July TF Comic Sales

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 9:12 pm

TF Sales in for July (Estimations based on ICV2 numbers last month)

88 TRANSFORMERS INFILTRATION #6
93 TRANSFORMERS STORMBRINGER #1
104 TRANSFORMERS EVOLUTIONS HEARTS O/STEEL #1
155 TRANSFORMERS GENERATIONS (IDW) #5

sprunkner · Post by **sprunkner** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 6:15 am

Let me be the second when I notice that the automatic edit didn't remove the F-word from the front page. That's right, guys, the Muslim got it past the censors.

These are great comics. Why is no one buying?

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 7:16 am

They're spending all their cash on Civil War, 52, One Year Later etc. Big Two are eating up market share at the moment. Still not bad tho, when you consider the reality, not what one would like to see.

Although the charts are all screwy this month, and I haven't read a decent explanation of the indexing yet. It's possible those figures are kinda inaccurate (more so than the normal built-in uncertainty). Batman - the index benchamrk comic - had a big boost in sales and it seemed to break the system.
The interwub comics numbers guys will hopefully be popping up later on with more accurate figures and some analysis.

Shame about Stormbringer #1 being under Infiltration #6 tho, if the ratio works out correct. Smacks of it being ordered like a #7. Did it ship right at the end of the month? That sometimes screws the figure up.

edit: apparently the indexing got fixed this weekend; I didn't check, just figured this was still screwy. The 'correct' estimate numbers are up now:

88 TRANSFORMERS INFILTRATION #6 - 25,303
93 TRANSFORMERS STORMBRINGER #1 - 24,542
104 TRANSFORMERS EVOLUTIONS HEARTS O/STEEL #1 - 20,533
155 TRANSFORMERS GENERATIONS (IDW) #5 - 11,141

If you really like number-crunching, I read last week or so the missing initial order sales on these things can work out to about 20%. That, like lots of things to do with comics numbers, was a guestimate that came out of a discussion between a comics pro and a few retailers.

The analysis guy for indies has been commenting that he thinks these books are underperforming, as variant covers are seen as a sales-crutch and the books have been heavy on them.
I don't know if he did last sales months' thing come to think of it...

Wait, found it: apparently the only TF comic in June was an issue of Generations? Is that right? Apparently it was IDW's top book that month with almost 13K.
May may be more interesting for those inclined to follow these things, if you haven't previously read it.

(83) TRANSFORMERS: INFILTRATION (IDW)
01/2006: Transformers: Infiltration #1 -- 45,468
02/2006: Transformers: Infiltration #2 -- 35,828 (-21.2%)
03/2006: Transformers: Infiltration #3 -- 30,344 (-15.3%)
04/2006: Transformers: Infiltration #4 -- 28,835 (- 5.0%)
05/2006: Transformers: Infiltration #5 -- 27,264 (- 5.5%)

(100) TRANSFORMERS: BEAST WARS (IDW)
02/2006: Transformers: Beast Wars #1 (of 4) -- 34,047
03/2006: Transformers: Beast Wars #2 (of 4) -- 25,737 (-24.4%)
04/2006: Transformers: Beast Wars #3 (of 4) -- 23,966 (- 6.9%)
05/2006: Transformers: Beast Wars #4 (of 4) -- 22,590 (- 5.7%)

Bleeding readers. Variant cover count: seven for INFILTRATION, six for BEAST
WARS.

From here

All these silly stats. It's like following your local footy club.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 5:16 pm

sprunkner wrote: That's right, guys, the Muslim got it past the censors.

We can also move stones through the air with our minds.

Post by **Denyer** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:48 pm

sprunkner wrote:Let me be the second when I notice that the automatic edit didn't remove the F-word from the front page. That's right, guys, the Muslim got it past the censors.

What?

apparently the indexing got fixed this weekend

I know Newsarama and CBR both had borked figures.

http://comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=8129
http://www.newsarama.com/marketreport/july06sales.html

Yeah, both still currently list Batman at 109.3...

http://www.icv2.com/articles/home/9146.html
http://www.icv2.com/articles/home/9143.html -- no mention of having Diamond send out poisoned data first time around.

Stormbringer did ship late, and the stock that was printed cleared, so I'm hopeful for more added to its total when the following month of "actual" figures come out. Not that they're actually actual actuals.

The 'mirrors' of this conversation...

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/showthread.php?t=108084
http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.ph ... opic=12770
http://forums.idwpublishing.com/cgi-bin ... =21;t=1592
http://tfarchive.com/community/showthre ... adid=34535

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:23 am

Denyer wrote:
sprunkner wrote:Let me be the second when I notice that the automatic edit didn't remove the F-word from the front page. That's right, guys, the Muslim got it past the censors.
What?

Thread got edited.

I know Newsarama and CBR both had borked figures.

http://comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=8129
http://www.newsarama.com/marketreport/july06sales.html

Yeah, both still currently list Batman at 109.3...

Then they're slow.
Everywhere had the wrong indexing, a retailler on another board said they came that way from Diamond. He then posted the correct ones once he got those, and ICV2 had the same info, what is supposed to be the correct estimates, yesterday lunchtime.

http://www.icv2.com/articles/home/9143.html -- no mention of having Diamond send out poisoned data first time around.

No, and I haven't read an explanation for it anywhere yet.

BATMAN is 100 there now.

Stormbringer did ship late, and the stock that was printed cleared, so I'm hopeful for more added to its total when the following month of "actual" figures come out. Not that they're actually actual actuals.

Cool beans, cheers mate!