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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 15, 2015 21:12:09 GMT -5
I checked Comichron for some sales data.. they don't have monthly before 1995, but for the year Malibu had almost 7%, so that could be it... Image is listed separately. OTOH, there may just be some mixing, as in the 'best comics of the year' list, they list stuff like Stormwatch and Supreme as Malibu. The 'other' part gets 12+%, and there are a few high rated Defiant comics.
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Post by shaxper on Jun 15, 2015 21:17:48 GMT -5
Defiant hadn't actually published anything by this point.
image was initially published by Malibu before breaking away part way through 1993, so the numbers you're finding aren't actually erroneous, but they also don't help to explain what's going on in that 200% increase for "Other" publishers (which, by this point, would not have included the image titles) in September of 1993.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2015 21:53:55 GMT -5
This is the breakdown for the year for dollars and units form both Diamond and Capital City by publisher...
Now Diamond and Capital were only the 2 biggest distributors, and others catered to smaller publishers, so those numbers are not reflected in this data. You also had The Star Wars Dark Empire series released as a trade and hitting big bookstores not just comic shops and selling quite well giving Dark Horse a big boost in '93 as well as it tapped into a Star Wars revival happening at the time due to the beginnings of the Expanded Universe novels and such hitting bookstores around that time. The first of the oversized Elfquest collections were hitting bookstores for the first time in '93 as well, and the Cerebus phonebooks were getting larger exposure in bookstores as well. Marvel and DC were later to the party in the tpb game, but those smaller publishers were getting books out there starting around this time and into the larger book market, increasing units and especially dollars to those smaller publishers outside the big5 you listed.
So there is stuff happening at the lower end of the spectrum, outside bright lights of the Wizard spotlight, that can account for that increase in other.
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Post by shaxper on Jun 15, 2015 21:55:55 GMT -5
So there is stuff happening at the lower end of the spectrum, outside bright lights of the Wizard spotlight, that can account for that increase in other. -M Maybe Borders or Barnes & Noble brokered some huge deal for one of those trade paperback series you mentioned. I do think a lot of that increased number can be explained by smaller publishers launching their own ultra hyped universes around that time, though. Malibu, Continuity, and I forgot to mention Harris comics previously. They'd spent a huge amount on advertising, and Wizard had thrown them a few bones in previous issues. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2015 0:22:28 GMT -5
This is the breakdown for the year for dollars and units form both Diamond and Capital City by publisher... Now Diamond and Capital were only the 2 biggest distributors, and others catered to smaller publishers, so those numbers are not reflected in this data. You also had The Star Wars Dark Empire series released as a trade and hitting big bookstores not just comic shops and selling quite well giving Dark Horse a big boost in '93 as well as it tapped into a Star Wars revival happening at the time due to the beginnings of the Expanded Universe novels and such hitting bookstores around that time. The first of the oversized Elfquest collections were hitting bookstores for the first time in '93 as well, and the Cerebus phonebooks were getting larger exposure in bookstores as well. Marvel and DC were later to the party in the tpb game, but those smaller publishers were getting books out there starting around this time and into the larger book market, increasing units and especially dollars to those smaller publishers outside the big5 you listed. So there is stuff happening at the lower end of the spectrum, outside bright lights of the Wizard spotlight, that can account for that increase in other. -M The Father Tree Press Elfquest reprints were first published in 1988, and before that they had the Starblaze reprints, which I have never seen in person, but am to understand were basically identical except for the cover art. By 1993 Elfquest was boasting having sold a million copies of their TPB collections. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2015 19:31:09 GMT -5
I bought Wizard Magazine semi-regularly, starting with the 1st issue. No computer back then so it was my main source of keeping up on comic news. I didn't buy every issue, just depended on what was on the cover that piqued my interest. The Jim Lee FF Heroes Reborn issue stands out fondly for me. Out of all the comic related news magazines, my personal favorite was always "Amazing Heroes".
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Post by shaxper on Oct 9, 2015 2:47:27 GMT -5
I didn't buy every issue, just depended on what was on the cover that piqued my interest. Considering how hefty that price tag was (comparatively speaking), I wonder if anyone really did. Especially since the target demographic was kids. In retrospect, I totally agree. As a kid, I wasn't even aware of it. Wizard was the only trade magazine I was aware of at my LCS. Considering that Amazing Heroes shut down in 1992, I wonder if Wizard was the direct cause of its demise. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2015 12:51:52 GMT -5
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Post by shaxper on Nov 7, 2015 13:57:10 GMT -5
Brian Cronin is welcome to hire me and/or come work for us any day  |
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Post by antoine on Nov 10, 2015 8:11:37 GMT -5
Just saw that and came to post here. Very similar review. |
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Post by impulse on Apr 1, 2020 17:23:51 GMT -5
Brian Cronin is welcome to hire me and/or come work for us any day Brian Cronin. Now that is a name I have not thought about in a long time. |
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Post by shaxper on Apr 1, 2020 21:57:10 GMT -5
Brian Cronin is welcome to hire me and/or come work for us any day Brian Cronin. Now that is a name I have not thought about in a long time. Oh, he's still quite active. |
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Post by impulse on Apr 2, 2020 12:57:28 GMT -5
Well, there you go. Also I see I resurrected a 5 years dormant thread. Whoops! I saw the link on the main CCF Page!  |
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Post by shaxper on Apr 2, 2020 13:37:20 GMT -5
Well, there you go. Also I see I resurrected a 5 years dormant thread. Whoops! I saw the link on the main CCF Page! The entire point of highlighting old dormant threads in the "From the Vaults..." section of the mainpage is to do this. It's encouraged! Otherwise, these old threads get forgotten. |
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Post by impulse on Apr 2, 2020 13:38:58 GMT -5
I remember being a teenager when Wizard magazine came out and getting ahold of the then-coveted Web-headed wizard card in Marvel's Overpower card game. That was a GREAT card, and that was a really fun game, even if some of the character power levels were total garbage.
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