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	<title>Comments on: DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: January 2007 &#8212; CORRECTED</title>
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		<title>By: Augsburger</title>
		<link>http://www.comicsbeat.com/2007/03/02/dc-comics-month-to-month-sales-january-2007/#comment-67007</link>
		<dc:creator>Augsburger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 02:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: omaha hold</title>
		<link>http://www.comicsbeat.com/2007/03/02/dc-comics-month-to-month-sales-january-2007/#comment-13314</link>
		<dc:creator>omaha hold</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;strategie roulette...&lt;/strong&gt;

In other words roulette portales internet jugar ruleta internet...</description>
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<p>In other words roulette portales internet jugar ruleta internet&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Sam silbert</title>
		<link>http://www.comicsbeat.com/2007/03/02/dc-comics-month-to-month-sales-january-2007/#comment-13313</link>
		<dc:creator>Sam silbert</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 03:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think Marvels Civil War is taking as much a bite out of DC&#039;s sales as is 52.
Comic fans only have so much money to spend. And Civil War with it&#039;s 60+
crossovers is sucking all the oxygen out of the room. It will be interesting to see if over the next couple of months DC sales bounce back at all.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think Marvels Civil War is taking as much a bite out of DC&#8217;s sales as is 52.<br />
Comic fans only have so much money to spend. And Civil War with it&#8217;s 60+<br />
crossovers is sucking all the oxygen out of the room. It will be interesting to see if over the next couple of months DC sales bounce back at all.</p>
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		<title>By: Stamen</title>
		<link>http://www.comicsbeat.com/2007/03/02/dc-comics-month-to-month-sales-january-2007/#comment-13312</link>
		<dc:creator>Stamen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bottom line is the cross-title creative reboot isn&#039;t sustaining readership in any title with a major change. Fans gave DC the benefit of the doubt on almost every title in the DC arsenal at the OYL mark. And now, the only titles that really seem to be benefiting from the reboot are the ones that didn&#039;t see major changes take place.

Several titles are back around their pre-OYL numbers, which is still a win for DC if for no other reason than the eight months of inflated numbers.

Even if the material in these creative-reboots merited as sustained readership (and so much of it was just a down-right bad idea), 52 is draining the potential capital of the would-be readers of these titles. There are many folks buying books in their 20&#039;s and 30&#039;s who just don&#039;t want to spend more than $20-$25 on books each month.

Personally, I&#039;ve watched the walk around with six or seven books in hand, then sadly place a couple back on the shelf. Then at the register, they pay for five books and four of them are 52.

Now DC is going to extend the weekly out one more year. For collectors like me, that&#039;s good news. For the average fan and for DC&#039;s individual titles that&#039;s bad news.

My 2 cents,

Stamen</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bottom line is the cross-title creative reboot isn&#8217;t sustaining readership in any title with a major change. Fans gave DC the benefit of the doubt on almost every title in the DC arsenal at the OYL mark. And now, the only titles that really seem to be benefiting from the reboot are the ones that didn&#8217;t see major changes take place.</p>
<p>Several titles are back around their pre-OYL numbers, which is still a win for DC if for no other reason than the eight months of inflated numbers.</p>
<p>Even if the material in these creative-reboots merited as sustained readership (and so much of it was just a down-right bad idea), 52 is draining the potential capital of the would-be readers of these titles. There are many folks buying books in their 20&#8217;s and 30&#8217;s who just don&#8217;t want to spend more than $20-$25 on books each month.</p>
<p>Personally, I&#8217;ve watched the walk around with six or seven books in hand, then sadly place a couple back on the shelf. Then at the register, they pay for five books and four of them are 52.</p>
<p>Now DC is going to extend the weekly out one more year. For collectors like me, that&#8217;s good news. For the average fan and for DC&#8217;s individual titles that&#8217;s bad news.</p>
<p>My 2 cents,</p>
<p>Stamen</p>
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		<title>By: Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Mar. 6, 2007: Free Comic Book Day&#8217;s hidden costs</title>
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		<dc:creator>Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Mar. 6, 2007: Free Comic Book Day&#8217;s hidden costs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Stores have to cater to their present client base first, which means the One True Genre has to come first. Marvel and DC take full advantage of this, but the readership is what really powers the engine. They&#8217;ve seen it all before, as befits an audience of adult nostalgiasts; they demand an unpredictable blend of comfort and novelty, which means big-event miniseries driving sales that promptly vanish when the big-event miniseries do. The existing customer base is thus responsible for the endless crossovers, endless examples of superhero decadence, endless variant covers and endless continuity clusterfucks that the charts heartlessly demonstrate to be responsible for this much-ballyhooed &#8220;growing market&#8221; that industry watchers and comics-news sites keep crowing about. Everything else is an afterthought. Don&#8217;t believe me? Here&#8217;s Marvel, here&#8217;s DC, and here&#8217;s the extent to which their mainline superhero titles own the Direct Market. Any questions? [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Stores have to cater to their present client base first, which means the One True Genre has to come first. Marvel and DC take full advantage of this, but the readership is what really powers the engine. They&#8217;ve seen it all before, as befits an audience of adult nostalgiasts; they demand an unpredictable blend of comfort and novelty, which means big-event miniseries driving sales that promptly vanish when the big-event miniseries do. The existing customer base is thus responsible for the endless crossovers, endless examples of superhero decadence, endless variant covers and endless continuity clusterfucks that the charts heartlessly demonstrate to be responsible for this much-ballyhooed &#8220;growing market&#8221; that industry watchers and comics-news sites keep crowing about. Everything else is an afterthought. Don&#8217;t believe me? Here&#8217;s Marvel, here&#8217;s DC, and here&#8217;s the extent to which their mainline superhero titles own the Direct Market. Any questions? [...]</p>
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		<title>By: ComicList: Shipping Information</title>
		<link>http://www.comicsbeat.com/2007/03/02/dc-comics-month-to-month-sales-january-2007/#comment-13310</link>
		<dc:creator>ComicList: Shipping Information</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;DC: Month-to-Month sales for January 2007...&lt;/strong&gt;

