The recent launch of Todd McFarlane’s new monthly comic book, King Spawn #1, has shattered sales records. With just under a half-million pre-orders by comic stores retailers, this marks the single largest new superhero monthly title launch in the comic book industry in the past 25 years based on the standard sales formula of the comic book industry (non-returnable, non-retailer exclusive sales).
Total pre-orders of 497K are bigger than any Marvel new monthly superhero launch, including Ironman, Hulk, Thor , or Captain America issue in the past quarter-century. McFarlane’s King Spawn #1 also topped any DC Comics new monthly title launch for the past two and a half decades, including Batman, Superman, Flash , or Wonder Woman .
So this means the 1:250 will have 1,988 copies floating around.
Going to be the same kinda print run for House of Slaughter don’t be paying ratio for these lower ratios you will kick yourself when the books release.
Kudos to Todd, but I am just not very excited about this book. Do we really need half a million copies of a new Spawn title? What fan base is absorbing these copies? Looks like I might have to wait for the 5th & final gold foil deluxe 1:50 printing. By then, the print run should approach 750K (and far too many trees will have died in vain). But at least Todd will be thrilled (and cheering all the way to the bank).
