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Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, 7th Feb 2016 – A One-Two For Spider-Man

Published Sun, 07 Feb 2016 18:00:39 -0600

by Rich Johnston

Last updated Mon, 02 Jan 2017 12:07:47 -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.

The launch of the new Spider-Man title takes the top spot, pulling Amazing Spider-Man up with it, ahead of the Walking Dead. And the prequel stench doesn't rub off on Obi-Wan and Anakin…

1. Spider-Man #1
2. Amazing Spider-Man #7
3. Walking Dead #151
4. Obi-Wan and Anakin #2
5. Invincible Iron Man #6
6. Doctor Strange #5
7. Batman Europa #4
8. Uncanny Avengers #5
9. Uncanny X-Men #3
10. Detective Comics #49

Thanks to the following retailers

Dr. No's Comics & Games Superstore of Marietta, Georgia
Fat Jack's Comicrypt of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa
Jetpack Comics of Rochester, New York
Graham Crackers Comics – 10 locations in Illinois/Wisconsin
Yesteryear Comics of San Diego, California

Who had this to say,

Things are changing. Customers that usually make it in with in the first few days of the new comics no longer can due to things like their jobs and school. Good week though. Walking Dead is still strong. Uncanny Avengers 5 blew out the door. Iron Man 6 sold but not nearly as much as I had hoped. Christmas might be over but Klaus still sells well. Batman Europa took the top spot with Detective Comics selling out. The kicker with Detective? More people bought the Neal Adams Detective Comics variant cover because Harley Quinn was on the cover than because of who drew it.

Wonder Woman and Deadpool back issues are hot! Deadpool's movie comes out this month. It will be interesting if the movie will live up to the hype.

Aside from Walking Dead taking the top spot, Marvel pretty much dominated the Top Ten for us. Miles' Marvel universe debut seemed to get a nice bump from coming out the same week as a new issue of Amazing Spider-Man. Paper Girls' fifth issue also had a pretty strong showing as well.
But poor DC…..Batman Europa was the only book from them to crack our Top Ten, and it came in LAST PLACE. Rebirth indeed….

Thanks to the Con Man web series, there's been a lot of interest in the upcoming SPECTRUM comic. Descender across the board has been selling like mad. Deadpool variants have picked up with the upcoming movie release. This may be the first time there's been across the board interest in a Marvel variant line.

Don't know if it's the Turtles board game Kickstarter that's started an interest in TMNT back issues, but there's been an increase in demand for those as well.

Another great week for books.Spider-Man over performed which caught me off guard.I expected it to have Ultimate type #'s but it has almost completely sold out with only Skottie Young variants left to sell.The rest of the books sold in steady #'s with only Detective selling out.

Ton of New 52 books flew out of here on the back issue front.Red lanterns,Wonder Woman,Supergirl and even Superboy.

DC takes 9th and 10th place with Batman: Europa #4 (the final issue of a way-out-of-continuity miniseries almost ten years in the making) and Swamp Thing #2 (a comic that harkens back to classic continuity). One Image title in our top ten, one Boom title, and six Marvels complete our weekly Top Ten.

Strong sales of Silver Age Marvel titles this week, as well as out-of-print Masterworks, Archives, Showcase, and Essentials.

Marvel absolutely killed it this week, landing all top 5 spots across our 10 locations. Only the word BATMAN helped get any DC books on the top 10 list, sadly.
Paper Girls did a nice job in almost beating Walking Dead in our chain, two of Image's biggest books hitting the same week!

pre New 52 DC comics are just clogging up our back issue boxes, with the exception of Batman comics which are evidently eternal and always in demand.