Marc-Oliver Frisch writes &quot;The list of DC Comics new launches for January 2007 was surprisingly short and low-profile. They were limited to the crossover miniseries Superman and Batman vs. Aliens and Predators, two one-shots paving the way for the t...</description>
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<p>Marc-Oliver Frisch writes &#8220;The list of DC Comics new launches for January 2007 was surprisingly short and low-profile. They were limited to the crossover miniseries Superman and Batman vs. Aliens and Predators, two one-shots paving the way for the t&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Somebody</title>
		<link>http://www.comicsbeat.com/2007/03/02/dc-comics-month-to-month-sales-january-2007/#comment-13309</link>
		<dc:creator>Somebody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 23:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Luke&gt; One thing, the below seems like it should then be negative roughly 132% in September.

Ummm... you have no idea how maths works, do you? If it had dropped 132%, then Image would have BOUGHT 11131 copies of WB101 FROM retailers without selling one...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Luke&gt; One thing, the below seems like it should then be negative roughly 132% in September.</p>
<p>Ummm&#8230; you have no idea how maths works, do you? If it had dropped 132%, then Image would have BOUGHT 11131 copies of WB101 FROM retailers without selling one&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Luke</title>
		<link>http://www.comicsbeat.com/2007/03/02/dc-comics-month-to-month-sales-january-2007/#comment-13308</link>
		<dc:creator>Luke</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t know if you could do this but I think some kind of sidebar would be cool illustrating what are the normal miniseries drops and what are the normal drops when variant covers are pulled.  Then we would be comparing those charts to the books and kinda learning what those numbers rather than you having to tell us.  Seems like I&#039;d learn a little at least.  Just a thought.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t know if you could do this but I think some kind of sidebar would be cool illustrating what are the normal miniseries drops and what are the normal drops when variant covers are pulled.  Then we would be comparing those charts to the books and kinda learning what those numbers rather than you having to tell us.  Seems like I&#8217;d learn a little at least.  Just a thought.</p>
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		<title>By: Luke</title>
		<link>http://www.comicsbeat.com/2007/03/02/dc-comics-month-to-month-sales-january-2007/#comment-13307</link>
		<dc:creator>Luke</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for all your hard work in doing this each month Marc.

One thing, the below seems like it should then be negative roughly 132% in September.

06/2006: Witchblade #99  — 14,524 (+  2.3%)
07/2006: Witchblade #100 — 33,832 (+132.9%)
08/2006: –
09/2006: Witchblade #101 — 14,727 (- 56.5%)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for all your hard work in doing this each month Marc.</p>
<p>One thing, the below seems like it should then be negative roughly 132% in September.</p>
<p>06/2006: Witchblade #99  — 14,524 (+  2.3%)<br />
07/2006: Witchblade #100 — 33,832 (+132.9%)<br />
08/2006: –<br />
09/2006: Witchblade #101 — 14,727 (- 56.5%)</p>
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		<title>By: Primate</title>
		<link>http://www.comicsbeat.com/2007/03/02/dc-comics-month-to-month-sales-january-2007/#comment-13306</link>
		<dc:creator>Primate</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 17:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don;t understand all the negativity surrounding Busiek&#039;s Aquaman.  The series has relaly enjoyed a creative renaissance recently, and I&#039;m excited to see where Williams will go with.  An underrated supergero comic.

