Earl, any new stats? that are not three months old?

What are you all seeing at your shops? Mine has cut their orders back dramatically and still has books left on the shelves.

That's funny because the Ultimate Spider-man annual was KILLER! It was basically just about Peter and Mary Jane side stepping the issue of whether or not they should "go all the way". I've never, ever read a Spider-man book for more than 2 or 3 issues before dropping it and returning the issues for consignment. Ultimate Spider-man is the only Spidey book that I totally HAVE to read...which is funny because it's the ONLY Ultimate title I read anymore. I used to read Ultimates and Ultimate X-men, but I've since returned my entire collections to my LCS for consignment.

Oh -- and I read the Origins stuff and the I'm doing Ultimatum.

I feel like, with the exception of Fantastic Four and X-men, titles like Avengers and Spidey kind of need that reboot. The X-men have aged and grown and are in their mid-to-late thirties now and can acknowledge their pasts. But like Batman, some of the Avengers and Spidey seem to be a little TOO stalled in time. Peter Parker should be the same age as Cyclops. I'm just not sure that he is...

Basically the deal is that yes sales have fallen to 70,000 per issue for ASM which is down from the 130,000 per issue during the Back in Black arc. The thing is Sensational Spidey and Friendly Neighbourhood spidey were selling like 35 or 40k per issue.  So with 3 spidey titles a month they had basically 145k in sales. Now they have 3 per month selling 70k or 210k per month so they are actually selling more Spidey book a month with this BND crap.

However the thing is if they just dropped Sensation and Friendly and didn't do the magic Mephisto thing what would sales be like? I bet like 100k an issue or 300k per month.  Joe Q will argue BND's success till the end of his days but anyone with half a brain sees through it.

Here's the August and historical sales info below

08/03 Amazing Spider-Man #57 - 93,469

08/04 Amazing Spider-Man #511 - 88,118

08/05 Amazing Spider-Man #523 - 72,046

08/06 —

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08/07 Amazing Spider-Man #543 - 106,485 ( +0.7%)

09/07 Amazing Spider-Man #544 - 159,104 (+49.4%)

10/07 —

11/07 —

12/07 Amazing Spider-Man #545 - 129,085 (-18.9%)

01/08 Amazing Spider-Man #546 - 127,958 ( -0.9%)

01/08 Amazing Spider-Man #547 - 101,213 (-20.9%)

01/08 Amazing Spider-Man #548 - 97,959 ( -3.2%)

02/08 Amazing Spider-Man #549 - 101,112 ( +3.2%)

02/08 Amazing Spider-Man #550 - 90,874 (-10.1%)

02/08 Amazing Spider-Man #551 - 88,084 ( -3.1%)

03/08 Amazing Spider-Man #552 - 89,835 ( +2.0%)

03/08 Amazing Spider-Man #553 - 82,648 ( -8.0%)

03/08 Amazing Spider-Man #554 - 81,072 ( -1.9%)

04/08 Amazing Spider-Man #555 - 86,902 ( +7.2%)

04/08 Amazing Spider-Man #556 - 78,458 ( -9.7%)

04/08 Amazing Spider-Man #557 - 77,057 ( -1.8%)

05/08 Amazing Spider-Man #558 - 76,966 ( -0.1%)

05/08 Amazing Spider-Man #559 - 74,206 ( -3.6%)

05/08 Amazing Spider-Man #560 - 74,012 ( -0.3%)

06/08 Amazing Spider-Man #561 - 72,372 ( -2.2%)

06/08 Amazing Spider-Man #562 - 71,409 ( -1.3%)

06/08 Amazing Spider-Man #563 - 70,792 ( -0.9%)

07/08 Amazing Spider-Man #564 - 68,882 ( -2.7%)

07/08 Amazing Spider-Man #565 - 69,182 ( +0.4%)

07/08 Amazing Spider-Man #566 - 68,912 ( -0.4%)

08/08 Amazing Spider-Man #567 - 68,130 ( -1.1%)

08/08 Amazing Spider-Man #568 - 98,357 (+44.4%)

08/08 Amazing Spider-Man #569 - 77,950 (-20.7%)

6 mnth (-11.5%)

1 year (-26.8%)

2 year ( — )

3 year ( +8.2%)

4 year (-11.5%)

5 year (-16.6%)

BND and the Quesada regime killed it for me

 

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Read Ultimate! I just purchased the first three hardcover volumes and #7 on Amazon. If you're thrifty, you can grab the hardcover versions, shipping included, for about 1.50 per issue. The hardcovers include 10 issues (or 2 volumes) each.

Don't buy the collector's edition, which has hardcover volumes 1-3 (paperback 1-6) even for 50 bucks (half off). You can still get the individual hardcovers for cheaper.

Ultimate was the last one I was getting before i cut out Spidey for good...

I have close to 90 issues of Ult.Spidey..wasn't a bad title..just lost interest.

 

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Can someone tell me what this Mephisto story was about that everyone would be mad about?

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