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Bleeding Cool Bestseller List – 3rd June 2018 – Doomsday Beats Steel, but Only Just(ice)

Published Sun, 03 Jun 2018 13:00:11 -0500

Last updated Sun, 03 Jun 2018 13:01:23 -0500

This is the Top 10 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.

Doomsday Clock just beat Man of Steel, which just beat Amazing Spider-Man, which just beat No Justice #4. But it was close…

Top Ten Bestselling Comic Books Of The Week.

Doomsday Clock #5
Man of Steel #1
Amazing Spider-Man #800
Justice League No Justice #4
Batman Prelude to the Wedding Robin vs Rha's Al Ghul
Saga #52
X-Men Red Annual #1
Marvel Two-In-One #6
Aquaman/Jabber Jaw #1
Barrier #5

Thanks to the following retailers…

Dr. No's Comics & Games Superstore of Marietta, Georgia
Fat Jack's Comicrypt of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Comix Experience, San Francisco, California
Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa
Ssalefish Comics Winston-Salem – North Carolina
Collector's Paradise, Canoga Park, California
Big Planet Comics – 4 stores in the Washington DC area
Graham Crackers Comics – 11 locations in Illinois/Wisconsin

…who had this to say:

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Amazing Spider-Man did well. Not as well as Action #1000 but it still secured the top spot this week. 2-4 were all almost tied with really squeaky margins. Marvel Two-in-One is just about the best book on the shelf right now and the numbers jibe. I also found that we had a lot of subs go in this week for Fantastic Four as soon as people saw them on the cover of Marvel Previews. The Hannah Barbera crossovers performed very very okay except for Aquaman and JabberJaw, the clear winner of the pack.

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Some big releases this week so it was a close race for top bestseller, but SAGA #52 beat out DOOMSDAY CLOCK #5 by a hair. Following those two was the finale of Brian K. Vaughan's other comic, BARRIER #5, which pushed Bendis' new take on Superman, MAN OF STEEL, down to fourth. Rounding out the top 5 was the last issue of JUSTICE LEAGUE: NO JUSTICE. One other finale made our top 10 this week, ABBOTT #5–Saladin Ahmed and Sami Kivela's excellent supernatural mystery series about a hardboiled investigative reporter in 1970's Detroit. Somewhat surprisingly, neither the release of Solo nor Donald Glover's face on the cover were enough to push LANDO #1 into our top 10.

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Amazing Spider-Man #800 was no Action Comics 1000. Hopefully the issue will be returnable. People are not happy with $9.99 comics. Doomsday Clock took the top spot. Aquaman Jabberjaw Special 1 made a surprised entry into the top ten. For a 5th week Wednesday month not a bad week.

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Even with all its variant covers and multiple-copy sales, Amazing Spider-Man couldn't overcome the Doomsday Clock juggernaut. Super Sons remains so popular that their Dynomutt Hanna-Barbera crossover one shot took fifth place in our store, beating out every Marvel except for Amazing Spider-Man. Marvel placed two more books in the 6-10 slots, though, giving them three of our top ten to DC's six and Image's one. What IS noteworthy is how many total books were sold today: when you release so many top-quality books on the same day, fans come in to pick 'em up!

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Great week for reading quality! Doomsday Clock killed it as we've all been waiting too long for the next issue, and it certainly delivered. Biggest problem with DC (Doomsday Clock) is that it's such a slow paced book that this shipping schedule really hurts the story. Will be interesting to read as a collected book but still way too captivating to simply wait for that to happen.

Man of Steel also delivered with quality artwork and a non-cringe worthy story. Heard no complaints.

Justice League No Justice could have done even better had I gambled more money on copies – sorry, can't do that on non-returnable weekly books. Our customers if non-club members and not Wednesday Warriors got the short end of the stick. Was sold out by Saturday.

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