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Bleeding Cool Bestseller List – 26th June 2016 – Flash Fact, Rebirth Takes The Top Six

Published Sun, 26 Jun 2016 10:00:58 -0500

by Rich Johnston

Last updated Mon, 02 Jan 2017 12:07:06 -0600

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This is the Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, as compiled by a number of comic stores from their sales on Wednesday and Thursday. It measures what are known as the "Wednesday Warriors", those who can't wait to the weekend to get this week's comics. We salute you, and the keenness you bring to your passion.

I can't remember the last time DC Comics had such a dominating grasp on the Bestseller List with the top six titles. It was probably back in 2011. And even Marvel's bestseller is a comic book adaptation of a film that came out last year.

It's also notable that Flash managed to outsell Batman, Wonder Woman and Superman comics…

1. Flash #1
2. Detective Comics #935
3. Wonder Woman #1
4. Action Comics #958
5. Aquaman #1
6. Justice League #52
7. Star Wars: The Force Awakens #1
8. Doctor Strange #9
9. Civil War: Choosing Sides #1
10. Mighty Thor #8

Thanks to the following comic book retailers

Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa
Jetpack Comics of Rochester, New York
Issues Needed Comics, Apple Valley, Minnesota
Dr. No's Comics & Games Superstore of Marietta, Georgia
Graham Crackers Comics – 10 locations in the Mid-West
Yesteryear Comics of San Diego, California
G-Mart Comic Books of Champaign, IL
Famous Faces & Funnies

Who had this to say,

Wow, it's official. DC Rebirth is colossal hit. With the exception of Detective Comics (which we ordered heavily), all Rebirth books sold out on Wednesday by 4pm. That's insane. DC has done incredibly well, and is well on their way to generating more sales and fan interest than anything Marvel is currently putting out. If there was ever a time for Marvel to take a look and seriously consider rebooting, it's now.With only two Marvel titles hitting the top ten for us, and ONE being a movie adaptation for a movie that came out SIX MONTHS AGO, the writing is on the wall for Marvel. They need to figure this out before it's too late.

Good solid week. DC's Rebirth is easily leading the way. Sadly Marvel is losing ground. The Civil War spin offs and tie ins are just not hot sellers. People are starting to complain about what they see as a lack of talent at Marvel.

Once again, DC's Rebirth titles take the top five slots in our store this week–and a quasi-Rebirth title, Justice League #52, takes sixth place on the strength of the Lex Luthor storyline. Marvel takes the last four slots–but the best-selling Marvel title still sold fewer than half as many copies as the lowest-selling DC top ten title this week. This has been a phenomenal turnaround month for DC, and readers are still loving what they're seeing in these books; hardly anyone has dropped a title, and we're seeing more people saying "I want all of these Rebirth books" than we've seen for any other event or theme-driven launch in our store's history.

Silver Age Marvel and DC keep selling, particularly in mid-grade; customers who can't afford super-high-grade Silver Age are targeting with those 5.0-7.0 copies instead.

Harley Quinn is still the queen of back issues sales.

Good sales. Quite good. What you might expect to sell well, did. DC took the top 4 and 5 spots over all. Dectective was #1 and Wonder Woman #2. Doctor Strange was Marvel's best seller at #5. Buffy makes our list every time. Harley Quinn, and Star Wars: Force Awakens adaptation didn't come anywhere close to making our top ten seller list.

DC Rebirth continues to be a giant hit in our stores and tons of new customers are adding these new series to their list! They're loving the $2.99 cover price that they're saying is starting to look like a better value than many Marvel books at $4.99. It's definitely been an exciting time for comics, and we're seeing lots of new people finding us everyday, especially for Rebirth. Hats off to DC for reaching out to new and returning audiences who have found their way to our shop for these books. A month in and we can't believe how many new people have come in for the Rebirth books. As of today, we still have at least a few copies of every first print at cover price, but we expect to sell out of a few things this weekend. So far so good.

Civil War sales and especially the tie ins are doing underwhelming numbers so far, but I'm hoping that they'll pick up with the big death in issue 3. We'll see what happens. It sounds like people may just be "evented out".

No surprise this week, DC Rebirth has taken the top spots 4 weeks in a row. It was good to see our recommendation section is working, most of our top selling Marvel books this week are books we recommend.

Another great week for sales with another batch of DC books completely selling out.The true test will be to see how the 2nd printings perform.Long term readership or people just looking for the added value to their collection…we will have to wait and see.
The Force Awakens did far better that i expected with true collectors wanting to have it in the collection with the rest of the issues.

Harley Quinn finally saw a little life on the back-issue front.Have a feeling that Joker appearances will be the sleeper movers that people over look until it is too late and then will will scramble to find.