According to RHatO sales:
Sept 2011 – 50,501
Oct 2011 – 53,444
Nov 2011 – 45,126
Dec 2011 – 39,850
Jan 2012 – 38,304
April 2012 – 34,177
May 2012 – 48,798 (Night of the Owls crossover)
June 2012 – 37,044
Aug 2012 – 34,439Aquaman sold 72,272 copies when it first debut last Sept. Aug 2012’s sales has it at 61,210 copies.
Teen Titans sold 73,675 when it debut last Sept. In Aug 2012, it sold around 42,817 copies.
Superboy sold 50,047 in its debut. In July 2012, its last issue before switching writers sold 29,677.
#comics #comic books #the rate of decline in comic sales is interesting #i’d like to see the grade of decline across the board and not just for lobdell’s books #but like it has to sting when aquaman is doing better than your big book #just because of how people talk about the character
Red hood lost 31.81% of its initial buyers
Teen Titans lost 41.88%
Superboy lost 40.7%
Aquaman only lost 15.31%
I agree with Z’s tags I would like to see the rate of decline for the rest of the books and the rate of decline of sales is really interesting. I want to see the numbers for Batman and Detective comics. I want to know how raising to price of those books affected sales.
yeah this is interesting because just looking at the numbers you can see rhato and other lobdell books aint doin so great but it’s important to compare that to other dc books because i mean, dc on a whole aint doin so great, so how much of it is lobdell and how much of it is the broken sale model
LOLLLL
1: The fact that Lobdell books aren’t top sellers makes me super happy.
2: The fact that DC isn’t doing well as a whole makes me happy. I think they’re going to have to hit rock bottom before they start actually listening to what their fans want.
3: I’m super happy that Aquaman is finally being taken care of properly and is being decently received (he’s such a great character, I’ve been trying to tell people this for years).