Sales Review - June 2019

The sales numbers for June have come out and as usual, I find ICv2's coverage of the month to be the best coverage. Here is a link:
https://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/43606/top-500-comics-june-2019

The super-titles are transitioning a bit in plot. The Leviathan plots are heating up. The House of El/Unity Saga is coming to a close. And finally, the super-family is together in story.

Supergirl #31 was an important part of the Unity Saga story with Supergirl joining Superman and Superboy in thwarting Rogol Zaar and General Zod's attacks on Jor-El. This also was an issue which showed scenes from Superman #12 from a different perspective. So seeing the action unfold from different character's viewpoints was a nice touch.

But the big thing was that this was a Superman Family story. The cousins are together. So how did it sell?

The book had 20,903 units ordered, landing at spot #99 on the top 300 list.

That number is up from #30 which had 18443. And, of note, there was no Artgerm or special variant cover. This increase might be secondary to increased interest? Possibly folding this title into a Superman story brought in new readers?

Event Leviathan #1 also came out last month.

I have been very excited about this story line and I have been picking the clues apart.

It seems a quieter sort of crossover event, a mystery rather than a cosmic fist fight.

I was glad to see just over 74K books ordered for the title.

I didn't expect this book to be a huge seller just based on perceived overall impact. So this number is actually a little higher than I anticipated.

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