by David Carter

Since I started doing month-to-month sales columns for Image comics a few months ago, there has been one constant refrain in the comments: “Tell us about collection sales!” So here you go.

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Methodology

I gathered up the year-end collection sales numbers, as estimated over at Comichron based on the data provided by Diamond North America. 2009 is the earliest year for which estimates are available. (Remember that Diamond sales represent sales to stores, not end sales to consumers.) For 2009 only the Top 500 are available; for 2008-2015 it is the Top 1000. Estimates for 2009 – 2013 are rounded off to the nearest hundred. The cutoff points for each year are:

  • 2009: 2700
  • 2010: 1,600
  • 2011: 1,500
  • 2012: 1,600
  • 2013: 1,600
  • 2014: 1,749
  • 2015: 1,778

I did not gather up numbers for every single trade and hardcover that Image put out during those years. I was mostly interested in only the collections for series that are currently running or recently ended, so ignored a lot of older collections and OGNs. I did this to keep this column from getting too long (and also to keep my sanity.)

Then I did the same thing with the Bookscan numbers for their yearly Top 750. The Bookscan numbers came from Brian Hibbs’ annual compilations, the most recent of which is here, where he gives a good explanation of what the Bookstore numbers are and how they are gathered. The TLDR is that they come from major bookstores and other chain sales—including B&N, Amazon, Costco, Hastings, Target, Books-A-Million, Powells, Walmart, and more—and they represent sales to end consumers. The cutoff points for each year are:

  • 2009: 3,934
  • 2010: 3,380
  • 2011: 3,173
  • 2012: 2,641
  • 2013: 2,660
  • 2014: 2,875
  • 2015: 3,475

I then put all of the numbers into a series of spreadsheets (replicated in the tables below). An empty cell does *not* mean that book sold zero for the year; rather that whatever it sold was under the cutoff point. So for example it is entirely possible (and perhaps reasonable) to think that Invincible vol. 20 may have sold 1,500 units to retailers in 2015, but because that number is below the Top 1000 cutoff for 2015 they don’t show up on the year-end chart and thus are not included in the data below.

Series with asterisks* are those for which both Diamond-NA and Bookscan numbers are included; for all other series there were no volumes that had any sales in the Bookscan Top 750, and thus represent only Diamond-NA sales. That doesn’t mean those other series didn’t sell anything via bookstores, just that they didn’t sell enough to make the threshold in any year.

Also remember that these figures represent only sales to retailers by Diamond NA & sales to end consumers in major book and chain stores. They do not include sales to libraries, school book clubs (e.g. Scholastic), most small independent bookstores, or foreign sales. And they only represent sales for the years 2009 to 2015; some series such as Walking Dead and Invincible and Spawn began earlier. Thus they should only be viewed as a bare minimum number of trades sold.

So if you take these numbers and say something like “Invincible Vol. 2 sold only 9,200 copies,” that is categorically incorrect. The correct language is: “Invincible Vol. 2 sold a minimum of 9,200 copies to retailers serviced by Diamond NA & major book and chain stores for the period of 2009-2015.” Yes, it’s a mouthful, but accurate.

It is also important to remember that collection sales are a long-tail game. As opposed to sales of single issues, which for the most part will occur within the first month or two of release, sales for collection are expected to go on for months and even years. So when you see that Vol. 4 of a series has sold 3,000 less than Vol. 5 of that series, realize that these are sales only through the end of 2015, and that Vol. 5 could easily pick up another 3,000 from 2016 – 2018; and if those sales are just 1,000 each year they likely wouldn’t even make it above the cut-off and be invisible to us, but they still would be significant sales.

Also (golly there are a lot of caveats here!), if a series releases two collections in a year, one was likely released earlier in the year while the other is later in the year, and thus the first has more months in which to accumulate additional sales for that year.

