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Bleeding Cool Bestseller List – 9th August 2015 – Renew Your Vows To Lady Mechanika

This is the Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, as compiled by a number of comic stores from their sales on Wednesday and Thursday. It measures what are known as the "Wednesday Warriors", those who can't wait to the weekend to get this week's comics. We salute you, and the keenness you bring to your passion.

Marvel have managed to do the unthinkable. Turned a series of "What If" comics into the bestsellers in the industry. And taken "What If Civil War Had Continued And Cap Hadn't Died?" to the top of the charts. And continued support for a return of the Peter Parker/Mary Jane marriage with the success of Renew Your Vows. Dark Vader also continues dominance, but the performance of We Stand On Guard is stellar, Outcast is rising up the charts and wgere the hell did Lady Mechanika come from?

• 1. Civil War #2
• 2. Darth Vader #8
• 3. Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows #3
• 4. We Stand On Guard #2
• 5. Age Of Apocalypse #2
• 6. Ultimate End #4
• 7. Infinity Gauntlet #3
• 8. Outcast #11
• 9. Green Lantern #43
• 10. Lady Mechanika: Tablet of Destinies #4

Thanks to the following retailers,

• Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa
• Jetpack Comics of Rochester, New York
• Comickaze Comics Books and More, California
• Yesteryear Comics of San Diego, California
• Jesse James Comics of Glendale, Arizona
• Dr. No's Comics & Games Superstore of Marietta, Georgia
• Fat Jack's Comicrypt of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Who had to say this,

Much better week than expected for Wed sales. Darth Vader #8 was the clear winner and the Secret War titles did decent as well. The only Image titles that made the list were from established creators and the only DC book that did well was Detective. The rest were just picked at like an appetizer.

Deadpool obviously was in demand for back-issues, but so were Star Wars from both Marvel and Dark Horse. I figure people are getting them know while they can.

Good week for sales. Darth Vader easily was the top book. And it was a good book. The Secret War spins of titles are seeing a drop but still selling well. All the demand for variant covers for the various spin of Secret Wars titles has died here. Only surprise in the top ten is Batman Beyond. It is doing a lot better than it's previous run did.

The original Civil War limited series is in demand.

This week saw Civil War Destroy everybody.  ASM takes second and Darth Vader drops big time to #3.  Indies Lady Mechanika, Mad Max, Outcast, This Damned Band and We stand Guard take 5 spots.  Infinity Gauntlet and Spider Island finish up the top ten.   HOWEVER the #1 selling book this week was the fills on Rick and Morty and Invader Zims #1 would have taking #1 and #2 two spots.  We saw a blank week from DC Comics as everybody seems to be going to trades or dropping the publisher all together.  Social Media has taken its toll on this publisher and only they can bring their sales back.  Paper Girls #1 have Exceeded 700+ pre orders take notes Dc.

With little competition from DC this week, it was easy for Marvel and Image to make it to the top spots on our list. In fact, we didn't have a single DC title crack the top ten! Marvel's bigger name Secret Wars titles are doing awesome, even with the delays of the main series. And it's always great to see titles from Millar, Vaughn, and Kirkman in our top tens!

Was this a DC skip week? Okay, we know it wasn't, but you couldn't tell it by DC's dismal sales. Only one DC book in the Top Ten, and it was a licensed Mad Max comic–no DC superhero titles even made our Top Fifteen, in fact. How low can they go?… or more specifically, how long will Warner tolerate this sort of sub-par performance before they make some changes to remind people that DC still publishes a full line of superhero comics?

Silver Age Green Lantern and Flash did well this week, as did Dark Horse Star Wars.

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