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John Byrne

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Posted: 29 March 2010 at 9:34am | IP Logged | 1  
In 1978 X-Men averaged 115,260 copies a month. It was 7th out of 7 titles.In 1979 X-Men averaged 171,091 copies a month. It was 9th out of 11 titlesIn 1980 X-Men averaged 191,927 copies a month. It was 9th out of 12 titles, but only 25,000 copies a month from fifth.In 1981 X-Men averaged 259,007 copies a month. It was 1st out of 14 titles.The last three JB issues are counted in this data*, and using mathmatical trending, his last issue was probably outsold by three other Marvel titles.(Amazing, Avengers, and Star Wars).It was #1 the next four years.1982 - 313,225 average1983 - 336,824 average1984 - 378,135 average1985 - 449,870 average

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Those numbers are meaningless without the print run to compare them to.

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Brian Miller
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Were titles kept alive based on a percentage of the print run sold, JB?
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Matthew McCallum
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That was the whole appeal of the direct market, initially: lower print runs and non-returnable books. Every DM copy printed was sold.

Compare that to the newsstand model where between 50 to 70 percent of the copies went unsold and were returned and you can see why the industry went whole hog for the DM.
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William McMahon
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The CBR list to me looks relevant only to me because I was buying comics at that time and I would have bought them in about the order that they are presented in popularity. I think that this does show that as in most media, the insiders have tastes that are shaped by opinions taken from criteria that are not the same as casual buyers.
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Mal Gardiner
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Couple of nice things about those lists - only one X-title (with the exception of Amazing Adventures, the reprint run), and not one Marvel title in that list required that you read more than one book to get the whole story for the month. Not a company-wide multi-title crossover to be seen. I miss those days.
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