Hey, hey, it’s the half-year report from Comix Experience – now also with numbers from Comix Experience Outpost.You’ll find it below the cut, for those of you who like numbers-porn. Right, so the first bit I want to show is our publisher breakdown. I think some of you may recall I’ve said that I think that it is likely that Image is going to move into the #2 publisher spot sometime this year, though, I almost think it is possible it might hit #1 as well. This chart is all Experience, mostly because I totally spaced on running it on Outpost – but Outpost is probably about 40% Marvel. Top 20 Publishers @ Experience, 1/1/14-6/30/14, all categories, by quantity 26.46% MARVEL COMICS 24.27% DC COMICS 22.32% IMAGE COMICS 6.69% DARK HORSE COMICS 4.06% IDW PUBLISHING 3.03% BOOM! STUDIOS 2.06% AVATAR PRESS INC 1.80% D. E. 1.03% ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS 0.69% ONI PRESS INC. 0.60% VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT LLC 0.60% FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS 0.39% BONGO COMICS 0.35% DRAWN & QUARTERLY 0.35% REBELLION / 2000AD 0.31% TOP SHELF PRODUCTIONS 0.29% :01 FIRST SECOND 0.25% VIZ MEDIA LLC 0.21% PAPERCUTZ 0.19% KODANSHA COMICS

That’s pretty much exactly what one calls “neck in neck”, yes, for the top three?

If you sort it by dollars, things move around a bit because DC has a lot of legacy TPs that are priced at $20+, while much of Image’s sales are of $9.99 TPs, and $2.99 comics… 22.00% DC COMICS 21.17% MARVEL COMICS 18.67% IMAGE COMICS 7.49% DARK HORSE COMICS 4.91% IDW PUBLISHING 2.62% BOOM! STUDIOS 1.94% FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS 1.71% AVATAR PRESS INC 1.39% D. E. 1.37% HUMANOIDS INC 1.11% DRAWN & QUARTERLY 1.07% ONI PRESS INC. 1.01% REBELLION / 2000AD 0.86% :01 FIRST SECOND 0.80% ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS 0.68% VIZ MEDIA LLC 0.62% TOP SHELF PRODUCTIONS 0.56% KODANSHA COMICS 0.45% ARCHAIA ENTERTAINMENT LLC 0.40% VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT LLC

We are up 8.2% from same period last year at Experience, which for a 25 year old business, is pretty exceptional. Outpost is under a year old, so I don’t have comps just yet!

So, let’s first take comics as their own thing. New periodical comics are 40% of Experience’s sales, and 55% of Outpost.

Starting off with Experience, here is what things look like for comics, from the first of the year, in terms of PIECES SOLD:

