{"id":6819,"date":"2020-12-10T14:37:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T20:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/?p=6819"},"modified":"2020-12-22T18:21:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T00:21:15","slug":"three-jokers-3-tops-dc-in-october-publishers-smallest-non-shutdown-new-comics-slate-since-may-1991","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/10\/three-jokers-3-tops-dc-in-october-publishers-smallest-non-shutdown-new-comics-slate-since-may-1991\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Jokers #3 tops DC in October; publisher&#8217;s smallest non-shutdown new comics slate since May 1991"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6820\" src=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Comichron2020-10DC16x9-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Comichron2020-10DC16x9-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Comichron2020-10DC16x9-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Comichron2020-10DC16x9-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Comichron2020-10DC16x9.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\nAfter some delay associated with implementation of yet more new procedures, our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/2020\/2020-10DC.html\"><strong>projections for DC comics sales to retailers in October 2020<\/strong><\/a> are now online. <strong><em>Batman: Three Jokers<\/em> #3<\/strong> completed the trifecta, with the title leading for its third consecutive month.<\/p>\n<p>Noteworthy is the fact that DC only released 49 new comics books in October 2020, which is fewer than any non-pandemic shutdown month since May 1991, when it shipped 45 new comics. (The post-1930s record low is, of course, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/2020\/2020-04DC.html\"><strong>April 2020<\/strong><\/a>, with three new releases; that&#8217;ll likely be an asterisk in the charts forever.)<\/p>\n<p>The process behind the creation of the DC charts was discussed <a href=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/28\/the-shutdown-split-era-comichron-adds-comics-sales-projections-for-april-through-july-2020\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>. We already have the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/2020\/2020-10Diamond.html\"><strong>Diamond raw charts online<\/strong><\/a>; the projections are finished here for those, so those numbers will be added next and our fused charts will follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After some delay associated with implementation of yet more new procedures, our projections for DC comics sales to retailers in October 2020 are now online. Batman: Three Jokers #3 completed the trifecta, with the title leading for its third consecutive month. Noteworthy is the fact that DC only released 49 new comics books in October &#8230; <a title=\"Three Jokers #3 tops DC in October; publisher&#8217;s smallest non-shutdown new comics slate since May 1991\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/10\/three-jokers-3-tops-dc-in-october-publishers-smallest-non-shutdown-new-comics-slate-since-may-1991\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Three Jokers #3 tops DC in October; publisher&#8217;s smallest non-shutdown new comics slate since May 1991\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,4],"class_list":["post-6819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2020-sales","tag-dc-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6819","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=6819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6821,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6819\/revisions\/6821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}