Death Of Wolverine, Futures End Lead September Comics Sales
By Nick Tylwalk
As usual, September was a DC month, with the publisher’s Futures End one-shots dominating the list of the top 20 best-selling comics for the month. Yet Marvel could still claim its own victory thanks to the series killing off one of its most popular characters.
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The first two issues of Death of Wolverine were the best-selling individual comics for September, with #1 shipping almost 262,000 copies. The second issue was well down at an estimated 130,000 copies, just beating out the Batman Futures End one-shot for second place.
Fans ate up DC’s one-shots on the whole, allowing them to claim half of the top 10 and 12 of the top 20 spots overall. Event comics also played their part, with Original Sin #8 finishing seventh for the month and Multiversity: The Society of Super-Heroes coming in at #19. The only “normal” comics to crack the top 10 were Amazing Spider-Man #6 and Justice League #33, while Image’s The Walking Dead #131 managed to shamble into 13th place.
DC beat out Marvel in market share by a 36.5 to 32 percent margin, and enjoyed a slightly bigger advantage in dollar share, where it captured 40.8 percent for September. It also shipped a lot of comics to gain those victories: 124 to Marvel’s 80.
As compared to September 2013, the month was up by a few percentage points in terms of dollar sales but down ever so slightly in terms of units sold, continuing the trend that has taken shape over the first eight months of the year. Full monthly comics sales numbers are available at the Diamond Comic Distributors website.