I really hesitated putting these numbers out there, as there’s a greater chance than even for the month-to-month charts of these numbers being taken out-of-context. But I do think they have some value, at least for comparing to each other and getting a general sense of what is popular. So please do everyone a solid and talk about these figures correctly and wisely.


Commentary

Disclaimer: after lecturing above about the proper language to use when discussing those numbers, I’m not going to say that mouthful every time below. Just substitute in whenever you see “Sold X copies” with “sold a minimum of X copies to retailers serviced by Diamond NA & major book and chain stores for the period of 2009-2015,” unless specified otherwise. Else this section is going to be just awful to try to read!

Good golly, The Walking Dead! I mean, I knew it was huge, but this huge? Over half a million copies of the first trade paperback sold since 2009! And nearly that many of the first Compendium! The most unusual thing about The Walking Dead sales, besides their sheer size, is just how lopsided the sales are for the hardcovers and compendia; while almost every other series sold more via Diamond that show up in the Bookscan sales (typically 2/3 Diamond, 1/3 Bookscan, though some series come closer to 50/50), the vast majority of Walking Dead hardcovers and compendia came through the Bookscan-recorded sales. For instance, the third Compendium, which was released in October 2015, sold 9,103 copies through Diamond-NA and a whopping 76,110 copies through Bookscan-measured outlets. Sales for hardcovers were around twice as many through Bookscan-measured outlets as through Diamond-NA. (Sales of the regular trade collections were closer to parity, with typically a few thousand more coming through Diamond as recorded by Bookscan.)

The next largest seller of collections from Image is Saga. 290K copies of the first trade sold, and that’s just since 2012. It’s on its way to being the Next Big Thing, and that’s even without a television series behind it. As with The Walking Dead, the hardcovers of Saga sold way better in the Bookscan-measured channels than via Diamond-NA.

Chew once sold real well, but sales have cooled off recently. And by ‘cooled off’ I mean they’re fairly typical for a standard Image collection now.

Bitch Planet did really well, racking up 21K in sales in just the last three months of 2015.

Both The Wicked + The Divine and Wytches also are selling strong so far, as are Descender, Rat Queens, East of West, Pretty Deadly, Sex Criminals, Southern Bastards, and Black Science.

Okay, enough of my prattling; go look at the numbers!


Alex + Ada

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015    2014
Vol. 1   8,113   3,631   4,482
Vol. 2   4,408   4,408
Vol. 3   3,297   3,297

Autumnlands *

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1  11,490  11,490

Birthright

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1   8,149   8,149
Vol. 2   3,733   3,733

Bitch Planet *

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1  21,509  21,509

Black Science *

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015    2014
Vol. 1  41,493  19,059  22,434
Vol. 2  18,352  18,352
Vol. 3   7,360   7,360

Casanova: Acedia

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1   1,915   1,915

Chew *

Trade Paperbacks


          Total   2015    2014    2013    2012    2011    2010    2009
Vol.  1  77,228   6,506   8,082   8,600  11,144  15,427  19,669   7,800
Vol.  2  43,614   3,675   4,400   4,900   5,100  10,354  15,185
Vol.  3  32,673   2,822   3,309   4,000   4,500  11,642   6,400
Vol.  4  22,467   2,411   2,856   3,500   5,300   8,400
Vol.  5  21,946   2,147   2,565   3,800  13,434
Vol.  6  18,848   2,026   2,524   8,698   5,600
Vol.  7  12,682   2,135   3,347   7,200
Vol.  8  10,779   2,480   8,299
Vol.  9   7,986   7,986
Vol. 10   5,925   5,925

Omnivore Hardcovers


         Total   2015    2014    2013    2012    2011    2010 
Vol. 1   2,400                                           2,400 
Vol. 2       0
Vol. 3   2,000                   2,000

Chrononauts

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1   8,083   8,083

Copperhead

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1   6,855   6,855
Vol. 2   2,785   2,785

