CBR: Sales Estimates for July, 2011

[CBR News]

Marvel sees an influx of "Spider-Island" residents as "Amazing Spider-Man" #666 takes the title of Best Selling Comic in July with DC Comics' top performer, "Flashpoint" #3, landing at number four on the chart.


Full article here.

[Ish Kabbible]

Before people jump in with their comments of "This company outsells that company" or "This book outsells that" the only numbers that counts are up on the top of the article, another substancial drop to last years business in both comics and trades. Month after month, this trend continues and in this economy its beyond the point of ever changing. Its just a matter of time when Disney and Time/Warner orders their comic book divisions to dramatically scale back the number of books they produce. Refer to the DC Implosion of 1978 for an example.
I grew up when EVERY kid read comics. Those days well never be back sad but true. The DC restart shows how desperate its getting and believe me, Marvel publishing is feeling it as well.

[Heroid]

Before people jump in with their comments of "This company outsells that company" or "This book outsells that" the only numbers that counts are up on the top of the article, another substancial drop to last years business in both comics and trades. Month after month, this trend continues and in this economy its beyond the point of ever changing. Its just a matter of time when Disney and Time/Warner orders their comic book divisions to dramatically scale back the number of books they produce. Refer to the DC Implosion of 1978 for an example.
I grew up when EVERY kid read comics. Those days well never be back sad but true. The DC restart shows how desperate its getting and believe me, Marvel publishing is feeling it as well.

Yeah. When I was a kid, every convencience store and hardware store had a rack of comics. Every barber shop kept a stock. Now, you can only buy superhero comics at specialty stores that you may have to drive many, many miles to get to. Someday, the only comics you'll see published in hard-copy will be Archie Digest.

[dupont2005]

Before people jump in with their comments of "This company outsells that company" or "This book outsells that" the only numbers that counts are up on the top of the article, another substancial drop to last years business in both comics and trades. Month after month, this trend continues and in this economy its beyond the point of ever changing. Its just a matter of time when Disney and Time/Warner orders their comic book divisions to dramatically scale back the number of books they produce. Refer to the DC Implosion of 1978 for an example.
I grew up when EVERY kid read comics. Those days well never be back sad but true. The DC restart shows how desperate its getting and believe me, Marvel publishing is feeling it as well.

If that were true, I would view it as a good thing. Once upon a time the comics industry was not completely dominated by two publishers of a single narrow genre. To me, the numbers at the top do not matter, since I don't read any of them. Maybe there doesn't need to be 10 Batman titles and 20 X-titles.

[stelok]

The industry is a dying breed, because creativity is also running out or rather dying.

Spandex-clad superheroes have become too generic nowadays. I am a bit tired of reading how people fight, slash, fly or shoot beams of energy, etc.