ICv2.com on December in the DM

You know the drill by now. The comics business analysis site ICv2.com has its December numbers for the comic book direct market up in the form of a lead article, an analysis article, a list of the top 300 comics, and a list of top 100 graphic novels.

While it's interesting to note how well the Brian Bendis-written New Avengers #1 (pictured) did as a measure of how much the direct market can likely handle of a single book (I'm terrible at guessing these things, but 350,000 for the first issue of the forthcoming Frank Miller/Jim Lee Batman collaboration would seem possible, right?), on a first glance these are the numbers that jumped out at me.

* The #10 book faded to 88,960; the #25 book was at 50,691; the #50 book was at 33,744.
* Nine out of 100 comic books in the top 100 managed somehow not to be published by Marvel or DC; half of those slipped in at 90-100.
* Apparently Y the Last Man and Fables are the Vertigo flagship titles right now; I think I knew half of that.

To avoid looking past the obvious, the sales on New Avengers #1 are also a fine measure of Bendis' market power at this point in time.
 
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