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Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, 17th February 2019 – The Batman Who LULz

Published Sun, 17 Feb 2019 09:30:58 -0600

Last updated Sun, 17 Feb 2019 09:40:05 -0600

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 till the weekend to get this week's comics. We salute you, and the keenness you bring to your passion.

Batman Who Laughs dominates almost every store, with Detective Comics and Flash doing pretty well too, an island away from the other titles. No Age Of X-Man makes it…

Top five comics of the week

Batman Who Laughs #3
Detective Comics #998
Flash #64
Superman #8
Amazing Spider-Man #15
Avengers No Road Home #1
Savage Sword of Conan #1
Thor #10
Wonder Twins #1
Criminal #2

Thanks to the following retailers:

Graham Crackers Comics – now 12 locations throughout the United States
Ssalefish Comics, Winston-Salem & Greensboro, North Carolina.
Rodman Comics, Ankeny, Iowa.
Comix Experience Outpost, San Francisco, California.
Comix Experience, San Francisco, California.
Dr. No's Comics & Games Superstore of Marietta, Georgia
Fat Jack's Comicrypt, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Collector's Paradise Valley, California.

Who had this to say:

Great Week of books from all publishers – heats really on for Detective Comics #1000 coming up, Customers pleased with Savage Sword, even Avengers No Road Home did better than we thought it would…

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Batman Who LULz just barely managed to beat out Detective Comics this week for the number one spot, though there's been a lot of people putting the title back. Maybe the edgy appeal is finally wearing thin? Regardless, there weren't too many other huge titles this week, so Superman and Flash fell in-step right behind the two Bat-Books, with Savage Sword of Conan off to a good start as well. Avengers: No Road Home has piqued some interest, but there's an equal amount of confusion surrounding it, with a lot of folks wondering how it relates to the main Avengers title and if they need to read both (And I can't blame them, considering next week hits us with a new main Avengers title AND #2 of No Road Home). Wonder Twins #1 seemed to raise a few brows, but didn't really perform quite as well as one would hope, and was nothing compared to the other recent DC #1s, but who knows? People may still hop on board down the line. The only REAL surprise this week was that Captain Marvel #2 was outsold by Age of X-Man Nextgen – Whether that's due to a loyal X-Men following or a general disinterest in Captain Marvel is a mystery. Either way- Doesn't bode well for the upcoming movie.

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BATMAN WHO LAUGHS remains a big hit, dominating our sales with week with its 3rd issue. Trailing just behind that is mainline Bat-title DETECTIVE COMICS, now a scant two issues away from its milestone #1000.

The rest of the list sees a fairly even mix of Marvel and DC titles, with reliable stalwarts such as SUPERMAN, THOR, FLASH, and CAPTAIN MARVEL making appearances. Holding down the bottom of the top 10 is Mark Millar and Olivier Coipel's MAGIC ORDER.

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The second issue of the new Criminal arc took the cake this week! Great to see these creators still getting the love they deserve. Other notables that charted this week include Magic Order 6, Blackbird 5, and William Gibson's Alien 3 #4. Also, the new series Ironheart continues to chart week after week! Great to see that as well.

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Not sure how helpful this list will be for this week. We did not get most of our comics until Thursday afternoon. Wednesday was the worse Wednesday sales wise that I can remember. No new comics will do that. UPS blamed Diamond as Diamond blamed UPS again. It does look like the box was sent a day later by Diamond than usual and then UPS sent it to the wrong state and then to another wrong state. No refund on the shipping either. That said only two Marvel titles made our top ten, Amazing Spider-Man and the new Star Wars Count Dooku. Hopefully next week we do have comics on Wednesday after two weeks of not getting them on time. If it keeps up more people will get out of the habit of stopping in on new comic Wednesday. With us being the only comic store not getting new comics on time we lost out on sales.

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Not only was it a five-five split between Marvel and DC, but it was an alternating pattern, with DC taking 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th place and Marvel taking 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th, and 10th place. The difference was often one or two copies between each position on the charts.

Notable sales:

Detective Comics #575 NM $20 Batman Year Two Part One
Thanos Quest Full Set #1 NM $35 Thanos backstory
Batman #92 F $1,184 The first Ace the Bat-Hound sold in less than 24 hours after we acquired it, with a second customer coming in a half-day too late hoping to buy the book that had already been purchased.

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