Comic book sales charts from the past

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I have only this.

>NASCAR comics outselling everything in the southeast.

Fucking rednecks.

When did NASCAR comics even exist?

I like these regional ones.

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>All of these are nothing but Marvel
>Southeast for some reason has a Nascar book at #1

How early in the 90's was this?

March '92

Early to mid 90s was basically Marvel, Spawn, Batman, and Superman. Nothing else really was a "top seller" then.

March 1992 was the cover date; the date on the cover's usually to notify the newsstand or bookstore or whatever when to replace the magazine, so it was probably actually published in February, with info about January 1992 sales. It would line up with the time Batman vs Predator and Superman: Panic in the Sky was out (DC's titles usually have a cover date two months ahead of the actual month it was published).

At this point Image hadn't launched yet. They're still at the point where Spider-Man, X-Force, and X-Men sell because of McFarlane, Liefeld, and Lee, but obviously they were splitting by then (the meeting between the Image guys and Marvel's Terry Stewart happened in December 1991)

Thanks

It was in the early 90's. It was published by Vortex Comics, which came about during the 80's black-and-white boom, and also first published Howard Chaykin's Black Kiss, Mister X, and some other stuff. Unlike a lot of indie companies that went under during the 80's, they managed to survive a little longer probably because of that NASCAR comic but went under in 1994.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_Comics

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Here's one that was cover-dated January 1992, so it was probably published in December 1991 and reporting on November 1991's sales.

For this issue they even reported on some sales from Canada and Australia too.

More cool

DC had some decent books at the time but a whole lot of crap. Their yearly events like Bloodlines were usually shit (yearly events are shitty, wow who would have thought). At least they were confined to annuals for the most part though.

Hitman was the only good, thing that came out out of that event.

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Looks like most of their shit isn't even scanned.

>At least they were confined to annuals for the most part

They WERE confined to Annuals. They literally did "themed Annuals" in the 90s.

>those bottom fives

The accuracy seems suspect. Though I do buy Kid N Play bombing because wtf why did that even exist.

These are incredibly interesting.

bumping incase anybody has more.

Not all of them. Invasion and Millennium crossed over regular titles. And I think War of the Gods crossed over with some titles as well. Armageddon 2001 and Eclipso were Annual Events, though.

Here's the list for January 1989.

A lot of it isn't that surprising.

Licensed stuff used to do well for Marvel in the 80's but didn't do so well in the 90's compared to the sales on like McFarlane Spider-Man or Jim Lee X-Men or something.

The Impact line died around late 1992 or early 1993, I can't remember when. But that wouldn't be a surprise after reading those lists.

The Epic line was nearly dead by this time, even though it had good books such as Groo and Akira. Back when McFarlane, Liefeld, etc were negotiating with Marvel before leaving, they were offered the Epic line, but refused it. They knew the brand wasn't selling well.

And remember that at this time people were also thinking of buying comics because they thought they would be worth something some day. Akira's cover price was like $3.95 each month at this point. To a fan/speculator, you could pay $3.95 for that, or you could buy maybe three Jim Lee X-Men comics or that one 30th anniversary issue of Amazing Spider-Man that had more pages and a hologram cover at the same price.

The joke is that the final issues of Marvel's reprint of Akira go for more than most of the Spider-Man and X-Men stuff that was popular in 1992.

>Invasion and Millennium

Weren't those late 80s though?

Thanks for the contribution.

The early 90s market was more or less 100% defined by speculators, yeah.

Holy fuck, Marvel was DEMOLISHIING DC back then. And people still question who was always the most popular of the two companies.

There was a long stretch there where the only DC title that really sold was New Teen Titans. Even Batman had sunk as you can see.

Then Crisis/Watchmen/DKR/Burton Batman happened and things got better.