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Batman: Damned #2 Tops Advance Reorders Despite DC Comics Not Reprinting #1

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market. Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale. Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire! And courtesy of stats from Diamond Comic Distributors.

Batman: Damned #2 has been hovering in the Advance Reorders charts for the last few weeks as retailer struggle to adjust their orders in the wake of a) Batman Damned #1 selling out and then some and b) DC Comics taking the decision not to reprint it, against the wishes of the creative and editorial teams.

This is giving some retailers pause as to how to reorder it. Clearly there is demand, and they should at least order as many as they did of #1. But should they order more, given that their customer base who didn't get a copy of book one, may not want to get book two.

At MCM London Comic Con, I was talking to a major retailer who told me they are upping their orders massively. Who believes that readers have been reading the comic digitally, legally or not. And there is a strong demand to buy the second volume. And the release of a new Jim Lee variant cover was enough for that demand to hit the advance reorders and see Batman Damned #2 leapfrog over Web Of Venom: Carnage Born, Batman, West Coast Avengers and Spider-Verse...

I note that pre-sales on eBay are already above cover price.

TOP 25 ADVANCE REORDER COMICS/GRAPHIC NOVELS/TPS

TOP 25 REORDER COMICS/GRAPHIC NOVELS/TPS

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