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Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, 1st September 2019 – 'A Huge Week Of New Releases'

Published Sun, 01 Sep 2019 15:00:50 -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.

Top ten bestselling comics of the week

House Of X #3
Batman/Superman #1
Marvel Comics #1000
Absolute Carnage #2
Justice League #30
Batman Curse of the White Knight #2
Superman #14
Amazing Spider-Man #28
Spiderman: Life Story #6
Detective Comics #1010

Thanks to the following retailers…

Famous Faces and Funnies, West Melbourne, Florida
Ssalefish Comics, Winston-Salem & Greensboro, North Carolina.
Rodman Comics, Ankeny, Iowa.
Comix Experience, San Francisco, California
Fat Jack's Comicrypt, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Comix Experience Outpost, San Francisco, California

Who had this to say:

The weekly juggernaut that is Hickman's X-Men has taken the top spot again at FFF this week with House and Powers of X book ending our Weekly Bestsellers list. House of X has continued the trend and been our bestselling book of the week, outselling the highly anticipated Batman/Superman by just a handful of copies. To see that not even The Batman Who Laughs can dethrone the wild ride that is House/Powers of X is a crazy development. I'm not the biggest fan of weekly series. Though I will admit the last few from Marvel have beaten my (admittedly low) expectations, I don't like having to order for a book's third issue before I know how well the first issue will go. But House/Powers is an absolute outlier and has been a huge hit at our store. Absolute Carnage is also doing very well even if it isn't hitting the highest numbers. I can't remember the last event where every single tie-in sells well enough to hit our Top Ten. Maybe Blackest Night? Venom, Lethal Protectors and Miles Morales all sold extremely well with Venom hitting just below Absolute Carnage at #4 and Lethal and Miles in a tie with Powers of X at #10. The final shock of this over-sized week was how well we sold with Marvel Comics #1000. A $10 book with entirely too many variants scared the hell out of me. I was entirely sure I'd be sitting on my copies for a long time to come. But much to my surprise, people were actually pretty into it. We sold out of some of the covers and even sold well enough on the main cover to get it to our #5 spot. It feels like a total fluke and I 100% don't want to see it happen again (even though we all know something similar will eventually plague our shelves) but for now I'm pretty okay with it. The rest of the Top Ten were the usual suspects with Amazing, Curse of the White Knight, Justice League and Superman all selling consistently with previous issues.

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It was a huge week for new releases (much bigger than we've seen in a long time, in fact), and so the sales were all over the place, scattered between the heavy-hitters and pretty neck-and-neck. A lot of titles beat out others by a difference of one or two, but the big exception was House of X #3, which, as expected, carried the week despite its competition. I maintain that, for whatever reason, House of X pulls more people in on Wednesdays than its counterpart, though the two usually end up selling out regardless. Marvel Comics #1000 probably would've done a bit better if not for the price tag, but it saw most of its success in variant sales. Batman Superman has been talked about for months but had a lot of huge competition working against it that may not have hurt it, per se, but certainly did stifle the excitement.

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Great sales. Only thing holding us back from having a great profitable week? Marvel 1000, it bombed badly. We tried pushing it though people flipping through it put it back 90 percent of the time. Life Story of Spiderman was a great final issue this week.

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Hickman and the Merry Mutants continue to rule the roost, with HOUSE OF X #3 by far our best seller of the week. This was a huge week in general, though, and there's plenty more heavy hitters crowding the list. The relaunch of BATMAN SUPERMAN, now as the book chronicling the titular characters' efforts against The Batman Who Laughs, sold very well for us this week.

MARVEL COMICS #1000 rode the hype of dubious numbering to success as our third best seller of the week, followed by DETECTIVE COMICS – a stalwart that on a "normal" week would likely have been our top book.

Now in the realm of more predictable sales, the excellent SPIDER-MAN LIFE STORY finished it's six issue run strong, while AMAZING SPIDER-MAN VENOM 3D (a reprint of ASM #300) also proved popular.

The rest of our list is filled out with usual suspects the likes of VENOM, JUSTICE LEAGUE, and AVENGERS.

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For this week Marvel is coming in strong. We hope to see original title pop up soon.

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