Marvel Barely Makes July Top 10 Comics Chart

I’m a couple weeks late here, but I just noticed today that Marvel is getting killed by DC in comics sales. I mean, killed. I knew DC’s Absolute Universe was the hottest thing in comics currently, but I didn’t realize it was this bad. The only comic Marvel had that cracked the top 10 for July was Queen in Black #1.

If you think it couldn’t get any worse, check out this analysis by Heidi MacDonald at the Beat in Sales Charts: Absolute Batman #1 in July – and even more numbers:

On the video where Atom Freeman and Brian Garside discussed these numbers, they noted that Queen in Black was Marvel’s big summer event, and coming in at #6 was a surprise when they had done so much promotion for it.

Ouch. That new editorial regime at Marvel better get cracking.