With the exception of the Captain America issue, those books are all shiat, and the reason that we can't have nice things.



/and Slideshows suck, too.

I read:
Civil War #2
Captain America #25
Secret Invasion #1
Action Comics #1

loonatic112358: What is the best selling issue of all time though?

IIRC, Either Spider-Man #1 (1990) or X-Men #1 (1991).

That was at the beginning of the speculator boom. Those books are now worth approximately dick.

/The speculator boom led to the speculator bust, which is why comics are in the sad, gimmick driven shape they're in now... even though those gimmicks are what drove readers away. They learned nothing from the past except #1 issues equal a short term sales bump.

Trocadero: FirstNationalBastard: loonatic112358: What is the best selling issue of all time though?

IIRC, Either Spider-Man #1 (1990) or X-Men #1 (1991).

That was at the beginning of the speculator boom. Those books are now worth approximately dick.

/The speculator boom led to the speculator bust, which is why comics are in the sad, gimmick driven shape they're in now... even though those gimmicks are what drove readers away. They learned nothing from the past except #1 issues equal a short term sales bump.

X-Men 1 was pretty good, though. That spread w/ Magneto messing up the astronauts was really good.

I wasn't making any judgments on the quality of the books... just that if you pay 40 cents for a copy of one, you're overpaying.

And the reason for that reminds me of another thing this article didn't mention... the number of copies "sold" do not equal the number of copies that consumers bought, In the shiatty direct market, retailers buy non-returnable copies of books from Diamond at a discounted price. So, just because a book sells 200,000 copies, that doesn't mean 200,000 people bought a copy. In fact, 100,000 copies could be sitting on comic shop shelves collecting dust... especially in the case of #1 issues, which are generally overordered because a retailer has to guess at how many copies he will sell.

bukketmaster: FirstNationalBastard: loonatic112358: What is the best selling issue of all time though?

IIRC, Either Spider-Man #1 (1990) or X-Men #1 (1991).

That was at the beginning of the speculator boom. Those books are now worth approximately dick.



Wait, you mean my shwrinkwapped, never-opened variant cover Spider-man #1 isn't worth thousands? What am i supposed to do with the 300 copies I bought?



Trade 'em for enough money to buy a Cheeseburger and a Coke.

FirstNationalBastard: loonatic112358: What is the best selling issue of all time though?

IIRC, Either Spider-Man #1 (1990) or X-Men #1 (1991).

It was X-Men #1.

FirstNationalBastard: With the exception of the Captain America issue, those books are all shiat, and the reason that we can't have nice things.



/and Slideshows suck, too.

Nonsense. There are some great issues in that list. The new Batman and Justice League were solid. AS Batman and Robin is as well. Infinite Crisis was a good crossover.

You only ever seem to hate on things.

Hebalo: FirstNationalBastard: With the exception of the Captain America issue, those books are all shiat, and the reason that we can't have nice things.



/and Slideshows suck, too.

Nonsense. There are some great issues in that list. The new Batman and Justice League were solid. AS Batman and Robin is as well. Infinite Crisis was a good crossover.

You only ever seem to hate on things.

Defending All Star Batman and Robin shows you have no taste.

Just piping in to recommend the Doofus collection and Like a Velvet Glove Cast In Iron.

(May or may not have been produced in the last ten years, may or may not care.)

Dreams Of A Rarebit Fiend is over a hundred years old and still yet to be topped. Still my favorite comic.

loonatic112358: back when the only time I bought a DC comic was when they did Kingdom Come

I think that was the last "superhero" type of comic I ever bought. The only "new" comic I've bought in the last 10 years was The Goon Fancy Pants hardback edition. The only comics I read on a once or twice a year basis are Usagi Yojimbo and re-issues of Turok, Son of Stone.

/loved the 70's Ghost Rider as a kid
//my teenage years were all about The Doom Patrol and Dr. Strange

FirstNationalBastard:
And the reason for that reminds me of another thing this article didn't mention... the number of copies "sold" do not equal the number of copies that consumers bought, In the shiatty direct market, retailers buy non-returnable copies of books from Diamond at a discounted price. So, just because a book sells 200,000 copies, that doesn't mean 200,000 people bought a copy. In fact, 100,000 copies could be sitting on comic shop shelves collecting dust... especially in the case of #1 issues, which are generally overordered because a retailer has to guess at how many copies he will sell.

All the DC #1s from 2011 on that list were returnable. And I'd say these numbers are fairly accurate as almost all of those comics listed had multiple printings. The only one I'm not sure if is Secret Invasdion as that might have been during the period when Marvel wasn't doing multiple print runs.

FirstNationalBastard: Defending All Star Batman and Robin shows you have no taste.

Nice Deflect, btw. But as I said, you seem to just hate and scoff without adding anything of value.

ASB&R was a great take on the character, a different view and something that asked different questions.