- 63,097 (- 8.8%)
11/2012: Batman and Robin #14 -- 75,543 (+19.7%)
12/2012: Batman and Robin #15 -- 89,878 (+19.0%)
01/2013: Batman and Robin #16 -- 81,494 (- 9.3%)
02/2013: Batman and Robin #17 -- 60,988 (-25.2%)
03/2013: Batman and Robin #18 -- 69,614 (+14.1%) [76,575]
04/2013: and Red Robin #19 -- 89,182 (+28.1%)
05/2013: and Red Hood #20 -- 65,222 (-26.9%)
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6 months: -13.7%
1 year : -14.1%
2 years : +13.4%

As the dust on the “Requiem” crossover settles, sales return to regular levels. The Batman and Big Bad Wolf issue is just around the corner, though, so everything’s possible.

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19 - GREEN LANTERN
05/2003: Green Lantern #164 -- 44,351
05/2003: Green Lantern #165 -- 37,997
05/2008: Green Lantern #31 -- 65,874
05/2009: Green Lantern #41 -- 81,491
05/2010: Green Lantern #54 -- 88,292
05/2011: Green Lantern #66 -- 75,371
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05/2012: Green Lantern #9 -- 87,601 (- 0.8%)
06/2012: Green Lantern #10 -- 80,615 (- 8.0%)
07/2012: Green Lantern #11 -- 78,708 (- 2.4%)
08/2012: Green Lantern #12 -- 77,187 (- 1.9%)
09/2012: Green Lantern #0 -- 89,909 (+16.5%)
10/2012: Green Lantern #13 -- 91,814 (+ 2.1%)
11/2012: Green Lantern #14 -- 78,499 (-14.5%)
12/2012: Green Lantern #15 -- 74,363 (- 5.3%)
01/2013: Green Lantern #16 -- 72,884 (- 2.0%)
02/2013: Green Lantern #17 -- 71,060 (- 2.5%)
03/2013: Green Lantern #18 -- 69,801 (- 1.8%)
04/2013: Green Lantern #19 -- 71,018 (+ 1.7%)
05/2013: Green Lantern #20 -- 67,414 (- 5.1%)
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6 months: - 14.1%
1 year : - 23.0%
2 years : - 10.6%
5 years : + 2.3%
10 years: + 63.7%

“Ruby Rut of the Red Blood Bleeders” epilogue.

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8/12 - JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
05/2003: JLA #81 -- 60,316
05/2008: JL of America #21 -- 90,035
05/2009: JL of America #33 -- 63,867
05/2010: JL of America #45 -- 62,465
05/2011: JL of America #57 -- 46,729
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02/2013: JL of America #1 -- 307,734 [326,959]
03/2013: JL of America #2 -- 91,734 (-70.2%)
04/2013: --
05/2013: JL of America #3 -- 83,283 (- 9.2%)
05/2013: JL of America #4 -- 77,856 (- 6.5%)
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2 years : + 72.4%
5 years : - 10.5%
10 years: + 33.6%

Surprisingly, the new Geoff Johns/David Finch vehicle missed its shipping date in April and required fill-in art for issue #4. If only this could have been foreseen somehow.

Sales appear to be settling down quickly after the insane, insanely gimmick-driven number of the debut issue.

—–

10 - DETECTIVE COMICS
05/2003: Detective Comics #782 -- 38,443
05/2008: Detective Comics #844 -- 48,394
05/2009: --
05/2010: Detective Comics #865 -- 41,501
05/2011: Detective Comics #877 -- 39,609
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05/2012: Detective Comics #9 -- 96,016 (+ 9.5%)
06/2012: Detective Comics #10 -- 83,317 (- 13.2%)
07/2012: Detective Comics #11 -- 79,835 (- 4.2%)
08/2012: Detective Comics #12 -- 75,998 (- 4.8%)
09/2012: Detective Comics #0 -- 84,063 (+ 10.6%)
10/2012: Detective Comics #13 -- 76,392 (- 9.1%)
11/2012: Detective Comics #14 -- 74,560 (- 2.4%)
12/2012: Detective Comics #15 -- 106,395 (+ 42.7%)
01/2013: Detective Comics #16 -- 92,300 (- 13.3%)
02/2013: Detective Comics #17 -- 85,824 (- 7.0%)
03/2013: Detective Comics #18 -- 76,237 (- 11.2%)
04/2013: Detective Comics #19 -- 77,922 (+ 2.2%)
05/2013: Detective Comics #20 -- 78,252 (+ 0.4%)
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6 months: + 5.0%
1 year : - 18.5%
2 years : + 97.6%
5 years : + 61.7%
10 years: +103.6%

There were three variant-cover editions in May versus two in April, hence the marginal increase. Still perfectly good numbers, on balance.

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3 - JUSTICE LEAGUE
05/2003: JLA #81 -- 60,316
05/2008: JL of America #21 -- 90,035
05/2009: JL of America #33 -- 63,867
05/2010: JL of America #45 -- 62,465
05/2011: JL of America #57 -- 46,729
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05/2012: Justice League #9 -- 131,332 (- 1.4%)
06/2012: Justice League #10 -- 130,502 (- 0.6%)
07/2012: Justice League #11 -- 123,971 (- 5.0%)
08/2012: Justice League #12 -- 120,796 (- 2.6%) [161,235]
09/2012: Justice League #0 -- 125,868 (+ 4.2%)
10/2012: Justice League #13 -- 117,752 (- 6.5%)
11/2012: Justice League #14 -- 113,094 (- 4.0%)
12/2012: Justice League #15 -- 115,074 (+ 1.8%)
01/2013: Justice League #16 -- 117,719 (+ 2.3%)
02/2013: Justice League #17 -- 105,304 (- 10.6%)
03/2013: Justice League #18 -- 102,494 (- 2.7%)
04/2013: Justice League #19 -- 100,943 (- 1.5%)
05/2013: Justice League #20 -- 97,676 (- 3.2%)
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6 months: - 13.6%
1 year : - 25.6%
2 years : +109.0%
5 years : + 8.5%
10 years: + 61.9%

Slowly drifting out of the 100K juggernaut club, but still doing very well overall.

—–

2 - BATMAN
05/2003: Batman #615 -- 144,090 [158,350]
05/2008: Batman #676 -- 105,039 [122,877]
05/2009: BfC #3 of 3 -- 89,170
05/2010: Batman #699 -- 62,377
05/2011: Batman #710 -- 55,086
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05/2012: Batman #9 -- 134,605 (+ 3.1%)
06/2012: Batman #10 -- 130,265 (- 3.2%)
07/2012: Batman #11 -- 127,210 (- 2.4%)
08/2012: Batman #12 -- 125,249 (- 1.5%)
09/2012: Batman #0 -- 156,561 (+ 25.0%)
10/2012: Batman #13 -- 148,305 (- 5.3%) [174,642]
11/2012: Batman #14 -- 159,729 (+ 7.7%)
12/2012: Batman #15 -- 151,568 (- 5.1%)
01/2013: Batman #16 -- 145,923 (- 3.7%)
02/2013: Batman #17 -- 150,684 (+ 3.3%)
03/2013: Batman #18 -- 137,893 (- 8.5%)
04/2013: Batman #19 -- 132,147 (- 4.2%)
05/2013: Batman #20 -- 129,039 (- 2.4%)
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6 months: - 19.2%
1 year : - 4.1%
2 years : +134.3%
5 years : + 22.9%
10 years: - 10.5%

Levelling out around 130K, it seems. Stellar numbers, obviously.

—–

6-MONTH COMPARISONS
+218.2%: Constantine
+ 26.2%: Green Arrow
+ 10.9%: He-Man
+ 5.0%: Detective Comics
- 1.5%: Batman, Inc.
- 3.9%: Aquaman
- 5.2%: Fables
- 5.8%: Red Hood
- 6.3%: Unwritten
- 8.4%: Teen Titans
- 11.2%: Nightwing
- 12.0%: Supergirl
- 12.4%: Wonder Woman
- 12.6%: LoSH
- 13.2%: GL Corps
- 13.5%: Superman
- 13.6%: Justice League
- 13.7%: Batman and Red Hood
- 13.8%: New Guardians
- 14.1%: Fairest
- 14.1%: Green Lantern
- 14.4%: GL: TAS
- 14.8%: JLD
- 15.2%: Birds of Prey
- 16.7%: BB Unlimited
- 16.7%: Batwing
- 16.8%: Red Lanterns
- 17.4%: Flash
- 18.4%: Batwoman
- 18.6%: Deathstroke
- 19.2%: Batman
- 19.2%: Smallville
- 19.7%: Dark Knight
- 19.7%: Superboy
- 19.8%: ASW
- 20.4%: Firestorm
- 21.2%: Stormwatch
- 21.2%: Worlds' Finest
- 23.0%: Animal Man
- 23.6%: Arkham Unhinged
- 23.8%: Demon Knights
- 24.5%: Earth 2
- 24.6%: Hawkman
- 24.9%: Action Comics
- 25.3%: Ame-Comi Girls
- 30.6%: Dial H
- 34.5%: Ravagers
- 34.9%: Phantom Stranger
- 35.0%: Swamp Thing
- 41.0%: Sword of Sorcery
- 43.1%: LotDK
- 45.0%: Batgirl
- 45.0%: Talon
- 57.8%: Catwoman
- 60.6%: Arrow
- 60.9%: Team 7
- 63.1%: Suicide Squad

—–

1-YEAR COMPARISONS
+208.8%: Constantine
+ 2.1%: Green Arrow
- 4.1%: Batman
- 7.1%: GL Corps
- 12.0%: Fables
- 12.3%: New Guardians
- 13.5%: Red Lanterns
- 13.8%: Unwritten
- 14.1%: Batman and Red Hood
- 14.8%: Aquaman
- 18.5%: Detective Comics
- 21.7%: Supergirl
- 23.0%: Green Lantern
- 23.8%: Wonder Woman
- 25.5%: LoSH
- 25.6%: Justice League
- 26.6%: Nightwing
- 27.0%: Superman
- 27.4%: Batgirl
- 27.6%: Teen Titans
- 27.7%: Animal Man
- 27.8%: Suicide Squad
- 28.7%: JLD
- 30.6%: Swamp Thing
- 32.8%: Batwoman
- 33.0%: Fairest
- 34.5%: Red Hood
- 35.0%: BB Unlimited
- 35.4%: Superboy
- 36.8%: Flash
- 37.0%: Hawkman
- 38.6%: Dark Knight
- 39.6%: Demon Knights
- 40.6%: Batman, Inc.
- 40.6%: Firestorm
- 41.9%: Stormwatch
- 42.8%: Smallville
- 43.6%: Deathstroke
- 44.3%: Arkham Unhinged
- 45.6%: Action Comics
- 45.9%: Catwoman
- 48.5%: ASW
- 49.1%: Birds of Prey
- 54.1%: Earth 2
- 60.1%: GL: TAS
- 61.1%: Worlds' Finest
- 62.8%: Batwing
- 72.4%: Ravagers
- 72.7%: Dial H

—–

2-YEAR COMPARISONS
+207.9%: Constantine
+134.3%: Batman
+109.0%: Justice League
+ 97.6%: Detective Comics
+ 77.2%: Batgirl
+ 72.4%: JLA
+ 57.3%: ASW
+ 47.1%: Teen Titans
+ 28.5%: Supergirl
+ 18.2%: Superman
+ 13.4%: Batman and Red Hood
+ 9.5%: Action Comics
- 5.3%: Batman, Inc.
- 8.6%: Superboy
- 10.6%: Green Lantern
- 13.2%: Green Arrow
- 16.1%: Unwritten
- 18.0%: Fables
- 23.4%: New Guardians
- 27.8%: Flash
- 28.9%: Birds of Prey
- 29.4%: GL Corps
- 32.8%: LoSH

—–

5-YEAR COMPARISONS
+146.1%: Constantine
+ 61.7%: Detective Comics
+ 53.4%: Nightwing
+ 49.4%: Catwoman
+ 24.2%: Flash
+ 23.2%: ASW
+ 22.9%: Batman
+ 8.5%: Justice League
+ 3.3%: Action Comics
+ 2.3%: Green Lantern
+ 1.9%: Stormwatch
- 0.4%: Superman
- 2.6%: Wonder Woman
- 3.7%: Birds of Prey
- 8.4%: GL Corps
- 8.9%: Supergirl
- 10.5%: JLA
- 10.8%: Green Arrow
- 21.4%: Teen Titans
- 35.3%: Fables
- 44.4%: LoSH

—–

10-YEAR COMPARISONS
+103.6%: Detective Comics
+ 71.9%: Constantine
+ 63.7%: Green Lantern
+ 61.9%: Justice League
+ 55.2%: Aquaman
+ 50.5%: Action Comics
+ 50.4%: Nightwing
+ 42.9%: Wonder Woman
+ 41.2%: Batgirl
+ 33.6%: JLA
+ 30.2%: Superman
+ 27.1%: Flash
+ 13.3%: Catwoman
- 7.3%: Stormwatch
- 9.1%: Birds of Prey
- 10.5%: Batman
- 12.2%: MotU
- 33.0%: LoSH
- 38.9%: Fables
- 41.1%: Dial H
- 46.5%: Green Arrow
- 62.9%: Hawkman

[fred le mallratAdmin-Man]

DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: July 2013 – The Ring Bling

by Marc-Oliver Frisch

Breaking: Comics retailers will buy any old rubbish.

