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Bleeding Cool Bestseller List – 5th May 2014 – The Amazing Amazing Spider-Man

Published Mon, 05 May 2014 17:30:32 -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…

This week, there was only one comic topping all but one of the retailers sales below. But it was closely followed by a certain weekly comic…

Amazing Spider-Man #1
Batman Eternal #4
All New X-Men
Batman vs. Bane #1
Uncanny Avengers Annual
Avengers #28
Black Science #6
New Avengers #17
Southern Bastards #1
Flash Annual #3

Thanks to the following retailers

Librairie Astro of Montreal, Que, Canada.
Yesteryear Comics of San Diego, California
Jetpack Comics of Rochester, New Hampshire
Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa
Comickaze, of San Diego, California
Graham Crackers Comics of Illinois – Plainfield, Naperville, Downers Grove, St. Charles, Wheaton, DeKalb + Chicago LOOP/Edgewater/Lakeview
G-Mart Comic Books of Champaign, Illinois
Earth-2 Comics Sherman Oaks, CA
Earth-2 Comics Northridge, CA

Who had this to say,

Batman still takes the top spot this week followed closely by Spider-Man. Serenity is selling very well. Silver Surfer made our top ten despite having a significant drop off from #1. Black Science has been doing great and has the reprint numbers to show it. One of our biggest Image sellers(that doesn't have a television adaptation.) Biggest yawn of the week came from Rai #1. I don't know where Valiant titles are selling but its not at our store. At all.

No shock that Amazing Spider-Man was #1 this week, but nice to see that Batman Eternal is catching on and was NOT a distant 2nd to Spidey. Ordered heavy on Eternal 1-3 to give people a chance to discover it (not everyone visits the store every week – some monthly customers are just catching on) – expect to see numbers increase and many stores finding themselves short copies for issue 5-8..

Amazing Spider-Man was obviously the winner for the week as was expected and i am sure that it will continue for the next week or so to be a constant mover. All the other books moved well with Batman Eternal and Rai duking it out for the second place. Batman was the winner in that fight.

Superior Spider-Man back-issues took off with people playing catch up. The other books that moved were Justice League with the movie news and Captain America with left over excitement from fans of the Winter Solider.

Amazing Spider-Man 1 is a hit. The variants were very popular. Sadly the Diamond Summit variants arrived looking in very sad shape. The cover stock looks cheap, feels cheap, and is already damaged thanks to not being sent in bags and boards and they were printed poorly. Where was quality control? One or two with problems I could understand but not one or two that might be able to sell because they look normal while the rest of the Diamond Summit variants look well read and damaged like they were from the 1980s lost laying in the bottom of a foot locker after being read by a kid fifty times. Thank goodness I did not order a special variant cover for the store. Batman Eternal still selling rock solid. All New X Men is as strong as always. The Star Wars movie news helped the Star Wars Heist issue.

Did someone say a Justice League movie is now official? Because the back issues are seeing movement now.

No surprise that Amazing Spider-Man #1 dominates the charts. It's great to see Black Science continuing to be a strong hit as well six issues in. Batman Eternal is holding strong with a lot of positive feedback from customers who like a weekly Batman story. And Flash Annual with the debut of Wally West raced off the shelves.

This is the week that we sold that Daredevil #2 with the second appearance of Electro…just in time for his appearance in Amazing Spider-Man 2.

Surprisingly small week in comics going in to Free Comic Book Day Weekend! Some good offerings from Marvel, but otherwise pretty quiet. Southern Bastards sold like crazy, what an awesome first issue. Black Science continues to hang with the big dogs and gain more and more readers with each issue. Batman VS Bane from DC had customers scratching their heads since it was a Forever Evil AFTERMATH book and we're still almost a month away from the final issue. Our customers are VERY unhappy with how that has all played out and most of them are calling for David Finch to never draw another event book again.

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