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Bleeding Cool Bestseller List – 20th December 2015 – There Is No Escape From The Darth Vader Annual

Published Sun, 20 Dec 2015 11:01:11 -0600

by Rich Johnston

Last updated Mon, 02 Jan 2017 12:08:30 -0600

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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.

This week its all about the Darth Vader Annual, well, a certain film did come out this week…

1. Darth Vader Annual #1
2. Justice League #46
3. Harley Quinn #23
4. Batman Europa #2
5. Amazing Spider-Man #1.1
6. All New X-Men #2
7. Squadron Supreme #1
8. Batman & Robin Eternal #11
9. Uncanny Inhumans 3
10. Huck #2

Thanks to the following retailers

- Dr. No's Comics & Games Superstore of Marietta, Georgia
- Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa
- Jesse James Comics of Glendale, Arizona
- Yesteryear Comics of San Diego, California
- Jetpack Comics of Rochester, New York
- Fat Jack's Comicrypt of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Marvel's single digit titles still going strong. How long?

Star Wars fever has struck, letting Darth Vader claim the top spot in a pretty small week for comics. All New X-Men was the surprise hit for us. As of Friday we have only 4 copies left on the shelf. Huck is still doing great for us, as well as I Hate Fairyland and Tokyo Ghost. More and more Image continues to close the gap between them and the big two.

Rick and Morty and Invader Zim are still doing insanely well for us. Same goes for Black Mask Studios books like We Can Never Go Home and Space Riders. Letter 44 getting a TV production deal has done well for us as well.

The usual this week with a Star Wars Darth Vader Annual #1 taking the top spot. Nothing else really seemed to jump out with high numbers. Everything was kinda across the same board when it came to the sales for individual issues. Wondering if the money being spent on Star Wars tickets and junk food effected people's spending.

Batman back-issues are the driving point this week with people coming in with the shopping list to help fill in the gaps for collections this Christmas.

Usually I'm the outspoken one on here for Wednesday Warrior reports. I will make it simple this time. Most Boring week ever in comics.

DC get three books on the Top Ten this week–one of their best showings this fall. The surprise was Huck #2's strong showing–it's rare that an Image second issue breaks into our Top Five, but this book did (and deservedly so!). Klaus also did quite well for a second issue. The other surprise of the week was the relative underperformance of Darth Vader Annual #1–it took our number one slot, but just barely–and this was in Star Wars film release week, when Star Wars mania is at an all-time high!

So if it's Star Wars film release week, why was Star TREK our big backstock seller? Go figure…

Very odd week. Deadpool 3.1 did very poorly. Being in spanish really turned the regular readers off. Deadpool sells great and then Marvel puts out an issue in another language that most fans of the monthly don't even know? What the? Darth Vader Annual took first. Lucifer 1 broke in the top ten. Harley Quinn 23 did great thanks to the Harley's Little Black Bag bagged variant. Had a lot of people coming in for the black bagged Justice League 37 even though it didn't come out. Though DC listing issue 37 as originally coming out made for some confusion. Good week. Though could have even been better had Deadpool been in english and Justice League 37 had indeed came out when so many people came in wanting to pick it up.

Doomsday showing up in the Superman v Batman trailer has made the character popular. Not too much back issue movement this week other than that.

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