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Have the sales of all of VEI issues to date surpassed the sale of Turok: Dinosaur Hunter (1993) #1 yet? I'll bet they have or are getting awfully close.

Ivar: Timewalker #1 - 15784
The Valiant #2 - 11623
Rai #6 - 8301
X-O Manwar #32 - 7042
Quantum and Woody Must Die - 5771
Unity #14- 5722
Eternal Warrior: Days of Steel #3 - 4889
Q2 #4 - 4606
Dr. Mirage #5 - 3915

I'm pretty sure (I only took a quick glance) that Valiant's #1 title this month beat ...

DC seems to have been in multi-universe limbo for a decade now and may finally come to a head with its Convergence event this year. Marvel has announced the end of its universe and appears to be bringing characters from various universes into what they are calling the largest cross-over event in ...

For Bloodshot, he is really a lot like Wolverine with the healing factor and the Weapon X type of origin.

For X-O, I have always seen him as an amalgam of the Avengers Big 3. Thor for the time period where he came from, Iron Man for the armor and his being a CEO of a corporation in VH1, and Cap ...

Just thinking about thee 2nd 3rd 4th prints of valiant.

Was in my head about SAGA comic series ~ quite successful, with print run INCREASING each issue after issue 1 untill it leveled off.
Valiant books usually drop after the 1st issue, so I wonder the nessesity of 2nd 3rd 4th Prints. Surely these ...

As a comparison, here are the last issues from Dark Horse's aborted Gold Key line:

May 2011 Magnus Robot Fighter 4 7,795
September 2011 Doctor Solar Man of Atom 8 6,229
October 2011 Turok Son of Stone 4 6,257
October 2011 Might Samson 4 (less than 5,167 copies)

The numbers are in:

X-O Manowar 30 8,354
Bloodshot 25 6,955
Eternal Warrior Days of Steel 1 6,785
Archer & Armstrong One Percent 1 6,738
Unity 12 6,508
Punk Mambo 0 6,165
Q2 Return of Quantum and Woody 2 5,802
Delinquents 4 5,541

Not in the top 300 is Death-Defying Doctor Mirage 3.

Punk Mambo's ...

I suspect December will be a bottom for Valiant as far as unit sales (excluding the months they were first ramping up their titles) and they will start climbing in January with the Valiant Next stuff. It looks like November will have done pretty well for them on the back of one title, The Valiant ...

Did anyone else receive a free copy of Armor Hunters 1 from DCBS? It looks like last month DCBS sent free copies out.

I suspect December will be a bottom for Valiant as far as unit sales (excluding the months they were first ramping up their titles) and they will start climbing in January with the Valiant Next stuff. It looks like November will have done pretty well for them on the back of one title, The Valiant ...

I've got news for ya, the second printings are printed right alongside the first. It's purely a marketing thing.
So you are saying that there is a 2nd printing of every Valiant comic? Where did you hear that? I'm sure if it was true, some unreleased second prints would get out somehow.

This ...

jmatt wrote:I've got news for ya, the second printings are printed right alongside the first. It's purely a marketing thing.

Yep.

215 Valiant Universe Handbook 11,311
216 X-O Manowar #0 11,188
249 Q2: The Return of Quantum and Woody #1 8,266
275 Unity #0 7,001
280 Archer & Armstrong #25 6,794
296 Armor Hunters Aftermath 6,412

6 titles on the whole list, and one of them is a reprint? No Delinquents, Harbinger, or Bloodshot ...

Numbers are out:

VU Handbook 2014 One Dollar Debut Ed 11,311
X-O Manowar 0 11,188
Q2: The Return of Quantum & Woody 1 8,226
Unity 0 7,001
Archer & Armstrong 25 6,794
Armor Hunters Aftermath 1 6,412

No doubt the other titles (Death-Defying Dr. Mirage 2, Delinquents 3, Harbinger: Omegas 3) all fell ...

Perhaps the miniseries angle will help attract new readers hopefully?

:lol:

If it did, then Valiant would be going against a trend in the past few years that shows mini-series sales are a losing proposition for titles. People want ongoing "relevant" titles. Marvel and DC have had a hard time ...

This is entirely annecdotal, but a LCS in Phoenix is finally blowing out the early VEI issues at $1.00 each. They have tons of X-O Manowar 1, Harbinger 1, and Archer and Armstrong 1. This LCS ordered heavy on the early VEI titles, but they also did the same for DC 52, Marvel Now, etc. I saw that ...

StarBrand wrote:It wouldn't be the first time one of the big two has flooded the market with product merely to harm the smaller publishers.

I'll bet DC's intent was to take the market in September from Marvel. Smart move too as it worked again this year.

I'm wondering if there are other reasons for the drop in numbers this past month. Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't DC pretty much swamped the market with their multiple weekly series and one shots for Future's End? I would think it fairly reasonable that dollars normally floated Valiant's way ...

wasn't it stated once that Valiants literally doing better than they originally expected.

I think so.

But once again, it seems to me that the obvious point is simple: VEI surely cannot grow significantly while they self-impose a 9 books per month limit, unless they get a breakout hit . So they ...

We have returned to 9 titles this month. Comparing to the last month with 9 titles (June 2014), we have:

83330 comics in June 2014
78819 comics in August 2014

The difference between August and June is Delinquents 1 versus Armor Hunters 1 where Armor Hunters 1 did better. I think this could be ...

StarBrand wrote:X-O Manowar has gone back to the printer 9 times, all other titles have gone back for a combined 16 times as of now.

Some comic companies are printing the 2nd and 3rd prints along with the first prints instead of overprinting the 1st print. It's part of their marketing strategy.

Just saying.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2014/08/14/bloodshot-comic-book-exclusive/14037157/

After the issue, the character moves to a lead role in the mega-miniseries The Valiant by writers Jeff Lemire and Matt Kindt and artist Paolo Rivera beginning in December, and then shifts back to his own series ...

Its official after 25yrs of buying marvel comics (30-35 titles a month) I told my lcs to cancel all marvel titles in flavor of Valiant variants (already buying the 9 monthly). He was shocked and upset, he doesn't purchase many valiant books 5 each title so wasn't happy when I wanted the 1in 20 or ...

The AH: Harbinger #1 and AH: Bloodshot #1 numbers are disappointing, IMO.

I think the mini-series strategy (#1 initiative) is an ok strategy ... but I think it works better for Marvell and DC where the Fan Boy Zombies will gobble them up no matter what.

Some Hardcore Valiant fans, casual ...

And looking at Comichron, sales in July were significantly higher than June. The highest int he Diamond exclusive era to be exact. A 30% increase.

Whoa... why? That's a big increase.

The Loot Crate deal with Marvel helped and a 5th week in July also helped. I cannot imagine we'll see any huge ...