Sales Estimates for February 2012 - DC Maintains Top Ten, Marvel Tops Overall Sales

[CBR News]

Diamond has released its sales information for February, 2012, and John Mayo has crunched the numbers to find DC sweeping the Top Ten once again while Marvel leads in total dollars and sales


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[Drew Mathieu]

Well Songbird/Diamondback, Thunderbolts may not have cracked the top 100 but it is 101; that's something

[kitonok]

I'm worried about scarlet spider. Big drop. And it's my favorite new book.

[fredmanson]

As always, if we count the bi-weekly titles published from Marvel as they are counted now, AKA per issue, Marvel sells more than DC Comics.

But if we count these bi-weekly titles as one and only one title, not as individual issues but truly as title only, DC Comics sells more than Marvel.

The POV is completely biased by these kind of numbers. And it is only for the number of comic books sold for a month.

I do not speak about the share incomes for each of them, as there is more $3.99 titles published by Marvel in a month, with this two-issue-a-month concept. It brings more cash to Marvel of course.

Again, we can use these numbers in any ways we want to say hat we want to say, in final.

[Ari Gold]

I'm worried about scarlet spider. Big drop. And it's my favorite new book.

Woah, I hadn't even noticed how far Scarlet Spider fell. Yikes.

[President Kang]

Just wondering, in the trades "total reported est sales" izzat take into account since, uh, forever? Or at least when the book first hit TPB? Cuz I noticed Watchmen was at "252,162", which is still extremely impressive, but Walking Dead Vol. 1 is at "182,817", which is less than 100,000 than Watchmen trades total and Watchmen would have a, what, 2 decade lead of being in print longer than WD Vol. 1?

[Ari Gold]

Just wondering, in the trades "total reported est sales" izzat take into account since, uh, forever? Or at least when the book first hit TPB? Cuz I noticed Watchmen was at "252,162", which is still extremely impressive, but Walking Dead Vol. 1 is at "182,817", which is less than 100,000 than Watchmen trades total and Watchmen would have a, what, 2 decade lead of being in print longer than WD Vol. 1?

Maybe it's from the time they started keeping track which would just be within the last few years.

[thwhtGuardian]

Just wondering, in the trades "total reported est sales" izzat take into account since, uh, forever? Or at least when the book first hit TPB? Cuz I noticed Watchmen was at "252,162", which is still extremely impressive, but Walking Dead Vol. 1 is at "182,817", which is less than 100,000 than Watchmen trades total and Watchmen would have a, what, 2 decade lead of being in print longer than WD Vol. 1?

I believe the total sales column represents the number of copies sold since that volume was last printed, which is why the new entries, such as Batman Gates of Gotham, have the same number in both columns. That would mean that the 252,162 copies isn't what the Watchmen has sold since it was first published in the 80's but rather the number of copies the newest edition has sold. I don't know the date that edition was published but I'd assume it was sometime around when the Watchmen movie came out, so it's sold perhaps that many copies in three years.