Deadly Class *

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015    2014
Vol. 1  23,767  13,146  10,621
Vol. 2   9,205   9,205
Vol. 3   5,519   5,519

Death Vigil

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1   2,525   2,525

Descender *

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1  20,043  20,043

Drifter

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1   2,932   2,932

East of West *

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015    2014    2013  
Vol. 1  60,226  18,451  24,625  17,150
Vol. 2  28,326   7,691  20,635   
Vol. 3  16,466   7,545   8,921   
Vol. 4  15,172  15,172    

Hardcovers


         Total   2015  
Vol. 1   2,739   2,739 

The Fade Out *

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1  14,552  14,552
Vol. 2   5,188   5,188

Fatale

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015    2014    2013    2012  
Vol. 1  23,446   2,887   4,659   6,800   9,100
Vol. 2  11,319           2,519   4,500   4,300
Vol. 3   8,676           2,276   6,400   
Vol. 4   6,477           6,477
Vol. 5   4,720           4,720    

Hardcovers


         Total   2015    2014  
Vol. 1   2,156           2,156 

The Fuse

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015    2014  
Vol. 1   2,216           2,216 

God Hates Astronauts

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 2   1,904   1,904

Goners

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1   1,915   1,915

Humans

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1   3,989   3,989

Injection

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1   6,050   6,050

Invincible

Trade Paperbacks


          Total    2015    2014    2013    2012    2011    2010    2009
Vol.  1  24,831    2,790   2,541   3,200   3,600   3,900   4,800   4,000
Vol.  2   9,200                    1,700   2,000   2,500   3,000
Vol.  3   4,500                                    1,900   2,600
Vol.  4   3,900                                    1,700   2,200
Vol.  5   3,600                                    1,600   2,000
Vol.  6   1,900                                            1,900
Vol.  7   1,800                                            1,800
Vol.  8   1,800                                            1,800
Vol.  9   5,000                                            2,100   2,900
Vol. 10  11,800                                    1,600   2,500   7,700
Vol. 11   9,700                                            2,700   7,000
Vol. 12   9,700                                    1,900   7,800
Vol. 13   8,900                                    2,200   6,700
Vol. 14   9,300                            1,700   7,600
Vol. 15   7,500                            7,500
Vol. 16   6,000                            6,000
Vol. 17   6,200                    6,200
Vol. 18   5,200                    5,200
Vol. 19   5,304            5,304
Vol. 20   3,959            3,959
Vol. 21   4,508   4,508

Deluxe Hardcovers


          Total   2015    2014    2013    2012    2011    2010    2009
Vol.  4   3,000                                                   3,000
Vol.  5   2,900                                           2,900
Vol.  6   2,500                                   2,500
Vol.  7   2,100                           2,100
Vol.  8   1,900                   1,900 

Invisible Republic

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1   3,473   3,473

Jupiter’s Circle

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1   4,956   4,956

Jupiter’s Legacy

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1   9,815   9,815

Kaptara

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1   2,071   2,071

Lazarus *

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015    2014    2013  
Vol. 1  23,607   5,618  10,989   7,000
Vol. 2   9,765   3,475   6,290   
Vol. 3   6,967   6,967   

Low *

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1  28,499  28,499
Vol. 2   5,587   5,587

Luther Strode

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015    2014    2013    2012  
Vol. 1   7,000                   2,200   4,800
Vol. 2   2,600                   2,600

The Manhattan Projects *

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015    2014    2013    2012  
Vol. 1  35,804   4,606   7,073  16,625   7,500
Vol. 2  20,982   2,515   4,071  14,396
Vol. 3  12,393   2,128   4,365   5,900   
Vol. 4   9,470   2,128   7,342
Vol. 5   6,958   2,672   4,286    