The direct market is a peculiar distribution channel, and it has its hang-ups. One of the more peculiar aspects of this arrangement is how at every level — publishing, retail and consumer — its users fail singularly and incessantly to exercise or even realize their ability to help shape the market in such a way as to better serve their interests, while simultaneously bemoaning the situation that results.

The latest consequence of this permanent and collective state of cognitive dissonance involves DC’s “Villains Month” event in September. San Francisco retailer Brian Hibbs wasn’t thrilled with the idea of 52 $3.99 comics with special 3-D covers to begin with, as he explained in a June 20 column — even best-case, Hibbs points out, an entire comics line consisting of fill-in issues exclusively offered with high-end gimmick covers would have been a nightmare for retailers, for a variety of reasons.

Seven weeks later, Hibbs’s worst worries had come true. DC claims to be unable to satisfy all orders on its stunt, the publisher’s handling of the situation has resulted in one big mess, and retailers are not amused. Leo McGovern from New Orleans calls it “ridiculous” and “a money-grab,” and admits he has considerable trouble making sense of the situation;“I look at this as either a complete blunder or a very sneaky way to inflate sales in a very underhanded manner,” writes Mike Milewski (San Antonio, Texas), concluding that “the unintended consequences are devastating”;Rich Biedrzycki (Schaumburg, Illinois) surmises that the term F.O.C. may have an entirely different meaning at DC Comics;and Hibbs, in a piece titled “The staggeringly epic incompetence of DC Entertainment,” refers to the publisher’s efforts as “shameful” and “EVIL” (his capitalization).

So, are retailers just the hapless victims of a cynical and ill-considered scheme by a Big Two publisher?

In his initial piece about “Villains Month,” well before it imploded on the market, Hibbs formulated his basic issue with DC’s September output:

“Ultimately, because of the ‘vignette’ nature of this event, and because of the creative teams announced, I am left with the sense that the actual content is absolutely irrelevant to the overall program. That, in some sense, it doesn’t really matter what is between covers this month. But, we’re in a content business!”

Really? I disagree.

If the direct market — at least DC’s corner of it — were a content business, then I think publishers would focus on works that keep selling long-term and attract new readers;retailers would reward this type of product and steer their customers towards it;and most of those customers would be readers, rather than hardcore enthusiasts and collectors.

When DC relaunched its line of superhero titles in September 2011, there was quite a bit of mainstream-media attention. None of this attention — none of it — focused on the stories themselves. It was all about the logistics of the relaunch, and although DC managed to get these books under the noses of dozens of mainstream outlets, nothing in those books seemed noteworthy or relevant enough to constitute a hook. On the contrary: By the time all those new readers (who, it turns out, weren’t new readers at all) had supposedly digested the content of the books, the hype died down. This was DC’s major chance to make a splash and get its books into many more hands than usual, and it worked, and nobody cared about anything that happened in any of the stories, any more than before the relaunch. The hardcore readers and comics critics picked their favorites, as they always do, and within weeks, the media attention evaporated.

A content business?

Comparing the variant-cover editions solicited by DC for release in the month of July in the last 10 years, the number of variants quadrupled from 3 in 2003 (all 50/50 variants) to 12 in 2008 (six 50/50 variants, five 1:10 variants and one 1:25 variant).

By July 2013, the number has grown to 55 (thirty 1:25 variants, nine “Combo Pack Editions,” six 1:100 variants, one 1:300 variant, and one “We Can Be Heroes” charity variant, plus eight more unspecified variants on Superman Unchained #2) — more than four and a half times what it was in 2008.

DC COMICS VARIANT-COVER EDITIONS (BASED ON SOLICITATIONS)
July 2003: 3 variants/83 titles
July 2004: 0 variants/85 titles
July 2005: 2 variants/79 titles
July 2006: 5 variants/80 titles
July 2007: 5 variants/77 titles
July 2008: 12 variants/97 titles
July 2009: 15 variants/84 titles
July 2010: 25 variants/90 titles
July 2011: 14 variants/86 titles
July 2012: 38 variants/80 titles
July 2013: 55 variants/78 titles

If anything, DC’s direct-market performance has, over the course of the last 10 years, become less content-based than ever. It’s not just the number of the variants that has increased, but also the number of units retailers have to purchase in order to be able to buy them.

And retailers keep playing along.

In February, when DC offered 54 variant editions of a single new title, retailers were not discouraged by content-based considerations and ordered more than 300,000 copies total. In March, though still distorted by a 1:100 variant, sales of the second issue dropped by 70% — an expected drop, since everybody knew that the initial orders way outnumbered any actual demand. It was all about the variant editions.

A content business?

In November 2009, as part of its its “Blackest Night” crossover, DC offered a bunch of promotional plastic rings to retailers under the condition that they order shiploads of six usually lower-selling titles. Not wanting to disappoint any collectors among their customers, retailers happily complied — never mind that this involved ordering about 100,000 units total of those six comic books that they knew nobody had any interest in. (Marvel quickly rose to the occasion and offered retailers a special variant-edition comic in return for shredded copies of the unwanted DC stock they had acquired.)

And this wasn’t the last time retailers bought comics from DC in order to be able to purchase plastic rings. The stunt came up again in early 2010, to push the next Green Lantern-based publishing event;and once more in June and July 2013, to promote the new post-Geoff Johns creative teams.

Since DC tied the promotion to titles that were doing relatively well to begin with in those subsequent iterations, results were less spectacular. But looking at the difference between June’s Green Lantern #21 (which was part of the plastic ring promotion) and July’s Green Lantern #22 (which wasn’t), nearly 10,000 extra sales in June don’t exactly speak for a great amount of restraint. (The four spin-off titles were still involved in the plastic-ring promotion in July, so we won’t be able to gauge the full effect of the plastic rings until the August figures are out.)

A content business?

There’s nothing wrong with catering to collectors, if that’s what you think you should be doing. But if comics retailers want to be part of a content business, they’re either kidding themselves or failing to act in their own best interests.

Unless the content business we’re talking about is one where retailers are content to gobble up anything that glitters, regardless of content.

See below for the details and, as usual, please consider the small print at the end of the column. Thanks to Milton Griepp and ICv2.com for the permission to use their figures. An overview of ICv2.com‘s estimates can be found here.

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230 - THE UNWRITTEN (Vertigo)
07/2009: The Unwritten #3 -- 17,028
07/2010: The Unwritten #15 -- 13,023
07/2011: The Unwritten #27 -- 10,787
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07/2012: The Unwritten #39 -- 9,478 (- 0.2%)
08/2012: The Unwritten #40 -- 9,127 (- 3.7%)
09/2012: The Unwritten #41 -- 8,943 (- 2.0%)
10/2012: The Unwritten #42 -- 8,881 (- 0.7%)
11/2012: The Unwritten #43 -- 8,791 (- 1.0%)
12/2012: The Unwritten #44 -- 8,532 (- 3.0%)
01/2013: The Unwritten #45 -- 8,465 (- 0.8%)
02/2013: The Unwritten #46 -- 8,352 (- 1.3%)
03/2013: The Unwritten #47 -- 8,267 (- 1.0%)
04/2013: The Unwritten #48 -- 8,226 (- 0.5%)
05/2013: The Unwritten #49 -- 8,234 (+ 0.1%)
06/2013: The Unwritten #50 -- 10,124 (+23.0%)
07/2013: The Unwritten #51 -- 9,143 (- 9.7%)
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6 months: + 8.0%
1 year : - 3.5%
2 years : -15.2%

The Unwritten is cancelled with issue #54 in October, and to be relaunched in January.

Looking at recent developments at Vertigo, The Unwritten has become the odd man out. All lower-selling titles have been axed or rebooted, and the next Vertigo ongoing series up the chart is now Fairest, which sells almost 4,000 units more. It’s always worth pointing out that paperback collections are a factor at the imprint, but then again, good paperback sales tend to apply to titles with good comic-book sales. Still, it’s not inconceivable that collection sales and generally favorable reviews convinced DC to go for a relaunch.

Mike Carey and Peter Gross imply that the relaunch was something they suggested to their editor for narrative reasons — the word “sales” doesn’t appear at all in that interview, bizarrly.

But relaunches of this type almost never boost sales for more than a few issues, anyway, and the creators are quick to stress that only a few more arcs are left to tell. So maybe a relaunch makes sense here, commercially. If we’re talking about, say, a year’s worth of more stories, then that expected initial boost may help carry The Unwritten over the finish line — particularly since the current Fables tie-in storyline doesn’t really lift the numbers as much as DC might have hoped.

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226 - ARROW (Digital-First)
11/2012: Arrow #1 -- 25,442
12/2012: Arrow #2 -- 15,780 (-38.0%)
01/2013: Arrow #3 -- 13,090 (-17.1%)
02/2013: Arrow #4 -- 11,581 (-11.5%)
03/2013: Arrow #5 -- 10,908 (- 5.8%)
04/2013: Arrow #6 -- 10,462 (- 4.1%)
05/2013: Arrow #7 -- 10,017 (- 4.3%)
06/2013: Arrow #8 -- 9,671 (- 3.5%)
07/2013: Arrow #9 -- 9,334 (- 3.5%)
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6 months: -28.7%

Cancelled with issue #12.

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224 - THRESHOLD
01/2013: Threshold #1 -- 29,312
02/2013: Threshold #2 -- 18,389 (-37.3%)
03/2013: Threshold #3 -- 15,109 (-17.8%)
04/2013: Threshold #4 -- 12,811 (-15.2%)
05/2013: Threshold #5 -- 11,209 (-12.5%)
06/2013: Threshold #6 -- 10,184 (- 9.1%)
07/2013: Threshold #7 -- 9,361 (- 8.1%)
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6 months: -68.1%

Cancelled with issue #8.

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207 - TOM STRONG AND THE PLANET OF PERIL (Vertigo)
07/2003: --
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06/2010: Robots of Doom #1 of 6 -- 10,552
07/2010: Robots of Doom #2 of 6 -- 7,655
08/2010: Robots of Doom #3 of 6 -- 6,989
09/2010: Robots of Doom #4 of 6 -- 6,661
10/2010: Robots of Doom #5 of 6 -- 6,271
11/2010: Robots of Doom #6 of 6 -- 5,995
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07/2013: Planet of Peril #1 of 6 -- 10,492
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10 years: n.a.

The latest miniseries featuring the Alan Moore character starts out pretty much exactly like the last one. Which should be no great surprise, given that it’s by the same creative team.

On the other hand, the debut issue of the 2010 mini was promoted with a 1:10 variant edition, while the current one comes with a 1:25 variant, so there probably is a small degree of attrition from debut issue to debut issue.

And of course, the return of the former WildStorm property is a disappointment for the reorganized Vertigo: There’s no effect whatsoever from switching publishing imprints. On the contrary, these are poor sales even by the Vertigo standards of the last few years.

—–

205 - AME-COMI GIRLS (Digital-First)
10/2012: ACG #1: Wonder Woman -- 24,966
11/2012: ACG #2: Batgirl -- 16,083 (-35.6%)
12/2012: ACG #3: Duela Dent -- 13,185 (-18.0%)
01/2013: ACG #4: Power Girl -- 12,488 (- 5.3%)
02/2013: ACG #5 of 5: Supergirl -- 12,343 (- 1.2%)
03/2013: Ame-Comi Girls #1 -- 16,558 (+34.2%)
04/2013: Ame-Comi Girls #2 -- 12,878 (-22.2%)
05/2013: Ame-Comi Girls #3 -- 12,007 (- 6.8%)
06/2013: Ame-Comi Girls #4 -- 11,229 (- 6.5%)
07/2013: Ame-Comi Girls #5 -- 10,672 (- 5.0%)
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6 months: -14.5%

Cancelled with issue #8.

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198 - GREEN TEAM
05/2013: Green Team #1 -- 27,775
06/2013: Green Team #2 -- 14,328 (-48.4%)
07/2013: Green Team #3 -- 11,220 (-21.7%)

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196 - KATANA
02/2013: Katana #1 -- 27,021
03/2013: Katana #2 -- 19,247 (-28.8%)
04/2013: Katana #3 -- 16,157 (-16.1%)
05/2013: Katana #4 -- 14,804 (- 8.4%)
06/2013: Katana #5 -- 12,998 (-12.2%)
07/2013: Katana #6 -- 11,346 (-12.7%)

The two lowest-selling “New 52″ titles that haven’t been axed, as I’m writing this. Sales continue to be abysmal.

