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Bleeding Cool Bestseller List. 2nd June 2019 – 'DC Had Other Ideas For Closing Out This May'

Published Sun, 02 Jun 2019 12:30:35 -0500

Last updated Tue, 04 Jun 2019 21:47:54 -0500

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. So, this week's list…

The list is dominated by three titles which all could have been number one, Batman: Last Knight on Earth, Doomsday Clock and Heroes In Crisis, all three way ahead of the others, with Detective Comics Annual and Amazing Spider-Man circling each other with Thor, Hulk, FF and Leviathan Rising forming a third tier of books. Catwoman sneaked in…

Top ten bestselling comics.

Batman Last Knight on Earth #1
Doomsday Clock #10
Heroes in Crisis #9
Detective Comics Annual #2
Amazing Spider-Man #22
Superman: Leviathan Rising #1
Immortal Hulk #16
Fantastic Four #10
Thor #13
Catwoman Annual #1

Thanks to the following retailers

Rodman Comics, Ankeny, Iowa.
Comix Experience San Francisco, California.
Comix Experience Outpost San Francisco, California.
Ssalefish Comics, Winston-Salem & Greensboro, North Carolina.
Fat Jack's Comicrypt, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Graham Crackers Comics – a DOZEN shops Illinois/Wisconsin/California

Who had this to say:

Lots of great titles from DC out this week!

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A monster of a week for DC – taking the top spots for the TOP 3 by a LOT – in fairness MARVEL had 5 books on the top 10 and DC had 5 as well – it's just that DC released the big guns all on the same week (wish someone would pay attention to this and spread the stuff out over different weeks).

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Doomsday Clock, Heroes in Crisis, and Batman Last Knight on Earth all came out this week, and as a result, so too did every comic-reader in the area. We saw the same sort of influx of non-regular customers that previously came out for Batman Damned looking for the new DC Black Label title, complete with the phones ringing off the hook asking if we had it. What makes Batman Last Knight on Earth different though is that it lacks anything so scandalous as Batman Damned's infamous Batawang, and due to this, is neither sold out nor selling for ludicrous amounts online.

Marvel managed to rival DC with a 5-5 split despite the huge releases, though it's worth mentioning that Immortal Hulk, a previous bestseller mainstay for us, barely weaseled its way into our top 10. Sales for the book are way down- Looks like the speculators have finally jumped ship.

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Last week of the month *tends* to be a smaller release week. DC had other ideas for closing out this May however, bringing many of its proverbial big guns to bear on reader's wallets. Our best seller by far was the first issue of superstar Bat-team Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's BATMAN LAST KNIGHT ON EARTH, yet another prestige Bat-miniseries under DC's Black Label imprint.

This week also saw the final issue of DC's event book HEROES IN CRISIS as well as the long awaited tenth issue of DCU/Watchmen crossover DOOMSDAY CLOCK. With only two issues to go, we might actually see the final issue before Christmas!

The first Marvel book on the list, and the only one that moved numbers on the scale of DC's heavy-hitter onslaught is the always excellent IMMORTAL HULK. If it wasn't for a new issue of their best ongoing series, Marvel would've been soundly trounced on sales for us this week.

The rest of the list is the usual lineup of reliable titles like AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, DETECTIVE COMICS, and CATWOMAN. SUPERMAN LEVIATHAN RISING, the one-shot prologue book for EVENT LEVIATHAN sold better than we expected, could probably have upped orders on that one.

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