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Batman Damned #2 Continues to Top Advance Reorders – Will it Outsell #1?

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market. Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale. Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire! And courtesy of stats from Diamond Comic Distributors.

Batman Damned #2 Continues to Top Advance Reorders – Will it Outsell #1?

For the second week in a row, Batman Damned #2 has topped the Advance Reorder charts. Last week I pointed out that there has been a dilemma from retailers in the wake of Batman Damned #1 selling out and DC Comics taking the decision not to reprint it, against the wishes of the creative and editorial teams.

This is giving some retailers pause as to how to reorder it. Clearly there is demand, and they should at least order as many as they did of #1. But should they order more, given that their customer base who didn't get a copy of book one, may not want to get book two.

At MCM London Comic Con, I talked to a major retailer who told me they are upping their orders massively. They believes that readers have been reading the comic digitally, legally or not and. And there is a strong demand to buy the second volume.

And so it seems this week as well. While the Black Eyed Pead graphic novel is getting a lot of post-publication reorders as well. Lots of retailers caught napping on that one…

TOP 25 ADVANCE REORDER COMICS/GRAPHIC NOVELS/TPS (RETAIL)

Publication Price Publisher
BATMAN DAMNED #2 (OF 3) VAR ED (MR) $6.99 DC COMICS
DIE DIE DIE #5 (MR) $3.99 IMAGE COMICS
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #10 JSC BLACK CAT VAR $3.99 MARVEL COMICS
BATGIRL #29 VAR ED $3.99 DC COMICS
DAREDEVIL #612 $4.99 MARVEL COMICS
DAREDEVIL #612 TEASER VAR $4.99 MARVEL COMICS
HEROES IN CRISIS #3 (OF 9) $3.99 DC COMICS
VENOM #9 $3.99 MARVEL COMICS
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #10 $3.99 MARVEL COMICS
UNCANNY X-MEN #4 $3.99 MARVEL COMICS
DOOMSDAY CLOCK #8 (OF 12) VAR ED $4.99 DC COMICS
DEAD MAN LOGAN #1 (OF 12) $4.99 MARVEL COMICS
DC POSTER PORTFOLIO STANLEY ARTGERM LAU TP $24.99 DC COMICS
BATMAN DAMNED #2 (OF 3) (MR) $6.99 DC COMICS
FANTASTIC FOUR #4 $3.99 MARVEL COMICS
IRONHEART #1 RAMOS VAR $4.99 MARVEL COMICS
DAREDEVIL #612 TV VAR $4.99 MARVEL COMICS
MAN-EATERS #3 CVR B MITERNIQUE $3.99 IMAGE COMICS
DAREDEVIL #612 HOTZ VAR $4.99 MARVEL COMICS
DEFENDERS IMMORTAL HULK #1 $4.99 MARVEL COMICS
MARVEL ACTION SPIDER-MAN #1 $3.99 IDW PUBLISHING
PAPER GIRLS TP VOL 05 $14.99 IMAGE COMICS
X-MEN EXTERMINATED #1 $4.99 MARVEL COMICS
HEROES IN CRISIS #3 (OF 9) VAR ED $3.99 DC COMICS
IRONHEART #1 $4.99 MARVEL COMICS

TOP 25 REORDER COMICS/GRAPHIC NOVELS/TPS

Publication Price Publisher
BLACK EYED PEAS PRESENTS MASTERS SUN ZOMBIES CHRONICLES TP $24.99 MARVEL COMICS
AMERICAN VAMPIRE OMNIBUS HC VOL 01 (MR) $99.99 DC COMICS
BATMAN WHITE KNIGHT TP $19.99 DC COMICS
FINAL CRISIS 10TH ANNIVERSARY OMNIBUS HC $150.00 DC COMICS
DEATHSTROKE BY TONY DANIEL OMNIBUS HC $75.00 DC COMICS
CABLE SOLDIER X HC $75.00 MARVEL COMICS
X-MEN ADAMANTIUM COLLECTION HC $200.00 MARVEL COMICS
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN BY MICHELINIE & MCFARLANE OMNIBUS HC $100.00 MARVEL COMICS
SAGA TP VOL 09 (MR) $14.99 IMAGE COMICS
HUNT FOR WOLVERINE HC $50.00 MARVEL COMICS
BPRD HELL ON EARTH HC VOL 03 (C: 0-1-2) $34.99 DARK HORSE COMICS
WITCHER LIBRARY EDITION HC (C: 0-1-2) $49.99 DARK HORSE COMICS
DARK NIGHTS METAL DELUXE ED HC $29.99 DC COMICS
FANTASTIC FOUR BEHOLD GALACTUS HC $50.00 MARVEL COMICS
MMW AVENGERS HC VOL 01 NEW PTG $49.99 MARVEL COMICS
BATMAN TP VOL 07 THE WEDDING REBIRTH $16.99 DC COMICS
STAR WARS DARTH VADER DARK LORD SITH HC VOL 01 $34.99 MARVEL COMICS
INFINITY GAUNTLET TP $24.99 MARVEL COMICS
DEAD KINGS #1 CVR A DOW SMITH $3.99 AFTERSHOCK COMICS
MONSTRESS TP VOL 03 (MR) $16.99 IMAGE COMICS
BATGIRL #28 VAR ED $3.99 DC COMICS
SPIDER-VERSE TP $50.00 MARVEL COMICS
MMW FANTASTIC FOUR HC VOL 01 NEW PTG $49.99 MARVEL COMICS
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #8 $3.99 MARVEL COMICS
MMW X-MEN HC VOL 01 NEW PTG $49.99 MARVEL COMICS

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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