Some charts are up early this time around. I'll have the full summary of links up early next week, but until then here's ICV2's version of the Top 300 Comics and Top 300 Graphic Novels.
As you'd expect, last month's top comic, ROCKET RACCOON #1, took a big dive with #2, down over 80% to a still highly unrealistically high 56.6k. That's one of the biggest single issue drops on the chart in the time that we have comparable statistics (I suspect some early 1990s second issue drops beat it with ease), especially if you discount cases where the drop was after a bargain priced $1 first issue.. MULTIVERSITY is the top debut at 90.5k, which is pretty good for a $5 book, it'll be interesting to see how its release as a series of one-shots does. I'm guessing about 50-60k by the last issue. Two issues of HARLEY QUINN came out and demonstrate the difference between open order variants (#9, 71.5k) and limited variants (#10, 58.5k). Average second issue drops were about 35%.
Over on the Graphic Novels side, THANOS INFINITY REVELATION was the top book, and the most successful of Marvel's current series of original graphic novels. None of the previous ones have shown much legs as backlist, we'll see if this one is different. The Top 300 was almost evenly split new releases (155 books) and backlist (145). DC had a lot of backlist stuff on sale this time around. SAGA continues to do well as backlist, with all three books in the top 10, and representing the top three Image books.
More on these charts soon.
