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May 8 13 6:25 AM
karl51 wrote:A little tidbit about the high sales of the Comicraft FF 6: Tom Brevoort was all over the internet back in 2000 saying he needed to hit 4K minimum (but hopefully 5K+) in pre-orders to ensure further volumes, so many of us pre-ordered and over-ordered to give the program a push. We couldn't maintain enthusiasm, however, and pre-sales dropped sharply thereafter. A little over a year later, the program went back on hiatus.Fantastic Four64130Thor32800X-Men32100Sub-Mariner12600
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May 8 13 6:58 PM
karl51 wrote:Matthew, I have most of the numbers - I've just lost the support for them, so you'd have to take them on faith or spend hours like I did plowing through those sites I gave you.I also encountered differences between icv2, Comichron and one other source I once found but can't locate again. Some of the differences were a result of rounding (one source rounded everything to the nearest hundred), but some differences were greater. I'd recommend you contact long-time CBG guy John Jackson Miller through the Comichron site and see if he can help. He's a real comics data enthusiast and I'm guessing he'd love to talk to another numbers-cruncher.Following is what I have of what you requested (I also included the only pre-reboot/Comicraft MMW numbers I was able to find). These numbers were all mined several years ago, and then I lost enthusiasm for the project and lost much of the source material as well. I'm not very mistake-prone, but given I recorded several hundred Archives and Masterworks numbers, mistakes are still a possibility (with me, and probably also with the sources).A little tidbit about the high sales of the Comicraft FF 6: Tom Brevoort was all over the internet back in 2000 saying he needed to hit 4K minimum (but hopefully 5K+) in pre-orders to ensure further volumes, so many of us pre-ordered and over-ordered to give the program a push. We couldn't maintain enthusiasm, however, and pre-sales dropped sharply thereafter. A little over a year later, the program went back on hiatus.For what it's worth:All-Star42655All-Star52936All-Star62900All-Star72900Batman43200Batman53100Black Canary12843Blackhawk12800Flash23100Green Lantern23400Green Lantern33100GA Green Lantern13800JLA43000JLA53100JLA63100JLA72800New Teen Titans12201Plastic Man13248Plastic Man23900Plastic Man32900Shazam23200Spirit14000Spirit24200Spirit34800Spirit43800Spirit53800Starman12900Supergirl12900Superman52800Superman in Action33000Superman in Action41946Wonder Woman22900World's Finest13362Fantastic Four64130Thor32800X-Men32100Sub-Mariner12600
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May 8 13 8:16 PM
fubarthepanda wrote: The Doom Patrol was arguably one of DC's most unique books during that particular time period since it's the closest thing they had to a Marvel book.
May 8 13 8:23 PM
Matthew McCallum wrote: Lightning n Chemicals wrote: And Doom Patrol is universally regarded is a great 1960s DC series, while neither Atom nor Hawkman (at least post-Kubert) hold the same level of cachet.That's a bold statement that I don't agree with. I believe all of the Schwartz titles were as good as DC Silver Age got ... especially with Kane and Anderson art!I'll wager a nickel -- I never bet more than I can afford to lose! -- that if you go up to any older comics fan and ask him/her to rank the top 1960s Silver Age DC comics that Doom Patrol will be listed before either Atom or Hawkman are mentioned. I'm not saying that Doom Patrol will be at the top of the list, just ahead of those other two titles.
Lightning n Chemicals wrote: And Doom Patrol is universally regarded is a great 1960s DC series, while neither Atom nor Hawkman (at least post-Kubert) hold the same level of cachet.That's a bold statement that I don't agree with. I believe all of the Schwartz titles were as good as DC Silver Age got ... especially with Kane and Anderson art!
May 8 13 9:01 PM
Hepcat wrote:Matthew McCallum wrote: Lightning n Chemicals wrote: And Doom Patrol is universally regarded is a great 1960s DC series, while neither Atom nor Hawkman (at least post-Kubert) hold the same level of cachet.That's a bold statement that I don't agree with. I believe all of the Schwartz titles were as good as DC Silver Age got ... especially with Kane and Anderson art!I'll wager a nickel -- I never bet more than I can afford to lose! -- that if you go up to any older comics fan and ask him/her to rank the top 1960s Silver Age DC comics that Doom Patrol will be listed before either Atom or Hawkman are mentioned. I'm not saying that Doom Patrol will be at the top of the list, just ahead of those other two titles.You owe somebody a nickel. I was a buyer of those titles off the newstand in 1963-64 and I preferred Atom and Hawkman to Doom Patrol then - and now.
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May 10 13 11:47 AM
zatara wrote:Just curious how much did u pay for that CTB #3, can still remember?? Feel sorry for u getting cheated of your birthday money. What a rip-off.
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May 10 13 12:00 PM
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May 10 13 5:07 PM
Five Years Later wrote:I recently read something (which 120 seconds of googling failed to find) which dispelled the notion that Conan #3 was under-distributed (much to my surprise). Chuck Rozanski from Mile High Comics was discussing that issue and mentioned how the issues that adapted R.E.H. stories were in hot demand so he had trouble keeping CTB#3 in stock. He started listing #3 as "rare" or "low distribution" in his price lists and the idea stuck.
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