The comic book industry is a very fickle industry, indeed. Just looking up the history of the comics, you see ups and downs, as markets rise and fall. People speculate, companies overproduce, agitate a good portion of the market and the whole thing blows up in their faces. Fans, creators, and publishers are all left wondering where in the world we are going to end up next… I bet you are too.
Thank you for coming today. Tomorrow morning I will post to let you know if we hit the 300 mark on today blog or not. I’m going to write today about what everyone thinks is the best selling comic book, and I’d like to discuss it, because I have found some very interesting stats.
Here is a very valuable resource to find the Best Selling Comic books
What’s interesting about these statistics is that these are the stats only through Diamond Distributers. But I have done some research for some comics sold OUTSIDE OF DIAMOND. And would like to offer the following Revised List of Best Selling Comic Books.
BEST SELLING COMIC BOOKS FOR 2004
#1a) Chickasaw Adventures #1 — $250,000
#1b) Chickasaw Adventures #2 — $250,000
#1c) Chickasaw Adventures #3 — $250,000
#1d) Chickasaw Adventures #4 — $250,000
#2) Superman #204 — $231,424
BEST SELLING COMIC BOOKS FOR 2005
#1) All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder #1 — $261,079
#2a) Chickasaw Adventures #5 — $250,000
#2b) Chickasaw Adventures #6 — $250,000
#2c) Chickasaw Adventures #7 — $250,000
#2d) Chickasaw Adventures #8 — $250,000
#3) New Avengers #7 — $158,713
BEST SELLING COMIC BOOKS FOR 2006
#1) Civil War #2 — $253,868
#2a) Chickasaw Adventures #9 — $250,000
#2b) Chickasaw Adventures #10 — $250,000
#2c) Chickasaw Adventures #11 — $250,000
#2d) Chickasaw Adventures #12 — $250,000
#3) DCU Brave New World — $140,851
BEST SELLING COMIC BOOKS FOR 2007
#1) Captain America #5 — $290,497
#2) Mighty Avengers #1 — $141,280
#3) Amazing Spiderman #539 — $137,723
BEST SELLING COMIC BOOKS FOR 2008
#1) Secret Invasion #1 –$250,113
#2) New Avengers #40 — $110,448
#3) Dark Tower Long Road Home –$103,008
BEST SELLING COMIC BOOKS FOR 2009
Comichron put out this list the showcases the OBAMA Spider-Man issue is Hands-down the best-selling issue of in the decade at $530,000 for the issue when all the numbers came in. FACT: Popular Presidents + Top Superhero Tag Team sells comics.
#1) Amazing SpiderMan #583 — $352,847
#2) Dark Avengers #1 — $118,543
#3) Final Crisis #6 — $110,858
BEST SELLING COMIC BOOKS FOR 2010
Avengers # 1 sells down for $175,100 for the whole year.
#1) Avengers #1 — $163,187
#2) Seige #4 — $113,752
#3) Batman Return of Bruce Wayne #1–$108,534
BEST SELLING COMIC BOOKS FOR 2011
Here is on stat from Newsarama about the NEW 52 from DC. This showcases the Best Selling Comic Books for 2011
January ended on a very good note for DC because they ended up selling 361,000 of Justice League #1. And at a $3.99 price point = $1,440,390 in sales.
#1) Justice League #1 — $171,344 (month of release)
#2) Flashpoint #5 — $94,547
#3) Fear Itself #5 –$90,914
BEST SELLING COMIC BOOKS OF ALL TIME
Bleeding Cool posted last year that Marvel X-Men #1 sold $7 million dollars worth of the title back in the early ’90s.
1. X-men #1 — $7,000,000
2. Action Comics #1 — $3,500,000 (auction)
3. Justice League #1 –$1,44,390
4. Obama-Spiderman — $530,000
5. Captain America #5 — $290,497
6. All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder #1 — $261,079
7. Civil War #2 — $253,868
8. Secret Invasion #113 –$251,000
9. TIE — Chickasaw Adventures #1-#12 — $250,000 each.
10. Avengers#1 — $175,100
BEST SELLING INDEPENDENT COMIC CREATOR SALES
The Average sale for comics is $8475 a book
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