It’s new comic book day, so here’s our look back at the week that was in comic book sales at Ash Avenue Comics. As always, we stack up our sales in the shop, and then compare our top sellers to a selection of sales from the industry at large. Comic news site Bleeding Cool runs a weekly article that captures sales data from the hundreds of brick and mortar comic book shops that use the ComicHub point of sale system, of which we are one such store, and we occasionally share how our customers buying habits stack up against the larger sales trends in comics.
There’s not a lot of head turning disparities this week, other than the third issue of the never before published Swamp Thing 1989 #3 making it to the sixth spot on our top 10. What’s more remarkable, is that we were shorted a stack of our copies by our distributor, so it seems likely that this one could have ranked in the 5th spot, without problem, had all of our copies arrived. Of note: the swan song of Marvel’s Ultimate line hit the shelves with some customer and reader enthusiasm, but with a decidedly different exit than entry.
There’s a huge slate of new titles out this week, so swing by the shop to grab some good reads to start July off right.