1 DEADLY CLASS #1 2 SAGA #18 3 SANDMAN OVERTURE #2 (OF 6) McKean Cover 4 SAGA #19 5 DEADLY CLASS #2 6 MS MARVEL #1 7 BLACK SCIENCE #3 8 SOUTHERN BASTARDS #1 9 DEADLY CLASS #3 SANDMAN OVERTURE #2 (OF 6) JHW Cover 11 DEADLY CLASS #4 SEX CRIMINALS #4 13 SAGA #20 14 BATMAN #27 15 TREES #1 16 BATMAN #28 WALKING DEAD #121 18 MS MARVEL #2 SANDMAN OVERTURE #1 (OF 6) McKean Cover SEX CRIMINALS #5 21 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1 MOON KNIGHT #1 23 WALKING DEAD #120 24 BLACK SCIENCE #4 WALKING DEAD #127 26 BLACK SCIENCE #5 JUPITERS LEGACY #4 WALKING DEAD #119 WALKING DEAD #122 WALKING DEAD #123 31 BATMAN #29 STRAY BULLETS THE KILLERS #1 WALKING DEAD #125 34 BLACK SCIENCE #6 VELVET #3 WALKING DEAD #124 WALKING DEAD #126 38 BATMAN #30 DEADLY CLASS #5 EAST OF WEST #10 41 EAST OF WEST #11 42 EAST OF WEST #9 43 MOON KNIGHT #2 44 BATMAN #31 EAST OF WEST #12 HAWKEYE #16 SEX CRIMINALS #1 VELVET #4 49 BLACK SCIENCE #2 DAREDEVIL #1 ANMN ORIGINAL SIN #1 (OF 8) SEX CRIMINALS #6 SOUTHERN BASTARDS #2 54 AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE #3 FOREVER EVIL #5 (OF 7) 56 AVENGERS WORLD #1 HAWKEYE #15 PRETTY DEADLY #4 UNCANNY X-MEN #16 60 ALL NEW X-MEN #22.NOW ALL NEW X-MEN #23 FOREVER EVIL #7 (OF 7) MIRACLEMAN #1 OUTCAST BY KIRKMAN & AZACETA #1 SILVER SURFER #1 ANMN 66 DAREDEVIL #35 FOREVER EVIL #6 (OF 7) MOON KNIGHT #3 ORIGINAL SIN #2 (OF 8) PRETTY DEADLY #5 VELVET #5 72 DEADLY CLASS #6 FATALE #19 JUSTICE LEAGUE #27 MOON KNIGHT #4 SERENITY LEAVES ON THE WIND #1 (OF 6) WALKING DEAD #128 78 MS MARVEL #4 SAGA #17 SERENITY LEAVES ON THE WIND #2 (OF 6) 81 JUSTICE LEAGUE #28 JUSTICE LEAGUE #29 LUMBERJANES #1 (OF 8) MS MARVEL #3 ORIGINAL SIN #3 (OF 8) STRAY BULLETS THE KILLERS #2 87 AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE #4 ALL NEW X-MEN #21 ALL NEW X-MEN #25 BATMAN ETERNAL #1 DETECTIVE COMICS #27 CVR B (Frank Miller) MIRACLEMAN #2 ORIGINAL SIN #0 (OF 8) TREES #2 UNCANNY X-MEN #17 UNCANNY X-MEN #18 UNCANNY X-MEN #19.NOW ANMN 98 AVENGERS #25 ANMN BLACK SCIENCE #1 HAWKEYE #17 LAZARUS #6 SHE-HULK #1 UNCANNY AVENGERS #16

So, yeah, Image is doing VERY well at Experience, with Rick Remender’s DEADLY CLASS taking the #1 spot away from SAGA (though, looking at this now that I’ve done the math already, Sandman: Overture, if you combine the two covers, beats even that. Yet another reason I think that multiple covers are bunk)

Things change up a little if you sort it by dollars (I’ve put the cover price there at the end for this exercise) – limiting this just to the top 20

1 SANDMAN OVERTURE #2 (OF 6) McKean Cover $3.99 2 DEADLY CLASS #1 $3.50 3 SAGA #18 $2.99 4 SAGA #19 $2.99 5 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1 $5.99 6 DEADLY CLASS #2 $3.50 7 SANDMAN OVERTURE #1 (OF 6) McKean Cover $4.99 8 DETECTIVE COMICS #27 CVR B (Frank Miller) $7.99 9 SANDMAN OVERTURE #2 (OF 6) JHW Cover $3.99 10 BLACK SCIENCE #3 $3.50 11 SOUTHERN BASTARDS #1 $3.50 12 BATMAN #29 $4.99 13 MS MARVEL #1 $2.99 14 MIRACLEMAN #1 $5.99 BATMAN #27 $3.99 16 DEADLY CLASS #3 $3.50 17 SEX CRIMINALS #4 $3.50 18 BATMAN #28 $3.99 19 DEADLY CLASS #4 $3.50 20 MOON KNIGHT #1 $3.99

What about across town at the Outpost? Outpost is a MUCH more “mainstream” kind of store! Here’s the Top 100 (or so) by PIECES SOLD

