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Prints Charming: Deep State Does The Double
Consider this an irregular feature looking at comic books that have gone to second prints or more. Now, it is worth remembering that some publishers plan second prints automatically, whether they are needed or not and will often just run extra first print copies in the initial run, set them aside and put a second print cover on them. It can be a marketing strategy, showing that there is confidence in the performance of the book, get a headline or three and use it to persuade retailers to up their orders of subsequent books. And comics news reporting sites become implicit in that market distortion every time we run them as a story.
But hey ho, away we go. In for a penny…
And Justin Jordan and Ariela Kristantina's Boom! book goes from strength to strength with the first issue of Deep State going to a third printing…
While it's second issue goes to a second printing. And, yes, it's possible that it's sale to Twentieth Century Fox as a potential TV series may have a little something to do with that…
Moorcock Elric Vol 1 Ruby Throne goes to a second print. And Absolute Sandman Vol 4 HC goes to a second print too. Big books doing big business…