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| Sales on the Legion of Super-Heroes titles, 1960-2007 |
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[originally posted 5/21/2007]
John - so I see that you gathered the data for the Spider-Man title, I have been doing the same thing for the Legion of Super-Heroes over at my Legion blog, the Omnicom. What complicates things a bit, of course, is that the Legion has bounced around many different titles, from Adventure to Action to Superboy even before getting a book with their own name. Can you please comment over there and/or here about my methodology and conclusions?
Questions I have that you or someone might be able to answer:
1. Is there anything particular about 1965 that it was the peak year for Superboy and the Legion starring in Adventure Comics?
2. I think I hit the appropriate jumps and dips based on price point, does it look like I missed anything relevant?
3. Between about 1985-1995, I had to use the Standard Catalog "fudge factors" to translate Capital Cities data to estimated sales. Unfortunately, the factors don't hold up for this title between 1985-1990 and then again in late 1995, as the plot is all over the place. Supposedly the Legion book was one of DC's top selling titles in the 1980s, but you'd never be able to tell based on this plot. Is there something that can be done to clean up an individual title's numbers, even if that was a direct-only book at the time?
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| Re: Sales on the Legion of Super-Heroes titles, 1960-2007 |
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[originally posted 5/31/2007]
Just back in from Star Wars Celebration -- let me see what I can say about these.
My guess with 1965 is that it's the year before Batman and the TV show sort of draws all of the attention -- I'm guessing the title made a lot of converts then, and maybe a little of that came from other DC titles. Just a guess, though.
I'll have to look more closely at the price changes before I can be specific. On Capital, though, the trick is that the DC ratios are based on comparing all of DC's Statement books with their broken-out Capital orders -- and so the per-title ratios would be different. The other element is that Milton Griepp says that DC's sales were both underrepresented and erratic through Capital in the early years because of issues in their relationship with Capital -- so I don't know how well you could extrapolate based on what info is available.
The way to address this short of getting hold of the real data is to work out some more magic numbers for earlier Diamond sales charts. I have a cache of data I plan to do this with, but it will be a while yet before I can get to it. Stay tuned...
Best, John Jackson Miller • Curator, The Comics Chronicles |
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