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52 sold extremely well (Every month each week was in the top 10 I believe, could be top 15 some months) of comics sold. Each issue sold roughly 75-100k copies. For agruements sake let's round up to 100,000 copies of all 52 issues were sold. That 5,200,000 copies total. At 2.50(america) a piece, thats 13,000,000$ made off the series. Not too shabby. Now, I know this isn't exact, and theres the cost of printing and all the people associated with it getting checks and blah blah blah. Main point is there was ~13million USD brought in from 52.
I can't tell you if Countdown and 52 are going to be similar in any way other than being weekly comics, but from the looks of it, it's 32 pages long. Just like nearly every book out there. The only difference, is instead of comming once a month, it's comming every week.
If we assume it's going to sell roughly the same as 52 (will likely do better, imo, as many people were afraid of jumping on 52 just incase the shipping got screwed up), at another 5.2million copies. At 2.99$ USD a piece thats 15,548,000$ brought in. Roughly 2.5million MORE.
Now, I mean, what's .50$ an issue to most of us? Is that the mentality that DC had when they decided to put it at 3$ a piece? That we wouldn't really notice the extra 2$ a week comming out of our comics, and they would definatly notice the extra two and a half million? Or is my math totally wrong, or DC is doing it for other reasons?
I can't tell you if Countdown and 52 are going to be similar in any way other than being weekly comics, but from the looks of it, it's 32 pages long. Just like nearly every book out there. The only difference, is instead of comming once a month, it's comming every week.
If we assume it's going to sell roughly the same as 52 (will likely do better, imo, as many people were afraid of jumping on 52 just incase the shipping got screwed up), at another 5.2million copies. At 2.99$ USD a piece thats 15,548,000$ brought in. Roughly 2.5million MORE.
Now, I mean, what's .50$ an issue to most of us? Is that the mentality that DC had when they decided to put it at 3$ a piece? That we wouldn't really notice the extra 2$ a week comming out of our comics, and they would definatly notice the extra two and a half million? Or is my math totally wrong, or DC is doing it for other reasons?
