Top 11 comics for April all over 100k

[drew]

Wow-mostly returnable comics but still great numbers

Comic-book Title Issue Price Publisher Est. sales
1 Star Wars 4 $3.99 Marvel 203,817
2 Convergence 0* $4.99 DC 143,053
3 Convergence 1* $4.99 DC 132,747
4 Batman 40 $4.99 DC 131,128
5 Darth Vader 4 $3.99 Marvel 123,394
6 Convergence 2* $3.99 DC 111,760
7 Convergence 3* $3.99 DC 109,388
8 Kanan Last Padawan 1 $3.99 Marvel 108,167
9 Convergence 4* $3.99 DC 106,131
10 Princess Leia 3 $3.99 Marvel 102,434
11 Spider-Gwen 3 $3.99 Marvel 102,234

[SpideySavestheDay]

A surprise is Marvel and DC are neck-and-neck and DC had fewer books on the list. Maybe the New52 was weighing DC down? I don't remember the last event (Forever Evil) being as successful.

Looking forward to John and Sam's dissection of the numbers.

[JohnMayo]

I've got the full set of data (and my article) both here on the website and at ComicBookResources.

[fudd71]

A surprise is Marvel and DC are neck-and-neck and DC had fewer books on the list. Maybe the New52 was weighing DC down? I don't remember the last event (Forever Evil) being as successful.

Looking forward to John and Sam's dissection of the numbers.

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[drew]

We are recording fairly soon, if anyone has questions about this or anything else, please post them.

Whens the last time we had 11 titles over the century mark?

[clobberin_time_bs]

Did any of the Convergence titles that had comparable New 52 titles see a bump in sales? With Harley Quinn so close to Convergence Harley Quinn on the list you can see that at least that title dipped a bit in sales for Convergence.

[drew]

Did any of the Convergence titles that had comparable New 52 titles see a bump in sales? With Harley Quinn so close to Convergence Harley Quinn on the list you can see that at least that title dipped a bit in sales for Convergence.

These five did pretty well
17 Convergence Harley Quinn 1 $3.99 DC 69,838
22 Convergence Justice League 1 $3.99 DC 62,916
25 Convergence Batman Shadow of the Bat 1 $3.99 DC 58,693
26 Convergence Batman & Robin 1 $3.99 DC 56,720
27 Convergence Detective Comics 1 $3.99 DC 56,522

[NiklasJ]

Nice to see more comics over the 100k mark

Are there more positive delta sales among the top comics than usually?

nice reordering on starwars/vader/spidergwen/tmnt

would it really have been to much of a fuss to have Conway doing the Amazing SpiderMan Spiral as a miniseries instead of these x.1s (could say the same about avengers ultron forever specials and recent spider/inhuman/falcap specials) and I dont even know how to formulate the weirdness of beginning to sell Convergence at #0...

[Perseus]

Where to start on the comic sales..

Wow, Um Star Wars rules. With regular sales and reordering activity. Great job to Disney and Marvel on the Star Wars books.

Here's a question. Did Dark Horse ever have a Star Wars title that did these kinds of sales numbers consistently? Why couldn't they produce the same kind of numbers? Is it pure marketing by Disney/Marvel? Star Wars is a household name.

Nice numbers for Kanan: The Last Padawan! We picked that comic up on FCBD. Kanan is an awesome character from Star Wars: Rebels on Disney XD. Watch the show if you haven't. It's great stuff!

Also, I'm interested in wondering just how many Convergence issues are sitting at the LCS shops around the country. Given the mixed reviews on the main title, I'm wondering how many Convergence issues will be gathering dust at the shops. I'll have to check mine and ask my friend how his sales were.

John, here's one for you. #132 and #133, Spider-Man and the X-men. Are we seeing low numbers there because of Secret Wars coming up? Or is it a bad book? Those two properties are the most popular at Marvel, so putting them together should be great numbers on paper. What do you think?

John and Sam, why did Multiversity #2 take such a huge hit? Did Convergence prove to readers that Multiversity doesn't matter? Morrison books do not take that big of drops in my opinion.

Spider-Gwen doing really well. I haven't read this book. Is it worth a try?

Kudos to Valiant for Bloodshot: Reborn. Nice numbers for that #1.

TMNT #45 did nice numbers after 44. #43 had 14,551 units in February. 45 now at 20,158. I know it was a drop from 44, but that issue had multiple printings. I think that's a gain for that book. The last Technodrome story arc was phenomenal. Wondering if they are going to relaunch after #50.

#217 Sonic Universe #75. Doubled their unit sales. They also had multiple covers , 9 to be exact. It was also the 75th issue. Next issue will be the Sonic/Mega Man Worlds Unite crossover. The previous crossover, Worlds Collide, was supposed to be a great set of issues.