>iDC Comics takes most marketshare in comic stores last week with 41.29%, powered by a dominant slate of Absolute titles.>Marvel slips to 28.62% marketshare, while Image steps up to 19.07% and strengthens its place in the weekly rankings.iDC claims six of the top ten bestselling comics, Marvel lands three, and Image scores one with Terminal #3.>Absolute Batman #24 leads the week’s direct market sales, ahead of Absolute Wonder Woman #24 and Muppets Take The Marvel Universe #1.Here are the comic book publisher market shares in the direct market of comic book stores as sold from the 22nd of September to the 28th of September, 2026. You can find previous Bestseller Lists and Marketshare reports at these links, including for the whole month of August. DC Comics maintains the lion's share with three Absolute titles this week. The top ten has six from DC Comics, three from Marvel Comics and one from Image Comics. Here's how the marketshare is looking: two-fifths to DC Comics, three-tenths to Marvel and a fifth to Image… DC – 41.29% Marvel – 28.62% Image – 19.07% IDW – 2.99% Titan – 1.98% Boom – 1.81% Mad Cave – 1.19% Dark Horse – 1.09% Ignition – 1.02% Oni – 0.95%And here are the top ten bestsellers in-store for last week, as well as the ratio from one against the other in terms of money raised. Absolute Batman #24 takes the top, two and a half time Absolute Wonder Woman, and three times Muppets Take Marvel… 1.Absolute Batman #24 – DC – 100.0%2. Absolute Wonder Woman #24 – DC – 41.43% 3.Muppets Take The Marvel Universe #1 – Marvel – 31.02% 4.Infernal Hulk Vs Wolverine #1 – Marvel – 26.31% 5.Absolute Flash #19 – DC – 23.0% 6.Miles Morales Spider-Man #2 -Marvel – 18.69%7.Justice League Unlimited #23 – DC – 17.32%8.Terminal #3 – Image- 16.93%9.Superman #42 – DC – 15.63%10.Gambit Gone #1 – Marvel – 15.40%
what happened, true believers?
>>155689235As a Marvel zombie, I have the answer:Joe QuesadaAxel AlonsoBrian Michael BendisDissney buyout in 2009That happened and killed Marvel Comics.Yes I am old.
If you think this bad marvel fags well just wait untill you see the sales for The Amazing Spider-Man #1000. Rumor is it fans are now using that book for firewood for their fireplaces since it's only good for that really yeah it was that much of a shitpostOh yeah source by the way.https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-comics-takes-most-marketshare-marvel-slips-back-image-steps-up/
>>155689349stop linking the rich the leech website for his fault 4chan lost scanbro threads.
>>155689291There was a lot of short term successes in there but short term success doesn't lead to long term solutions
>>155689235It's not gonna last.
>>155689216reminder that if any of these companies were doin really great they'd still be releasing actual sales figures, not this made up crap
>>155689216Why does it even matter who has a larger market share if the entire industry is sinking like Titanic? At this point, it's like a competition to see who will drown last. In 10 years, no one will care about DC, Marvel, or Image or any other publisher. Boomers are dying out, millennials are disinterested in comics and don't have money or time for it, and zoomers are basically illiterate, afraid of letters on paper, and would rather play video games and scroll through their TikTok feeds all day long.
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>>155689582This is all true but for the time being things continue. I very much doubt disney will stop producing duck comics anytime soon given they did greenlit a new darkwing duck seies.Once it comes out they will most likely make stories set in that universe, Thus the duck franchise won'y die anytime soon at least untill disney decides it's time for the company to go up for sale. Which most likely won't happen Oh for about 7-8 years at the most given the whole WB mess. As for DC and Marvel I think they will most likely be dead in about 10 years times at the most.
>>155689235Enrage to engage breeds longterm poisonous apathy, and it also alienates new readers who haven't got the collectorbrain making them feel obliged to pick up anything.
>>155689216Ahem
imageGODS
>>155689216I don't know what's crazier, Marvel being that low or Image being that high. I remember Image being 10% for the longest time.
>>155689976Do you mind deleting this?
>>155689235There hasn't been a Captain Marvel ongoing in three years, they'll take the lead again once Carol is back on the shelves.
>>155689235Absolute line is a successAbsolute Batman is a license to print money. its on what? its 12th printing of the first issue?Marvel ruined and killed the ultimate universe for no real good reason (Again!)Spider-man is trashX-men is trash
>>155689216WOW. When was the last time DC mogged Marvel this bad? You’d have to go back to a period in the nineties, right?
>>155689216no no NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Weekly metrics mean nothing.But do you think that's why DC came up with that Batman Two Worlds nothingburger? To compete with USM 1k?
>>155689582>>155689921American zoomies can't read, many furrin ones can't eitherand both groups would rather doom scroll tiktok but that doesn't mean yung uns don't want to read, sis
>>155689371>his fault 4chan lost scanbro threads.Qrd?
>>155689976You may want to update this, now that DC is beating Marvel.
>>155689349>Rumour is people buy ASM to burn it. This means the sales stink!LOLLMAO
>>155689976Based Scholastic
