Recently, Bleeding Cool did some number crunching on the content that DC Comics was putting into print in 2021. Bleeding Cool had reported swathes of DC
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Welcome to back to Jack of All Trades, the comics column that has no truck with invertebrates (yes, everything I cover has to have a spine). This week, I
I've spend the afternoon numbercrunching this… but the results also justifying the plus 200,000 and plus 100,000 figures given to books by DC Comics when you consider that Britain adds around 15% onto sales reported by Diamond, and last month, Fear Itself #5 was listed by Diamond at around 90,000 without Suddenly it all fits[...]
On with the numbercrunching New stats in bold, old stats below.
June: 67 books – 64 titles at $2.99 (20 pages of story),2 titles at $3.99 (30 pages of story), 1 at $5.99 (70 pages of story)
Complete cost: $205.33 for 1410 pages of story content ($14.6 cents a page)
December: 56 books – 33 titles[...]
Cost: 3.99. Cost per comics page: 5 1/2 pence. Old comic book pages: 59 - Twenty-four pages of Superior #1, twelve pages of American Jesus, twelve pages