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Three DC Comics Sold Over A Quarter Of A Million Each In 2011

Published Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:34:48 -0600

Last updated Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:56:42 -0600

At one point in 2011, DC Comics was lagging Marvel's marketshare by 18 points. Then the DC Relaunch was announced. And even in the months before September, DC's share was rising. They took both dollar and product marketshare in their relaunch month, and in October, buoyed by second prints, went on to grab over half.

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool revealed that Marvel had managed to grab back market dominance in December, but it was too late according to The Hollywood Reporter for the year as a whole, in which DC dominated.

The website reports that Justice League #1 took first place with five prints and a total sale amount of 361,138 copies.

That Batman #1 came second with two printings combining to sell 262,379 copies.

And that Action Comics #1 sold 250,898 copies, through three printings.

DC Comics provided these figures to THR, accurate of December 13th. So there still may be some back issue numbers to add. THR also compares these figures to Marvel's best-selling 2011 comic, naming Ultimate Spider-Man #160, with 159,355 copies sold.

And while THR states that these only represent sales to comic shops, not readers, it doesn't mention that the Ultimate Spider-Man figure is taken from the ICV2 estimates, which don't include sales outside of North America, and also don't include the second print of the comic.

But even then, I can't see that making much of a difference to the final rankings. Look forward to Diamond Comic Distributors' full rankings any day now.

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