Serenity Comic Sells 38,500 Copies.

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SPOOKYJESUS

Friday, August 19, 2005 5:07 PM

Issue one has sold an estimated 38,500 copys.

http://www.newsarama.com/marketreport/july05top300.html

In case you wanna know.

SHINY

Friday, August 19, 2005 5:12 PM

Is that a lot for this kind of thing? Just curious, as I have no context to know if that's a lot or not...

ETA: After reading the article, at least it's in the top 50 for July, so that ain't bad...

Jayne, your mouth is talkin. Might want to look into that.

258WESTAUTHENTIC

Friday, August 19, 2005 5:16 PM

38,500 / 2.5 = is about 15000 people got them. ( people bought all 3 covers and few only bought 1 cover thats how I came up with the 2.5 )

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RON GLASS AUTOGRAPHED COMIC COVERS FOR SELL ON MY SITE FOR A LIMITED TIME ( Limited to 258 Copies )

https://258west.com/category/item.php?id=60

Serenity Comics, Action figures, RPG, Books, Trading cards... Everything Serenity can be found at my store.

http://www.bigdamnstore.com

Thanks for you support

SPOOKYJESUS

Friday, August 19, 2005 5:30 PM

That's good math 258westauthentic.

It's not bad Shiny - it's good in the sense that it wasn't published by either Marvel or DC and so it was never going to be "up there". - in comparison Joss' Astonishing X-Men sold 127,800 - which translates as 127,800 people since it dodn't have a varient cover (although some people buy two copies - one to read, one to keep).

Also, remember these are the numbers for issue one - the "sold out" issues as ordered by retailers who may have underestimated the demand.
We still have reprints and trade paperbacks to come so the available comic audience may well be higher indeed.

CS

Friday, August 19, 2005 5:36 PM

I doubt that many people bought all 3 cover variants. I'm a hardcore fan and even I wasn't prepared to shell out another £3 (or whatever it was) just for a different cover.

I think that issue 2 (& 3) could sell more, it was a fantastic comic and surely everyone who bought it went on to get issue 2.

258WESTAUTHENTIC

Friday, August 19, 2005 6:04 PM

I got sold over 500 sets of all 9 comics, trust me people are buying all 3 covers.

------------------------------------------------

RON GLASS AUTOGRAPHED COMIC COVERS FOR SELL ON MY SITE FOR A LIMITED TIME ( Limited to 258 Copies )

https://258west.com/category/item.php?id=60

Serenity Comics, Action figures, RPG, Books, Trading cards... Everything Serenity can be found at my store.

http://www.bigdamnstore.com

Thanks for you support

258WESTAUTHENTIC

Friday, August 19, 2005 6:04 PM

Sorry about the double post.

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RON GLASS AUTOGRAPHED COMIC COVERS FOR SELL ON MY SITE FOR A LIMITED TIME ( Limited to 258 Copies )

https://258west.com/category/item.php?id=60

Serenity Comics, Action figures, RPG, Books, Trading cards... Everything Serenity can be found at my store.

http://www.bigdamnstore.com

Thanks for you support

SIMONWHO

Friday, August 19, 2005 10:41 PM

But you're more a specialist, selling to the hardcore Firefly fans on the net (with lots of cool extras too!). Whereas comic books stores are more likely to sell just one copy.

*feels unhardcore for just buying the Mal cover then giving it away*

SNEAKER98

Saturday, August 20, 2005 2:21 AM

The two stores I stopped by in my town were both sold out. Good news for browncoats, bad news for me ;)

"I do the job... and then I get paid. Go run your little world."
-Malcolm Reynolds

TALLGRRL

Saturday, August 20, 2005 3:12 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Spookyjesus:
Issue one has sold an estimated 38,500 copys.

http://www.newsarama.com/marketreport/july05top300.html

In case you wanna know.

The guy that runs the comic store near me says that Serenity #1 is going into its 2nd printing.
Daamn!!!!

"Take me, sir. Take me hard." -- Zoe

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