{"id":5415,"date":"2010-08-06T22:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-01T17:55:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T22:55:12","slug":"x-men-launch-scott-pilgrim-top-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/06\/x-men-launch-scott-pilgrim-top-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"X-Men launch, Scott Pilgrim top comics sales in July 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/201007XMenV3n1-3.jpg\" width=\"132\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\" \/>In 1991, Marvel Comics launched a new &#8220;adjectiveless&#8221; <i><b>X-Men <\/b><\/i>title; the original 1963 <i>X-Men<\/i> series had been known as <b><i>Uncanny X-Men<\/i><\/b> for several years. That new X-Men issue, with its five covers, released into the superheated speculator market of the early 1990s and became the best-selling comic book of all time, with more than 8 million copies sold \u2014 or, at least, bought by retailers. (As such, it&#8217;s the least scarce issue of all time, to the dismay of any collectors back then.) That second X-Men series ran parallel to Uncanny for years, morphing later into <i><b>New X-Men<\/b><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Scott-Pilgrim-Pilgrims-Finest-Hour\/dp\/1934964387?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=farawaypcom-20&amp;link_code=bil&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ws.amazon.com\/widgets\/q?MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ASIN=1934964387&amp;tag=farawaypcom-20\" alt=\"Scott Pilgrim Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=farawaypcom-20&amp;l=bil&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=1934964387\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>July 2010 saw the release of the third title known simply as X-Men, again with quite a few variant covers \u2014 and while it&#8217;s unlikely to see anything like those numbers of 19 yea<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=farawaypcom-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=1934964387\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>rs ago when the final estimates are available, it did manage to take the top slot in comics shops for the month, according to data released today by <a href=\"http:\/\/diamondcomics.com\/public\/default.asp?t=1&amp;m=1&amp;c=3&amp;s=5&amp;ai=98504\"><b>Diamond Comic Distributors<\/b><\/a>. You can find the July 2010 charts with market shares on Comichron <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/2010\/2010-07.html\"><b>here<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At this hour, Diamond has released the Top 100 trade paperbacks \u2014 dominated by <i><b>Scott Pilgrim<\/b><\/i>, thanks to the movie and the release of <i><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Scott-Pilgrim-Pilgrims-Finest-Hour\/dp\/1934964387?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=farawaypcom-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scott Pilgrim Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim&#8217;s Finest Hour<\/a><\/b><\/i> \u2014 but just the Top 10 comics so far. Full lists and estimates will be along later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1991, Marvel Comics launched a new &#8220;adjectiveless&#8221; X-Men title; the original 1963 X-Men series had been known as Uncanny X-Men for several years. That new X-Men issue, with its five covers, released into the superheated speculator market of the early 1990s and became the best-selling comic book of all time, with more than 8 &#8230; <a title=\"X-Men launch, Scott Pilgrim top comics sales in July 2010\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/06\/x-men-launch-scott-pilgrim-top-comics\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about X-Men launch, Scott Pilgrim top comics sales in July 2010\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[94,27],"class_list":["post-5415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-sales","tag-x-men"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6593,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5415\/revisions\/6593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}