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195 - DEMON KNIGHTS
07/2012: Demon Knights #11 -- 18,201 (- 4.2%)
08/2012: Demon Knights #12 -- 17,295 (- 5.0%)
09/2012: Demon Knights #0 -- 20,474 (+18.4%)
10/2012: Demon Knights #13 -- 16,805 (-17.9%)
11/2012: Demon Knights #14 -- 16,005 (- 4.8%)
12/2012: Demon Knights #15 -- 15,152 (- 5.3%)
01/2013: Demon Knights #16 -- 14,168 (- 6.5%)
02/2013: Demon Knights #17 -- 13,571 (- 4.2%)
03/2013: Demon Knights #18 -- 12,975 (- 4.4%)
04/2013: Demon Knights #19 -- 12,941 (- 0.3%)
05/2013: Demon Knights #20 -- 12,195 (- 5.8%)
06/2013: Demon Knights #21 -- 11,627 (- 4.7%)
07/2013: Demon Knights #22 -- 11,364 (- 2.3%)
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6 months: -19.8%
1 year : -37.6%

Cancelled with issue #23.

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193 - DIAL H
07/2003: H-E-R-O #6 -- 19,366
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07/2012: Dial H #3 -- 26,109 (-14.7%)
08/2012: Dial H #4 -- 22,733 (-12.9%)
09/2012: Dial H #0 -- 24,070 (+ 5.9%)
10/2012: Dial H #5 -- 19,903 (-17.3%)
11/2012: Dial H #6 -- 17,832 (-10.4%)
12/2012: Dial H #7 -- 16,217 (- 9.1%)
01/2013: Dial H #8 -- 14,672 (- 9.5%)
02/2013: Dial H #9 -- 13,541 (- 7.7%)
03/2013: Dial H #10 -- 13,084 (- 3.4%)
04/2013: Dial H #11 -- 13,355 (+ 2.1%)
05/2013: Dial H #12 -- 12,381 (- 7.3%)
06/2013: Dial H #13 -- 11,905 (- 3.9%)
07/2013: Dial H #14 -- 11,421 (- 4.1%)
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6 months: -22.2%
1 year : -56.3%
10 years: -41.0%

Cancelled with issue #15.

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190 - STORMWATCH
07/2003: Stormwatch: TA #13 -- 13,018
07/2008: --
07/2009: Stormwatch: PHD #22 -- 5,090
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07/2012: Stormwatch #11 -- 19,678 (- 4.4%)
08/2012: Stormwatch #12 -- 18,531 (- 5.8%)
09/2012: Stormwatch #0 -- 21,764 (+17.5%)
10/2012: Stormwatch #13 -- 17,621 (-19.0%)
11/2012: Stormwatch #14 -- 16,559 (- 6.0%)
12/2012: Stormwatch #15 -- 15,437 (- 6.8%)
01/2013: Stormwatch #16 -- 14,411 (- 6.7%)
02/2013: Stormwatch #17 -- 13,657 (- 5.2%)
03/2013: Stormwatch #18 -- 13,255 (- 2.9%)
04/2013: Stormwatch #19 -- 13,626 (+ 2.8%)
05/2013: Stormwatch #20 -- 13,049 (- 4.2%)
06/2013: Stormwatch #21 -- 12,277 (- 5.9%)
07/2013: Stormwatch #22 -- 11,792 (- 4.0%)
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6 months: - 18.1%
1 year : - 40.1%
5 years : n.a.
10 years: - 9.4%

Another “New 52″ that has not been cancelled yet and keeps sliding down the charts.

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189 - 100 BULLETS: BROTHER LONO (Vertigo)
07/2003: 100 Bullets #46 -- 17,108
07/2008: 100 Bullets #93 -- 10,796
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06/2013: Brother Lono #1 of 8 -- 17,489
07/2013: Brother Lono #2 of 8 -- 11,984 (-31.5%)
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5 years : +11.0%
10 years: -30.0%

There was a 1:25 variant for issue #1, so the drop is not as terrible as it looks. Still, that means sales weren’t impressive to begin with, and now Brother Lono remains only about 1,000 units ahead of the old 100 Bullets title. Whatever caused The Wake to sell as well as it did, it doesn’t seem to be affecting any of the other Vertigo launches, to date.

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187 - BATWING
07/2012: Batwing #11 -- 20,047 (- 3.3%)
08/2012: Batwing #12 -- 18,279 (- 8.8%)
09/2012: Batwing #0 -- 22,135 (+21.1%)
10/2012: Batwing #13 -- 17,166 (-22.5%)
11/2012: Batwing #14 -- 15,967 (- 7.0%)
12/2012: Batwing #15 -- 14,674 (- 8.1%)
01/2013: Batwing #16 -- 13,427 (- 8.5%)
02/2013: Batwing #17 -- 12,595 (- 6.2%)
03/2013: Batwing #18 -- 12,084 (- 4.1%)
04/2013: Batwing #19 -- 13,570 (+12.3%)
05/2013: Batwing #20 -- 13,302 (- 2.0%)
06/2013: Batwing #21 -- 12,437 (- 6.5%)
07/2013: Batwing #22 -- 12,062 (- 3.0%)
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6 months: -10.2%
1 year : -39.8%

Another very low-selling “New 52″ title that’s still officially ongoing. In November, it ties in with the “Zero Year” crossover — probably a last-ditch effort to improve the numbers.

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185 - JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA'S VIBE
02/2013: Vibe #1 -- 27,051
03/2013: Vibe #2 -- 19,092 (-29.4%)
04/2013: Vibe #3 -- 16,972 (-11.1%)
05/2013: Vibe #4 -- 14,970 (-11.8%)
06/2013: Vibe #5 -- 13,706 (- 8.4%)
07/2013: Vibe #6 -- 12,241 (-10.7%)

And one more still-ongoing “New 52″ title in terminal decline. Issue #5 was the last one supported with a 1:25 variant cover, so that explains at least part of the big drop. The July issue was also the last one drawn by Pete Woods. (Original co-writers Geoff Johns and Andrew Kreisberg bolted after issue #3.)

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177 - SMALLVILLE SEASON 11 SPECIAL (Digital-First)
05/2013: Smallville S11 Special #1 -- 13,988
06/2013: --
07/2013: Smallville S11 Special #2 -- 12,858 (-8.1%)

Not bad sales for a $4.99 book containing previously published material.

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176 - BATMAN: ARKHAM UNHINGED (Digital-First)
07/2012: Arkham Unhinged #4 -- 21,809 (- 6.5%)
08/2012: Arkham Unhinged #5 -- 21,059 (- 3.4%)
09/2012: Arkham Unhinged #6 -- 20,259 (- 3.8%)
10/2012: Arkham Unhinged #7 -- 19,890 (- 1.8%)
11/2012: Arkham Unhinged #8 -- 18,393 (- 7.5%)
12/2012: Arkham Unhinged #9 -- 17,220 (- 6.4%)
01/2013: Arkham Unhinged #10 -- 16,113 (- 6.4%)
02/2013: Arkham Unhinged #11 -- 15,703 (- 2.6%)
03/2013: Arkham Unhinged #12 -- 15,067 (- 4.1%)
04/2013: Arkham Unhinged #13 -- 14,702 (- 2.4%)
05/2013: Arkham Unhinged #14 -- 14,048 (- 4.5%)
06/2013: Arkham Unhinged #15 -- 13,729 (- 2.3%)
07/2013: Arkham Unhinged #16 -- 13,046 (- 5.0%)
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6 months: -19.0%
1 year : -40.2%

Cancelled with issue #20, and to be relaunched as Batman: Arkham Origins, in order to tie in with the upcoming new video game of the same title. Print sales haven’t been stellar, either, lately.

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171 - FAIREST (Vertigo)
07/2012: Fairest #5 -- 20,371 (- 3.7%)
08/2012: Fairest #6 -- 19,446 (- 4.5%)
09/2012: Fairest #7 -- 18,626 (- 4.2%)
10/2012: Fairest #8 -- 18,376 (- 1.3%)
11/2012: Fairest #9 -- 17,417 (- 5.2%)
12/2012: Fairest #10 -- 16,919 (- 2.9%)
01/2013: Fairest #11 -- 16,498 (- 2.5%)
02/2013: Fairest #12 -- 16,141 (- 2.2%)
03/2013: Fairest #13 -- 15,693 (- 2.8%)
04/2013: Fairest #14 -- 15,269 (- 2.7%)
05/2013: Fairest #15 -- 14,959 (- 2.0%)
06/2013: Fairest #16 -- 14,289 (- 4.5%)
07/2013: Fairest #17 -- 13,915 (- 2.6%)
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6 months: -15.7%
1 year : -31.7%

Standard attrition.

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164 - THE MOVEMENT
05/2013: The Movement #1 -- 29,246
06/2013: The Movement #2 -- 18,001 (-38.5%)
07/2013: The Movement #3 -- 14,524 (-19.3%)

Another horrendous drop for a “New 52″ title. The writing is on the wall.

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161 - THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES
07/2003: Legion #22 -- 22,987
07/2008: LoSH #43 -- 27,531
07/2008: LoSH #44 -- 29,954
07/2010: LoSH #3 -- 36,360
07/2011: LoSH #15 -- 21,788
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07/2012: LoSH #11 -- 19,421 (- 2.7%)
08/2012: LoSH #12 -- 18,907 (- 2.7%)
09/2012: LoSH #0 -- 21,561 (+ 14.0%)
10/2012: LoSH #13 -- 18,487 (- 14.3%)
11/2012: LoSH #14 -- 17,767 (- 3.9%)
12/2012: LoSH #15 -- 16,912 (- 4.8%)
01/2013: LoSH #16 -- 16,496 (- 2.5%)
02/2013: LoSH #17 -- 16,242 (- 1.5%)
03/2013: LoSH #18 -- 16,148 (- 0.6%)
04/2013: LoSH #19 -- 16,015 (- 0.9%)
05/2013: LoSH #20 -- 15,532 (- 3.0%)
06/2013: LoSH #21 -- 14,997 (- 3.5%)
07/2013: LoSH #22 -- 14,726 (- 1.8%)
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6 months: - 10.7%
1 year : - 24.2%
2 years : - 32.4%
5 years : - 48.8%
10 years: - 35.9%

Cancelled with issue #23.

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157 - SMALLVILLE SEASON 11 (Digital-First)
07/2012: Smallville S11 #3 -- 20,864 (- 7.1%)
08/2012: Smallville S11 #4 -- 19,861 (- 4.8%)
09/2012: Smallville S11 #5 -- 19,499 (- 1.8%)
10/2012: Smallville S11 #6 -- 19,663 (+ 0.8%)
11/2012: Smallville S11 #7 -- 19,104 (- 2.8%)
12/2012: Smallville S11 #8 -- 18,633 (- 2.5%)
01/2013: Smallville S11 #9 -- 17,845 (- 4.2%)
02/2013: Smallville S11 #10 -- 17,024 (- 4.6%)
03/2013: Smallville S11 #11 -- 16,502 (- 3.1%)
04/2013: Smallville S11 #12 -- 15,930 (- 3.5%)
05/2013: Smallville S11 #13 -- 15,442 (- 3.1%)
06/2013: Smallville S11 #14 -- 15,097 (- 2.2%)
07/2013: Smallville S11 #15 -- 14,930 (- 1.1%)
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6 months: -16.3%
1 year : -28.4%

Levelling out around the 15K mark, evidently.

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156 - FABLES (Vertigo)
07/2003: Fables #15 -- 25,567
07/2008: Fables #74 -- 24,166
07/2009: Fables #86 -- 22,447
07/2010: --
07/2011: Fables #107 -- 18,523
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07/2012: Fables #119 -- 17,110 (- 7.8%)
08/2012: Fables #120 -- 16,704 (- 2.4%)
09/2012: Fables #121 -- 16,596 (- 0.7%)
10/2012: Fables #122 -- 16,513 (- 0.5%)
11/2012: Fables #123 -- 16,229 (- 1.7%)
12/2012: Fables #124 -- 16,018 (- 1.3%)
01/2013: Fables #125 -- 15,983 (- 0.2%)
02/2013: Fables #126 -- 15,480 (- 3.2%)
03/2013: Fables #127 -- 15,529 (+ 0.3%)
04/2013: Fables #128 -- 15,606 (+ 0.5%)
05/2013: Fables #129 -- 15,380 (- 1.5%)
06/2013: Fables #130 -- 15,129 (- 1.6%)
07/2013: Fables #131 -- 15,109 (- 0.1%)
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6 months: - 5.5%
1 year : -11.7%
2 years : -18.4%
5 years : -37.5%
10 years: -40.9%

Holding level with the start of a new arc.

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154 - BATMAN BEYOND UNLIMITED (Digital-First)
07/2012: Unlimited #6 -- 22,555 (- 6.3%)
08/2012: Unlimited #7 -- 21,219 (- 5.9%)
09/2012: Unlimited #8 -- 20,897 (- 1.5%)
10/2012: Unlimited #9 -- 19,877 (- 4.9%)
11/2012: Unlimited #10 -- 19,004 (- 4.4%)
12/2012: Unlimited #11 -- 18,089 (- 4.8%)
01/2013: Unlimited #12 -- 17,446 (- 3.6%)
02/2013: Unlimited #13 -- 17,025 (- 2.4%)
03/2013: Unlimited #14 -- 16,456 (- 3.3%)
04/2013: Unlimited #15 -- 16,283 (- 1.1%)
05/2013: Unlimited #16 -- 15,822 (- 2.8%)
06/2013: Unlimited #17 -- 15,464 (- 2.3%)
07/2013: Unlimited #18 -- 15,275 (- 1.2%)
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6 months: -12.4%
1 year : -32.3%

Cancelled, and relaunched in August as Batman Beyond Universe.

