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Originally Posted by Arcanaville

Most 90s comic books weren't even a good idea in the 90s. The 90s convinced me to take a break from comics altogether. If it wasn't for Warren Ellis taking over Stormwatch and starting his run on Transmetropolitan, I might never have come back at all.

Originally Posted by viper_kinji

As pointed out by others, Customer Support is aware of this:

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Originally Posted by enderbean

Even though my correct e-mail is on file and I have anything from NCSoft flagged as safe, I have yet to ever receive the newsletter.

Originally Posted by DumpleBerry

I'm sick and tired of my account not working right, my game not working right, and my forums not working right.

Originally Posted by JayboH

Actually I don't think it is possible outside of scripted events to get kb when you are mag 12. I've never seen it happen on my fire/fire scrapper anyway.

Originally Posted by TrueGentleman

Bleeding Cool, having apparently placed a mole within DC's editorial department to leak news about DC's unauthorized-by-Alan-Moore sequel/prequel/whatever to Watchmen, is now reporting that Andy Kubert will be involved with drawing part of the series.

DC isn't commenting, and everyone is afraid to ask Alan Moore.

Originally Posted by Coin

Anyone out there know of a good site for listings of what comics have come out each week? Specifically the DC New 52.

Being in the UK I can never be sure that I've got all of them and have almost missed a couple of them recently that have been part of the New 52, I think.

Any site that gives a definitive list each week, preferably split by publisher and /or week, would be amazing

Originally Posted by Durakken

So let's try some maths...

Let's assume a base of $100 at the earliest thing stated.
in march
Marvel = $45
DC = $31.5
Other = $23.5

After DCnU the base rose to $130
DC = $66.26
Marvel = $26.37
Other = $37.37

So Marvel lost $19 and Other gained $14. I don't think any or much of that new $30 went to Other so Marvel is just sucking and DC is just getting the benefit of the advertising it did. without attracting much of the older readers.

Originally Posted by Bleeding Cool.com

Back in March this year, Marvel Comics had a 40% share of money spent on comics through Diamond Comic Distributors, and a 45% share of the number of comics sold. DC had only 27.62% and 31.5% share respectively.

Well what a change half a year can make. After taking Marvel on marketshare for the month of September, albeit only by half a percent in dollar marketshare, in October DC Comics has soared ahead, buoyed by sales of second prints from September’s issues, and from many of their October titles maintaining or surpassing their initial order numbers for September.

Which means in October DC Comics has 42.47% of dollars spent on comics, to Marvel’s 29.1% share, turning that half a point gap into thirteen and a half points. And on actual numbers of products sold, DC has taken 50.97% of sales to Marvel’s 20.29%.

Which means more than one in every two comics sold by Diamond in October was a DC comic.

And overall comics sales that were up in September continue to rise in October, by just under 7%. To a figure that is over 30% what is was October last last. That’s right folks, in one year, comics sales have risen by a third.

The last two months’ performance has seemingly done the impossible and
turned the tanker right around, to the extent that in August, overall comics sales of the year were well below that of 2010 at the same point. Now they are above where 2010 was at this point.

It’s an incredible performance that can be laid at the feet of DC Comics, and specifically that they haven’t increased their sales at the expense of other publishers, rather everyone’s sales have either been maintained or are rising, as the DC promotional plan have brought in new readers or brought back lapsed readers – who have then gone on to try other non-DC comics.

Originally Posted by BleedingCool.com

Here’s the top 100 best selling comic books and graphic novels in the month of October in comic stores through Diamond Comic Distributors. This does not include UK sales, and items with an asterisk are returnable by the retailer for a small fee, and so have been reduced by DIamond by 10% to compensate.

Superman #2 seems to the most prominent loser in October, slipping from fourth place in September to tenth place, but only because Justice League, Batman, Action Comics, Green Lantern, Flash and Detective Comics retain their dominance at the top of the charts despite two heavily hyped Marvel #1 relaunches of their own, and the conclusion of Marvel’s big event.

But those three titles are the only books Marvel have in the top twenty, and it’s only at position 22 that we see the final issue of Uncanny X-Men (before the November relaunch). This is nothing more than a rout by DC on Marvel’s marketshare and chart position.

At the other end of the chart, last month, we pointed out that OMAC, written by co-publisher Dan DiDio was the worst selling of them all (although still at a respectable 82nd position). It’s now dropped to 84, and a few other titles have dropped further, Static Shock, Blackhawks and my favourite, Men Of War. But the fact they remain on this chart at all is a miracle, and sales have hardly slipped, in comparison with the other books from issue 1 to 2, across the board.

This is unheard of in modern comics, where a drop by 50% from issue 1 to 2 is commonplace. With the whole market rising by 7-8% since last month, that could well mean that no DC book has actually lost any sales from #1 to #2 – indeed, some have put on sales .And Marvel may have lost marketshare – but not necessarily sales.

As for DC’s increased grab on marketshare over last month, it does seem possible this could be down to second print sales. Aquaman #1 and Green Lantern #1 both make it onto the chart for that, but odds are there are plenty of second prints from #101 down…

What a world.

Originally Posted by all_hell

I think that if one of us could answer that question, this thread would have died a while ago.