Marvel

Original Sin is Marvel’s big new event and it debuted at 147k and then dropped down to 92k. But is that good for a major event book? For fun I pulled the numbers for #1 issues of the last several big event books from Marvel to see how Original Sin stacks up. As you can see out of these 7 books it ranks 5th. I did better than Siege and Fear Itself, but worse than Age of Ultron, AVX, Secret invasion or Civil War. Two other interesting trends to note is that events have become more frequent and sell worse. I cherry picked these events because they fell around the same time of year as Original Sin and were Avengers-focused, but the last few years have been very event heavy and sales have been dropping overall on these events. They are still the best-selling books of their month generally but Marvel has yet to recapture the excitement and sales of Civil War.

Marvel is always generous with artwork in their emails, some of it quite notable. Over the last 24 hours they released this nice cover...

by Brandon Schatz -- When you spend your days breaking open comic solicitations and marketing for a living, you begin to pick out patterns. A new...

One of my favorite things about monthly comics is the intro page. It has taken on special significance in recent years--I’d say it’s thanks...

by Brandon Schatz A few days before the book’s final order cut-off with retailers, Marvel let it slip that their upcoming Rocket Raccoon series had...

by Brandon Schatz When Marvel first announced the Rocket Raccoon book, I was fairly excited. Pairing the character with Skottie Young just as interest would...

Sean Ryan and In-Hyuk Lee predict where Spidey will be in 25 years as part of July's 100th Anniversary event. “We’re jumping into a...

by Brandon Schatz A few weeks ago, Marvel’s August solicitations revealed some alarming news: Warren Ellis and Declan Shalvey would be leaving Moon Knight after...

What makes a comic ‘worth it?’ In the comments to my introductory column, a lot of readers seem to gauge the value of a comic...

World traveller, gourmet and beer enthusiast CB Cebulski is moving to an international business development role at Disney/.Marvel. In between tweeting and (in the...

  But it is the previously announced 100th Anniversary special, which imagines the FF as they might be in 2061—written by Jen Van Meter and...

As triumph so often turns to tragedy, just as what is arguably Marvel Studio's greatest achievement—the extremely well reviewed, successful and genre busting Captain...