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153 - ALL STAR WESTERN
07/2008: Jonah Hex #33 -- 14,281
07/2009: Jonah Hex #45 -- 12,588
07/2010: Jonah Hex #57 -- 12,318
07/2011: Jonah Hex #69 -- 10,521
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07/2012: ASW #11 -- 23,572 (- 7.0%)
08/2012: ASW #12 -- 22,767 (- 3.4%)
09/2012: ASW #0 -- 25,388 (+ 11.5%)
10/2012: ASW #13 -- 21,481 (- 15.4%)
11/2012: ASW #14 -- 20,186 (- 6.0%)
12/2012: ASW #15 -- 19,190 (- 4.9%)
01/2013: ASW #16 -- 18,254 (- 4.9%)
02/2013: ASW #17 -- 17,398 (- 4.7%)
03/2013: ASW #18 -- 16,897 (- 2.9%)
04/2013: ASW #19 -- 16,838 (- 0.4%)
05/2013: ASW #20 -- 16,184 (- 3.9%)
06/2013: ASW #21 -- 15,788 (- 2.5%)
07/2013: ASW #22 -- 15,376 (- 2.6%)
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6 months: - 15.8%
1 year : - 34.8%
2 years : + 46.2%
5 years : + 7.7%

Standard attrition.

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151 - COLLIDER (Vertigo)
06/2013: Collider #1 -- 17,336

This new Vertigo series by Simon Oliver, best known for his previous Vertigo series The Exterminators, and Robbi Rodriguez, who drew the Oni Press title Maintenance, has generated some press by having to change its title with issue #2, because another current comic called Collider is already out there. Not the most fortunate way of launching a new book, certainly. But then again, this is the direct market, where most comics are bought and sold months in advance of actual publication, so there probably won’t be too much of a negative effect — whoever ordered a copy of Collider #2 from their retailer will probably get a copy of The Federal Bureau of Physics #2.

Vertigo took some pains to promote its new wave of titles, not just by talking to the mainstream press about them and through the now obligatory 1:25 variant editions, but also by making the first few issues of some of them returnable. Consequently, according to Diamond Comic Distributors, “comics marked with an asterisk have had their reported quantities reduced due to retailer returnability, and thus may rank lower on the charts than their actual sales would reflect,” as usual.

In July, this applies to Collider #1 and The Wake #3, as far as Vertigo is concerned, so, as usual, I’m assuming that the Diamond chart only lists about 90% of the sales of these titles, and added the missing 10%, because that has turned out to be correct before;and even if it’s not, it’s still just a different kind of wrong than what Diamond reports.

Bearing all this in mind, Collider #1 sales are marginally better than what we’d come to expect from Vertigo prior to The Wake, but not substantially so. As with Tom Strong or Brother Lono, there’s no sign here of any across-the-board sales improvement based on a rejuvenated Vertigo brand.

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147 - LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT (Digital-First)
07/2003: LotDK #169 -- 26,286
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10/2012: LotDK #1 -- 42,904
11/2012: LotDK #2 -- 30,085 (-29.9%)
12/2012: LotDK #3 -- 25,710 (-14.5%)
01/2013: LotDK #4 -- 22,671 (-11.8%)
02/2013: LotDK #5 -- 21,041 (- 7.2%)
03/2013: LotDK #6 -- 19,681 (- 6.5%)
04/2013: LotDK #7 -- 18,201 (- 7.5%)
05/2013: LotDK #8 -- 17,126 (- 5.9%)
06/2013: LotDK #9 -- 16,678 (- 2.6%)
07/2013: LotDK #10 -- 16,184 (- 3.0%)
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6 months: -28.6%
10 years: -38.4%

Cancelled with issue #13. These sales still seem pretty good for a book that consists of previously published material. On the other hand, it’s been quite a decline since issue #1, of course.

Quite possibly, DC is changing its tack on the digital-first books and starting to demand that they pay for themselves in print after a honeymoon period. That would certainly explain the recent wave of cancellations and relaunches.

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138 - HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE
07/2003: MotU Vol. 2 #5 -- 23,500
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07/2012: He-Man #1 of 6 -- 27,665
08/2012: --
09/2012: He-Man #2 of 6 -- 19,737 (-28.7%)
10/2012: He-Man #3 of 6 -- 18,269 (- 7.4%)
11/2012: He-Man #4 of 6 -- 17,499 (- 4.2%)
12/2012: He-Man #5 of 6 -- 16,858 (- 3.7%)
01/2013: He-Man #6 of 6 -- 16,441 (- 2.5%)
02/2013: --
03/2013: --
04/2013: He-Man #1 -- 25,254 (+53.6%)
05/2013: He-Man #2 -- 19,410 (-23.1%)
06/2013: He-Man #3 -- 18,277 (- 5.8%)
07/2013: He-Man #4 -- 18,101 (- 1.0%)
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6 months: +10.1%
1 year : -34.6%
10 years: -23.0%

Levelling out at the 18K mark, probably.

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133 - ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN (Digital-First)
07/2003: Adventures of Superman #618 -- 29,086
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05/2013: Adventures of Superman #1 -- 30,992
06/2013: Adventures of Superman #2 -- 22,407 (-27.7%)
07/2013: Adventures of Superman #3 -- 19,453 (-13.2%)
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10 years: -33.1%

An average third-issue drop.

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131 - SUPERBOY
07/2011: Superboy #9 -- 22,102
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07/2012: Superboy #11 -- 29,677 (- 5.4%)
08/2012: Superboy #12 -- 27,518 (- 7.3%)
09/2012: Superboy #0 -- 31,840 (+ 15.7%)
10/2012: Superboy #13 -- 25,726 (- 19.2%)
11/2012: Superboy #14 -- 28,017 (+ 8.9%)
12/2012: Superboy #15 -- 27,619 (- 1.4%)
01/2013: Superboy #16 -- 27,110 (- 1.8%)
02/2013: Superboy #17 -- 26,762 (- 1.3%)
03/2013: Superboy #18 -- 24,455 (- 8.6%)
04/2013: Superboy #19 -- 24,211 (- 1.0%)
05/2013: Superboy #20 -- 22,508 (- 7.0%)
06/2013: Superboy #21 -- 20,952 (- 6.9%)
07/2013: Superboy #22 -- 19,984 (- 4.6%)
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6 months: - 26.3%
1 year : - 32.7%
2 years : - 9.6%

Dropping below 20K for the first time. There are currently 12 “New 52″ books selling fewer than 20,000 units, and four of them are officially cancelled.

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128 - ASTRO CITY (Vertigo)
07/2003: --
07/2009: Dark Age/Bk3 #3 of 4 -- 15,291
07/2010: Silver Agent #1 of 2 -- 13,182
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06/2013: Astro City #1 -- 27,700
07/2013: Astro City #2 -- 20,193 (-27.1%)
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5 years : n.a.
10 years: n.a.

There was no variant-cover edition in July, so the drop may be somewhat distorted. Generally, Astro City sales are still comfortably ahead of its last few WildStorm miniseries. So unlike most other recent Vertigo launches, this one actually shows noticeable improvement.

All things considered, it seems unlikely that this is due to the Vertigo brand, though. In fact, the recent wave of successful Image titles may have more to do with it;Astro City has more incommon with those titles than it does with the rest of Vertigo’s output, after all. And it started out at Image in 1995, for that matter, and remained there until Jim Lee sold his entire publishing operation to DC Comics in 1999.

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127 - BIRDS OF PREY
07/2003: Birds of Prey #57 -- 27,898 [29,178]
07/2008: Birds of Prey #120 -- 21,572
07/2010: Birds of Prey #3 -- 43,420
07/2011: Birds of Prey #14 -- 27,102
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07/2012: Birds of Prey #11 -- 27,389 (- 3.8%)
08/2012: Birds of Prey #12 -- 26,587 (- 2.9%)
09/2012: Birds of Prey #0 -- 30,574 (+ 15.0%)
10/2012: Birds of Prey #13 -- 25,851 (- 15.5%)
11/2012: Birds of Prey #14 -- 24,904 (- 3.7%)
12/2012: Birds of Prey #15 -- 24,026 (- 3.5%)
01/2013: Birds of Prey #16 -- 23,182 (- 3.5%)
02/2013: Birds of Prey #17 -- 22,112 (- 4.6%)
03/2013: Birds of Prey #18 -- 21,957 (- 0.7%)
04/2013: Birds of Prey #19 -- 21,707 (- 1.1%)
05/2013: Birds of Prey #20 -- 21,126 (- 2.7%)
06/2013: Birds of Prey #21 -- 20,767 (- 1.7%)
07/2013: Birds of Prey #22 -- 20,209 (- 2.7%)
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6 months: - 12.8%
1 year : - 26.2%
2 years : - 25.4%
5 years : - 6.3%
10 years: - 27.6%

Standard attrition.

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126 - TALON
09/2012: Talon #0 -- 59,691
10/2012: Talon #1 -- 55,737 (- 6.6%)
11/2012: Talon #2 -- 41,250 (-26.0%)
12/2012: Talon #3 -- 35,034 (-15.1%)
01/2013: Talon #4 -- 30,909 (-11.8%)
02/2013: Talon #5 -- 28,003 (- 9.4%)
03/2013: Talon #6 -- 25,440 (- 9.2%)
04/2013: Talon #7 -- 24,045 (- 5.5%)
05/2013: Talon #8 -- 22,710 (- 5.6%)
06/2013: Talon #9 -- 21,755 (- 4.2%)
07/2013: Talon #10 -- 20,296 (- 6.7%)
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6 months: -34.3%

Not quite standard attrition. The two Batman spin-off titles are about to drop below 20,000 units.

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123 - TRINITY OF SIN: PHANTOM STRANGER
09/2012: Phantom Stranger #0 -- 40,103
10/2012: Phantom Stranger #1 -- 33,350 (-16.8%)
11/2012: Phantom Stranger #2 -- 24,979 (-25.1%)
12/2012: Phantom Stranger #3 -- 23,378 (- 6.4%)
01/2013: Phantom Stranger #4 -- 19,903 (-14.9%)
02/2013: Phantom Stranger #5 -- 18,032 (- 9.4%)
03/2013: Phantom Stranger #6 -- 17,375 (- 3.6%)
04/2013: Phantom Stranger #7 -- 17,326 (- 0.3%)
05/2013: Phantom Stranger #8 -- 16,269 (- 6.1%)
06/2013: ToS: PS #9 -- 17,241 (+ 6.0%)
07/2013: ToS: PS #10 -- 20,636 (+19.7%)
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6 months: + 3.7%

Another increase?

Well, the July issue is touted as a “Trinity War” prologue in the advertising text. Maybe the title change in June wasn’t enough of a clue. Or maybe DC promised retailers the one-time opportunity to buy some limited-edition plastic jewelry in return for a few more orders.

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120 - ANIMAL MAN ANNUAL
07/2013: Animal Man Annual #2 -- 20,917

A special one-shot by regular writer Jeff Lemire and drawn by Travel Foreman, the artist on the first eight issues of the “New 52″ title. As usual, sales are slightly below those of the series.

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115 - BATMAN: LI'L GOTHAM (Digital-First)
04/2013: Li'l Gotham #1 -- 27,591
05/2013: Li'l Gotham #2 -- 18,573 (-32.7%)
06/2013: Li'l Gotham #3 -- 18,578 (+ 0.0%)
07/2013: Li'l Gotham #4 -- 21,646 (+16.5%)

The big increase is due to a special charity variant the issue was promoted with. But there was no drop for the previous issue, so part of the boost may well be genuine.

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110 - SUICIDE SQUAD
07/2012: Suicide Squad #11 -- 29,809 (- 5.6%)
08/2012: Suicide Squad #12 -- 28,302 (- 5.1%)
09/2012: Suicide Squad #0 -- 31,875 (+ 12.6%)
10/2012: Suicide Squad #13 -- 27,644 (- 13.3%)
11/2012: Suicide Squad #14 -- 63,691 (+130.4%) [69,185]
12/2012: Suicide Squad #15 -- 57,132 (- 10.3%)
01/2013: Suicide Squad #16 -- 27,061 (- 52.6%)
02/2013: Suicide Squad #17 -- 26,370 (- 2.6%)
03/2013: Suicide Squad #18 -- 25,232 (- 4.3%)
04/2013: Suicide Squad #19 -- 24,300 (- 3.7%)
05/2013: Suicide Squad #20 -- 23,537 (- 3.1%)
06/2013: Suicide Squad #21 -- 22,907 (- 2.7%)
07/2013: Suicide Squad #22 -- 22,447 (- 2.0%)
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6 months: - 17.1%
1 year : - 24.7%

Levelling out, just in time for the next creative team to pass the revolving door.

