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7/26/2025, 8:09:32 PM
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Sales in dollars is much higher because of variant covers. That's the business model.
The comic stores don't care if they can't move 50 issues of X-Men if they know they have a guy obsessed with Magik who will buy the 1:50 variant for $300-$500 dollars.
Floppy sales is just extra butter on the biscuit
Comic book news caters to fanboys, they focus on characters and writers and believe that has a direct correlation with sales.
When it's really about popular artists drawing popular characters that drive sales. That's why H2SH, a terrible story is #1, it's drawn by the most popular artist who's ever lived and has the most variant covers this month.
Doctor Aphra and Kamala Khan will always be in a comic because they both have superfans who pay anything for variant covers featuring them, so paying Marvel $200 for 50 issues of Ms. Marvel is nothing to shop owners who know they have a guy who pay $400 for a Ms. Marvel variant.
Sales in dollars is much higher because of variant covers. That's the business model.
The comic stores don't care if they can't move 50 issues of X-Men if they know they have a guy obsessed with Magik who will buy the 1:50 variant for $300-$500 dollars.
Floppy sales is just extra butter on the biscuit
Comic book news caters to fanboys, they focus on characters and writers and believe that has a direct correlation with sales.
When it's really about popular artists drawing popular characters that drive sales. That's why H2SH, a terrible story is #1, it's drawn by the most popular artist who's ever lived and has the most variant covers this month.
Doctor Aphra and Kamala Khan will always be in a comic because they both have superfans who pay anything for variant covers featuring them, so paying Marvel $200 for 50 issues of Ms. Marvel is nothing to shop owners who know they have a guy who pay $400 for a Ms. Marvel variant.
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