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Numbercrunching DC May 2011 Solicitations

Your regular statistical look at the DC Universe and DC character books for May 2011, not including the Warner Bros,  Vertigo, creator-owned or licensed titles.

The lack of higher priced but mega sized new books in May has hit DC's price-per-page ratio overall knocking it up a full cent to 14.9 cents a page. The Green Movie Prequel books also stay at the standard page and price point, when conventional wisdom may have been that those are the books you knock up in price and scalp any new readers for that month only. That it's not, is a pleasant surprise.

Either way, one consequence of the $2.99/page reduction is that it's costing continuity collectors less to collect their favourite characters – even if they may be getting less pages to read overall. Being a Batman fan costs you $63.79 a month, which is down on last year. Course it also helps that a few books were cancelled too…

But asolicitation for Batman Inc #7? Seriously? Seriously??

Okay. On with the numbercrunching. Old stats at the top, new stats in bold at the bottom.

December: 56 books – 33 titles at $2.99 (22 pages of story), 12 titles at $3.99 (30 pages of story) 8 titles at $3.99 (22 pages of story) 2 titles at $3.99 (44 pages of story), 1 title at $5.99 (80 pages of story)

Complete cost: $192.44 for 1430 pages of story (13.5 cents a page)

January: 56 books – 52 titles at 2.99 (20 pages of story), 4 titles at 3.99 (30 pages of story)

Complete cost: $171.44 for 1160 pages of story content. (14.8 cents a page)

February: 62 books – 58 titles at 2.99 (20 pages of story), 3 titles at 3.99 (30 pages of story), 1 title at $5.99 (70 pages of story)

Complete cost: $191.38 for 1320 pages of story content. (14.5 cents a page)

March: 56 books – 51 titles at $2.99 (20 pages of story), 3 titles at $3.99 (30 pages of story), 2 titles at $4.99 (40 pages of story)

Complete cost: $174.44 for 1190 pages of story content. (14.65 cents a page)

April: 58 books – 47 titles at $2.99 (20 pages of story), 4 titles at $3.99 (30 pages of story), 2 titles at $4.99 (36 pages of story), 2 titles at $4.99 (44 pages of story), 1 title at $5.99 (84 pages of story), 1 title at $5.99 (68 pages of story)

Complete cost: $190.43 for 1372 pages of story content ($13.9 cents a page)

May: 58 books – 56 titles at $2.99 (20 pages of story),2 titles at $3.99 (30 pages of story),

Complete cost: $175.42 for 1180 pages of story content ($14.9 cents a page)

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