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107 - ANIMAL MAN
07/2012: Animal Man #11 -- 33,909 (- 3.1%)
08/2012: Animal Man #12 -- 34,549 (+ 1.9%)
09/2012: Animal Man #0 -- 38,295 (+10.8%)
10/2012: Animal Man #13 -- 34,303 (-10.4%)
11/2012: Animal Man #14 -- 33,503 (- 2.3%)
12/2012: Animal Man #15 -- 32,013 (- 4.5%)
01/2013: Animal Man #16 -- 30,322 (- 5.3%)
02/2013: Animal Man #17 -- 29,425 (- 3.0%)
03/2013: Animal Man #18 -- 28,711 (- 2.4%)
04/2013: Animal Man #19 -- 27,562 (- 4.0%)
05/2013: Animal Man #20 -- 25,807 (- 6.4%)
06/2013: Animal Man #21 -- 23,862 (- 7.5%)
07/2013: Animal Man #22 -- 22,974 (- 3.7%)
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6 months: -24.2%
1 year : -32.3%

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105 - SWAMP THING
07/2012: Swamp Thing #11 -- 36,257 (- 3.0%)
08/2012: Swamp Thing #12 -- 36,696 (+ 1.2%)
09/2012: Swamp Thing #0 -- 40,123 (+ 9.3%)
10/2012: Swamp Thing #13 -- 36,069 (-10.1%)
11/2012: Swamp Thing #14 -- 42,036 (+16.5%)
12/2012: Swamp Thing #15 -- 33,916 (-19.3%)
01/2013: Swamp Thing #16 -- 32,262 (- 4.9%)
02/2013: Swamp Thing #17 -- 31,497 (- 2.4%)
03/2013: Swamp Thing #18 -- 30,716 (- 2.5%)
04/2013: Swamp Thing #19 -- 29,254 (- 4.8%)
05/2013: Swamp Thing #20 -- 27,338 (- 6.6%)
06/2013: Swamp Thing #21 -- 25,186 (- 7.9%)
07/2013: Swamp Thing #22 -- 23,885 (- 5.2%)
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6 months: -26.0%
1 year : -34.1%

Two titles with similar declines over the last six and 12 months, respectively. What they have in common is that they used to be successful, and then they crossed over with each other.

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101 - CATWOMAN
07/2003: Catwoman #21 -- 23,090
07/2008: Catwoman #81 -- 17,766
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07/2012: Catwoman #11 -- 35,551 (- 4.3%)
08/2012: Catwoman #12 -- 34,117 (- 4.0%)
09/2012: Catwoman #0 -- 39,117 (+14.7%)
10/2012: Catwoman #13 -- 40,147 (+ 2.6%) [60,257]
11/2012: Catwoman #14 -- 63,653 (+58.6%)
12/2012: Catwoman #15 -- 35,020 (-45.0%)
01/2013: Catwoman #16 -- 33,915 (- 3.2%)
02/2013: Catwoman #17 -- 30,194 (-11.0%)
03/2013: Catwoman #18 -- 33,220 (+10.0%)
04/2013: Catwoman #19 -- 28,058 (-15.5%)
05/2013: Catwoman #20 -- 26,886 (- 4.2%)
06/2013: Catwoman #21 -- 25,611 (- 4.7%)
07/2013: Catwoman #22 -- 24,737 (- 3.4%)
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6 months: - 27.1%
1 year : - 30.4%
5 years : + 39.2%
10 years: + 7.1%

Drifting down the charts.

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100 - WORLDS' FINEST
07/2012: Worlds' Finest #3 -- 45,514 (-11.6%)
08/2012: Worlds' Finest #4 -- 39,629 (-12.9%)
09/2012: Worlds' Finest #0 -- 42,770 (+ 7.9%)
10/2012: Worlds' Finest #5 -- 35,951 (-15.9%)
11/2012: Worlds' Finest #6 -- 34,338 (- 4.5%)
12/2012: Worlds' Finest #7 -- 32,010 (- 6.8%)
01/2013: Worlds' Finest #8 -- 30,399 (- 5.0%)
02/2013: Worlds' Finest #9 -- 28,332 (- 6.8%)
03/2013: Worlds' Finest #10 -- 28,469 (+ 0.5%)
04/2013: Worlds' Finest #11 -- 27,453 (- 3.6%)
05/2013: Worlds' Finest #12 -- 27,073 (- 1.4%)
06/2013: Worlds' Finest #13 -- 25,815 (- 4.7%)
07/2013: Worlds' Finest #14 -- 25,143 (- 2.6%)
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6 months: -17.3%
1 year : -44.8%

Drifting down the charts.

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99 - SUPERGIRL
07/2008: Supergirl #31 -- 28,813
07/2009: Supergirl #43 -- 32,849
07/2010: Supergirl #54 -- 26,941
07/2011: Supergirl #66 -- 20,001
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07/2012: Supergirl #11 -- 31,879 (- 4.3%)
08/2012: Supergirl #12 -- 30,420 (- 4.6%)
09/2012: Supergirl #0 -- 34,457 (+ 13.3%)
10/2012: Supergirl #13 -- 29,450 (- 14.5%)
11/2012: Supergirl #14 -- 31,270 (+ 6.2%)
12/2012: Supergirl #15 -- 30,814 (- 1.5%)
01/2013: Supergirl #16 -- 30,350 (- 1.5%)
02/2013: Supergirl #17 -- 30,146 (- 0.7%)
03/2013: Supergirl #18 -- 28,051 (- 7.0%)
04/2013: Supergirl #19 -- 29,558 (+ 5.4%)
05/2013: Supergirl #20 -- 27,509 (- 6.9%)
06/2013: Supergirl #21 -- 25,856 (- 6.0%)
07/2013: Supergirl #22 -- 25,514 (- 1.3%)
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6 months: - 15.9%
1 year : - 20.0%
2 years : + 27.5%
5 years : - 11.5%

Supergirl sales continue to be fairly erratic.

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98 - INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US (Digital-First)
01/2013: Injustice #1 -- 20,733 [35,438]
02/2013: Injustice #2 -- 17,068 (-17.7%) [29,096]
03/2013: Injustice #3 -- 18,608 (+ 9.0%) [24,469]
04/2013: Injustice #4 -- 21,669 (+16.5%) [26,739]
05/2013: Injustice #5 -- 25,215 (+16.4%)
06/2013: Injustice #6 -- 26,011 (+ 3.2%)
07/2013: Injustice #7 -- 25,731 (- 1.1%)
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6 months: + 24.1%

Very good sales for this digital-first video-game adaptation.

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95 - GREEN ARROW
07/2003: Green Arrow #28 -- 45,270
07/2008: Arrow/Canary #10 -- 29,604
07/2009: Arrow&Canary #22 -- 20,571
07/2010: Green Arrow #2 -- 44,118
07/2011: Green Arrow #14 -- 25,568
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07/2012: Green Arrow #11 -- 24,646 (- 4.4%)
08/2012: Green Arrow #12 -- 23,126 (- 6.2%)
09/2012: Green Arrow #0 -- 28,408 (+ 22.8%)
10/2012: Green Arrow #13 -- 22,057 (- 22.4%)
11/2012: Green Arrow #14 -- 21,825 (- 1.1%)
12/2012: Green Arrow #15 -- 20,672 (- 5.3%)
01/2013: Green Arrow #16 -- 19,888 (- 3.8%)
02/2013: Green Arrow #17 -- 36,043 (+ 81.2%)
03/2013: Green Arrow #18 -- 28,080 (- 22.1%)
04/2013: Green Arrow #19 -- 29,922 (+ 6.6%)
05/2013: Green Arrow #20 -- 27,541 (- 8.0%)
06/2013: Green Arrow #21 -- 26,924 (- 2.2%)
07/2013: Green Arrow #22 -- 26,172 (- 2.8%)
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6 months: + 3.1%
1 year : + 6.2%
2 years : + 2.4%
5 years : - 11.6%
10 years: - 42.2%

Settling into the usual attrition pattern, evidently. The book is still doing better than before the creative-team change and even slightly better than it did in July 2012.

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90 - BATWOMAN
07/2012: Batwoman #11 -- 38,980 (- 5.0%)
08/2012: Batwoman #12 -- 38,064 (- 2.4%)
09/2012: Batwoman #0 -- 41,684 (+ 9.5%)
10/2012: Batwoman #13 -- 37,315 (-10.5%)
11/2012: Batwoman #14 -- 36,395 (- 2.5%)
12/2012: Batwoman #15 -- 34,964 (- 3.9%)
01/2013: Batwoman #16 -- 34,103 (- 2.5%)
02/2013: Batwoman #17 -- 32,041 (- 6.1%)
03/2013: Batwoman #18 -- 31,381 (- 2.1%)
04/2013: Batwoman #19 -- 31,538 (+ 0.5%)
05/2013: Batwoman #20 -- 29,698 (- 5.8%)
06/2013: Batwoman #21 -- 28,173 (- 5.1%)
07/2013: Batwoman #22 -- 27,400 (- 2.7%)
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6 months: -19.7%
1 year : -29.7%

Levelling out, it seems.

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89 - THE WAKE (Vertigo)
05/2013: The Wake #1 of 10 -- 44,867
06/2013: The Wake #2 of 10 -- 32,562 (-27.4%)
07/2013: The Wake #3 of 10 -- 30,622 (- 6.0%)

Like the previous issue, The Wake #3 was made returnable by DC to encourage retailers — see comments on Collider. Also, as with the two previous issues, there’s another 1:25 variant-cover edition.

Still, it’s been a while since a Vertigo title sold above 30K three months in. Looking at the rest of the imprint’s revamped line-up, this seems to be Scott Snyder and Sean Murphy’s success, rather than any great turnaround.

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82 - LARFLEEZE
06/2013: Larfleeze #1 -- 36,638
07/2013: Larfleeze #2 -- 30,221 (-17.5%)

That’s a relatively smooth second-issue drop.

In addition to the usual 1:25 variant, the first two issues were also promoted with plastic rings, so there’s probably going to be a steeper-than-usual drop for the third issue as a result.

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80 - RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS
07/2012: Red Hood #11 -- 35,820 (- 3.3%)
08/2012: Red Hood #12 -- 34,439 (- 3.9%)
09/2012: Red Hood #0 -- 39,511 (+14.7%)
10/2012: Red Hood #13 -- 35,420 (- 6.7%)
11/2012: Red Hood #14 -- 37,710 (+ 6.5%)
12/2012: Red Hood #15 -- 64,103 (+70.0%)
01/2013: Red Hood #16 -- 59,621 (- 7.0%)
02/2013: Red Hood #17 -- 53,076 (-11.0%)
03/2013: Red Hood #18 -- 37,731 (-28.9%) [42,901]
04/2013: Red Hood #19 -- 36,630 (- 2.9%)
05/2013: Red Hood #20 -- 35,542 (- 3.0%)
06/2013: Red Hood #21 -- 32,416 (- 8.8%)
07/2013: Red Hood #22 -- 30,534 (- 5.8%)
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6 months: -48.8%
1 year : -14.8%

Now that the boosts from the various crossovers are wearing off, this Batman spin-off is drifting down the charts.

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78 - CONSTANTINE
07/2003: Hellblazer #186 -- 16,405
07/2008: Hellblazer #246 -- 12,088
07/2009: Hellblazer #257 -- 10,762
07/2010: Hellblazer #269 -- 10,048
07/2011: Hellblazer #281 -- 9,225
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07/2012: Hellblazer #293 -- 9,247 (- 3.0%)
08/2012: Hellblazer #294 -- 9,396 (+ 1.6%)
09/2012: Hellblazer #295 -- 9,143 (- 2.7%)
10/2012: Hellblazer #296 -- 9,255 (+ 1.2%)
11/2012: Hellblazer #297 -- 9,146 (- 1.2%)
12/2012: Hellblazer #298 -- 9,132 (- 0.2%)
01/2013: Hellblazer #299 -- 9,329 (+ 2.2%)
02/2013: Hellblazer #300 -- 12,522 (+ 34.2%)
03/2013: Constantine #1 -- 37,564 (+200.0%)
04/2013: Constantine #2 -- 30,789 (- 18.0%)
05/2013: Constantine #3 -- 29,106 (- 5.5%)
06/2013: Constantine #4 -- 26,417 (- 9.2%)
07/2013: Constantine #5 -- 30,664 (+ 16.1%)
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6 months: +228.7%
1 year : +231.6%
2 years : +232.4%
5 years : +153.7%
10 years: + 86.9%

The “Trinity War” tie-in brings a modest increase. Issue #5 was also the first one without a 1:25 variant edition or co-writer Jeff Lemire’s name in the credits, so on balance, things could be worse.

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75 - TEEN TITANS
07/2003: Teen Titans #1 -- 63,259 [98,319]
07/2008: Teen Titans #61 -- 44,666
07/2009: Teen Titans #73 -- 30,990
07/2010: Teen Titans #85 -- 24,248
07/2011: Teen Titans #97 -- 23,138
07/2011: Teen Titans #98 -- 23,095
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07/2012: Teen Titans #11 -- 45,367 (- 4.5%)
08/2012: Teen Titans #12 -- 42,817 (- 5.6%)
09/2012: Teen Titans #0 -- 47,318 (+ 10.5%)
10/2012: Teen Titans #13 -- 41,059 (- 13.2%)
11/2012: Teen Titans #14 -- 39,745 (- 3.3%)
12/2012: Teen Titans #15 -- 68,707 (+ 72.9%)
01/2013: Teen Titans #16 -- 63,726 (- 7.3%)
02/2013: Teen Titans #17 -- 39,186 (- 38.5%)
03/2013: Teen Titans #18 -- 42,055 (+ 7.3%)
04/2013: Teen Titans #19 -- 39,532 (- 6.0%)
05/2013: Teen Titans #20 -- 36,391 (- 8.0%)
06/2013: Teen Titans #21 -- 34,710 (- 4.6%)
07/2013: Teen Titans #22 -- 33,062 (- 4.8%)
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6 months: - 48.1%
1 year : - 27.1%
2 years : + 43.0%
5 years : - 26.0%
10 years: - 47.7%

Drifting downwards.

