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Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, 7th July 2019 – The Walking Dead Tops The Charts For The Very Last Time

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. And yes Walking Dead closely followed by DCeased, again justifying Marvel's decision to bring back their Zombies. Immortal Hulk is tight behind Justice League and two reprint titles make it into the top ten, Walmart Superman and Walking Dead #192…

In The Walking Dead #193, Michonne Reads Off The Back Of The Collections (Spoilers)

Top ten bestselling comics of the week

  1. Walking Dead #193
  2. DCeased #3
  3. Justice League #27
  4. Immortal Hulk #20
  5. Green Lantern #9
  6. Uncanny X-Men #21
  7. Lois Lane #1
  8. Savage Avengers #3
  9. Superman Up In The Sky #1
  10. The Walking Dead #192

Thanks to the following retailers:

Rodman Comics, Ankeny, Iowa.
Graham Crackers Comics– 12 locations IL/WI/CA
Famous Faces & Funnies of West Melbourne, Florida.
Ssalefish Comics, Winston-Salem & Greensboro, North Carolina.
Comix Experience San Francisco, California.
Comix Experience Outpost, San Francisco, California.
Fat Jack's Comicrypt, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Collector's Paradise Pasadena, California.

And we're always looking for more retailers who might like to join the crew…

Who had this to say:

To the surprise of nobody (except the readers and retailers and every other weekend collector out there) Walking Dead reigns supreme this week sitting at the very top of the FFF Weekly Top Ten. We finally sold out of our last copy on Saturday. The Commemorative edition of #192 as well as the first print and the second print of #191 all also made the Top Ten. DCeased actually managed to squeak into the #2 spot with each of the three covers selling pretty close equal. I was a little unsure on the cardstock covers especially with them being a dollar more. I'm still a little wary as to how the rest will do but a good cover will sell regardless of cover price. Lois Lane is starting strong, hitting #7. Greg Rucka is one of those writers with a strong following so I don't see the numbers on the book to drop too drastically. It's a shame they stealth changed the cardstock cover for Harley Quinn this week. I think that the original could've sold. The new cover proved itself unpopular. With Walking Dead out of the way, what book will take its place? Will there ever be a worthy successor? I guess we'll see when Saga comes back.

Not sure if Kirkman is a genius or not with the surprise ending of Walking Dead. People who never bought a copy of Walking Dead before wanted the last issue. We sold out on Wednesday even with our order upped for the issue. So long Image sales.

Walking Dead makes it back to the #1 SPOT – for the LAST TIME. Even the Walking Dead reprint made the charts. For all the speculators that came in that wanted to turn $3 bucks into $15 bucks, I'm glad I got to remind them that all of the stores subscribers were taken care of, and they could have been too if they genuinely wanted to read comics and not just flip them. There's easier ways to make $12 bucks guys.

Sorry to see the series go, but I can respect Kirkman for the decision he made. Suppose there's always a chance of Neegan series or some other spin off by someone Kirkman trusts if he's not feeling it..

Had we known ahead of time that #193 was going to be the last issue of Walking Dead, we would have ordered more. Instead, we sold out of #193 within the first 3 hours that we were open on Wednesday, and the book far surpassed any other in terms of sales. We had the foresight to order a little more than usual, given the events of #192, but what we weren't expecting was the droves of non-readers that came out because they read about it in the newspaper, or the speculators that drove up the value of the book within the first hour it was on sale. Speculation tends to bring out the worst in people, and there were more than a few customers on Wednesday that weren't too kind when they found out that we were sold out, with some accusing us of "hoarding" the book, obviously distraught that they wouldn't be able to make a $30 profit on eBay by taking advantage of their LCS. I dealt with more than my fair share of curse words and abuse over the course of the day, as well as copious complaints and guilt trips. Avoidable, had we known what was in store? Entirely. It is what it is, though; Not the first time, not the last. Thanks anyway, Robert Kirkman.

Forcing myself to remember that there were other books on sale this week, I suppose it's remarkable how well DC performed across the board. Almost all of the Year of the Villain tie-ins did better than the titles usually do on their own. What stands out as odd to me though is the awkward splitting of Doom Patrol covers — Doom Patrol Weight of the Worlds #1 sold out this week shortly after Walking Dead, but it likely would have sold MORE had the book's variant cover shipped this week as well. Instead, it ships next week, for some inexplicable reason. Marvel, on the other hand, struggled to keep up, and the only book that could really be described as performing "well" was Savage Avengers #3. Uncanny X-Men did alright, but the numbers there are even dwindling as House of X approaches.

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Probably the *only* unsurprising thing about WALKING DEAD this week is that it's at the top of our sales charts. I'll avoid spoilers here for the sake of professionalism, though if you're on the internet and aren't in the loop yet that's incredible.

IMMORTAL HULK would've been number one otherwise this week, but settles in comfortably at a close second place. DCEASED has dropped off considerably for us since it's first issue, though is still performing well overall.

In the middle of the list we've got old standbys like GREEN LANTERN and UNCANNY X-MEN accompanied by Marvel's new character AERO in her own series.

The number 10 spot was a bit crowded, with a four-way tie: the most notable titles being LOIS LANE #1 and the debut of Jason Aaron and Dennis Halum's creator-owned title SEA OF STARS.
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It is sad to see the end of Walking Dead, but it is going with a bang. Buffy is picking itself up.


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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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