Detective Comics Scores First #1?

Numbers guru John Jackson Miller has written up his piece on April's comics sales, and one thing he notes that's hugely amusing is that this may be the first time in the history of comics sales that Detective Comics held the #1 position. This is remarkable from a few angles. One is that Detective Comics never accidentally ended up #1 at some point over the years, another is that of the two caped-crusader main titles Batman seems to have been the home of most of the obvious contenders for #1 in the character's history, but most of all it's just fascinating to have a comic that dang old hit #1 on the charts. It's sort of like Mickey Rooney punching to the top of the film box office numbers.

Miller also notes that after running a comparison between 2009 and 1994 -- before Marvel split off and therefore a time when there were a metric ton of comics coming out under the full-steam-ahead engine created in the late 1980s and geared up in the early 1990s, the market wasn't any more or less top-heavy than it is now. Not to any reasonable extent. According to Miller, the top 61 books accounted for half of all unit sales within the Top 300 comics list in 1994; the top 58 books accounted for half of all unit sales within the Top 300 comics list now.
 
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