And I’m sorry, but X-Men: Worlds Apart is not worth $3.99 an issue.

Paul C - thanks for the confirmation . Hopefully, Paul O will make the correction above…

Yeah true, according to Marvel’s catalogue for New Ways To Die…
#568 - 4 covers
#569 - 2 covers
#570 - 3 covers
#571 - 2 covers
#572 - 2 covers
#573 - 4 covers

They really milked this story for all its worth, of course the interesting thing is the drop-off in next months charts between the end of NWTD and the following issue.

This may be difficult to track but could also look at some of these books through the price filter? I know you do this already but it seems now that books are getting to the $4 mark, are sales being affected by that, especially given the current economic climate?

Just a thought…

Who’s to say? I’m British and couldnt care less about it. I dont think it will sell particularly much more here simply because it is set in Britain.

It was a great ‘jumping on’ point for someone like me who hasn’t read the title in a few years, and I didn’t feel lost or out of my element.

I never noticed the dodson cover, but I assume it was there.

Regarding Daredevil #111, I think the new Lady Bullseye character could be as much of a draw as that fantastic Terry Dodson cover.

1. The reason why the new DEADPOOL series is selling far better then CAPTAIN BRITAIN AND MI-13, despite both books being SI crossovers and having variant covers, is because Deadpool is a much more popular character then Captain Britain and the other MI-13 characters. After the SI crossover and the variant covers stop, sales on DEADPOOL will most likely start to SLOWLY fall back down to C&D levels.

2. The under performance and falling sales of MOST of the Wolverine books (including X-FORCE) is proof that Wolverine’s appearance in a book or any spin off book starring him in it DOES NOT guarantee that book will sell well. Wolverine is way over exposed, so any book he appears in will not automatically get MOST fans to buy most of the books he appears in.

3. IRON MAN: GOLDEN AVENGER is actually a one shot spin off issue of MARVEL ADVENTURES IRON MAN. Marvel either deliberately or unintentionally mislead retailers and fans into believing that this one shot issue of MARVEL ADVENTURES IRON MAN featured the regular Marvel Universe version of Iron Man by having the cover of the book look like an issue of INVINCIBLE IRON MAN.

Wait, I was under the impression that *every* issue of the arc had at least one variant, and several had more, no?

> The SECRET INVASION tie-in storyline finished last month, so a fall was only to be expected. But this issue also had a Marvel Apes variant cover, and allowing for that, I’d say the drop was on the high side.

It’s still 3k higher than the pre-SI issue, which doesn’t seem far off where the other monkey variants fall. [Next issue: a Zombie variant! - although the zombie element is relegated to the faint background]

> 113. IRON MAN: GOLDEN AVENGER
> 09/08 Golden Avenger - 20,922
> A random Iron Man story shoved out for no readily apparent reason.

A random *MARVEL ADVENTURES* IM story shoved out for no readily apparent reason, actually (although it doesn’t use the branding).

> Why the cynicism regarding the Turner variants? I assume Marvel had a few they were planning on using anyway - should they not use the art because he passed away? I’d just as soon continue to see new Michael Turner art as long as possible.

Actually, they’re all old art which has been recoloured, with the original backgrounds snipped out (one of them was a variant WWH1 cover - which had a bunch of Marvel characters fanned out behind so as to hide all their feet - which has been turned into a Red Hulk cover with an abstract background).

I’m sure there are many people who would like to see new Turner art, but this wasn’t something Marvel was holding in its drawer. The issue #6 variant was just a World War Hulk #1 variant that was cropped and recolored red. I’m not sure if the same was done with the #7 variant, but it probably was.

http://www.comichron.com/

“Special editions filling in for the absent WOLVERINE and CABLE, both of which usually sell a lot better than this.”

and re: Saudade

“This is in the typical sales range for a random Wolverine project.”

BUT…

I renew my suggestion from last month about grouping the various Wolverine one-shots together to get maybe some historical perspective on their performance. The nigh-monthly frequency of the releases seriously constitutes a third (irregular) Wolverine ongoing, in practice if not in title. Last month, in reply to my idea, JD cobbled together previous Wolverine one-shot sales to get an idea of how it would look like…

“For those who care : a synthesis of the random Wolverine one-shots for the last year or so :

10/07 Annual #1 - Deathsong - 55,041
12/07 Firebreak - 37,218
05/08 Amazing Immortal - 32,280
06/08 Dangerous Game - 31,940
08/08 Killing Made Simple - 33,645″

Add:

09/08 Saudade - 26,701

and

09/08 Wolverine Annual #2 - 30,451

In light of other recent Random Wolverine One Shots - RWOS ™ - the Annual is closer to the trend for other RWOS, and Saudade is actually 20% below the average of the previous RWOS.

A random Iron Man story shoved out for no readily apparent reason.”

Probably part of the flood of titles to coincide with the Iron-Man movie/DVD release.