Wonder Woman Sales Figure Discussion

[americanwonder]

I wondered if it might be a typo or calculation error, but it probably would have been corrected by now. Someone attributed it to the variant covers (Mad Magazine and We Can Be Heroes); that seems like the most plausible explanation, even if they didn't help other comics as much.

ETA--Was Wonder Woman the only comic with a We Can Be Heroes blank variant in April? If so, then that's probably the explanation, as Tim Hanley suggests ( http://thanley.wordpress.com/ ). His May prediction of 37,650 (down 2% from March) seems about right.

Thanks for the info, didn't know about the variant cover. Still, seems like a big jump up (imo) even with a variant cover. Not complaining; good cause, good for WW. Win-win. Hopefully some readers will stick around.

[brettc1]

Am still thinking its the faux crossover with Superman.

[slvn]

Am still thinking its the faux crossover with Superman.

I hope you're right, because that could mean that some of the boost would last at least through this month, when Orion is still in Superman. Hanley says that the "We Can Be Heroes" blank covers have routinely brought a sales jump, though, and that would be a one-month deal, so I'm not counting on this to continue.

[brettc1]

I hope you're right, because that could mean that some of the boost would last at least through this month, when Orion is still in Superman. Hanley says that the "We Can Be Heroes" blank covers have routinely brought a sales jump, though, and that would be a one-month deal, so I'm not counting on this to continue.

Logically (to a guy who literally just woke up) if it were the cover there would be a pattern indicating big sales jumps in all of the books in the 30k range as people scramble to get the full set. Did we see that? I don't know.

[slvn]

Logically (to a guy who literally just woke up) if it were the cover there would be a pattern indicating big sales jumps in all of the books in the 30k range as people scramble to get the full set. Did we see that? I don't know.

Just to clarify: Wonder Woman had two different variant covers (besides the normal cover) last month: the We Can be Heroes blank cover, and the Mad Magazine Cover.

It's the We Can Be Heroes variant that looks like it might be responsible for the sales boost. Wonder Woman was, if I'm right, the only book with a "We Can Be Heroes" blank variant cover in April 2013. So, it is "the full set," by itself (for that month). According to Tim Hanley, this blank variant has caused other books to have good sales boosts when they've had it in the past, but I don't have first-hand knowledge or details. Apparently, people like to get these blank covers and then bring them to conferences or other creator appearances and get sketches or signatures on them.

Wonder Woman also had a Mad Magazine variant, but most of the other comics with those did not get a boost, so I'm assuming (as is Hanley) that that's not the reason for Wonder Woman's success.