Marvel Month-to-Month Sales: April 2011
Tweet by Paul O’Brien Event season is upon us again. FEAR ITSELF launched in April, together with its spin-off anthology FEAR ITSELF: THE HOME FRONT. Further down the charts, “Death of Spider-Man” and...
View ArticleMarvel Month-to-Month Sales: May 2011
Tweet by Paul O’Brien It’s month two of event season, and FEAR ITSELF tie-ins are starting to crop up across the Marvel Universe. And there’s also the relaunch of MOON KNIGHT – wisely given a clear run...
View ArticleMarvel Month to Month Sales: June 2011
Tweet by Paul O’Brien Yes, yes, I know. June? It’s August. This column is horrendously late. The July sales are already out. So I’m going to focus on the big events this month and otherwise keep the...
View ArticleMarvel Month-to-Month Sales: July 2011
Tweet by Paul O’Brien Quite the busy month, July. FEAR ITSELF is still rumbling onwards, but it’s now joined by two other events – the “Spider-Island” crossover, and X-MEN: SCHISM. And there are...
View ArticleMarvel Month-to-Month Sales August 2011
Tweet by Paul O’Brien Welcome to the calm before the storm. Or, in Marvel’s case, the calm before more calm. September will all be about the DC Universe relaunch, and it’s going to be a little while...
View ArticleMarvel Month-to-Month Sales: September 2011
Tweet By Paul O’Brien It’s the column you’ve been waiting for! The September sales – for Marvel! Hello? Hello? Is this thing on? Okay, so September was DC’s month. And understandably, most publishers...
View ArticleMarvel Month-to-Month sales: October 2011
Tweet by Paul O’Brien Welcome to month two of Bizarro World! This was quite a busy month for Marvel, with the “Fear Itself” crossover continuing, the relaunch of INCREDIBLE HULK, and the first issue of...
View ArticleMarvel Month-to-Month Sales: November 2011 – CORRECTED
Tweetby Paul O’Brien With FEAR ITSELF wrapping up, Marvel had several major releases in November – the POINT ONE one-shot, the relaunches of UNCANNY X-MEN and FANTASTIC FOUR, and the first issue of new...
View ArticleMarvel Month-to-Month Sales December 2011
Tweet by Paul O’Brien This month, the slow build to AVENGERS VS X-MEN begins with the AVENGERS: X-SANCTION miniseries; and DEFENDERS is relaunched. Both are wisely given a pretty clear run, without...
View ArticleMarvel Month-to-Month Sales: January 2012
Tweet By Paul O’Brien Perhaps it’s a side effect of the decision to trim the line, but Marvel seem to have gone back to the days when each month had a small number of new launches that they could focus...
View ArticleMarvel Month-to-Month Sales: February 2012
Tweet by Paul O’Brien With Marvel refocussing on more issues of fewer titles, and with the next wave of new titles presumably not due until after AVENGERS VS X-MEN, it’s a pretty quiet month for new...
View ArticleMarvel Month-to-Month Sales: April 2012
Tweet by Paul O’Brien The crossover season is now firmly underway, with the first proper month of AVENGERS VS X-MEN, and its assorted tie-ins, which are doing pretty well. There’s also the Omega Effect...
View ArticleMarvel Month-to-Month Sales: May 2012
Tweet by Paul O’Brien The AVENGERS VS X-MEN crossover continued in May, while NEW MUTANTS and JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY had their own little private event with “Exiled”. There’s also the launch of the new...
View ArticleMarvel Month-to-Month Sales: June 2012
Tweet by Paul O’Brien The AVENGERS VS X-MEN crossover continued to dominate Marvel’s schedule in June, but the month also saw another high profile release – the SPIDER-MEN miniseries, in which the...
View ArticleMarvel Month-to-Month Sales: July 2012
Tweet by Paul O’Brien The AVENGERS VS X-MEN crossover continued to dominate both franchises in July. There are also two new ongoing titles – CAPTAIN MARVEL and X-TREME X-MEN – which unusually launch in...
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