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BC Bestseller List, 24th July 2016 – No Marvel Universe Comics, Just DC Rebirth And Star Wars

Published Sun, 24 Jul 2016 14:30:10 -0500

Last updated Mon, 02 Jan 2017 12:06:39 -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 to the weekend to get this week's comics. We salute you, and the keenness you bring to your passion.

Marvel had a lot of Civil War II tie-in comics this week. But unlike the Civil War crossovers from a decade ago, not one of them entered the top ten. Instead, this week's Bestseller chart was dominated by DC Rebirth, including the likes of Hellblazer over and above all the Marvel superhero titles. Only the Star Wars titles made it in.

Also, for the first time, Darth Vader beat Star Wars…

1. Batman #3
2. Justice League #1
3. Superman #3
4. Darth Vader #23
5. Star Wars #21
6. Batgirl and the Birds of Prey Rebirth #1
7. Green Arrow #3
8. Hellblazer Rebirth #1
9. Aquaman #3
10. Green Lanterns #3

Thanks to the following 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
Yesteryear Comics of San Diego, California
Fat Jack's Comicrypt of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Who had this to say,

Fantastic week for sales with 4 books passing the century mark and the others performing better than expected. Always nice when the invoice is almost cleared for the week on day one.

Rick and Morty,Invader Zim and just about anything cartoon related was flying out of the store this week. The rest of the back-issue market was pretty much keys due to SDCC this week which was to be expected.

DC is still riding high with the Rebirth kick. I just hope DC has a follow up. Meaning when the new 52 started there was a lot of readers but that readership bleeded off. This time hopefully there is a year end shocker or something to keep people interested and excited. Darth Vader is slipping since it will be ending in a few months. Marvel is really slipping because one of the bad things about re launches is people wait till the actual re launch to try a series. No one wants to try something that is ending. So now we have months of people holding off on Marvel material other than Civil War.

DC shipped eight Rebirth books this week, and DC took the top eight positions in our store's sales. No Marvel superhero books made the top ten–the two Star Wars books made the bottom of the list. Never in our store's history have so many customers disliked what Marvel was doing–but they are becoming the regular target of reader scorn. Marvel, it's time to forget Marvel Now and try to give readers a Marvel Rebirth, getting back to the core basics of the characters that readers love!

Strong interest in Silver Age Shazam, Superman, Batman, and Justice League.

By now i sound like a broken record because DC Rebirth once again destroyed all competition. The only comic that was not a DC book that made it to our top ten was I Hate Fairyland. I was even surprised that last week's Hal Jordan rebirth clobbered Deadpool and the Merc's #1. Reducing their line, upping the frequency of the best sellers and lowering their price point has been an absolute success for DC. Marvel please adopt this model sooner than later.

Wow, once again DC Rebirth continues to do wonders are our store! DC hasn't had four books in our top ten for quite sometime, and even though Marvel has a few more books on our top ten than DC, the talk about the shop it definitely in DC's favor! Bryan Lee O'Malley's Snotgirl also had some great sales this week as well.

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