Star Wars: The High Republic

Comic Speculation & Rumors
#748

The hype/investor day came after FOC.

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#749

This is setting up to be an awesome week between early Crossover 3, DM 7/Future State 1s, and High Republic.

#750

And to echo the posts above, it was awesome to see the promotion come after FOC. That is why I think the IDW HR Advs 1 will have the higher print run - it has been confirmed to introduce new characters and the FOC is after the High Republic 1 and novel release.

#751

well said

#752

I totally expect High Republic Adventures #1 to have a higher print run than any individual High Republic #1 cover. TOTAL it may not beat HR #1 mainly because of less variant options.

#753

I think it will ramp up now after the HR 1 release and confirmation of new characters in the Live Stream yesterday. I only initially pre-ordered 100 of the HR Advs 1s and am not certain whether I should go higher or not now that the cat is out of the bag. I went much heavier on HR 1, and thankfully the print run was was lower than anticipated.

#754

Before/after FOC means nothing now; over 100k copies means PLENTY of copies and undercuttersā€¦

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#755

Umm, that is 35,000 copies per cover. That means very few copies to go around.

It was like people saying Strange Academy had a high print run. It was somewhere around 75,000 over five covers if I recall correctly. Not much at all per cover.

#756

I donā€™t think SW HR IDW will be a bigger print run than Marvelā€™s SW HR #1ā€¦ itā€™s IDWā€¦ I think a lot of shops donā€™t bother with the Adventures titles. Even my own always orders a fraction of what the Marvel counterpart isā€¦

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#757

Thatā€™s assuming if ordered equally. Cover A will have the bigger print run. I know shops that donā€™t even bother with open order variantsā€¦

#758
#759

Hahaā€¦ good 'ol bleeding stoolā€¦ :wink:

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#760

Ummā€¦where did these numbers come from? I know for a fact that 198 cases of Cover A shipped to stores, at 180 copies per case. That means 36,540 copies of Cover A were distributed.

#761

Bro, I can easily tell youā€™re invested. Stop trying to defend your purchases and flips.

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#762

All the print run numbers are guesstimatesā€¦ I would take the calculation some do from the numbers on labels from the cases sent out with a grain of salt.

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#763

I am invested, and will make a ton regardless of print run. I want to see the info on the 200K calculation as that is not what I am seeing from multiple stores.

#764

Could be including second print?

#765

200,000 sounds more around what I was thinking. Weā€™ve been talking about this book for months, and Star Wars comic popularity is flying high with Mando. And, Iā€™d bet cover A is easily 125K+ alone. Most shops I visit get 80% cover A and maybe 20% on variants.

I figured prices will drop bigtime on this in a month, but Spidey 55 had big order numbers, too. Weā€™ll see if that drops first.

#766

Wait until comichron crunches the numbers next month and see if his new guesstimate match what you think the numbers may be.

But myself, stop focusing on the print run. If the book is great and thereā€™s spec potential, then there will be demand. Print run numbers donā€™t make me want to run out and buy the book, the book being good want me to buy the bookā€¦

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#767

It depends. I have found distributed #s to be close when I have asked for them from store owners. The last one I paid attention to was Strange Academy 1, and the number of cases corresponded to the print runs reported.