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A Year Is A Long Time Between Marvel And DC – Comparing The Bleeding Cool Bestseller List From A Year Ago

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This is how the Bleeding Cool Bestseller List was looking this time last year.

  1. Spider-Man/Deadpool #1
  2. Star Wars #14
  3. Uncanny X-Men #1
  4. Doctor Strange #4
  5. Darth Vader #15
  6. Amazing Spider-Man #6
  7. Invincible Iron Man #5
  8. A-Force #1
  9. Invader Zim #6
  10. Deadpool #3

Thanks to these retailers,

This is how it is looking this week.

  1. Batman #14
  2. Justice League #12
  3. Justice League Vs Suicide Squad #3
  4. Walking Dead #162
  5. Superman #14
  6. Nightwing #12
  7. Harley Quinn #11
  8. USAvengers #1
  9. Green Lanterns #14
  10. Deadpool The Duck #1

Thanks to the following retailers

Note that the participating retailers are almost the same. But the spread of comics being covered is vastly different. It wasn't a fifth week, there weren't any unusual circumstances but DC Comics didn't place any titles in our top ten. This week, they had eight. And Marvel, which had had nine, had two.

It has been argued by some that the retailers here are some kind of Marvel-hating statistical anomaly. Well, participation is open to all, any retailer who would like to join the throng should contact me here. But I hope this at least puts lie to that claim.

Also, man Invader Zim did well that week.


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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