Simone&#039;s Atom deserves better, too!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don;t understand all the negativity surrounding Busiek&#8217;s Aquaman.  The series has relaly enjoyed a creative renaissance recently, and I&#8217;m excited to see where Williams will go with.  An underrated supergero comic.</p>
<p>Simone&#8217;s Atom deserves better, too!</p>
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		<title>By: Marc-Oliver Frisch</title>
		<link>http://www.comicsbeat.com/2007/03/02/dc-comics-month-to-month-sales-january-2007/#comment-13305</link>
		<dc:creator>Marc-Oliver Frisch</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 12:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This month&#039;s column is the error spectacular.

&quot;The numbering of the sale positions on the chart are way off in some cases.&quot;

Yeah, I forget to update them from the previous month sometimes.

&quot;Actually, the reason Detective Comics missed shipping in January was because it was a week early and hit in December, wasn’t it? Not a late book at all! heh.&quot;

Entirely correct.  I even pointed it out last month.

&quot;In SUPERMAN #659, Carlos Pacheco was not “nowhere in sight” — he drew the framing seqence, and was credited for it.&quot;

Right again.  Pacheco drew two pages.  (In fairness, though, he isn&#039;t credited on the cover, and the credit in the book is rather obscure and apart from the rest of the story credits.)

Guilty as charged, on all counts.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This month&#8217;s column is the error spectacular.</p>
<p>&#8220;The numbering of the sale positions on the chart are way off in some cases.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yeah, I forget to update them from the previous month sometimes.</p>
<p>&#8220;Actually, the reason Detective Comics missed shipping in January was because it was a week early and hit in December, wasn’t it? Not a late book at all! heh.&#8221;</p>
<p>Entirely correct.  I even pointed it out last month.</p>
<p>&#8220;In SUPERMAN #659, Carlos Pacheco was not “nowhere in sight” — he drew the framing seqence, and was credited for it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Right again.  Pacheco drew two pages.  (In fairness, though, he isn&#8217;t credited on the cover, and the credit in the book is rather obscure and apart from the rest of the story credits.)</p>
<p>Guilty as charged, on all counts.</p>
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		<title>By: Kurt Busiek</title>
		<link>http://www.comicsbeat.com/2007/03/02/dc-comics-month-to-month-sales-january-2007/#comment-13304</link>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Busiek</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 06:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In SUPERMAN #659, Carlos Pacheco was not &quot;nowhere in sight&quot; -- he drew the framing seqence, and was credited for it.

kdb</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In SUPERMAN #659, Carlos Pacheco was not &#8220;nowhere in sight&#8221; &#8212; he drew the framing seqence, and was credited for it.</p>
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		<title>By: Brian Hibbs</title>
		<link>http://www.comicsbeat.com/2007/03/02/dc-comics-month-to-month-sales-january-2007/#comment-13303</link>
		<dc:creator>Brian Hibbs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 05:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;This raises an interesting question: Since DC basically asked retailers to increase their orders in exchange for copies of a limited comic and then failed to deliver said comic, did they make the book returnable? Or are retailers left sitting on those extra units they ordered, without anything to show for it?&quot;

Theoretically, FOC trumps returnability in circumstances like this.

DC *usually* steps up to the plate when it&#039;s &quot;the right thing to do&quot;, though they haven&#039;t announced anything officially.

I don&#039;t order 1:10 variants (w/o a special order for it), and I didn&#039;t stock extra units to get a variant... but also I didn&#039;t, at FOC, cut my order down as far as I probably should have on this issue because I was thinking &quot;DC seems to think this issue is significant&quot;, because I remembered the cancelled variant. That could account for this &quot;rise&quot; the chart shows, if you see what I mean?

-B</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;This raises an interesting question: Since DC basically asked retailers to increase their orders in exchange for copies of a limited comic and then failed to deliver said comic, did they make the book returnable? Or are retailers left sitting on those extra units they ordered, without anything to show for it?&#8221;</p>
<p>Theoretically, FOC trumps returnability in circumstances like this.</p>
<p>DC *usually* steps up to the plate when it&#8217;s &#8220;the right thing to do&#8221;, though they haven&#8217;t announced anything officially.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t order 1:10 variants (w/o a special order for it), and I didn&#8217;t stock extra units to get a variant&#8230; but also I didn&#8217;t, at FOC, cut my order down as far as I probably should have on this issue because I was thinking &#8220;DC seems to think this issue is significant&#8221;, because I remembered the cancelled variant. That could account for this &#8220;rise&#8221; the chart shows, if you see what I mean?</p>
<p>-B</p>
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		<title>By: Bill Reed</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bill Reed</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Actually, the reason Detective Comics missed shipping in January was because it was a week early and hit in December, wasn&#039;t it? Not a late book at all! heh.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Actually, the reason Detective Comics missed shipping in January was because it was a week early and hit in December, wasn&#8217;t it? Not a late book at all! heh.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark Moore</title>
		<link>http://www.comicsbeat.com/2007/03/02/dc-comics-month-to-month-sales-january-2007/#comment-13301</link>
		<dc:creator>Mark Moore</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The numbering of the sale positions on the chart are way off in some cases.</description>
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