Material

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1   1,848   1,848

Morning Glories

Trade Paperbacks


          Total   2015    2014    2013    2012    2011
Vol. 1   26,224   1,825   2,599   4,300   3,400  14,100
Vol. 2   11,700                   2,500   2,700   6,500
Vol. 3    7,800                   2,600   5,200
Vol. 4    5,500                   5,500
Vol. 5    3,800                   3,800
Vol. 6    2,700                   2,700
Vol. 7    3,209           3,209
Vol. 8    2,868   2,868
Vol. 9    1,799   1,799

MPH

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1   3,245   3,245

Nailbiter

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015    2014
Vol. 1  12,109   6,791   5,318
Vol. 2   5,851   5,851
Vol. 3   3,677   3,677

No Mercy

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1   1,807   1,807

Nowhere Men *

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015    2014    2013
Vol. 1  15,766   3,453   7,113   5,200

Oddly Normal

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1   2,146   2,146

ODY-C

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1   6,365   6,365

Outcast *

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1  24,358  24,358
Vol. 2   7,005   7,005

Phonogram

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015    2014    2013    2012    2011    2010 
Vol. 1   2,191   2,191 
Vol. 2   1,900                                           1,900

Postal

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1   2,263   2,263

Pretty Deadly *

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015    2014
Vol. 1  27,923   9,092  18,831

Prophet

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015    2014    2013    2012  
Vol. 1  14,767   2,201   2,866   4,900   4,800
Vol. 2   6,238           1,938   4,300
Vol. 3   4,058           4,058   
Vol. 4   3,488   3,488

Rasputin

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1   2,793   2,793

Rat Queens *

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015    2014
Vol. 1  56,732  29,161  27,571
Vol. 2  28,713  28,713

Deluxe Hardcovers


         Total   2015  
Vol. 1   2,185   2,185 

Revival *

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015    2014    2013    2012  
Vol. 1  23,204   3,750   4,951  11,103   3,400
Vol. 2  10,458   2,064   3,194   5,200
Vol. 3   5,356           5,356   
Vol. 4   3,288           3,288
Vol. 5   3,358   3,358    
Vol. 6   2,007   2,007    

Roche Limit

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1   3,476   3,476

Rocket Girl

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015    2014
Vol. 1   4,835           4,835

Rumble

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1   4,323   4,323

RunLoveKill

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1   2,656   2,656

Saga *

Trade Paperbacks


         Total    2015    2014    2013    2012  
Vol. 1  290,144  79,686  87,747  91,036  31,675
Vol. 2  199,600  55,930  64,908  78,762
Vol. 3  153,342  52,744 100,598   
Vol. 4  125,718  87,700  38,018
Vol. 5   80,883  80,883    

Deluxe Hardcovers


         Total   2015    2014 
Vol. 1  32,342  14,696  17,646 

Satellite Sam

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015    2014
Vol. 1   4,281           4,281
Vol. 2   2,082           2,082

Sex

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015    2014    2013  
Vol. 1   5,924           2,624   3,300
Vol. 2   2,887           2,887   
Vol. 3   2,153   2,153   

Sex Criminals *

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015    2014
Vol. 1  74,744  31,346  43,398
Vol. 2  31,317  31,317

Hardcovers


         Total   2015  
Vol. 1   3,668   3,668 

Shutter

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015    2014
Vol. 1   7,461   4,308   3,153
Vol. 2   2,339   2,339

Southern Bastards *

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015    2014
Vol. 1  21,637  13,855   7,782
Vol. 2  12,876  12,876

Deluxe Hardcovers


         Total   2015  
Vol. 1   2,865   2,865 

Spawn Origins

Trade Paperbacks


          Total    2015    2014    2013    2012    2011    2010    2009
Vol.  1  18,113    3,135   2,878   2,600   2,100   1,800   2,200   3,400
Vol.  2        
Vol.  3        
Vol.  4   2,100                                            2,100
Vol.  5   1,800                                            1,800

