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Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, 5th January 2020 – Thor Beats X-Men Beats Star Wars

Published Sun, 05 Jan 2020 09:00:22 -0600

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 till the weekend to get this week's comics. And a welcome to Brandon's Comics of Tempe, Arizona.

Top ten bestselling comics of the week

Thor #1
X-Men #4
Star Wars #1
Marauders #5
Detective Comics #1018
Action Comics #1018
Flash #85
Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity #2
Hawkeye: Freefall #1
Doctor Doom #4

Thanks to the following retailers…

Graham Crackers Comics – IL/WI/CA – 12 outstanding shops,
Ssalefish Comics, Winston-Salem & Greensboro, North Carolina.
Comix Experience Outpost, San Francisco, California.
Comix Experience, San Francisco, California.
Fat Jack's Comicrypt, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Brandon's Comics, Tempe, Arizona.
Collector's Paradise Pasadena, California.
Dr. No's Comics & Games Superstore of Marietta, Georgia.
Rodman Comics, Iowa.

If you would like to contribute to the retailer charts, let me know at richjohnston@bleedingcool.com. Probably have a few more folk and folk returning in the New Year…

Who had this to say…

An odd new comic Wednesday with most stores doing better on Thursday than they did on NEW RELEASE day. People didn't want to come out, even with stores open regular hours.

Too much X-MEN seems to be the mantra as club members that initially signed up FOR ALL THE NEW X-TITLES are dropping most of the new X-TITLES. Leave it to MARVEL to always run a good thing into the ground with over exposure.

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While we are back to a much more typical release slate after last week's almost non-existent post-holiday new comics day, the firs release week of the new year is still pretty sleepy. Marvel came to the table with a couple of noteworthy #1's and consequently dominated our charts pretty effortlessly.

Our top book was the new Donny Cates-helmed THOR premiere. Close on its heels however is the slightly delayed X-MEN, a book that is still riding fairly strong despite Marvel's dogged interest in over saturating the line.

We see a pretty wide gulf in sales between our #2 and #3 slots. MARAUDERS remains one of the stronger X-books outside of X-MEN, and the new first issue of the renumbered STAR WARS is off to an inauspicious start despite it's very nice cover.

Not much else to talk about. Farther down the list is a collection of your usual suspects – ACTION, DETECTIVE, MILES MORALES, and the like.

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X-Men #4 sold more than double Marauders so it's the very clear winner. Not much to say about this week.

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Next week the Star #1 Campbell cover is insane. We are already sold out and Diamond is already on back order! Batman #86 card stock cover is pretty dope too

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A sign of DC's continued decline: a reprint of the first appearance of the modern Bullseye outsold every DC except for Detective Comics in our store this week. Let that sink in: a $1 reprint of an old Marvel comic appealed to more of our readers than the newest issues of Action, Justice League Dark, Flash, or Harley Quinn! And while DC did manage to place three books on our store's top ten this week, one of them (Doomsday Clock #12) is a two-week old issue! Otherwise, it was an all-Marvel list this week. DC, if you haven't sounded the crisis alarms yet, it's time–and maybe you should look to the pages of Doomsday Clock #12 for guidance in determining how to fix your broken comics line!

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New Years Day makes for a real crazy Wednesday. Low new sales on comics though lots of higher end back issues sold.

Notable sales:

Marvel Comics #1,000 CGC 9.8 $500 Mickey Mouse D23 Cover
Amazing Spider-Man #361 raw $300 – I can't keep these things in stock with Marvel doing all the Carnage tie ins. People ask for this, Secret Wars #8, Spider-Man #252, and Spider-Man #300. Pretty much on a daily basis. I literally just look for Spider-Man everyday.
Avengers #196 NM $154.95 First appearance of Taskmaster sold on New Year's Day.

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