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71 - THE FLASH ANNUAL
07/2013: Flash Annual #2 -- 34,114

The Annual sold about 5,000 units less than the regular title, which was one dollar cheaper and promoted with a 1:25 variant edition. So the Annual is doing quite well.

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67/77 - TRINITY OF SIN: PANDORA
07/2013: Pandora #1 of 3 -- 35,106
07/2013: Pandora #2 of 3 -- 32,170 (-8.4%)

At first glance, you might suspect that retailers skipped the usual second-issue drop because both issues came out in the same month, as they often do. But that doesn’t seem to be the case here. Issue #1 was meant to come out June 19, but shipped two weeks late on July 3, so if there’s a particular reason for the smooth drop, it’s probably something else.

Both issues were promoted with 1:25 variants.

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65 - RED LANTERNS
07/2012: Red Lanterns #11 -- 36,462 (- 4.1%)
08/2012: Red Lanterns #12 -- 35,070 (- 3.8%)
09/2012: Red Lanterns #0 -- 38,928 (+11.0%)
10/2012: Red Lanterns #13 -- 42,804 (+10.0%)
11/2012: Red Lanterns #14 -- 40,779 (- 4.7%)
12/2012: Red Lanterns #15 -- 39,071 (- 4.2%)
01/2013: Red Lanterns #16 -- 38,223 (- 2.2%)
02/2013: Red Lanterns #17 -- 35,839 (- 6.2%)
03/2013: Red Lanterns #18 -- 35,203 (- 1.8%)
04/2013: Red Lanterns #19 -- 34,673 (- 1.5%)
05/2013: Red Lanterns #20 -- 33,923 (- 2.2%)
06/2013: Red Lanterns #21 -- 37,312 (+10.0%)
07/2013: Red Lanterns #22 -- 35,236 (- 5.6%)
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6 months: - 7.8%
1 year : - 3.4%

Another title promoted with plastic rings in June and July.

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63 - WONDER WOMAN
07/2003: Wonder Woman #194 -- 25,347
07/2008: Wonder Woman #22 -- 36,514
07/2009: Wonder Woman #34 -- 30,131
07/2010: Wonder Woman #601 -- 39,672
07/2011: Wonder Woman #613 -- 29,720
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07/2012: Wonder Woman #11 -- 45,669 (- 3.3%)
08/2012: Wonder Woman #12 -- 44,584 (- 2.4%)
09/2012: Wonder Woman #0 -- 49,778 (+ 11.7%)
10/2012: Wonder Woman #13 -- 43,731 (- 12.2%)
11/2012: Wonder Woman #14 -- 42,384 (- 3.1%)
12/2012: Wonder Woman #15 -- 41,641 (- 1.8%)
01/2013: Wonder Woman #16 -- 40,105 (- 3.7%)
02/2013: Wonder Woman #17 -- 39,110 (- 2.5%)
03/2013: Wonder Woman #18 -- 38,406 (- 1.8%)
04/2013: Wonder Woman #19 -- 46,492 (+ 21.1%)
05/2013: Wonder Woman #20 -- 37,132 (- 20.1%)
06/2013: Wonder Woman #21 -- 35,999 (- 3.1%)
07/2013: Wonder Woman #22 -- 35,539 (- 1.3%)
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6 months: - 11.4%
1 year : - 22.2%
2 years : + 19.6%
5 years : - 2.7%
10 years: + 40.2%

Levelling out around 35K — a solid level, historically.

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62 - SUPERMAN ANNUAL
07/2013: Superman Annual #2 -- 36,943

About 6,000 units below the regular title.

But that one was promoted with a 1:25 variant and the Annuals have a price tag of $4.99, so this is not bad at all.

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57 - FLASH
07/2003: Flash #200 -- 41,078 [44,977]
07/2008: Flash #242 -- 30,325
07/2009: --
07/2010: Flash #4 -- 64,832
07/2011: --
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07/2012: Flash #11 -- 53,674 (- 3.6%)
08/2012: Flash #12 -- 51,779 (- 3.5%)
09/2012: Flash #0 -- 56,890 (+ 9.9%)
10/2012: Flash #13 -- 49,936 (- 12.2%)
11/2012: Flash #14 -- 48,012 (- 3.9%)
12/2012: Flash #15 -- 45,925 (- 4.4%)
01/2013: Flash #16 -- 44,093 (- 4.0%)
02/2013: Flash #17 -- 42,936 (- 2.6%)
03/2013: Flash #18 -- 41,659 (- 3.0%)
04/2013: Flash #19 -- 42,079 (+ 1.0%)
05/2013: Flash #20 -- 39,667 (- 5.7%)
06/2013: Flash #21 -- 38,848 (- 2.1%)
07/2013: Flash #22 -- 38,993 (+ 0.4%)
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6 months: - 11.6%
1 year : - 27.4%
2 years : n.a.
5 years : + 28.6%
10 years: - 5.1%

Levelled out around 40,000 units, for the time being. Perfectly good numbers for a Flash title, historically.

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56 - BATGIRL
07/2003: Batgirl #42 -- 29,144
07/2008: Batgirl #1 of 6 -- 34,411
07/2010: Batgirl #12 -- 28,011
07/2011: Batgirl #23 -- 22,619
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07/2012: Batgirl #11 -- 45,004 (- 4.4%)
08/2012: Batgirl #12 -- 43,804 (- 2.7%)
09/2012: Batgirl #0 -- 50,441 (+ 15.2%)
10/2012: Batgirl #13 -- 50,074 (- 0.7%) [71,109]
11/2012: Batgirl #14 -- 77,468 (+ 54.7%)
12/2012: Batgirl #15 -- 75,341 (- 2.8%)
01/2013: Batgirl #16 -- 72,470 (- 3.8%)
02/2013: Batgirl #17 -- 65,751 (- 9.6%)
03/2013: Batgirl #18 -- 51,677 (- 21.4%)
04/2013: Batgirl #19 -- 45,939 (- 11.1%)
05/2013: Batgirl #20 -- 42,600 (- 7.3%)
06/2013: Batgirl #21 -- 40,252 (- 5.5%)
07/2013: Batgirl #22 -- 39,218 (- 2.6%)
-----------------
6 months: - 45.9%
1 year : - 12.9%
2 years : + 73.4%
5 years : + 14.0%
10 years: + 34.6%

Another title that appears to be levelling out. Once again, sales are still rock-solid, viewed over the last 10 years.

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52 - GREEN LANTERN: NEW GUARDIANS
07/2011: Emerald Warriors #12 -- 48,087
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07/2012: New Guardians #11 -- 42,929 (- 3.3%)
08/2012: New Guardians #12 -- 41,479 (- 3.4%)
09/2012: New Guardians #0 -- 46,718 (+12.6%)
10/2012: New Guardians #13 -- 48,500 (+ 3.8%)
11/2012: New Guardians #14 -- 47,062 (- 3.0%)
12/2012: New Guardians #15 -- 45,136 (- 4.1%)
01/2013: New Guardians #16 -- 43,770 (- 3.0%)
02/2013: New Guardians #17 -- 42,285 (- 3.4%)
03/2013: New Guardians #18 -- 42,028 (- 0.6%)
04/2013: New Guardians #19 -- 41,481 (- 1.3%)
05/2013: New Guardians #20 -- 40,569 (- 2.2%)
06/2013: New Guardians #21 -- 42,290 (+ 4.2%)
07/2013: New Guardians #22 -- 40,788 (- 3.6%)
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6 months: - 6.8%
1 year : - 5.0%
2 years : -15.2%

Another Green Lantern spin-off promoted with plastic rings in June and July. Consequently, a big drop in August is likely.

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47 - EARTH 2
07/2012: Earth 2 #3 -- 74,892 (- 1.4%)
08/2012: Earth 2 #4 -- 67,393 (-10.0%)
09/2012: Earth 2 #0 -- 69,111 (+ 2.6%)
10/2012: Earth 2 #5 -- 61,529 (-11.0%)
11/2012: Earth 2 #6 -- 58,271 (- 4.8%)
12/2012: Earth 2 #7 -- 54,409 (- 6.6%)
01/2013: Earth 2 #8 -- 50,860 (- 6.5%)
02/2013: Earth 2 #9 -- 48,208 (- 5.2%)
03/2013: Earth 2 #10 -- 46,213 (- 4.1%)
04/2013: Earth 2 #11 -- 45,468 (- 1.6%)
05/2013: Earth 2 #12 -- 43,983 (- 3.3%)
06/2013: Earth 2 #13 -- 42,916 (- 2.4%)
07/2013: Earth 2 #14 -- 42,022 (- 2.1%)
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6 months: -17.4%
1 year : -43.9%

Settling down above 40K, evidently. Writer James Robinson is leaving DC with the October issue.

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46 - NIGHTWING
07/2003: Nightwing #83 -- 29,745
07/2008: Nightwing #146 -- 29,494
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07/2012: Nightwing #11 -- 49,124 (- 2.9%)
08/2012: Nightwing #12 -- 47,484 (- 3.3%)
09/2012: Nightwing #0 -- 53,109 (+11.9%)
10/2012: Nightwing #13 -- 47,171 (-11.2%)
11/2012: Nightwing #14 -- 50,720 (+ 7.5%)
12/2012: Nightwing #15 -- 74,407 (+46.7%)
01/2013: Nightwing #16 -- 69,643 (- 6.4%)
02/2013: Nightwing #17 -- 62,107 (-10.8%)
03/2013: Nightwing #18 -- 48,223 (-22.4%) [53,978]
04/2013: Nightwing #19 -- 46,978 (- 2.6%)
05/2013: Nightwing #20 -- 45,038 (- 4.1%)
06/2013: Nightwing #21 -- 43,353 (- 3.7%)
07/2013: Nightwing #22 -- 42,073 (- 3.0%)
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6 months: - 39.6%
1 year : - 14.4%
5 years : + 42.7%
10 years: + 41.5%

Slowly drifting down, but still more than 10,000 units ahead of its traditional mid-tier level.

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45 - GREEN LANTERN CORPS
07/2008: Green Lantern Corps #26 -- 46,098
07/2009: Green Lantern Corps #38 -- 82,415
07/2010: Green Lantern Corps #50 -- 67,035
07/2011: Green Lantern Corps #61 -- 60,836
07/2011: Green Lantern Corps #62 -- 57,928
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07/2012: Green Lantern Corps #11 -- 42,996 (- 3.6%)
08/2012: Green Lantern Corps #12 -- 41,778 (- 2.8%)
09/2012: Green Lantern Corps #0 -- 47,309 (+13.2%)
10/2012: Green Lantern Corps #13 -- 50,773 (+ 7.3%)
11/2012: Green Lantern Corps #14 -- 49,594 (- 2.3%)
12/2012: Green Lantern Corps #15 -- 47,841 (- 3.5%)
01/2013: Green Lantern Corps #16 -- 45,387 (- 5.1%)
02/2013: Green Lantern Corps #17 -- 44,497 (- 2.0%)
03/2013: Green Lantern Corps #18 -- 44,215 (- 0.6%)
04/2013: Green Lantern Corps #19 -- 43,903 (- 0.8%)
05/2013: Green Lantern Corps #20 -- 43,026 (- 2.0%)
06/2013: Green Lantern Corps #21 -- 45,423 (+ 5.6%)
07/2013: Green Lantern Corps #22 -- 42,194 (- 7.1%)
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6 months: - 7.0%
1 year : - 1.9%
2 years : -29.0%
5 years : - 8.5%

The highest-selling Green Lantern spin-off on the chart, promoted with plastic rings in June and July.

