Iron Man #1 Top Selling Comic (October 2015)

[Spider-Aziz]

Comic sale figures Octorber 2015.

1 Invincible Iron Man 1 $3.99 Marvel 279,514
2 Amazing Spider-Man 1 $5.99 Marvel 245,873
3 Spider-Gwen 1 $3.99 Marvel 197,103
4 Secret Wars 6 $3.99 Marvel 192,244
5 Doctor Strange 1 $4.99 Marvel 145,456
6 Star Wars 10 $3.99 Marvel 134,613
7 Chewbacca 1 $3.99 Marvel 122,952
8 Star Wars: Shattered Empire 2 $3.99 Marvel 119,508
9 Guardians of Galaxy 1 $3.99 Marvel 118,342
10 Amazing Spider-Man 2 $3.99 Marvel 111,322
11 Batman 45 $3.99 DC 109,367
12 Star Wars: Shattered Empire 3 $3.99 Marvel 105,496
13 Star Wars: Shattered Empire 4 $3.99 Marvel 105,284
14 Uncanny Avengers 1 $4.99 Marvel 105,234
15 Darth Vader 10 $3.99 Marvel 94,372
16 Darth Vader 11 $3.99 Marvel 92,866
17 Uncanny Inhumans 1 $4.99 Marvel 90,528
18 Avengers 0 $5.99 Marvel 80,722
19 Contest of Champions 1 $4.99 Marvel 79,873
20 Justice League 45 $3.99 DC 77,192
21 Batman and Robin Eternal 1 $3.99 DC 76,882
22 Astonishing Ant-Man 1 $3.99 Marvel 75,598
23 Paper Girls 1 $2.99 Image 75,585
24 Chewbacca 2 $3.99 Marvel 74,311
25 New Avengers 1 $3.99 Marvel 71,243
26 Walking Dead 147 $2.99 Image 67,056
27 Back to the Future 1 $3.99 IDW 67,015
28 Invincible Iron Man 2 $3.99 Marvel 66,664

But of course, there is the drop in sales for the next issue of both Iron Man and Amazing Spider-Man series, to illustrate the sale drop.

 

[Webhead2006]

Ouch on iron man drop. But still marvel all top ten sellers lol.

 

[Gee]

Nothing surprising about issues #2 dropping hard just like the second episode of a new TV series.

And of course, #1's sell... I wouldn't be surprised if Marvel will relaunch their series every year like seasonal shows.

 

[Themanofbat]

They should just eliminate numbering and go with month/year like magazines do...

 

[Themanofbat]

Geebus... Marvel takes 21 spots in the top 25
DC takes 3 and Image gets 1...

 

[The Batman]

They should just eliminate numbering and go with month/year like magazines do...

Yup, and only mention a number when they've reached a milestone issue.

 

[Webhead2006]

Watch issue 4 go up with the whole mj stuff.

Umm if I recall a recent interview from a Month or two from either joe q or someone else at marvel. Pretty much said they are no longer interested in legacy numbering. Minus fir special one off times like when a book be it like uncanny xmen or amazing spiderman reach x hundred it be we are likely never going to have triple digit numbers for the core in continuity books. And they want to treat it more like tv seasons.

My only jists with that is in the credits page they should mention what vol a book is in. Then just release date. As for a serirs like say captain america or ironman or hulk whole gone through 4 to 5 volumes in past 50 yrs. Hard to try to go back and say hey I want this vol and issues at your local shop.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

They should just eliminate numbering and go with month/year like magazines do...

Yup, and only mention a number when they've reached a milestone issue.

I like seeing the issue number on the cover.

... Marvel takes 21 spots in the top 25
DC takes 3 and Image gets 1...

Impressive, ain't it?
And 8 of the titles are Star Wars.

 

[Webhead2006]

for me i would just love to have vol numbering along with cover number too. So on the collecting side, or to back track a series be easier.

 

[The Amazing Lee]

I think they should just get rid of any indication of issue number, date what so ever and just let confused fans work it out as they go along.

 

[Themanofbat]

I like seeing the issue number on the cover.

As do I, but I'm not a fan of seeing the #9 every other year.

 

[hippie_hunter]

Geebus... Marvel takes 21 spots in the top 25
DC takes 3 and Image gets 1...

