Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, 1st March 2020 – "X-Men Completely Dominated The Week"

Published Mon, 02 Mar 2020 11:00:38 -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.

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Top ten bestselling comics of the week

X-Men #7
Giant-Sized X-Men: Jean Grey Emma Frost #1
X-Force #8
X-Men/Fantastic Four #2
New Mutants #8
Batman Curse of the White Knight #7
Year of the Villain: Hell Arisen #3
Detective Comics #1,020
Amazing Spider-Man #40
Far Sector #4

Thanks to the following retailers…

Dr. No's Comics & Games SuperStore, Georgia
Famous Faces & Funnies, West Melbourne, Florida
Ssalefish Comics, Winston-Salem & Greensboro, North Carolina
Comix Experience, San Francisco, California
Comix Experience Outpost, San Francisco, California
Fat Jack's Comicrypt, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Graham Crackers Comics – a DOZEN shops Illinois/Wisconsin/California

If you would like to contribute to the retailer charts, let me know at richjohnston@bleedingcool.com.

Who had this to say…

X-Men made a clean sweep at FFF for our Weekly Bestseller Top Ten list taking five of the ten spots. Adjectiveless X-Men came in at #1 barely beating out Batman Curse of the White Knight. X-Men Fantastic Four, Giant Sized X-Men, New Mutants and X-Force all landed at #3, #4, #6 and #9 respectively. X-Men, New Mutants and X-Force are definitely the most popular of the new line so it's no surprise that they made the list this week. The only two books that weren't X or Bat adjacent that made the Top Ten was actually Amazing Spider-Man which came in at #8 and Star Wars at #10. For ASM, we lost a handful of readers with the 2099 kerfuffle but the recent FCBD announcement has gotten a few people back into the book. Star Wars likewise has drifted down in numbers a bit, but there are still enough ride or die fans of the franchise to keep it as one of our top books. On Hell Arisen, we actually cut our orders pretty harshly after the second issue. Being the tail end of an event book, there wasn't a whole lot of outside interest. We have a few huge DC fans who will pick up almost anything they put out, and putting the Batman Who Laughs in something hasn't quite hit the tipping point yet. But we cut to a few copies over subs just in time for DC to announce the big deal for the issue. So we sold out of all the copies we had, we actually got shorted a few and didn't even get to cover all of our subs, and didn't have much else to show for the people who came in from the cold looking for the hot book. With books like these if we don't get enough of a heads up, then we can't meet our own demand. It's a shame to have to tell people we don't have something that they think everyone should have. It makes communication difficult. I'm just glad we didn't have to deal with anyone too irate this time.

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X-Men completely dominated the week, with 5 different titles making it into the top ten. The flagship book took the top spot, with Giant-Size and X-Force sliding in at second and third. It's good to see the line holding up.

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It's all about the Mutants.

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The Merciless Mutants are at it again, this time completely dominating the *entire* top half of our list with X-titles (much of this achievement is thanks to this week's first of the Giant Size one-shots).

Once we get past all of that, DC finally has a spot on the list with… HELL ARISEN? That mini-series that's hardly been selling? How curious.

The Caped Crusader also makes an appearance on our list with the latest installment of DETECTIVE COMICS, though much farther down than that title is used to appearing.

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Surprisingly Year Of The Villain #3 didn't take the number one spot this week even with the first full appearance of Punchline. Unsurprisingly it was taken by the other big publisher who dominated five of our top ten spots this week on X titles alone. Claiming both the number 1 and 2 spots as well as several others following up.

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Tough to place Year of the Villain. sold out. how many would have sold? no idea

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Three DC books made our store's top ten (and one of them is a book that most buyers will never read, but they bought it because speculator sites told them they should), offering scant competition to Marvel's seven titles on the list this week. Neither Action nor Leviathan Dawn made it to the list this week; in the Rebirth era, Superman never failed to hit the top ten.

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