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wizardru

Comics Dilemma in a Nutshell

Jul 13, 2010 14:42

Hey Marvel? Remember how you were making Spiderman make a deal with the devil to end his marriage and save his aunt? So you de-aged him and made him single to increase sales? You know, for the kids? People have been tracking sales and....uh, NO, NOT SO MUCH. As far as I can tell, all you did was alienate current readers and didn't pick up ANY ( Read more... )

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wizardru July 13 2010, 19:46:35 UTC

Suprisingly, I don't think so. It might have a diluting effect on OTHER titles, but the downward spiral has been for everyone. The numbers never show a sharp drop-off, just a steady decline.

Hell, Secret Wars II sold over 300K issues. Think about THAT. The sales numbers of today would have been cancellation numbers in the early 1980s. Spiderwoman's solo title in 1982 was bimonthly and cancelled...and it sold 100K.

In fact, looking at some of the monthly numbers, some of the secondary spidey titles sold TERRIBLY. In a month where Amazing sold 98K, Peter Parker sold 56K and Tangled Web sold 36K (2001). I know I was only buying one of the Spidey's at the time...the one JMS was doing. Apparently a lot of people were following suit.