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Bleeding Cool Bestseller List – Forever At Number One

Published Mon, 07 Oct 2013 09:00:14 -0500

Last updated Mon, 07 Oct 2013 09:20:52 -0500

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!

Forever Evil was the favourite from almost all stores, but Green Lantern's Light's Out and the second issue of The Star Wars beat out the usually higher All New X-Men and Detective Comics.

Forever Evil #2
Green Lantern #24
The Star Wars #2
All New X-Men #17
Detective Comics #24
Batman Black & White #2
Earth 2 #16
All New X-Men Special #1
Action Comics #24
Iron Man #16

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Yesteryear Comics of San Diego, California.
Impulse Creations of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Pittsburgh Comics of McMurray, Pennsylvania.
Laughing Ogre Comics of Lansdowne and Fairfax, Virginia, and Columbus, Ohio.
Librairie Astro of Montreal, Que, Canada.
Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa.
Mayhem Comics, Cards and Collectibles of Aimes and Des Moine, Iowa.
Dr No's Comics And Games Superstore of Marietta, Georgia.

Retailer Comments:

This week felt odd after the 3D madness. Felt like a 5th week in a month for comics product wise. DC fans are looking forward to when the new regular Batman, Constantine, and Superman Unchained titles arrive. Sold out of All New X Men 17 even after upping the order due to the crossover. The price increase to $3.99 for Action Comics did not slow sales down at all. It also sold out in two days much to my surprise. Solid start to the month.

Amazing Spiderman back issues are starting to look a little bare. Rumors of the Sinister Six being in an upcoming Spiderman film might be helping. Batman back issues are doing well. The Hush story arc is the most in demand of the series thanks to a certain Jim Lee. Superman back issues by Jim Lee sadly not so much even though he is currently drawing Superman Unchained. Thor back issues are starting to see a little love thanks to the upcoming movie.

Solid week considering the amount of titles. Forever Evil and The Star Wars both stayed strong sellers with a little drop off from #1 Picked up a decent collection of Bronze Age books so people picked those apart in the last week and stayed away from any one trend that could be determined.

A pretty dreary week, overall, with nobody very excited over anything, the main comment from customers being along the lines of "#24? That means the stupid villains junk is over, right?" Mind you, the return to a more normal schedule seems to have inspired them to top up their accounts, so that's nice. In fact every day this week (except Saturday Oct 5) was above average.

Due to a shipping error on Diamond's part we received a stack of Walking Dead V9(?) hardcovers a few weeks back, which haven't exactly been flying at full price, so this week, pending a "Please Return" notice, we dropped the price on them, and they've been moving very nicely. I'd rather make 2-3 bucks a piece rather than just box 'em up, return them, and just end up making UPS a bit richer.

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