IDW TMNT Sales Charts

[The Purple Dragon]

Originally Posted by Zulithe

sad to see how few copies BOTH books sell, tbh. But that's just how comics are these days. In the 90s when I was really into reading comics the numbers were pretty big even for smaller books. I know this isn't news, but it still gets me sometimes to think about.

I wonder how these IDW books sell in trade format?

me as well i wish someone coued post the salenr on tpb and hc

i coued be wrong but i think they sell well because most people/comic store in europe just buy/sell the tpb/hc because nobody wanth them or because they are to pricey and i does not help with all the variant covers.
that i guess is the main reason people in europe dont buy ploppys/singel issues eny more.

my guess if the publisher want to keep going with paper they have to just go digital with the singel issues and just print tbp or hc

[Redeemer]

Originally Posted by ozzythebulldog

me as well i wish someone coued post the salenr on tpb and hc

i coued be wrong but i think they sell well because most people/comic store in europe just buy/sell the tpb/hc because nobody wanth them or because they are to pricey and i does not help with all the variant covers.
that i guess is the main reason people in europe dont buy ploppys/singel issues eny more.

my guess if the publisher want to keep going with paper they have to just go digital with the singel issues and just print tbp or hc

That is interesting, so in Europe people buy more trade-paperbacks or Hardcover trades than single issues????? I guess it would make sense from a price point. It is cheaper to ship and import trades than single issues.

[The Purple Dragon]

i cant say all contrys in europe does it but most of them do,perhaps in some of the biggest citys they take in a small nr of singel issues atleast of the marvel best sellers but the rest goes in trades and harcover,
last time i did buy a singel issue in 02 it was 10$ fore a issue. my guess to day is closer to 15$ and that are fore regulare so you can guess how mutch a variant cover woued go fore.i cant rember to see singel issues in my comic store the couple of years.
i think most people in europe buy singels digital to support and keep track and buy trades or hard covers on paper.
but rember its not just the price on singel issues but variant covers and if you want to store singels propley the supplyes also cost mutch and take a lot of space.
instead of trades and hc you can just store in your bookshelvs,coast less and you get a better flow in the reading

[Mayhem]

Probably depends on the country. I know Norway has some pretty extreme import duties at times, having shipped to folks there in the past, and marking down the valuation quite severely heh.

Here in the UK via my comic store (and many others having compared over the years), your bog standard issue tends to be £2.99 or £3.29 (US$5), the 5:1 will be £4.99 (US$8.50), the 10:1 will be £7.99 (US$13.50) and the 25:1 will be £14.99 (US$25.50). Many places will also do free shipping within the UK as well, all bagged and boarded on top.

So it isn't that expensive for me to get single issues, and the variants on top in general. Certainly I've been able to get almost all the Diamond distributed covers from the IDW TMNT run via my comic place, I just needed to go to other places for a couple of the 25:1 (Utrom and X-Files).

[Tazi]

Outside, UK most of Europe doesn't have comic shops with imported comics at all, and you wouldn't be able to be up to date with an ongoing titles, only with a a big delay, unless you can buy it on Comixology. But for example TMNT is region locked and there are a countless places you can't buy it.

Importing single issues are just way too ****ing expensive, in my country there's a comic shop, which one can import single issues, but they almost as expensive as buying directly from Amazon. Besides, they don't have everything, you would possibly like to buy.

So, the only option left is buying from shops like bookdepository.com, which ships without postal fee, but only have TPBs/HCs, so no single issues, and no TMNT 30th Anniversary issue for you.

[Rat A Tat]

June numbers:

Comics
127 TMNT Ongoing #34 17,442
136 TMNT Ongoing #35 15,174
145 TMNT Turtles In Time #1 13,840
218 TMNT New Animated Adventures 7,577

Collections
53 TMNT Ongoing Vol. 8 Northampton 1,621

[CyberCubed]

Wow, New Animated Adventures got a pretty good boost this month.

[liugeaux]

That's a really good number for turtles in time. Obviously, name recognition works.

[CyberCubed]

Originally Posted by liugeaux

That's a really good number for turtles in time. Obviously, name recognition works.

Really? The sales are about the same as the worst selling micro's. I think Fugitoid only did around 13,000.

[Redeemer]

36# 15,415

slight boost......
Hopefully the next issue will bounce back.

[ToTheNines]

Full July numbers:

175. TMNT #36 - 15,415
203. Turtles in Time #2 - 11,334
278. New Animated Adventures #13 - 7,158

[CyberCubed]

Shame that the main ongoing is only in the 15,000 now, I wish it would go back to 18-19k.

Surprised the Nick comic has gotten a boost. Perhaps that series has legs yet.

[Tazi]

But at least it looks like fixed 15k, and far away from IDW's cancellation value (5000>).

[Joey Kamikaze]

AFAIK it's still one of IDW's best-selling books, and it's been getting lots of hype from people just starting to read it the last few months round the web. It's good to see articles like this popping up more and more as people realize there's a badass TMNT comic for teens/adults going now. I wonder what effect the movie is going to have on readership in the next couple months.

[CyberCubed]

Originally Posted by Tazi

But at least it looks like fixed 15k, and far away from IDW's cancellation value (5000>).

Nick TMNT was around 6,000 a few months back, but its received a boost lately. Unless it continues to climb, I think a lot of people are wondering how much longer IDW is willing to put up with low sales of a kid spinoff book.

Its not like Nick Animated is like Archie where we're getting new exciting adventures with new villains...its essentially a filler book with simple and short stories that are otherwise forgettable. I like it for what it is, but I wouldn't miss it if it got canceled.

[Tazi]

What is strange they had Ghostbusters around 7,500 at the last months, I think, and they still canceled it. I guess they pay more money for the Ghostbusters license then TMNT or something like?

I think IDW's Rouge Trooper (a 2000AD created comic originally, like Judge Dredd) was around 5000, it got canceled, but yet they said, they might continue if the TPB will sell well.

Interesting.


Besides TMNT one of the better selling IDW books, but yet it's still far from the best. (just check the statistics) They no more selling 25k, like at the beginning.

[ToTheNines]

Originally Posted by Tazi

What is strange they had Ghostbusters around 7,500 at the last months, I think, and they still canceled it. I guess they pay more money for the Ghostbusters license then TMNT or something like?

GB only moved 6,400 in June, can't find July numbers for it though...

[Cipher]

Originally Posted by Redeemer

36# 15,415

slight boost......
Hopefully the next issue will bounce back.

It's pretty crazy for any ongoing series to get a boost on a random month without any sort of gimmick. That's a really good sign for the health of the series' sales.

They no more selling 25k, like at the beginning

Long-running serials pretty much universally lose numbers over time. I's just way more likely that some people drop off along the way than that a large number of people will jump into the middle of an ongoing story. Nothing sells as well as it does at the beginning, when people are jumping on to try it. Par for the course. There are occasional sleeper hits that gain numbers as they go along, but that's rare.

That's also why it's crazy to see upswings on random months.

[Tazi]

I got it wrong then, but that's still over their cancelation limit for TMNT. (under 5000)

[CyberCubed]

Originally Posted by Tazi

I got it wrong then, but that's still over their cancelation limit for TMNT. (under 5000)

They're still producing 3 TMNT books at a time, (the ongoing, the mini-series/specials, and Nick animated), that if something has to give, it'll obviously be the Nick comic.

I guess kids these days just don't read comics. The Nick comic isn't aimed at us, its aimed at 8 year olds watching the Nick cartoon. They must not be asking their parents to buy the comic.