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43 - SUPERMAN
07/2003: Superman #195 -- 35,302
07/2008: Superman #678 -- 47,670
07/2009: Superman #690 -- 39,472
07/2010: Superman #701 -- 54,506
07/2011: Superman #713 -- 36,646
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07/2012: Superman #11 -- 56,066 (- 5.1%)
08/2012: Superman #12 -- 53,326 (- 4.9%)
09/2012: Superman #0 -- 60,493 (+ 13.4%)
10/2012: Superman #13 -- 52,155 (- 13.8%)
11/2012: Superman #14 -- 52,572 (+ 0.8%)
12/2012: Superman #15 -- 51,225 (- 2.6%)
01/2013: Superman #16 -- 50,621 (- 1.2%)
02/2013: --
03/2013: Superman #17 -- 49,666 (- 1.9%)
03/2013: Superman #18 -- 48,236 (- 2.9%)
04/2013: Superman #19 -- 48,598 (+ 0.8%)
05/2013: Superman #20 -- 45,458 (- 6.5%)
06/2013: Superman #21 -- 44,285 (- 2.6%)
07/2013: Superman #22 -- 42,961 (- 3.0%)
-----------------
6 months: - 15.1%
1 year : - 23.4%
2 years : + 16.5%
5 years : - 9.9%
10 years: + 21.7%

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41 - ACTION COMICS
07/2003: Action Comics #805 -- 31,959
07/2008: Action Comics #867 -- 49,363
07/2009: Action Comics #879 -- 38,324
07/2010: Action Comics #891 -- 35,328
07/2011: Action Comics #903 -- 40,205
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07/2012: Action Comics #11 -- 76,232 (- 5.6%)
08/2012: Action Comics #12 -- 71,203 (- 6.6%)
09/2012: Action Comics #0 -- 78,626 (+ 10.4%)
10/2012: Action Comics #13 -- 67,241 (- 14.5%)
11/2012: Action Comics #14 -- 64,341 (- 4.3%)
12/2012: Action Comics #15 -- 61,298 (- 4.7%)
01/2013: Action Comics #16 -- 58,645 (- 4.3%)
02/2013: Action Comics #17 -- 57,189 (- 2.5%)
03/2013: Action Comics #18 -- 61,879 (+ 8.2%)
04/2013: Action Comics #19 -- 52,007 (- 16.0%)
05/2013: Action Comics #20 -- 48,324 (- 7.1%)
06/2013: Action Comics #21 -- 46,475 (- 3.8%)
07/2013: Action Comics #22 -- 44,861 (- 3.5%)
-----------------
6 months: - 23.5%
1 year : - 41.2%
2 years : + 11.6%
5 years : - 9.1%
10 years: + 40.4%

The two core Superman titles may be levelling out above 40K, but creative teams are in flux, so it’s too early to tell.

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38 - AQUAMAN
07/2003: Aquaman #8 -- 29,628
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07/2012: Aquaman #11 -- 57,675 (- 2.7%)
08/2012: Aquaman #12 -- 61,210 (+ 6.1%)
09/2012: Aquaman #0 -- 61,227 (+ 0.0%)
10/2012: Aquaman #13 -- 54,648 (-10.8%)
11/2012: Aquaman #14 -- 53,664 (- 1.8%)
12/2012: Aquaman #15 -- 75,947 (+41.5%)
01/2013: Aquaman #16 -- 62,153 (-18.2%)
02/2013: Aquaman #17 -- 58,578 (- 5.8%)
03/2013: Aquaman #18 -- 53,337 (- 9.0%)
04/2013: --
05/2013: Aquaman #19 -- 53,415 (+ 0.2%)
05/2013: Aquaman #20 -- 49,697 (- 7.0%)
06/2013: Aquaman #21 -- 46,832 (- 5.8%)
07/2013: Aquaman #22 -- 45,653 (- 2.5%)
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6 months: -26.6%
1 year : -20.8%
10 years: +54.1%

Settling down around 45K. Stellar sales for an Aquaman title, obviously.

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35 - BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT
07/2011: Dark Knight #3 -- 62,792
07/2011: Dark Knight #4 -- 57,333
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07/2012: Dark Knight #11 -- 68,632 (- 4.2%)
08/2012: Dark Knight #12 -- 67,084 (- 2.3%)
09/2012: Dark Knight #0 -- 72,919 (+ 8.7%)
10/2012: Dark Knight #13 -- 65,271 (- 10.5%)
11/2012: Dark Knight #14 -- 62,792 (- 3.8%)
12/2012: Dark Knight #15 -- 60,569 (- 3.6%)
01/2013: Dark Knight #16 -- 58,258 (- 3.8%)
02/2013: Dark Knight #17 -- 55,990 (- 3.9%)
03/2013: Dark Knight #18 -- 54,269 (- 3.1%)
04/2013: Dark Knight #19 -- 52,644 (- 3.0%)
05/2013: Dark Knight #20 -- 50,423 (- 4.2%)
06/2013: Dark Knight #21 -- 48,612 (- 3.6%)
07/2013: Dark Knight #22 -- 47,096 (- 3.1%)
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6 months: - 19.2%
1 year : - 31.4%
2 years : - 21.6%

Slowly levelling out, apparently.

—–

33 - BATMAN '66 (Digital-First)
07/2013: Batman '66 #1 -- 50,430

This new Adam West pastiche by Jeff Parker and Jonathan Case is the best-selling digital-first book, to date, beating Legends of the Dark Knight #1, which sold 42,904 units in October 2012. Of course, the latter comic sells well below 20,000 units, at this point, so everything’s relative. Also, there was a 1:25 variant to boost the numbers.

For the time being, though, this is a solid number.

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31 - DETECTIVE COMICS ANNUAL
07/2013: Detective Comics Annual #2 -- 52,245

There’s a 10,000-unit difference between this Annual and the regular title, despite both sharing the same writer.

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30/32 - BATMAN, INCORPORATED
07/2011: --
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07/2012: --
08/2012: Batman, Inc. #3 -- 66,720 (- 9.4%)
09/2012: Batman, Inc. #0 -- 66,112 (- 0.9%)
10/2012: Batman, Inc. #4 -- 60,888 (- 7.9%)
11/2012: Batman, Inc. #5 -- 58,172 (- 4.5%)
12/2012: Batman, Inc. #6 -- 52,636 (- 9.5%)
01/2013: Batman, Inc. #7 -- 50,345 (- 4.4%)
02/2013: Batman, Inc. #8 -- 55,414 (+ 10.1%) [99,406]
03/2013: Batman, Inc. #9 -- 64,067 (+ 15.6%) [69,123]
04/2013: Batman, Inc. #10 -- 56,464 (- 11.9%)
05/2013: Batman, Inc. #11 -- 57,298 (+ 1.5%)
06/2013: --
07/2013: Batman, Inc. #12 -- 52,595 (- 8.2%)
07/2013: Batman, Inc. #13 -- 51,558 (- 2.0%)
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6 months: + 3.4%
1 year : n.a.
2 years : n.a.

The end of Grant Morrison’s six-year Batman saga doesn’t sell spectacularly, but then again, Morrison hasn’t been the headwriter of the franchise for almost two years, at this stage. Overall, for a book that was mostly off in its own little corner of the Batman universe since the “New 52″ relaunch, these aren’t bad numbers. (There were 1:25 and 1:100 variants, as always.)

For that matter, these are not the lowest-selling issues of that run, either. That honor goes to Leviathan Strikes, the one-shot special that came out in December 2011 as a bridge between volumes 1 and 2 of Batman, Incorporated, and sold an estimated 43,048 units. The sales pinnacle of the Morrison run was Batman and Robin #1, drawn by Frank Quitely, which sold 168,604 units in June 2009 and accumulated an estimated total of about 185K in subsequent months. Morrison’s first issue, Batman #655, which had art by Andy Kubert, sold 113,567 units in in July 2006 and an estimated 125K total. Overall, only 12 issues of Morrison’s Batman run sold more than 100,000 units in their first months, including the first issue of the Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne miniseries.

So, as far as single issues are concerned, Morrison’s tenure wasn’t quite as impressive as the Snyder/Capullo run, which has been selling well above 100K for almost two years now. Given the critical reception, though, it seems safe to say that Morrison’s run is one of the franchise milestones and will remain in print for years to come. DC has already sold a shipload of “Batman: R.I.P.” collections, for that matter.

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26 - BATMAN AND CATWOMAN
07/2009: Batman and Robin #2 -- 117,986 [129,086]
07/2010: Batman and Robin #13 -- 85,804
07/2011: Batman and Robin #25 -- 55,172
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07/2012: Batman and Robin #11 -- 65,043 (- 2.8%)
08/2012: Batman and Robin #12 -- 63,993 (- 1.6%)
09/2012: Batman and Robin #0 -- 69,146 (+ 8.1%)
10/2012: Batman and Robin #13 -- 63,097 (- 8.8%)
11/2012: Batman and Robin #14 -- 75,543 (+19.7%)
12/2012: Batman and Robin #15 -- 89,878 (+19.0%)
01/2013: Batman and Robin #16 -- 81,494 (- 9.3%)
02/2013: Batman and Robin #17 -- 60,988 (-25.2%)
03/2013: Batman and Robin #18 -- 69,614 (+14.1%) [76,575]
04/2013: and Red Robin #19 -- 89,182 (+28.1%)
05/2013: and Red Hood #20 -- 65,222 (-26.9%)
06/2013: and Batgirl #21 -- 60,601 (- 7.1%)
07/2013: and Catwoman #22 -- 57,808 (- 4.6%)
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6 months: -29.1%
1 year : -11.1%
2 years : + 4.8%

Levelling out again.

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23 - JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK
07/2012: Justice League Dark #11 -- 31,792 (- 4.4%)
08/2012: Justice League Dark #12 -- 30,754 (- 3.3%)
09/2012: Justice League Dark #0 -- 34,287 (+ 11.5%)
10/2012: Justice League Dark #13 -- 30,008 (- 12.5%)
11/2012: Justice League Dark #14 -- 28,966 (- 3.5%)
12/2012: Justice League Dark #15 -- 27,712 (- 4.3%)
01/2013: Justice League Dark #16 -- 26,902 (- 2.9%)
02/2013: Justice League Dark #17 -- 25,841 (- 3.9%)
03/2013: Justice League Dark #18 -- 25,664 (- 0.7%)
04/2013: Justice League Dark #19 -- 25,407 (- 1.0%)
05/2013: Justice League Dark #20 -- 24,693 (- 2.8%)
06/2013: Justice League Dark #21 -- 24,663 (- 0.1%)
07/2013: Justice League Dark #22 -- 68,294 (+176.9%)
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6 months: +153.9%
1 year : +114.8%

As part of the hype for the “Trinity War” crossover, which runs through the three Justice League titles in July and August, DC evidently made Justice League Dark #22 and #23 returnable under the condition that retailers order as many units as they did of Justice League #22. Hence the gigantic increase.

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22 - GREEN LANTERN
07/2003: --
07/2008: Green Lantern #33 -- 63,814
07/2009: Green Lantern #43 -- 109,426 [117,314]
07/2009: Green Lantern #44 -- 105,063 [109,599]
07/2010: Green Lantern #56 -- 84,164
07/2011: Green Lantern #67 -- 74,521
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07/2012: Green Lantern #11 -- 78,708 (- 2.4%)
08/2012: Green Lantern #12 -- 77,187 (- 1.9%)
09/2012: Green Lantern #0 -- 89,909 (+16.5%)
10/2012: Green Lantern #13 -- 91,814 (+ 2.1%)
11/2012: Green Lantern #14 -- 78,499 (-14.5%)
12/2012: Green Lantern #15 -- 74,363 (- 5.3%)
01/2013: Green Lantern #16 -- 72,884 (- 2.0%)
02/2013: Green Lantern #17 -- 71,060 (- 2.5%)
03/2013: Green Lantern #18 -- 69,801 (- 1.8%)
04/2013: Green Lantern #19 -- 71,018 (+ 1.7%)
05/2013: Green Lantern #20 -- 67,414 (- 5.1%)
06/2013: Green Lantern #21 -- 71,870 (+ 6.6%)
07/2013: Green Lantern #22 -- 62,415 (-13.2%)
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6 months: - 14.4%
1 year : - 20.7%
2 years : - 16.3%
5 years : - 2.2%
10 years: n.a.

Unlike the four spin-off books, Green Lantern proper was no longer supported with a plastic ring-scheme in July. Sales dip accordingly. It will probably take a while for the franchise to find its post-Geoff Johns level.

—–21 - DETECTIVE COMICS
07/2003: Detective Comics #784 -- 38,571
07/2008: Detective Comics #846 -- 72,417
07/2009: Detective Comics #855 -- 61,205
07/2010: Detective Comics #867 -- 40,371
07/2011: Detective Comics #879 -- 39,185
07/2011: Detective Comics #880 -- 38,585
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07/2012: Detective Comics #11 -- 79,835 (- 4.2%)
08/2012: Detective Comics #12 -- 75,998 (- 4.8%)
09/2012: Detective Comics #0 -- 84,063 (+ 10.6%)
10/2012: Detective Comics #13 -- 76,392 (- 9.1%)
11/2012: Detective Comics #14 -- 74,560 (- 2.4%)
12/2012: Detective Comics #15 -- 106,395 (+ 42.7%)
01/2013: Detective Comics #16 -- 92,300 (- 13.3%)
02/2013: Detective Comics #17 -- 85,824 (- 7.0%)
03/2013: Detective Comics #18 -- 76,237 (- 11.2%)
04/2013: Detective Comics #19 -- 77,922 (+ 2.2%)
05/2013: Detective Comics #20 -- 78,252 (+ 0.4%)
06/2013: Detective Comics #21 -- 65,200 (- 16.7%)
07/2013: Detective Comics #22 -- 63,949 (- 1.9%)
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6 months: - 30.7%
1 year : - 19.9%
2 years : + 63.8%
5 years : - 11.7%
10 years: + 65.8%

Levelling out above 60K, for the time being.

