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We ’ve already unpacked the Diamond Comic Distributors statistics for May 2017to show that , unlike their paper , that once againSecret Empirewasn’t actually the well - selling comedian in the direct market in North America for that month .
But there are some other peculiar things work on as well .
Such as the $ 4.99Guardians Of The Galaxy : Mission Breakout$4.99 oneshot by Christopher Hastings , Edgar Salazar and Allen Martinez not only stick into the top ten , but beating out the much large push All - New Guardians Of The Galaxy # 1 by the more high profile Gerry Duggan and Aaron Kuder .
After all , Mission Breakout did n’t make it into any retail merchant ’s top ten who reported for the Bleeding Bool bestseller list , but All - New Guardians Of The Galaxy # 1 did . And All - New had massive retail merchant discounts , tons of variant covers and all the bells and whistles that Marvel exercise to launch a mirthful record now . Mission Breakout had a yoke of tiered stochastic variable masking , but that ’s it . All - New even had retailer exclusive variants which can add thousands onto an order and
Mission Breakout had a couple of tiered variant covering , but that ’s it . All - New even had retailer exclusive variants which can tot up thousands onto an club and
All - New even had retailer exclusive variants which can lend one thousand onto an ordering andmay have been enough to agitate it into the top ten . Just not far enough to beat Mission Breakout – which was also a whole dollar more .
So what ’s going on ?
Well , there are clues . The Diamond chart gives us these two items to compare .
The first number is the sales chart position , but the 2nd figure is the dollar chart place – how much the comic really convey in . And despite both being $ 4.99 , andGuardians Of The Galaxy : Mission Breakoutreportedly sell more copies through Diamond , Secret Empire made a caboodle more money . How come ?
Especially consider that retailer who matched their orders of Secret Empire # 2 to 125 % , 150 % or 175 % of their orders on Civil War II # 8 acquire some monumental discounts , which negatively affects the comic ’s clam rank .
The answer , it seems , lie on eBay . BecauseGuardians Of The Galaxy : Mission Breakoutis a tie - in to the young stem park ride of the same name at Disneyland .
And it appears they are selling the comic at the Disney describe as well , with an single variant cover .
And , because Disney is Marvel and Marvel is Disney , it looks like not only did that order from Disneyland make up the bulk of the order through Diamond – who have the exclusive Marvel distribution deal , even when it comes to Disney – they got a massive , monumental discount rate for doing so . Then trade them at full cost . And then get flipped on eBay for $ 12 a musical composition .
Also helping Marvel Comics get another comedian in the top ten – six instead of the five they would have had otherwise .
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