1 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1 2 BATMAN #27 3 BATMAN #28 BATMAN #29 5 BATMAN #30 GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #11.NOW ANMN 7 ALL NEW X-MEN #23 ANMN SUPERMAN UNCHAINED #5 9 BATMAN ETERNAL #1 10 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #2 ANMN BATMAN #31 SUPERMAN UNCHAINED #6 13 ALL NEW X-MEN #22.NOW ANMN GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #13 ANMN 15 GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #12 ANMN GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #14 17 SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #30 ANMN 18 BATMAN ETERNAL #2 SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #31 ANMN 20 GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #10 INF SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #27.NOW ANMN SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #29 ANMN 23 ALL NEW X-MEN #24 ANMN SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #25 25 FOREVER EVIL #5 (OF 7) 26 ALL NEW X-MEN #21 ALL NEW X-MEN #25 28 SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #26 29 BATMAN ETERNAL #4 BATMAN SUPERMAN #7 FOREVER EVIL #6 (OF 7) UNCANNY X-MEN #18 33 UNCANNY X-MEN #16 34 BATMAN ETERNAL #3 SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #28 ANMN UNCANNY X-MEN #17 37 DAREDEVIL #1 ANMN UNCANNY X-MEN #19.NOW ANMN 39 FOREVER EVIL #7 (OF 7) ORIGINAL SIN #1 (OF 8) 41 ALL NEW X-MEN #26 HARLEY QUINN #2 ORIGINAL SIN #3 (OF 8) X-MEN #9 XFV 45 BATMAN ETERNAL #5 BATMAN ETERNAL #6 BATMAN SUPERMAN ANNUAL #1 MS MARVEL #1 NIGHT OF LIVING DEADPOOL #1 (OF 4) UNCANNY X-MEN #20 ANMN 51 AVENGERS #25 ANMN AVENGERS #26 ANMN ORIGINAL SIN #2 (OF 8) UNCANNY AVENGERS #16 55 DAREDEVIL #2 ANMN X-MEN #10.NOW ANMN X-MEN #11 ANMN 58 ALL NEW X-MEN #27 BATMAN ETERNAL #7 DEADPOOL #22 GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #15 MS MARVEL #2 SAGA #18 SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #2 65 AVENGERS #29 ORIGINAL SIN #0 67 AVENGERS #27 BATMAN ETERNAL #8 DEADLY CLASS #1 FANTASTIC FOUR #1 ANMN FOREVER EVIL #4 (OF 7) 72 AVENGERS #28 BATMAN SUPERMAN #8 DAREDEVIL #3 ANMN JUSTICE LEAGUE #27 NIGHT OF LIVING DEADPOOL #4 (OF 4) UNCANNY AVENGERS #17 UNCANNY AVENGERS #18.NOW ANMN UNCANNY X-MEN #21 80 ALL NEW X-MEN #28 BATMAN SUPERMAN #11 DETECTIVE COMICS #30 83 ALL NEW INVADERS #1 ANMN AVENGERS #24.NOW ANMN AVENGERS #30 SIN DEADPOOL #27 ANMN HARLEY QUINN #3 JUSTICE LEAGUE #28 NIGHT OF LIVING DEADPOOL #2 (OF 4) UNCANNY AVENGERS ANNUAL #1 91 DEADPOOL #23 DETECTIVE COMICS #27 CVR B (Frank Miller) LUMBERJANES #1 (OF 8) MOON KNIGHT #2 NEW AVENGERS #16.NOW ANMN SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #24 97 BATMAN ETERNAL #9 MOON KNIGHT #1 MOON KNIGHT #1 YOUNG VAR ANMN NEW AVENGERS #14 NIGHT OF LIVING DEADPOOL #3 (OF 4) X-MEN #12 ANMN

Damn, a LOT more mainstream, right? And swapping this for dollars sold shows a tremendous less amount of changes, so I’m not even going to bother!

