Top Selling Comics & Publisher Market Share: March 2014

Glad to see Silver Surfer had a good month.

Stray Bullets sure did well.

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I'm sad that Moon Knight #1 wasn't up there

That is a surprisingly large difference in dollar and unit share between Marvel and DC.

thought superior 30 wold have sold more. super excited for 31

I figured the delay would bump the demand for Overture down. It says something about the quality of the property that it didn't.

Damn DC took top 4. Nice. Sandman sold real good. wow. Awesome to see Daredevil and Silver Sufer make in in top 10, no no Moon Knight? damn.

I thought the same.

Not really surprising. Marvel releases like 100 books and a lot of they are bi-weekly and also 7/8 Marvel books are 4$ while DC has mostly 3$ comics

It makes me so happy seeing a Superman title so high :)

I love Unchained!

I'm glad to see Superman Unchained sold so well. It's a top notch book and I can't wait to actually read the latest issue.

Plus Marvel titles are more consistent across the top 50, DC titles tend to wane in popularity after there big guns.

@captainhoopla: canceling a book and immediately relaunch it with a new number one or in this particular case, launching new number one books, feed the speculators and the hype of the fans, generating that gap between the Big Two.

Also still a shame that Valiant is not on that chart :(

Marvel still kicking DC's ass.

@madeinbangladesh: Actually Marvel shipped out less titles then DC last month. Marvel 75 to DC 84 I think it said.

@nahuel: I agree with you. I'm sure all of the new number ones played a big part in the difference. The bad news with that success is that the renumbering and relaunching likely won't be going away anytime soon.

@madeinbangladesh: Actually DC released 84 books compared to 75 for Marvel.

All I know is that is by far one of the biggest percentage differences I think I've seen between the big two.

No mention of Valiant. Very depressing.

Interesting.

This is a good case of DC and Marvel winning. Both fanbases should be happy about that.

lol.....

top 4 spots = DC comics....Quality (DC) > Quantity (Marvel)....it's the truth...don't get your jimmies rustled...

Damn straight.

Lol, yeah, Marvel sold 10% more comics. Quality = Review and Quantity = Top selling and market share. Review are showing what's good comics, selling a lot of comics from one title doesn't equal quality. No one can read the title before buying it.

Very interesting. Especially that DC has 4 of the top 5 books but is losing by a decent chunk in overall market share. I think that speaks to Marvel's ability to get people interested in the second tier characters (i.e. characters that aren't Batmen or Spidermen). I'd love to see digital sales factored into this.

Also would Forever evil just end already, damn.

@cheesesticks:

@farkam said:

@cheesesticks said:

Marvel still kicking DC's ass.

Damn straight.

@mxyzptlk_cv said:

@cheesesticks said:

Marvel still kicking DC's ass.

lol.....

top 4 spots = DC comics....Quality (DC) > Quantity (Marvel)....it's the truth...don't get your jimmies rustled...

Neil Gaiman and Scott Snyder > Every Writer of Marvel.....You can deny it, but it's still the truth....

Superman Unchained on second place?Thank God.

Lemire >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Snyder

I know I've said it before, but I love how SSM is constantly in the top ten despite the hate it gets. People can say whatever they want, but it's a quality series.

*Faceplams so hard my hand goes through my head.*

Yep..if one actually cares who "wins"...apparently, some do. I don't know about you guys, but who wins in comic sales between Marvel and DC (Or Valiant and Image) makes zero difference in my life. I've given both companies plenty of my money over the years. If I worked for Marvel or DC, then these numbers might mean something, beyond being fun to check out.

Yes it's true scott snyder>any marvel writer, u mad marvel fanboys?

DC really needs to put out more #1's, marvel pushes out a crapload of them and people buy the hell out of them, sure it's gimmicky and cheap but it clearly works

I'm sure Marvel got a pretty big boost with the "All-New Marvel Now" and all them #1's,

and they still couldn't bring down Batman, Superman, Forever Evil, or the Sandman. Interesting.

Nice. DC took the top four.

Only issue is three of the top four are ending really soon so besides for batman DC has to up their game to keep their slots.

LOL, marvel owning dollar share doesnt mean theyre kicking DCs ass. Marvel relaunches titles likes it no ones business, they have 10 avenger books that sell because avengers is in the name, and they have more 3.99 books

Batman still owns comic books, when was the last time batman wasnt the number one selling book?

i don't care for the dc/marvel feud, pretty retarded if you ask me.

