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Bleeding Cool's Top 100 Estimated Sales Figures For October 2015 – Did 16 Comics Sell Over 100K?

We're trying something different here. A number of sites like ICV2 and ComicChron create sales estimates based on matching Diamond's comparative statistics to actual statistics supplied by publishers. And they do a great job.

But there is a consistent complaint from publishers that by relying on figures from lower selling books and extrapolating upwards, greater errors creep in. And that the stats never take into account UK sales as well.

So we're playing a dangerous game. Using reliable stats from publishers higher up the food chain. But then trying to compensate for the UK sales that aren't included, for everyone.

I can tell you that as a result these numbers will be wrong. But maybe they have a chance of being less wrong. And I can promise you that some of them, at least, are very right indeed.

It's also worth noting that Marvel did report 350,000 orders for Invincible Iron Man #1, though some of those may have conceivably occurred outside of these October direct market statistics.

Certainly if these figures are accurate, the industry is doing a little better right now than may be reported elsewhere….

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