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Several titles are back around their pre-OYL numbers, which is still a win for DC if for no other reason than the eight months of inflated numbers.

Even if the material in these creative-reboots merited as sustained readership (and so much of it was just a down-right bad idea), 52 is draining the potential capital of the would-be readers of these titles. There are many folks buying books in their 20’s and 30’s who just don’t want to spend more than $20-$25 on books each month.

Personally, I’ve watched the walk around with six or seven books in hand, then sadly place a couple back on the shelf. Then at the register, they pay for five books and four of them are 52.

Now DC is going to extend the weekly out one more year. For collectors like me, that’s good news. For the average fan and for DC’s individual titles that’s bad news.

My 2 cents,

Stamen

Marc-Oliver Frisch writes “The list of DC Comics’ new launches for January 2007 was surprisingly short and low-profile. They were limited to the crossover miniseries Superman and Batman vs. Aliens and Predators, two one-shots paving the way for the t…

Ummm… you have no idea how maths works, do you? If it had dropped 132%, then Image would have BOUGHT 11131 copies of WB101 FROM retailers without selling one…

One thing, the below seems like it should then be negative roughly 132% in September.

06/2006: Witchblade #99 — 14,524 (+ 2.3%)
07/2006: Witchblade #100 — 33,832 (+132.9%)
08/2006: –
09/2006: Witchblade #101 — 14,727 (- 56.5%)

Simone’s Atom deserves better, too!

“The numbering of the sale positions on the chart are way off in some cases.”

Yeah, I forget to update them from the previous month sometimes.

“Actually, the reason Detective Comics missed shipping in January was because it was a week early and hit in December, wasn’t it? Not a late book at all! heh.”

Entirely correct. I even pointed it out last month.

“In SUPERMAN #659, Carlos Pacheco was not “nowhere in sight” — he drew the framing seqence, and was credited for it.”

Right again. Pacheco drew two pages. (In fairness, though, he isn’t credited on the cover, and the credit in the book is rather obscure and apart from the rest of the story credits.)

Guilty as charged, on all counts.

kdb

Theoretically, FOC trumps returnability in circumstances like this.

DC *usually* steps up to the plate when it’s “the right thing to do”, though they haven’t announced anything officially.

I don’t order 1:10 variants (w/o a special order for it), and I didn’t stock extra units to get a variant… but also I didn’t, at FOC, cut my order down as far as I probably should have on this issue because I was thinking “DC seems to think this issue is significant”, because I remembered the cancelled variant. That could account for this “rise” the chart shows, if you see what I mean?

-B

Its still all cyclical/head eating its own tail sort of thing.

Also, I’m very happy Manhunter is again un-cancelled.

You’re right, thanks.

However, it was a 1-in-10 variant, which likely motivated retailers to increase their orders for the regular edition, so the solicited variant cover probably still explains the sales increase. (Unless all orders were canceled and retailers had to order the issue all over again, which seems unlikely.)

This raises an interesting question: Since DC basically asked retailers to increase their orders in exchange for copies of a limited comic and then failed to deliver said comic, did they make the book returnable? Or are retailers left sitting on those extra units they ordered, without anything to show for it?

I’d love to know.

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Coat

Well, that assumes that it’s in DC’s interest for people to buy the weekly rather than the trade paperback. But a sale’s a sale, surely. I suppose there’s a cashflow advantage in persuading people to buy the book in the first format to hit the shelves, but equally there’s a cashflow disadvantage in holding back the trade solicitation.

For Countdown, DC would be best suited to not solicit the first trade until after Countdown 0 has actually shipped to stores.