This week’s Marvel Comics releases contained teasers images featuring creators for an upcoming event in August 2019. Speculation began almost immediately. Many believing they were associated with the upcoming Absolute Carnage event or Marvel’s 80th …
This week’s Marvel Comics releases contained teasers images featuring creators for an upcoming event in August 2019. Speculation began almost immediately. Many believing they were associated with the upcoming Absolute Carnage event or Marvel’s 80th anniversary celebration. Everyone knew this was Marvel EIC C.B. Cebulski’s baby. Some thought he was finally getting free rein to manage Marvel Comics for a change. There was a chance Marvel was returning to its roots by bringing back a core of great creators. Ushering in a renewed focused on quality and customer satisfaction. I was highly skeptical Marvel would drop their SJW focus and course correct their comic’s lineup.
Turns out, C.B. Cebulski’s baby is nothing more than a manufactured one-off cash grab. Marvel Comics #1000 commemorates the 80th anniversary of Marvel Comics #1, released in 1939. Unfortunately, the series was cancelled after only 159 issues in 1959. And even if the series continued the past 60 years it still wouldn’t be close to reaching issue 1000 now. Customers have been expressing frustration at Marvel Comics for far left ideological content, constant series reboots and an endless string of events for years. Now Marvel Comic’s genius leadership team are falsely manufacturing an issue 1000 they never earned to bilk readers and retailers out of even more money.
On the surface, sales numbers look great for Marvel. Powered by four issue 1’s in the top 10, Marvel moved over 50% of all comics shipped and held 45% of the dollar market share in April 2019. If you dig a bit deeper things look much worse for Marvel and the comic book industry in general.
Dollars sold are down 11% compared to March 2019. Comic book dollar sales dropped a whopping 14.6% in comparison to April 2018. Overall, comic book and graphic novel dollars sales in April were down 17.65% compared to April 2018, though down a slightly lesser 15.24% in total units shipped. Thanks to the overwhelming success of last month’s Detective Com..
