Sales Review: September 2019

The sales number for September sales have come out and as usual, ICv2 is a great place to go for a breakdown. Here is a link: https://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/44317/top-500-comics-september-2019

It was an interesting month overall. Spawn #300 came out and broke the 250K number. Spider-Man #1 came out and broke 150K. The Hickman X-titles all came close to 140K. Those are healthy numbers. And Doomsday Clock #11 finally hit the stands and cracked 115K. For comics, which always seem to be fading, that is a solid top 10.

As for Supergirl, it was a rare calendar month where 2 issues hit the stands. Due to some delays to recolor and redraw some Legionnaires, Supergirl #33 was put on pause until the pages were fixed.
And it was an interesting month storywise for the Girl of Steel. Supergirl #33 was the end of the Rogol Zaar epic and tied in closely to the Unity Saga. Supergirl #34 had Supergirl return to Earth and be suddenly thrust into the Event Leviathan and Year of the Villain arcs. Suddenly Kara was plugged into the main DCU again.

Since both issues were tied into bigger events, I wondered if sales would show a bump. Both issues also had 'card stock' covers.

Let's look.

As I said, Supergirl #33 had the wrap-up of the Rogol Zaar and Empress Gandelo arc.

Supergirl suppresses her rage and brings Zaar to justice. She teams up with her cousin Jon.

The book was beautifully drawn by Kevin Maguire.

The issue, between covers, sold 24795 units.

This was an increase from the month before by about 2000 units.

It would be impossible to break it all down. But I wonder how much of Unity Saga and how much of card stock covers led to the bump.

Supergirl #34 was a return to form.

Kara comes back to Earth, heads to National City, runs into her father and fights Leviathan.

This issue sold 24209 units. That's pretty stable for sales.

I did wonder how much of these sales were based on Leviathan vs. just Kara heading home vs. again the novelty cover.

Still, Supergirl selling 24K. That is something to celebrate.

As for Event Leviathan, my comic obsession, the mini-series has sort of dwindled a bit in sales despite my interest rising.

Event Leviathan #4 continued to mystery. It ended with Superman facing off against Leviathan finally.

Shockingly, it only sold 34K.

That is probably exceedingly healthy in this market. But this book has been so compelling I thought it would be more around 60K.

I wonder how the trade will sell.

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