Iron Man Movie Sells Comics
Author: AF Duncan
June 5th, 2008
Wow, not since the immediately pre-speculator era (late 80s) has a superhero movie actually sold superhero comics. But according to PW, the blockbusting Iron Man flick is doing exactly that.
Having two new Iron Man books labeled “#1” made prospective readers feel a lot more confident about pulling them off the rack, adds Malve. “You see people coming in and they’re not as tentative, not as afraid to pick it up. Everything Iron Man is selling out right now, which I’ve never had happen in all these years of [comic book] movies.”
“I thought I ordered way, way too many, but that wasn’t even close to being the case. The sales of [those two books] have been phenomenal,” says Jud Meyers of Earth 2 Comics in California, who is out of Viva Las Vegas, and about to run out of Invincible Iron Man. “There’s no doubt it brought people into the store.”
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5 Responses to “Iron Man Movie Sells Comics”
June 5th, 2008 at 8:42 am
This doesn’t seem all that surprising to me. The real trick is if the new Hulk flick actually helps move Hulk books off the shelf. Does Hulk still have a regular title by the way?
Also…freakin’ awesome photo!
June 5th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
That is the best picture ever.
June 6th, 2008 at 9:54 am
hulk has red hulk and a son of hulk coming out soon. heard red hulk sucks, its done by loeb. hercules took over incredible hulk and its supposed to be really good, haven’t gotten around to checking it yet. planet hulk really boosted the hulk series.
June 7th, 2008 at 7:39 am
Just finished reading Planet Hulk, liked it a lot.
June 7th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
I really recommend Incredible Herc, Red Hulk sucks. Give Incredible Herc a chance as the story telling is quite good.