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shinobi100 wrote:I never had to stoop to a title so non-superheroish as Jungle Adv. b/c by the 90s the super hero chicks or hero wives were sexy.
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shinobi100 wrote: DON'T knock Sleepwalker till you tried it.
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I've never seen numbers but I'm guessin it was sellin somewhere between 500k and 1 mill per issue.
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jephyork wrote: I've never seen numbers but I'm guessin it was sellin somewhere between 500k and 1 mill per issue. ...maybe you should go find some numbers.-Jeph!
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Matthew McCallum wrote: The whole Marvel line sold approximately 7.5 million copies per month in 1987. Leaving X-Men 1 aside (which in 1991 sold approximately 7.1 million copies itself under very unique circumstances) you are assuming some spectacular market growth for Sleepwalker to be selling 500,000 copies per issue, let alone 1 million copies per issue.
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Matthew McCallum wrote: Matthew McCallum wrote: The whole Marvel line sold approximately 7.5 million copies per month in 1987. Leaving X-Men 1 aside (which in 1991 sold approximately 7.1 million copies itself under very unique circumstances) you are assuming some spectacular market growth for Sleepwalker to be selling 500,000 copies per issue, let alone 1 million copies per issue. I made a very quick search and haven't yet turned up individual sales figures per issue for 1991. However, in the Marvel Comic Group IPO published June 1991 reports monthly sales for Marvel Comics in the later half of 1990 were 8.7 million. The same documents reports in the first half of 1990 sales were 6.6 million per month. That gives us an annual average of 7.65 per month for 1990, modest growth over the 1987 tally. Such claims for Sleepwalker are unsupportable.
Aug 3 11 3:14 PM
Donovan wrote:For every issue of Sleepwalker purchased and read, 3 more were probably bagged and hidden away. So numbers sold definitely won't reflect the audience who would demand a reprint.
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