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Transformers Outsells Batman In Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List
Transformers Outsells Both Batman (Just) And Amazing Spider-Man In Bleeding Cool's Weekly Bestseller List For The First Time
Article Summary
- Transformers #8 tops Bleeding Cool's Weekly Bestseller List, edging out Batman #147.
- Batman still earns more revenue with a higher price point despite lower sales ratio.
- Image Comics makes a strong showing with Ain't No Grave #1 debuting at number seven.
- Sales data sourced from over a hundred direct market comic stores via ComicHub.
Welcome to the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List, which, for the first time, has seen Transformers beat Batman for the week, as well as Amazing Spider-Man. Only by a percentage point, but still. Though, as Batman and Amazing Spider-Man are five-dollar books and Transformers only (only?) four, Batman will have made considerably more money. Which is handy, as it's the only DC comic in the top ten. Blood Hunt seems to be lifting the ongoing series. X-Men Forever and Wolverine head to their conclusions, and Skottie Young and Jorge Carona make it in with the launch of Ain't No Grave #1 from Image Comics at number seven.
No. | Title | Publisher | Writer | Artist | Price | Ratio |
1. | Transformers #8 | Image | Daniel Warren Johnson | Jorge Corona, Mike Spicer | 3.99 | 100 |
2 | Batman #147 | DC | Chip Zdarsky | Jorge Jiménez | 4.99 | 98.8 |
3 | Amazing Spider-Man #49 | Marvel | Zeb Wells | Ed McGuinness | 4.99 | 92.5 |
4 | Wolverine #49 | Marvel | Ben Percy | Geoff Shaw | 4.99 | 74.8 |
5 | Avengers #14 | Marvel | Jed Mackay | C. F. Villa | 3.99 | 64.3 |
6 | X-Men Forever #3 | Marvel | Kieron Gillen | Luca Maresca | 3.99 | 62.6 |
7 | Ain't No Grave #1 | Image | Skottie Young | Jorge Corona | 5.99 | 55.7 |
8 | Venom #33 | Marvel | Al Ewing | Juan Ferreyra | 3.99 | 55.2 |
9 | Doctor Strange #15 | Marvel | Jed Mackay | Pasqual Ferry | 3.99 | 55.1 |
10 | Daredevil #9 | Marvel | Saladin Ahmed | Juann Cabal | 4.99 | 52.4 |
This is the Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, as compiled by over a hundred direct market comic stores from their sales from Tuesday to Friday, what used to be known as the "Wednesday Warriors" are those who can't wait till the weekend to get their week's comics. Though thanks to DC, Tuesday Titans, too. The chart is compiled from actual sales data from up to 150 comic book stores provided by ComicHub, which provides POS services for comic book retailers worldwide – mostly North America and the UK. These are typically from what might be called mid-range stores, and we run a bunch of them below. Bleeding Cool Bestseller List gives the best-selling reported comic of the week the 100.0 number, and you can see how each title performed as a percentage of that sale. These numbers are based on sales in-store, not orders. Participating Bestseller List comic book stores
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