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Babos · Red Shirt Joined: 26 Dec 2011 Posts: 21

What does "success" fopr IDW look for its respective titles? I can't imagine they expec to do DC or Marvel #'s. Is 10K in sales success?

Also, how do their tpbs do? I imagine CCW will sell well.
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shanecdavis · Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 7:43 am Post subject:

No worries about the rant, Phil. Hell, I went on one myself after reading the last two pages of Joe #8. We are passionate about our Joes.

Phil Kost · Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 7:50 am Post subject:

Torpedo · Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 8:40 am Post subject:

I did not get the print copies for the CCW eighth issues, but I did get them all digitally for the same $3.99 cover price. That'll translate as a drop (albeit by one) in the Diamond figures, but not in the actual readership or sales.
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ER · Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 4:17 pm Post subject:

Thanks for posting the Nov numbers Phil! Yeah, sad to see all 4 titles below 10,000.

I'm not worried about Joe comics going away anytime soon, however. IDW's Star Trek titles had sold well below 10,000 for the last three years as a rule and IDW never dropped it. And now two Star Trek titles are doing very well. If IDW didn't drop Star Trek after years of being down in 6,000 and 7,000 territory then why would they cancel Joe?

As long as there are FOUR ongoing Joe titles I think it's safe to assume that sales for Joe are healthy when factoring in digital sales, trade sales, international sales, subscriptions directly from IDW, etc. Heck, if we only had three ongoing titles I'd assume that the franchise was doing well. If IDW cuts down the product to one monthly and the diamond numbers on it continue to drop then I'd worry.

That said, it would be great to see the diamond numbers go back into 5-digit territory. I say we get some kind of fan-based campaigns going to make sure the word is out on how awesome the new Joe books are. Especially ARAH. Since August I have been enjoying ARAH more than all three reboot titles put together. And I don't mean that as a slam against the reboot, it's just that the Hamaverse is currently that good Very Happy

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Eagleyes · Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 8:42 pm Post subject:

Of all 4 titles, if 1 was to stay, my vote would be for Cobra.

ER · Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 9:18 pm Post subject:

A year ago I would have agreed with you when we were getting the amazing Cobra #10-13 arc.

But looking at the four titles from May onward (May was a new beginning for all four, even ARAH because the horrific Dark SE/ Dr. Billy plot finally was over) I'd say that ARAH has been the strongest title, with Snake-Eyes as the runner-up.
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Phil Kost · Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 4:56 am Post subject:

Rockhammer · Transforumer Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 706

I expect the ARAH numbers to rise in comparison to Dixon's G.i.Joe now that the CCW is over, and the much vaunted tightening of the reboot book storylines will take place.

I can see several more people dropping all the reboot books because of not being able to follow the story without buying them all. Whereas, ARAH will be unaffected by this.

So better said, I predict the ARAH numbers will remain more or less unchanged, whereas I expect to see all reboot book numbers drop, starting with issue 9.

ARAH will likely retake the within-IDW lead. I don't expect IDW will give up the license without a fight, either.

And let's not forget that the Transformers #s have dropped alarmingly since "All Hail Megatron." Many readers can't stand the current monthly (take a trip to the IDW TF boards if you don't believe me).
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m6d · Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 11:44 am Post subject:

If a tree falls down in the forest and is made into paper to print ARAH, but no one is reading it, does it still count a canon? Laughing

Sad to see Joe brought this low. Time to take Ole Yeller out back behind the woodshed.

Just get the last two Classic trades out before you do, though.

Mamu_Nestor · Transforumer Joined: 23 Feb 2011 Posts: 1015 Location: TX

And the yearbook collection too.... Though I would still like it to reach 200 before it goes.
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abner419 · Forum Zombie Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 419

Anyone have a guess as to what the largest print run was during the Marvel series? I'm going to guess it would have been sometime between issues 35 and 65 maybe???

Safe to say the lowest print run was issue 155???

Just nosey!

Torpedo · Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 2:23 pm Post subject:

Well, at some point during the #40's they made the call to start a second series (Special Missions), and after a while, that went monthly and the main title went bi-weekly, right? I think I heard that 1987 was the biggest year for Joe merchandizing and retail, but I don't remember where I heard that. Probably here.
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Jim · Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 2:43 pm Post subject:

I can tell you that GI Joe #35 was at #17 in the top 100 comics that month, with the previous issue having been at #24. I have a scan of an old top 100 from whatever month/year that was. No sales figures as such, but it says the average number of issues "sold per store" was 52.8. To put that in some perspective X-Men #193 was at #1 and sold 186.56 copies per store in the US.
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