VALIANT November Sales Discussion

[drmirage]

I'm going to beat "BugsySig" in starting this topic. I hope he doesn't mind.

Diamond will be publishing their sales numbers very soon.

November should be an interesting sales month because Valiant now has 5 titles including Shadowman. It was also the first month a Valiant title having a single cover with no pullbox, no variants or any incentives with X-O Manowar #7.

The numbers that we are waiting for are:

Shadowman #1
Archer & Armstrong # 4
Bloodshot # 5
Harbinger #6
X-O Manowar #7
*Bloodshot #1 2nd Printing
*Bloodshot #2 2nd Printing

For the sake of comparison, here are VEI's October sales numbers:

Rank-Title-#-Publisher-Est. Print Run

149 X-O Manowar 6 BRAITHWAITE CVR Valiant 16,299
163 Archer & Armstrong 3 Valiant 14,715
164 Harbinger 5 Valiant 14,603
166 Bloodshot 4 Valiant 14,382

Total sales = 60k (actually 59,999)

Unit Share: Valiant = 0.74% (9th In Top 300 = .81%)
Dollar Share: Valiant = 0.68% (8th In Top 300 = .89%)

Trades:
137 Valiant Masters Bloodshot HC Vol. 1 Valiant 962

Share of Dollars in Comics & Trades Top 300: Valiant = 0.74% (tied 10th)