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7 - JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
07/2003: JLA #83 -- 58,242 [59,154]
07/2008: JL of America #23 -- 82,953
07/2009: JL of America #35 -- 58,915
07/2010: JL of America #47 -- 60,368
07/2011: JL of America #59 -- 43,545
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02/2013: JL of America #1 -- 307,734 [326,959]
03/2013: JL of America #2 -- 91,734 (-70.2%)
04/2013: --
05/2013: JL of America #3 -- 83,283 (- 9.2%)
05/2013: JL of America #4 -- 77,856 (- 6.5%)
06/2013: JL of America #5 -- 71,793 (- 7.8%)
07/2013: JL of America #6 -- 86,192 (+20.1%)
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2 years : + 97.9%
5 years : + 3.9%
10 years: + 48.0%

Another chapter of the “Trinity War” crossover.

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6 - BATMAN/SUPERMAN
07/2008: Superman/Batman #50 -- 61,321
07/2009: Superman/Batman #62 -- 38,412
07/2010: Superman/Batman #74 -- 30,847
07/2011: Superman/Batman #86 -- 26,530
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06/2013: Batman/Superman #1 -- 143,457 [151,054]
07/2013: Batman/Superman #2 -- 92,558 (-35.5%)
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2 years : +248.9%
5 years : + 50.9%

The first issue was promoted with a 1:100 variant, two 1:25 variants and a special charity variant;for the second issue, they whittled it down to the usual 1:25 and 1:100 variants.

So all things considered, that’s not a terrible drop. Unless something goes horribly wrong here, which is always a possibility at DC, the book looks like a permanent Top 25 title.

Issue #1 sold another 7,597 units in July, meanwhile.

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5 - BATMAN ANNUAL
07/2013: Batman Annual #2 -- 101,726

A Scott Snyder-written “Zero Year” tie-in.

—–

4 - JUSTICE LEAGUE
07/2003: JLA #83 -- 58,242 [59,154]
07/2008: JL of America #23 -- 82,953
07/2009: JL of America #35 -- 58,915
07/2010: JL of America #47 -- 60,368
07/2011: JL of America #59 -- 43,545
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07/2012: Justice League #11 -- 123,971 (- 5.0%)
08/2012: Justice League #12 -- 120,796 (- 2.6%) [161,235]
09/2012: Justice League #0 -- 125,868 (+ 4.2%)
10/2012: Justice League #13 -- 117,752 (- 6.5%)
11/2012: Justice League #14 -- 113,094 (- 4.0%)
12/2012: Justice League #15 -- 115,074 (+ 1.8%)
01/2013: Justice League #16 -- 117,719 (+ 2.3%)
02/2013: Justice League #17 -- 105,304 (- 10.6%)
03/2013: Justice League #18 -- 102,494 (- 2.7%)
04/2013: Justice League #19 -- 100,943 (- 1.5%)
05/2013: Justice League #20 -- 97,676 (- 3.2%)
06/2013: Justice League #21 -- 94,054 (- 3.7%)
07/2013: Justice League #22 -- 110,194 (+ 17.2%)
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6 months: - 6.4%
1 year : - 11.1%
2 years : +153.1%
5 years : + 32.8%
10 years: + 89.2%

Another “Trinity War” crossover.

Given how well the book was doing in the first place, that’s a pretty big increase — which also helps to explain the Justice League Dark number, this being the benchmark figure for retailers who wanted to qualify for returnability on that book.

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2 - BATMAN
07/2003: Batman #617 -- 146,601 [158,844]
07/2008: Batman #678 -- 103,213
07/2009: Batman #688 -- 83,040
07/2010: Batman #701 -- 76,398
07/2011: Batman #712 -- 51,385
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07/2012: Batman #11 -- 127,210 (- 2.4%)
08/2012: Batman #12 -- 125,249 (- 1.5%)
09/2012: Batman #0 -- 156,561 (+ 25.0%)
10/2012: Batman #13 -- 148,305 (- 5.3%) [174,642]
11/2012: Batman #14 -- 159,729 (+ 7.7%)
12/2012: Batman #15 -- 151,568 (- 5.1%)
01/2013: Batman #16 -- 145,923 (- 3.7%)
02/2013: Batman #17 -- 150,684 (+ 3.3%)
03/2013: Batman #18 -- 137,893 (- 8.5%)
04/2013: Batman #19 -- 132,147 (- 4.2%)
05/2013: Batman #20 -- 129,039 (- 2.4%)
06/2013: Batman #21 -- 142,088 (+ 10.1%) [156,845]
07/2013: Batman #22 -- 132,047 (- 7.1%)
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6 months: - 9.5%
1 year : + 3.8%
2 years : +157.0%
5 years : + 27.9%
10 years: - 9.9%

The “Zero Year” story continues, and the Snyder/Capullo Batman does what the Snyder/Capullo Batman does.

A “Director’s Cut” version of issue #21 charted in July with another 14,929 units. Since comics usually don’t have directors, I’m presuming it’s a glorified reprint with extras.

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1 - SUPERMAN UNCHAINED
06/2013: Superman Unchained #1 -- 256,792 [271,721]
07/2013: Superman Unchained #2 -- 165,754 (-35.5%)

I’m counting 12 variant editions for issue #1 and nine for issue #2, but this is still a pretty harsh drop — it’s almost 100,000 units. Could retailers and/or collectors have possibly gone ridiculously over the top with their orders for the first issue? Perish the thought.

Of course, 165K is still good enough to make this one of the biggest juggernauts of the direct market right now, as you’d expect from a Scott Snyder/Jim Lee Superman comic.

There was another “Director’s Cut” edition of Superman Unchained #1, which sold 14,757 units in July. In this case, it seems to be a reprint of Jim Lee’s pencils rather than the finished book, but I’m still wondering who the director is.
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Je vais traduire/synthetiser/rajouter sur cet article...
Je rappelle d abord (comme d'hab) que les chiffres US sont les chiffres des précommandes des comics shops (pas de retour, enfin rarement possible).. donc pas les vrais ventes et seulement en amerique du nord dans le marché des comics shops (le plus important de tres loin....y a peu de ventes de singles ailleurs)


Ce mois ci DC passe devant au niveau du partage du marché en dollar..(c est rare) de 0,3% (pas beaucoup quoi) grace aux 2eme numero de Superman Unchained, Zero year et la trinity War. Marvel reste devant au niveau des chiffres en nombre d exemplaire (mais de 3% seulement)

Le redacteurs parle du villain month.. qui est un cauchemar pour les vendeurs..
n oubliez pas que les chiffres ci dessus sont les precommandes des comics shops en amerique du nord, 2 mois avant la sortie...
Pour eux commander 52 "one shot"remplacant des titres reguliers sur un mois avec des gimmicks (lunettes 3d) est compliqué.. sur quoi se baser??
A priori DC a annoncé depuis qu il ne pourra répondre a toutes les commandes... les retailers (vendeurs) sont furieux..

1-Superman Unchained : bon y a des variants a gogo mais c est un super chiffre.. on l attendait vu l equipe artistique. Perso, le reviews que j ai lu..me font peur.. au niveau scenar. Ceci dit Snyder montre qu il a un nom qui fait vendre.
2-Batman : Certes on est sur un "event"en quelque sorte mais de toute facon Batman est un hit comme on en avait plus vu depuis New Avengers de Bendis (la 1ere série)
3-Justice League : Trinity War booste comme il faut les ventes
4-Batman Annual : un zero year tie in.. et ca fonctionne
5-Superman/Batman : 35% en moins sur le 2eme numero? c est bon! Le titre devrait etre un résident du top 25 (même si a ce niveau là les commandes se font sans avoir lu le #1)
6-JLA : +20%? Trinity War est une bonne affaire pour DC
7-Detective comics reste au dessus de 60 000
8-Green Lantern 1er numero sans johns et sans gimmick.. il va falloir attendre un peu avant que ca se stabilise
9-Justice League Dark : +176% ?? Trinity War mais pas que ... en fait si les vendeurs commandaient autant de JLD que de JL;les JLD invendus pouvaient être renvoyés (ce qui se fait pas aux USA dans les comics shops en général): Cela explique cela..
10-Batman &.. perd pas mal...
11-Batman Inc... Le titre etant un peu a part du reste du batman verse.. les ventes sont dans le vntre mou pour cette fin de regne de Morrison.. Cependant, les TPB fonctionnent bien mieux que Snyder/Capullo...
12Batman : Dark Knight : perd petit à petit
13-Aquaman si on se rappelle les ventes des 6 1ers mois.. c est peu.. si on compare a d autres titres aquaman: c est bien... c est donc bien
14-Action Comics et Superman continuent de perdre. Pas d effet Unchained... ni man of steel... a voir si ca se stabilise avec ses nouveaux auteurs. Perso, m etonnerait pas qu un des titres se transforme.. on parle de rumeurs d un hebdo sur Superman et action comics a déjà été hebdo..
15-Green Lantern Corps : grosse perte malgré la présence du cadeau (un anneau)... et le mois d apres il reprd 6 000 (en aout).. La franchise GL risque de se tasser
16-Nightwing : perd toujours mais reste au dessus du precedent volume
17-Earth 2 : semble se stabiliser mais Robinson quitte le titre en octobre
18-New Guardians : V GLC
19-Batgirl - V Nightwing
20-Flash : revient a des ventes classiques (de Wally West) mais surement pas au niveau auquel DC misait lors de la resurrection de Barry Allen..
21-Wonder Woman : le redacteur trouve que ca revient a des ventes solides.. perso, je trouve que ca revient à des ventes normale recentes.. soit pas top quoi pour la 3eme icone DC. C est plus bas qu Xforce et DD chez marvel...
22-Red Lanterns : V GLC
23- Teen Titans : perd trop
24-Constantine : c est bien au dessous des ventes de Hellblazer mais là on a un tie in Trinity + de la variant et un nouveau scenariste... donc la stabilisation est pas là.. et les regles de ventes vertigo vont plus s appliquer (un titre vertigo peut vendre sous 10 000 si les tPs suivent... Un titre DC sous 18 000.. il est maintenu un peu mais pas 1 an..)
25-Red Hood : sans les crossovers, ca degringole
26-Larfreeze : perd peu mais est déjà un peu bas.. ca devrait pas durer plus de 12 # (si le reste de la franchise GL se stabilise vite)
27-Batwoman : perd un peu.. mais sans Williams. ca risque de chuter durement
28-Green Arrow : une stabilité et le changement d auteurs a payé.. mais attention si la stabilité ne dure pas
29-Supergirl a des ventes .. qui peuvent chuter puis se restabiliser.. le titre a une instabilité.. instable :mrgreen:
30-World's Finest Catwoman : descendent le classement
31- Swampie et Animal : étaient un succes mais depuis leur crossover.. c est le declin
32-Talon, Suicide squad, Birds Of Prey ont un moment de stabilité mais s approche de al ligne des 20 000
33-Superboy le 1er de 12 titres Nu52 en dessous de 20 000 dont 4 officiellement arrêtés. A mon avis le titre perd trop encore... ca sent le sapin
34-All Star Western : c est un western et ca vend plus que vendait Jonah Hex.. avec un peu moins de bonnes critiques mais .. DC devrait continuer car ca reste stable.
35-La legion : s arrete
36-Movement : on est à peine au 3 : sapin assuré
37-Vibe Sapin assuré.. Johns a déjà été enlevé pour des auteurs moins couteux
38- Batwing : meme avec un tie in Zero Year qui arrive, c est le sapin assuré
39-Stormwatch : ca devrait etre spin depuis longtemps.. déjà au 11 on etait sous 20 000... DC doit attendre pour le relauncher sous un autre nom... qu arrive un evenement particulier... mais bon sapin assuré malgré la perfusion
40-Dial H et Demon Knights: arrêtés
41-Katana : Perfusion + machine respirtatoire... DC refuse de débrancher... mais ne tiendra pas longtemps
42-Green Team: 3 numeros seulement... sapin express!!!
43-Threshold : S arrete le mois prochain

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Sur le coup c est un anneau offert avec le comics ET quelques variants.. ce qui encourage certains a acheter 2-3 ex pour en avoir un intact avec l anneau sous poche... et un pour le lire.
Donc y a un effet boostant des ventes qui na rien a voir avec le contenu..
Mais c est pas DC.. Marvel le fait et certains editeurs le font constamment (Dynamite a toujours des variants)

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Gadget Lantern

[BenjaamanLegionnaire]

cOMMe d'habitude un plaisir de te lire.

[fred le mallratAdmin-Man]

merci... j attend avec impatience dans 2 mois quand on parlera du raz-de-marée de couvs 3D chez DC..
c est tres bien car ils passent devant Marvel en terme de parts de marchés (ce qui arrivent peu souvent.. ) mais qui pose aussi la question de la gadgetisations, des variants... car avec le recrudescence des events ou cross plus petit... on se croirait revenu dans les 90's chez Marvel et DC (d autant plus chez DC que Bob Harras et Bobbie Chase sont revenus editer chez eux et ont pris des auteurs "vintage"comme Lobdell, Defalco et des dessinateurs Images..)
Ce qui pose la question d un futur crach comme en 94-95 alors que de 2000 à 2008 on nous a dit "plus jamais tout ca"

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