Spawn: Resurrection

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1   1,798   1,798

Spread

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1   3,474   3,474

Starlight

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1   5,616   5,616

Supreme Blue Rose

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1   2,762   2,762

Stray Bullets

Uber Alles Paperbacks


         Total   2015    2014
Vol. 1   5,172           5,172

Sunstone *

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015    2014
Vol. 1  15,495  11,287   4,208
Vol. 2  10,624  10,624
Vol. 3   8,103   8,103

Thief of Thieves

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015    2014    2013    2012  
Vol. 1   9,000                   3,600   5,400
Vol. 2   4,800                   4,800
Vol. 3   3,201           3,201   
Vol. 4   1,791           1,791

Trees *

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1  15,346  15,346

Velvet

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015    2014
Vol. 1  10,443   2,735   7,708
Vol. 2   4,914   4,914

The Walking Dead *

Trade Paperbacks


          Total    2015    2014    2013    2012    2011    2010    2009
Vol.  1  516,950  58,009  68,327 100,588 120,356  61,781  77,192  30,697
Vol.  2  313,799  33,157  40,116  57,536  76,901  38,440  48,559  19,090
Vol.  3  238,345  24,775  29,121  41,238  61,032  28,745  36,741  16,693
Vol.  4  187,954  19,283  22,066  32,193  47,530  24,212  30,684  11,986
Vol.  5  162,097  16,536  18,358  26,817  40,986  22,713  23,929  12,758
Vol.  6  142,209  14,119  15,638  22,900  35,452  20,392  21,501  12,207
Vol.  7  129,377  12,400  13,596  20,530  32,023  18,713  19,744  12,371
Vol.  8  126,707  11,593  13,018  19,621  30,397  18,044  19,559  14,475
Vol.  9  167,566  10,315  12,246  17,771  34,453  24,319  25,609  42,853
Vol. 10  155,446   9,753  11,675  16,522  32,038  23,955  27,659  33,844
Vol. 11  147,014   9,131  11,119  15,290  30,158  24,591  56,725
Vol. 12  138,061   9,165  10,332  14,488  29,045  25,771  49,260
Vol. 13  136,397   8,882   9,777  13,945  28,776  36,032  38,985
Vol. 14  125,329   9,467   9,793  14,147  32,911  59,011
Vol. 15  121,207   8,985   9,740  15,138  56,219  31,125
Vol. 16  112,541   9,199  10,271  18,818  74,253
Vol. 17  143,838  14,266  23,221  54,096  52,255
Vol. 18  120,420  14,421  27,428  78,571
Vol. 19  114,442  15,351  41,247  57,844
Vol. 20  103,981  18,110  85,871
Vol. 21   90,710  22,467  68,243
Vol. 22   93,969  34,662  59,307
Vol. 23   67,564  67,564
Vol. 24   53,223  53,223

Deluxe Hardcovers


          Total    2015    2014    2013    2012    2011    2010    2009
Vol.  1  183,460  17,786  24,666  32,413  47,716  28,687  22,792   9,400
Vol.  2  104,909   9,565  14,418  20,969  28,629  18,503  12,825
Vol.  3   76,496   6,048  11,134  14,467  24,343  10,206  10,298
Vol.  4   59,844   4,713   7,119  11,621  19,537   8,279   8,575
Vol.  5   68,807   4,067   6,154   9,868  21,251  10,774  16,693
Vol.  6   62,801   3,714   5,382   8,660  18,695  13,661  12,689
Vol.  7   47,115   3,697   4,951   8,440  20,633   9,394
Vol.  8   42,110   3,833   5,212  11,226  21,839
Vol.  9   37,426   5,285  12,931  19,210
Vol. 10   28,232   9,495  18,737
Vol. 11   20,640  20,640
Vol. 12   13,832  13,832

Compendia (paperbacks)


          Total    2015    2014    2013    2012    2011    2010    2009
Vol.  1  450,151  69,016  78,582 109,693 112,024  39,565  36,471   4,800
Vol.  2  267,868  50,511  60,361  84,832  72,164
Vol.  3   85,213  85,213