Right, so what if we fold the two stores together? Then it looks something like this:

1 DEADLY CLASS #1 2 SAGA #18 3 SAGA #19 4 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1 5 SANDMAN OVERTURE #2 (OF 6) McKean Cover 6 BATMAN #27 7 BATMAN #28 8 MS MARVEL #1 9 BATMAN #29 10 BATMAN #30 11 DEADLY CLASS #2 12 ALL NEW X-MEN #23 BATMAN #31 14 ALL NEW X-MEN #22.NOW BLACK SCIENCE #3 16 BATMAN ETERNAL #1 17 MS MARVEL #2 18 SOUTHERN BASTARDS #1 19 FOREVER EVIL #5 (OF 7) GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #11.NOW ANMN 21 DEADLY CLASS #3 SUPERMAN UNCHAINED #5 23 GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #13 ANMN 24 DEADLY CLASS #4 GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #12 ANMN 26 SANDMAN OVERTURE #2 (OF 6) JHW Cover 27 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #2 ANMN DAREDEVIL #1 ANMN MOON KNIGHT #1 UNCANNY X-MEN #16 31 FOREVER EVIL #6 (OF 7) ORIGINAL SIN #1 (OF 8) 33 ALL NEW X-MEN #24 ANMN GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #14 35 ALL NEW X-MEN #21 ALL NEW X-MEN #25 SEX CRIMINALS #4 38 FOREVER EVIL #7 (OF 7) SUPERMAN UNCHAINED #6 WALKING DEAD #121 41 UNCANNY X-MEN #18 WALKING DEAD #127 43 SEX CRIMINALS #5 WALKING DEAD #120 45 UNCANNY X-MEN #17 WALKING DEAD #119 47 ORIGINAL SIN #2 (OF 8) UNCANNY X-MEN #19.NOW ANMN WALKING DEAD #125 50 BLACK SCIENCE #4 ORIGINAL SIN #3 (OF 8) SAGA #20 WALKING DEAD #126 54 GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #10 INF MOON KNIGHT #2 WALKING DEAD #123 57 BATMAN ETERNAL #2 TREES #1 59 BATMAN ETERNAL #4 60 AVENGERS #25 ANMN UNCANNY AVENGERS #16 62 BATMAN ETERNAL #3 JUSTICE LEAGUE #27 WALKING DEAD #124 65 BATMAN ETERNAL #5 DAREDEVIL #2 ANMN ORIGINAL SIN #0 UNCANNY X-MEN #20 ANMN 69 ALL NEW X-MEN #26 BATMAN SUPERMAN #7 SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #31 72 ALL NEW X-MEN #27 BATMAN ETERNAL #6 BLACK SCIENCE #6 HARLEY QUINN #2 76 BLACK SCIENCE #5 JUSTICE LEAGUE #28 WALKING DEAD #122 79 AVENGERS #26 ANMN EAST OF WEST #10 JUPITERS LEGACY #4 LUMBERJANES #1 (OF 8) 83 DETECTIVE COMICS #27 CVR B (Frank Miller) HAWKEYE #16 UNCANNY AVENGERS #17 86 EAST OF WEST #11 FANTASTIC FOUR #1 ANMN MOON KNIGHT #3 UNCANNY AVENGERS #18.NOW ANMN UNCANNY X-MEN #21 91 BATMAN SUPERMAN ANNUAL #1 DEADLY CLASS #5 EAST OF WEST #9 MS MARVEL #3 X-MEN #9 XFV 96 AVENGERS #29 DETECTIVE COMICS #30 HAWKEYE #15 JUSTICE LEAGUE #29 SEX CRIMINALS #1

Experience’s big hits are bigger, but the Outpost’s midlist swings a lot of the Marvel and DC comics right up the charts.

Yeah, so that’s the 6 month look – see anything interesting yourself?

-B