ICv2.com: February Big For Marvel

The comics business news and analysis site ICv2.com has their numbers and suite of numbers articles up for February in the Direct Market of comics shop and related hobby store accounts. The big news is that Marvel benefited greatly from the last issue of the delayed Civil War crossover series falling into the first month of their comic featuring Stephen King's Dark Tower property. This not only gave the House that Jack Built some heat in a winter doldrums month, but it allowed them a bigger margin than usual over rival DC Comics, which I guess gives them nyah-nyah rights for the next four weeks.

News Story
Analysis
Top 300 Comic Books
Top 100 Graphic Novels

Again, all of the usual caveats about the numbers apply, which are close estimates rather than absolutes and may not come as close as some would prefer to the overall numbers ordered on some titles that rely on re-orders rather than initial ones.

I'm not sure anything leaps out at me from the various article. The very old-fashioned The Brave and the Bold #1 showing up at 90K-plus is sort of like a Redford/Newman movie popping up at the move box office charts, I guess. A cursory glance at a list of comic books from five years ago suggests more and not less stability at the lower end of the rankings -- not something on which I would have won a bet. And while looking at those letter combination is enough to blind me after a few seconds, are there really only four non-Big Two books in the top 100?

the Marvel comic pictured above sold 5,605 copies
 
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