Does anyone know the print on...
 

Vol 4?

I know 29-30 had 1000 printed but what about the rest?

I looked everyehere I could think of on the net for an answer for you but could not come up with anything we did not already know namely the 1,000 actual print of 29 on. I do know that it takes about 2,500 copies of the normal price to make a profit. Have you considered asking Peter on his TMNT Blog or Dan Berger in email? That is about the best I can come up with for you,dude.

Thanks for the semi answer.

I wanna say I read 3000 a few times, but I could be mistaken.

That is the number of vol.1#1(1st print) that were printed. It very well could be the same magic number for vol.4 but I was thinking the first issue of the fourth volume sold 11,000 copies give or take a couple hundred and then dropped off to whatever it was. I guarantee that the number of issues printed changed over the course of the run.

Didn't Peter say that part of the reason for delisting the comic eventually from Diamond and making their own print run was because the minimum commitment went up? Someone might be able to do some maths if they can find out costs versus limits and work out how many issues that comes to...

I think that happened independently of Peter deciding to just sell the comic on the website. From what was posted on ninjaturtles.com it just sounded like he had an epiphany for how awesome it would be to charge us all $30/comic. I think the only way Diamond factored in was that Peter didn't like having to solicit books 3 months in advance.

This site seems to have a pretty good database on sales, which includes TMNT Vol 4, and even some numbers for TMNT Vol. 3. Looks like Vol. 4 started off in December 2001 at about 12k.

http://www.comichron.com/monthlycomicssales.html