April 2013 Sales Figures.

Hi Everyone.

The sales figures for April 2013 are in, so here is the top 50:

For the full list, visit: http://www.comichron.com/monthlycomicssales/2013/2013-04.html

Scarlotte.

Gambit's sales figures always make me really nervous.

Marvel's really outselling DC. Perhaps I should consider changing teams. Where's my "I <3 Spidey" shirt.

@cassidy_orourke: I feel the same about Captain Marvel. :/

@v_scarlotte_rose: I think we have this convo every month lol

I think I've heard rumors that Captain Marvel is relatively safe, though.

Demon Knights' sales figures are depressing, to say the least.

@v_scarlotte_rose: @cassidy_orourke:

From what I've heard Marvel is really lenient when it comes to cancelling there titles...

@cassidy_orourke: Whoever it is running its' letters page says that there are no plans to cancel it, and that there are big plans for after the mini-event.

Has anything like than been mentioned in any Gambit issues?

@smashbrawler If I'm looking at it correctly, it seems to be the lowest selling New 52 title that isn't being cancelled. I'd be getting worried for its safety if I was a reader.

@battle_forum_junkie: Do you know what their 'danger zone' is? DCs is apparently under 20,000 to consider cancelling. Though Marvel don't have the limited number of ongoings that DC has, so I can understand that low selling Marvel titles would be safer than DCs.

@v_scarlotte_rose: Oh, I know it's a goner. Much like Frankenstein, Agent of SHADE and I, Vampire before, Demon Knights has been very fortunate so far, probably because of consistently positive reviews and a decent fan following. And much like those two other titles, it's totally getting cancelled. It's sad, but hardly surprising. Meanwhile, Teen Titans is outselling this series by a huge margin. Life sometimes sucks.

@smashbrawler: Yeah, it seems like a familiar name will always outsell a lesserknown, but higher quality product.

I don't read Teen Titans or Demon Knights, but I frequently hear that Titans is bad and Knights is good.

Two of my books Earth 2 at # 39 (45,468) and Flash at # 45 (42,079) made the top 50. I'm surprised Stormwatch at # 145 (13,626) didn't do better. It seemed like a lot of people were excited about the new Stormwatch team.

Yeah, and I also hear a few really good titles like Vibe and Batwing are in danger of getting cancelled because it's so high...

Where are the Injustice comics on there?

@lilben42:

@battle_forum_junkie:

Batwing seems to go by different rules though. It's been a very low seller for ages and there's no sign of it going. It got about 1,500 extra sales in April, probably because of the big Luke Fox reveal, but even with that it's still really low. It'll be interesting to see how sales will be affected by Luke being there.

oh!

Injustice made it top 100, this is the first Digital-first comic book to do that

I really doubt that the increase on Batwing will stick

@arnoldoaad: Do you mean this series or #4 itself? Because #1 Got to 96 with it's first issue in January.

I kinda doubt it too, unless they manage to do something really special with the series.

I didnt knew that, I just knew that digital-first comics never reach the top 100 and Injustice was really close on doing it.

Yeah, there is nothing really special about Batwing, the concept is less original than before

Sorry... I don't actually read the comics so I don't what the "Luke Fox reveal" is...

Thanks for sharing the sales figures, though. :)

Number 1, Batman, of course lol.

@battle_forum_junkie: They replaced David Zavimbe as Batwing with Luke Fox, son of Lucius.

I have no idea why they did this though. If the character isn't good enough to have his own series, why not just cancel it? Seems like an odd decision to me.

@v_scarlotte_rose:

That's cool. but, yeah, it does seem a little weird.

@the_stegman: I'm actually a little surprised to see Batman at number 1. Despite having sold many more issues in previous months, this is the first time this series has been at Number 1 since #1 in September 2011.

I wonder if Marvel expected Thanos Rising to sell more than it did. It seems that since the start of Marvel Now, they've been releasing a big name #1 every month, possibly so they can get the best seller time after time.

That's a pretty unimpressive top 20 quality wise. But I am super excited for how well Jupiter's Legacy did. I was not expecting that. Leave it to my boy Millar to make an indy book break the top 3.

Alright batman deadpool and Nightwing are safe phew!

I have to admit I'm surprised. I always monitor the numbers to see where Avengers Arena is (even though they've just confirmed it's going for at least ten more issues... which is more than are even out yet). Expected a bump at issue 7. Not only was there none, but the numbers have actually continued to decline (by almost 4,000 readers from 6 to 8 -- 11.8%, to be exact). Anyhow, thanks as ever for the reminder the numbers are out ^_^

March 75. Avengers Arena 6 - 31,617

April 71. Avengers Arena 7 - 29,784

April 77. Avengers Arena 8 - 27,900

Daredevil not in the top 50. That should be a crime...

Nice to see he Guardians o the galaxey are doing really week I was on the fence about it but after the few issues I'm really getting into it.

@v_scarlotte_rose: Okay thanks.

Wonder Woman's only on 45,000+ sales. It's a shame really as it's one of DC's better titles. Likewise TMNT being on 20,000 is a shame as that's really good too. Surprised to see Jupiter's Legacy rising to 3rd place so quickly.

I am so happy you have continued to do this!

I am not so happy about Journey Into Mystery -- but oh well, que sera sera.

I don't understand the internet rants and bashes for such series/stories/whatever like Superior SM, Age of Ultron, Uncanny X-Men, Wolverine and the X-Men, but they end up being top sellers. WHAT?

*I just saw (agent) Venom & Scarlet Spider sales*

WUHAATT!

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Batman held the 2nd place from issue #1 while the the 1st place has always changed continuously so it was just a matter of time for it take the 1st place.