{"id":5729,"date":"2009-04-29T04:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-28T03:07:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T03:07:23","slug":"march-2009-flashbacks-to-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/29\/march-2009-flashbacks-to-past\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2009: Flashbacks to the past"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing the look at what came before March 2009<\/span><\/a> \u2014 when Dark Avengers<\/span> #3<\/span> topped the charts with approximately 96,600 copies ordered by comics shops through Diamond…<\/p>\n

\"\"March 2008<\/span>‘s top seller was Dark Tower: The Long Road Home<\/span> #1<\/span>, with orders of approimately 123,800 copies in the direct market. Check out the sales chart here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

March 2004<\/span>‘s top-seller was Superman\/Batman #8<\/span>, featuring the new Supergirl. It had first-month orders of 146,900 copies in the direct market, and was boosted considerably by later reorders. Check out the sales chart here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"March<\/span> 1999<\/span>‘s top-seller was Uncanny X-Men<\/span> #368, <\/span>with preorders of approximately 131,400 copies in the direct market. Check out the sales chart here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

March<\/span> 1994<\/span>‘s top seller was another Batman team-up \u2014 this one Spawn\/Batman<\/span>, the Image-published cross-over by Frank Miller<\/span> and Todd McFarlane<\/span>. It was the consensus leader at both Diamond and Capital City Distribution. Capital City alone sold 141,550 copies, and total sales were likely in the 400-500,000 copy range. Notably, the issue cost $3.95 \u2014 the same as the top seller in March 2009!<\/p>\n

\"\"March 1989<\/span>‘s top seller at Capital City was Batman #433, <\/span>the first issue of John Byrne<\/span>‘s “Many Deaths of the Batman.” Sales appear to have at least doubled for the title with this issue: Capital City sold 75,650 copies of the issue, and overall sales were likely in the 300-400,000 copy range.<\/p>\n

Finally, March 1984<\/span>‘s top comic book, both at Capital and likely everywhere else, was Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars <\/span>#3<\/span>, continuing the year-long mega-cross-over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuing the look at what came before March 2009 \u2014 when Dark Avengers #3 topped the charts with approximately 96,600 copies ordered by comics shops through Diamond… March 2008‘s top seller was Dark Tower: The Long Road Home #1, with orders of approimately 123,800 copies in the direct market. Check out the sales chart here. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,108],"class_list":["post-5729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-diamond-monthly-reports","tag-the-comichron-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729","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=5729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5733,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729\/revisions\/5733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}