{"id":5477,"date":"2010-03-29T22:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-01T18:22:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T23:22:54","slug":"february-2010-flashbacks-to-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/29\/february-2010-flashbacks-to-past\/","title":{"rendered":"February 2010: Flashbacks to the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"
by John Jackson Miller and T.M. Haley<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n

Following the report on comics orders for February 2010<\/b><\/a>, here’s a look back at what was going on in previous years…<\/p>\n

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February 2009<\/span>‘s top seller was once again Marvel’s Amazing Spider-Man #583<\/b><\/i><\/span>, the top seller for 2009 with estimated Diamond year-end orders of <\/span>530,500 copies. Sales for the issue were estimated at <\/span>148,778 copies for the month. Check out the detailed analysis of the month’s sales here<\/a> <\/span>\u2014 and sales chart <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

February 2005<\/span>‘s top-seller was Marvel’s New Avengers #3 <\/i><\/b>with Diamond first-month orders of approximately 149,000 copies. This marked the third consecutive month that New Avengers<\/i> was at the top of the rankings. Check out the sales chart here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

February 2000<\/span>‘s top-seller was Uncanny X-Men #379<\/b><\/i>, with estimated Diamond orders of more than 108,400 copies. Marvel’s Punisher<\/i><\/b> relaunch proved one of the better sellers in what was, overall, a down month near the very bottom of the industry’s post-1993 recession. Check out the sales chart here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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February 1995<\/b>‘s top seller at Diamond and at Capital City Distribution was Marvel’s Amazing X-Men<\/b><\/i> #2<\/b>, continuing the “Age of Apocalypse” storyline. Capital reported preorders of 89,775 copies. The parent title’s Statement of Ownership reports monthly sales averaging at 332,889 copies; this one issue was likely higher.<\/p>\n

February 1990<\/span>‘s top seller at Diamond and Capital City was Legends of the Dark Knight #6,<\/span> beginning Grant Morrison<\/b>‘s “Gothic” storyline. Capital’s orders on the issue were 106,650 copies; overall, sales were likely in the 400,000- to 500,000-copy range. The novelty “compuer-generated” graphic novel Batman: Digital Justice<\/b><\/i> was the top-selling trade at Capital City, with orders of 32,500 copies.<\/p>\n

Capital City reported sales for 308 comic books and 35 trade paperbacks in the month. The average cover price for new comics was $2.04, and the average comic book actually ordered cost $1.54. All told, Capital reported selling 2.85 million comic books for $4.38 million. Trade sales totaled $1.17 million, mostly copies of Digital Justice<\/i>.<\/p>\n

February 1985<\/b>‘s top seller at Capital City was Uncanny X-Men<\/i> #194<\/b>, which sold about 6% more copies at Capital City than the slightly more expensive Crisis on Infinite Earths <\/b><\/i>#3<\/b>.<\/p>\n

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by John Jackson Miller and T.M. Haley Following the report on comics orders for February 2010, here’s a look back at what was going on in previous years… \u00a0 February 2009‘s top seller was once again Marvel’s Amazing Spider-Man #583, the top seller for 2009 with estimated Diamond year-end orders of 530,500 copies. Sales for … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-5477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-flashbacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5477","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=5477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6628,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5477\/revisions\/6628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}