Comments on: More sales chat http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/05/more-sales-chat/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:51:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Jason Green http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/05/more-sales-chat/#comment-449456 Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:25:07 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/05/more-sales-chat/#comment-449456 "Yeah there were a sick amount of tie-ins, I wonder if it put them over 52 comics overall?" Yes it does. If you count all the tie-ins from the various ongoings, it's in the neighborhood of 100. “Yeah there were a sick amount of tie-ins, I wonder if it put them over 52 comics overall?”

Yes it does. If you count all the tie-ins from the various ongoings, it’s in the neighborhood of 100.

]]> by: Andy http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/05/more-sales-chat/#comment-449449 Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:16:58 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/05/more-sales-chat/#comment-449449 Yeah there were a sick amount of tie-ins, I wonder if it put them over 52 comics overall? Yeah there were a sick amount of tie-ins, I wonder if it put them over 52 comics overall?

]]> by: Jerry http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/05/more-sales-chat/#comment-449445 Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:11:40 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/05/more-sales-chat/#comment-449445 I'd agree 52 was in fact a huge hit. Although CW probably brought in just as much money after you add in Frontline and all the tie-in books. I’d agree 52 was in fact a huge hit. Although CW probably brought in just as much money after you add in Frontline and all the tie-in books.

]]> by: Andy http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/05/more-sales-chat/#comment-449440 Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:01:43 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/05/more-sales-chat/#comment-449440 Is success only measured by how well each issue sells? Fifty two issues of a comic that sells around 100,000 - 90,000 copies is pretty huge ($13M) compared to something like Civil War selling around 200,000 copies but only seven issues long (4.2M). 52 was almost four and a half years worth of regular comic selling really well. They had to have made tons of cash on that. Is success only measured by how well each issue sells? Fifty two issues of a comic that sells around 100,000 - 90,000 copies is pretty huge ($13M) compared to something like Civil War selling around 200,000 copies but only seven issues long (4.2M).

52 was almost four and a half years worth of regular comic selling really well. They had to have made tons of cash on that.

]]> by: Torsten Adair http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/05/more-sales-chat/#comment-449407 Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:19:04 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/05/more-sales-chat/#comment-449407 If they were very clever, they would tie the crossover storyline so that obscure BACK ISSUES were involved! The Publisher sells their reprint issues, retailers markup their back issues! Maybe they could pull an Asimov, and tiein ALL of the various crossovers retroactively! Doesn't each series try to create and spin off a new character? Use those as the Six Degrees, and run with it! You could even kill them off, one per issue! Variants would be different artists, various cover treatments (like glitter ink! scratch and sniff! scratch off lottery tickets!), prices, uncut sheets from the printer... sorry, gotta find a mylar snug to breathe into... If they were very clever, they would tie the crossover storyline so that obscure BACK ISSUES were involved! The Publisher sells their reprint issues, retailers markup their back issues! Maybe they could pull an Asimov, and tiein ALL of the various crossovers retroactively! Doesn’t each series try to create and spin off a new character? Use those as the Six Degrees, and run with it! You could even kill them off, one per issue! Variants would be different artists, various cover treatments (like glitter ink! scratch and sniff! scratch off lottery tickets!), prices, uncut sheets from the printer… sorry, gotta find a mylar snug to breathe into…

]]> by: Alan Spinney http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/05/more-sales-chat/#comment-449391 Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:57:47 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/05/more-sales-chat/#comment-449391 The Hulking World War of Infinite Civil War Countdown Crisis Continues. Collect all 1200 tie-ins and variants. The Hulking World War of Infinite Civil War Countdown Crisis Continues. Collect all 1200 tie-ins and variants.

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