Yet you take part in it. tsk tsk.

agreed, The feud is tiresome especially when it comes to films. Just enjoy what you enjoy stop hating people!

@savagedragon:

I don't think it's always hating. I mean sure in extreme cases its hating which does generally make up crazy posts of this sucks or that sucks, but sometimes its just out of fun. lol I remember saying Sonic is better than Mario! Good memories, haha.

@savagedragon: Just enjoy what you enjoy stop hating people!

This.

@i3io_hazard: Slott>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Snyder.

Oh that's a good joke, tell me another one

@farkam: you call that taking part? i was explaining to fanboys why their remarks were wrong? and the second was just an observation.

my pull list consists of equal marvel and DC titles

lol ya, I don't think I'd call Forever Evil "quality." In fact, most of the "New" 52 is pretty mediocre. Meanwhile, Marvel NOW has been killing it in terms of quality. A few duds here and there, but generally much better than DC. And they didn't have to do a half-a**ed reboot to do it.

I can't get over that comic enough. The combination of art and story telling is completely off the charts. I don't even have proper words to do it justice.

Imagine if DC had put Snyder and Lee on Superman or Action Comics. Instead of, that is, creating another title which takes away production resources for other great characters

Extoll its virtues that they may; defenders can't negate the fact that DC has every excuse to put top talent on flagship titles. It's not to the level of Marvel by any means but DC clearly whiffs on an opportunity to add to the great tradition of creators crafting story-arcs that add to its history.

Creating new titles featuring new characters (or under-used ones) is a perfect way to bring in new readers and have a big tent for everyone to gather under. Supes though, isn't wanting for titles or exposure. What flagship titles do deserve - is top tier talent being contracted for a book which will hold weight. It's a shame for those of us whom act not only as readers - but collectors.

That's a huge gap between DC and Marvel, really though it was going to be close for DC :( I hope animal-man's last issue sold a lot, it usually doesn't sell too much.

Batman #29 costs five dollars?!! Holy crud!

Also- What publisher is TOP?

@flying_j87: Jeez, DC fans are grasping at straws lmao. DC puts out more books (quantity) and Marvel still has a 10%+ greater share of the market. Simple truth, while DC has some great talent and titles, Marvel has a bunch. If DC wins in the top 5, but Marvel dominates the top 30? Pretty clear who is putting out the greater number of "quality" titles. Truth.

Marvel consistently outsells DC by about these numbers... except for the first few months of the DC reboot.

Quite frankly I'm shocked that DC captured the top 4 slots. Superman Unchained is a gimmicky retread of old stories and Forever Evil really is taking FOR EVER.

Batman? Sure thing. Batman can be a quality comic and usually is. Sandman? Sure thing - it has an audience.

But DC has been systematically mishandling about everything outside of the Justice League books (counting Batman and a few Superman books in here) nu52wise.

In contrast I do worry that Marvel's mishandling the F4 since Hickman left and they've stumbled a bit on their big Inhuman rollout... but apart from the occasional good book getting canned because of lack of sales (Defenders, before that Defenders, so forth and so on) Marvel really does seem to be more fun.

Compare Teen Titans (ending because sales won't support this popular franchise!) to Avengers Arena (ended because it was scheduled to end and has a new sequel coming out). Both featured teenage characters, although Marvels skewed almost entirely to the "new character" angle, featuring the cast of the horrible Avengers Academy, the quality but somehow not still ongoing Runaways, and a host of NEW characters and one-shot quality old characters. Both featured a bad guy pitting good guys against one another.

Avengers Arena was never my favorite book of the month, but it was entertaining and interesting and did a lot of good character development (certainly more than in all of the issues of Avengers Academy... sorry chumps). In contrast Teen Titans has pretty much ruined every single character on the team, from douche Raven to douche Kid Flash to douche that girl who likes kid flash and murders optionally to hang out with him to kicking out the gay kid for no reason to losing the bug lady and never mentioning her again.

Oh, and then there's the fact that a nearly decade old Teen Titan show was so popular and well conceived that it spawned a spinoff (well, the comedy shorts spawned a full series). When you compare the animated Teen Titans series to the current nu52 one... it's like spring vs being hit in the teeth with a wrench.

Agreed. And as someone whose favourite characters are from DC, seeing the low quality in the last few years breaks my heart. Seeing how DC treats many of its writers (the ones not named Johns, Morrison, or more recently Snyder and Lemire) just angers me.

Can't we be happy that comics are still selling. Instead of playing this ego war.