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Star Wars #1 And Marvel Dominate Advance Reorders More Than Ever Before

$_57 (9)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!

This is a first. Star Wars #1, and its variety of covers, grab nine of the top ten, and twelve of the top twenty-five sots. Their perfect ten was marred only by Marvel's Ant-Man which, itself, grabs four slots. In all, Marvel have the top twenty completely to themselves, with only Batman Mad Love and Tooth & Claw stopping them from having the whole twenty-five. It's the most dominnt a publisher has ever been in the advance reorder stakes as retailers rush to up their orders to qualify for the rare variant covers so desired by Star War collectors, already pre-selling for hundreds of dolars on eBay.

Of course, this may alwao mean that if you wait a week to buy the first issue of the regular cover of the comic, you'll be able to get it for fifty cents as retailers seek to offload the large numbers they have had to order to qualify for the variants.

But while Star Wars dominates the Advance Reorders, it is The Walking Dead which does similar for books that have already been published., with thirteen of the top twenty-five Walking Dead books. Saga doesn't do badly either as Image gain sixteen slots to Marvel's three…

TOP 25 ADVANCE REORDER COMICS/GRAPHIC NOVELS/TPs (RETAIL)
Product Price Publisher
STAR WARS #1 $4.99 MAR
STAR WARS #1 BLANK VAR $4.99 MAR
STAR WARS #1 YOUNG VAR $4.99 MAR
STAR WARS #1 HASBRO PX VAR XXXX MAR
STAR WARS #1 MOVIE VAR $4.99 MAR
STAR WARS #1 ACTION FIGURE VAR $4.99 MAR
STAR WARS #1 PICHELLI VAR $4.99 MAR
ANT-MAN #1 $4.99 MAR
STAR WARS #1 CHRISTOPHER HUMOROUS PARTY VAR $4.99 MAR
STAR WARS #1 MCLEOD VAR $4.99 MAR
STAR WARS #1 CASSADAY TEASER VAR $4.99 MAR
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #12 IN VAR SV $3.99 MAR
ANT-MAN #1 IN VAR $4.99 MAR
WOLVERINES #1 $3.99 MAR
ANT-MAN #1 SHRINKING VAR $4.99 MAR
STAR WARS #1 ROSS VAR $4.99 MAR
STAR WARS #1 CAMPBELL CONNECTING VAR A $4.99 MAR
ANT-MAN #1 YOUNG VAR $4.99 MAR
UNBEATABLE SQUIRREL GIRL #1 $3.99 MAR
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #12 SV $3.99 MAR
BATMAN ADVENTURES MAD LOVE DELUXE ED HC $24.99 DC
HAWKEYE VS DEADPOOL #4 (OF 4) IN VAR $3.99 MAR
TOOTH & CLAW #1 2ND PTG (MR) $2.99 IMA
SPIDER-MAN 2099 #7 SV $3.99 MAR
HAWKEYE VS DEADPOOL #4 (OF 4) $3.99 MAR

And for comics that have already been published.

TOP 25 REORDER COMICS/GRAPHIC NOVELS/TPs (RETAIL)
Product Price Publisher
WALKING DEAD COMPENDIUM TP VOL 01 (MR) $59.99 IMA
WALKING DEAD COMPENDIUM TP VOL 02 (MR) $59.99 IMA
SAGA DLX ED HC VOL 01 $49.99 IMA
WALKING DEAD TP VOL 22 A NEW BEGINNING (MR) $14.99 IMA
WALKING DEAD TP VOL 02 MILES BEHIND US (NEW PTG) $14.99 IMA
SCOTT PILGRIM PRECIOUS LITTLE BOX SET $72.00 ONI
BATMAN TP VOL 01 THE COURT OF OWLS (N52) $16.99 DC
DISNEY FROZEN CINESTORY $14.99 JOE
SKYLANDERS THE KAOS TRAP HC $9.99 IDW
SAGA TP VOL 03 (MR) $14.99 IMA
X-MEN INFERNO PROLOGUE HC $125.00 MAR
WALKING DEAD HC VOL 01 (MR) $34.99 IMA
CAPTAIN AMERICA TRIAL OF CAPTAIN AMERICA OMNIBUS HC $99.99 MAR
SAGA TP VOL 01 (MR) $9.99 IMA
V FOR VENDETTA NEW EDITION TP (MR) $19.99 DC
WALKING DEAD TP VOL 04 HEARTS DESIRE $14.99 IMA
WALKING DEAD HC VOL 09 (MR) $34.99 IMA
WALKING DEAD TP VOL 21 ALL OUT WAR PT 2 (MR) $14.99 IMA
ANGRY BIRDS COMICS HC VOL 01 WELCOME TO THE FLOCK $9.99 IDW
WALKING DEAD HC VOL 04 $34.99 IMA
WALKING DEAD TP VOL 20 ALL OUT WAR PT 1 (MR) $14.99 IMA
WALKING DEAD TP VOL 01 DAYS GONE BYE $14.99 IMA
WALKING DEAD HC VOL 06 (MR) $34.99 IMA
WALKING DEAD HC VOL 07 (MR) $34.99 IMA
CIVIL WAR TP $24.99 MAR

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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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