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“Batman” Only Title over 100K in March, “Superior Spider-Man” Tops Marvel’s Sales – Comic Book Resources

“Batman” Only Title over 100K in March, “Superior Spider-Man” Tops Marvel’s Sales – Comic Book Resources

Batman Only Title over 100K in March, Superior Spider-Man Tops Marvel’s Sales – Snyder and Capullo’s Batman remained the #1 comic in March, the only title to top 100K, while Superior Spider-Man remained Marvel’s best seller.

Two quick thoughts, related to Marvel’s titles:

#1: The top-three selling issues for Marvel in March were all written by Dan Slott, including Silver Surfer’s first issue. Even two years ago, who could’ve imagined a world where Dan Slott was Marvel’s biggest writer?

#2: Miracleman is estimated at 23K sales with #4. Traditionally, anything under 20K is in the danger zone for Marvel. Obviously, this is going to earn its money back in collected editions, but still – if sales continue to drop for the title, how long can Marvel keep it going as a single issue series?

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The venerable Spidey616 asks, “The most recent solicits have readers worried that [Matt] Fraction’s ‘Hawkeye’ is coming to an end. Please say it ain’t so, or if it is we’ll be getting a relaunch?”

Alonso: Too soon to comment on the rumors, Spidey616. But I will say that I’m very excited about the future of Hawkguy.

So, obviously the current Hawkeye series is coming to an end based on that non-answer from Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso. The only question is whether it’ll be relaunched with Fraction attached or not. I mean, surely yes, and yet…
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Marvel has informed CBR exclusively that April’s “Amazing Spider-Man” #1 has passed 500,000 copies in initial retailer orders. An exact number was not made available, and may change following next week’s order cutoff.

That number would place it, based on Diamond estimates, as the highest initially ordered individual issue in the last decade. January 2009’s “Amazing Spider-Man” #583, which featured a guest appearance from freshly elected President Barack Obama, totaled for more than 500,000 copies, but that number includes combined initial orders and reorders the subsequent month. By comparison, February 2014’s reported top-selling comic of the month – DC Comics’ “Batman” #28 – had estimated sales of 114,089 copies.

Well, hell. Guess all Sony’s advertising dollars for the new film have had a nice side effect for Marvel, if nothing else.