Not really that surprising when Marvel has the Star Wars line and is starting to relaunch their entire comics line. It's really no different than that time when not a single Marvel comic topped Aquaman of all comics. I would say the only real difference IMO is that Marvel's position is far more artificial than the other publishers. You're not seeing DC, Image, Dark Horse, Archie, or IDW constantly relaunch their entire lines just to keep interest while Marvel has consistently relaunched their lines in some fashion with Marvel NOW!, All-New Marvel NOW!, Avengers NOW!, and now All-New, All-Different Marvel.

 

[Webhead2006]

Ya but dc goes through half a dozen relaunchs every 5 to 8 yrs

 

[Spider-Aziz]

As do I, but I'm not a fan of seeing the #9 every other year.

I understand, and agree.

 

[hippie_hunter]

Ya but dc goes through half a dozen relaunchs every 5 to 8 yrs

No they don't.

 

[Mike Murdock]

FWIW, if they do regular relaunches, five years strikes me as a reasonable minimum. Don't do it every one or two years, though. There's no reason it has to be company-wide, though. Just relaunch it with a new creative team.

 

[Webhead2006]

And technically speaking marvel hasn't done a flat out reboot slate clean deal as dc has done so many times from the 80s to now. Marvel just retcon certain things. And really in the past few yrs with now era it's just reading books as history still in tact and all. The problem is just re numbering to 1 again.

 

[Havok83]

Amazing numbers for Spider-Gwen. People love her

 

[Gee]

Amazing numbers for Spider-Gwen. People love her

And I wouldn't be surprised if Gwenpool becomes canon.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

And I wouldn't be surprised if Gwenpool becomes canon.

I forgot that thing is real.

and

 

[Webhead2006]

who knows for all we know it can still just be a one off thing. Or she is on a different universe and only see once in awhile.

 

[def28]

Those are insane numbers for Iron Man #1. How many variants did he have? Would think that had to play an integral part looking at that steep drop.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I think Marvel should just follow the model of Atomic Robo, Hellboy, and some other indies and just do recurring mini-series for their characters. I'm not a huge fan of treating each and every arc as its own separate story, but they're practically relaunching within 6 to 12 issues most of the time anyway. Just throw some subtitles in there and mark the trades with volume numbers. They can get their periodic #1 boosts, more easily swap creators around because they'll have logical stopping and starting points, etc.

 

[hippie_hunter]

So I took a look at this months numbers and honestly, I think that despite Marvel pulling in the majority of sales due to All-New, All-Different Marvel and Star Wars, their relaunch numbers are horrible.

Captain America for Marvel NOW! launched at 123,667 and All-New Captain America for Avengers NOW! launched at 120,500. Sam Wilson, Captain America launched at 63,535 and the second issue dropped to 40,224, already at territory where All-New Captain America ended at 38,199.

Invincible Iron Man started off higher than the Marvel NOW!'s Iron Man (116,529) and Avengers NOW!'s Superior Iron Man (83,994) relaunches, but the second issue's drop was waaaay further than either of those books and is already on track to repeat the performance of Superior Iron Man.

New Avengers for Marvel NOW! launched at 116,280. New Avengers for All-New, All-Different Marvel launched at about half that at 71,243. Much closer to where the previous volume ended at 55,437.

Marvel has abused the #1 relaunch to a point where #1s really don't mean anything at all anymore. Frankly IMO, especially with the $3.99 price point now being the norm and Marvel trying to push the $4.99 price point, it's time to put an end to the constant Marvel launches and double shipping. All-New, All-Different Marvel is not DC's The New 52 or Archie's reboot where they cleanly rebooted their line and for the most part have stuck with the numbering of their reboots, this is Marvel doing yet another pointless #1 and this time, the continuity is all muddled up.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

I think Marvel should just follow the model of Atomic Robo, Hellboy, and some other indies and just do recurring mini-series for their characters. I'm not a huge fan of treating each and every arc as its own separate story, but they're practically relaunching within 6 to 12 issues most of the time anyway. Just throw some subtitles in there and mark the trades with volume numbers. They can get their periodic #1 boosts, more easily swap creators around because they'll have logical stopping and starting points, etc.

I like this.
You should take this idea to Axel Alonso.