Wayward

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1   7,045   7,045
Vol. 2   3,311   3,311

The Wicked + The Divine *

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015    2014
Vol. 1  48,779  39,503   9,276
Vol. 2  24,015  24,015

Wolf

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1   3,038   3,038

Wytches *

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015
Vol. 1  34,717  34,717

Zero

Trade Paperbacks


         Total   2015    2014
Vol. 1   4,665           4,665
Vol. 2   2,024           2,024
Vol. 3   2,020   2,020

The Fine Print

The figures above are for entertainment purposes only. They represent sales as estimated from Diamond-NA year-end Top 1000 and Bookscan yearly Top 750. Sales through other channels are not included. Creators: consult your publisher’s statements for actual sales figures.

I cannot stress this strongly enough: These are at best minimum sales figures. They work good (well, good enough) for comparison purposes, but really not for anything else.

Please keep in mind that raw sales numbers do not tell us about how profitable a book is for a publisher or for the creators.

Above all, do not allow sales numbers to dictate your purchasing and enjoyment of a particular comic. If you enjoy reading a comic series then go right on buying and reading that comic, no matter what the sales figures say.

Opinions expressed in this column are mine alone, and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer, Heidi MacDonald or anyone at The Comics Beat, the Pro Golfers’ Association, or my former neighbor’s dog Miles.

The author of this column does weekly snapshots of Amazon comic sales charts at http://yetanothercomicsblog.blogspot.com/ and tweets about comics and related subjects on Twitter at @davereadscomics (PM me there is you need to contact me).

As always, we welcome your comments and corrections below. Please try to keep things civilized.

10 COMMENTS

  1. RE: Hardcovers. One thing to remember is that BookScan includes Amazon. Amazon regularly discounts. Discounts have more impact on expensive items than on cheaper ones. If you’re ordering a $15 TP, a 20% discount is $12, and you’re below the “free freight” deal if you’re not a Prime-member. A $50 HC? You’ve just saved $10 AND got it shipped to your door for free.

    I don’t think it’s “bookstores sell more hardcover comics”, per se — I think it is “discounted mail order with free shipping sells more hardcover comics”

    -B

  2. Fascinating! A lot of these trades and deluxe hardcovers didn’t sell as well as I’d have expected. Particularly the Brubaker & Rucka titles. I’d have figured they would have a bigger audience in collected form.

  3. For reference, we know from the authors that Chew Vol.1 had already sold over 100.000 3 years ago, and Wicked + The Divine vVl.1 has recently surpassed 100.000 few weeks ago.

  4. ” A lot of these trades and deluxe hardcovers didn’t sell as well as I’d have expected. ”

    See, this reaction is why these articles annoy me a little, no offense to David and Heidi.

    You still don’t know how they sold, because as mentioned, these are a minimum number sold. The Strange Talent of Luther Strode, for instance, has sold several times the total listed. It’s not that the numbers are wrong – they’re not even close. All of my books have sold more by multiples of the numbers listed here.

    And despite all the caveats in the article, people are going to continue to interpret these numbers as the real numbers.

    I don’t know that they actually hurt us, mind, but still….

  5. I’d be very interested to hear from creators what their actual sales figures are, if only to get a sense of how many sales are coming from other channels besides Diamond-NA and what is tracked by Bookscan.

    If you don’t want to post publicly, you can PM me on twitter (davereadscomics) and I’ll keep your particulars confidential.

  6. I’m all for sharing info… Unfortunately, the numbers on several titles aren’t even close. I don’t know sales on all titles, but on the dozen I DO know, you’re off by anywhere from 50%-400%. That is: not one of these totals comes close to any hard numbers I happen to know. And the margin of error is all over the place.

    FWIW: your number on Rocket Girl vol 1 is about 25% of actual sales.

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