‘Ultimatum’ #1 #1 in November
The November numbers are in and ICv2 notes that sales of the top 300 titles fell 11% compared with a year ago. They note that with DC Comics and Marvel Comics skipping issues of Secret Invasion, Final Crisis, New Avengers, Mighty Avengers, Astonishing X-Men, and Justice League of America, there’s little wonder.
Only two titles — Marvel’s Ultimatum #1 and DC’s Batman #681 – cracked the 100,000 unit marks based on numbers provided by Diamond Comics Distributors, the fewest since March.
Marvel had 14 of the top 25 titles, DC 10, and Dark Horse one.
Looking over the list, it’s interesting to note that beyond events and new titles, several mainline books continue to bring in readers because the content seems to be consistently entertaining month after month as exemplified by Amazing Spider-Man and Captain America being in the Top 10. The most popular creators do seem to translate to best sales making it all the more important for creative team consistency month to month.
Here are ICv2’s estimates of the sales by Diamond Comic Distributors to comic stores on the top 25 comic titles in November:
114,230 Ultimatum #1
103,151 Batman #681 (RIP)
90,776 Hulk #8
88,910 Wolverine #69
77,773 Uncanny X-Men #504
76,625 Amazing Spider-Man #577
75,493 Captain America #44
74,202 Buffy the Vampire Slayer #19
72,862 JSA: Kingdom Come Special Superman #1
71,355 Justice Society of America #20
69,522 Batman: Cacophony #1
68,956 Amazing Spider-Man #576
66,564 Amazing Spider-Man #578
64,196 Detective Comics #850 (RIP)
63,512 X-Men Legacy #218
61,331 Fantastic Four #561
58,547 Action Comics #871
58,279 Dark Tower: Treachery #3
57,241 X-Force #9
57,205 JSA: Kingdom Come Special Kingdom #1
56,931 Final Crisis: Resist #1
56,224 Avengers / Invaders #6
55,560 JSA: Kingdom Come Special Magog #1
