THE TRANSFORMERS: COMICS, BOOKS AND MANGA

Thanks to Primal of the TFW2005 forums for getting us started, and to Commander Shockwav for following the ICv2 estimates.

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Devil's Due Productions / Fun Publications / Marvel Comics

G.I.JOE VS TFs VOLUME 3: THE ART OF WAR
089 - MAR06 #1 26,561
098 - APR06 #2 21,386
109 - MAY06 #3 20,612
107 - JUN06 #4 18,772
116 - AUG06 #5 18,208

TRANSFORMERS TIMELINES
248 - NOV06 #1 5,472
243 - JUL07 #2 5,856

G.I.JOE VS TFs VOLUME 4: BLACK HORIZON
127 - JAN07 #1 17,269
128 - FEB07 #2 14,654

NEW AVENGERS / TRANSFORMERS
035 - JUL07 #1 60,565
060 - AUG07 #2 44,977
053 - SEP07 #3 38,749
068 - OCT07 #4 34,944

Trade Paperbacks & Collections

These figures, even more than the rest, are of questionable use since they only include sales through speciality comics stores.

A specific note on that:

http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=133109

"2007 has seen IDW make major moves outside of the direct market. In January, Alan Payne joined IDW as our VP of Sales and he's done an incredible job of getting our books into bookstores. We, literally, shipped millions of copies of Transformers comic books and graphic novels in 2007. Because 95% of those books were sold outside of the direct market, that success goes unnoticed in the comics press because those sales don't end up on Diamond's monthly market share report or top 300."

### = title listed as a single rather than a trade, see number in brackets for singles ranking.

### - AUG06 - COVER GALLERY 1 (257)          - 2,697
056 - SEP06 - GI JOE VS TRANSFORMERS VOL 3   - 1,517
060 - SEP06 - TRANSFORMERS INFILTRATION      - 1,398
083 - DEC06 - TF EVOLUTIONS HEARTS OF STEEL  - 1,147
065 - FEB07 - TRANSFORMERS STORMBRINGER      - 1,414
077 - MAR07 - DREAMWAVE WAR WITHIN V1        - 1,207
### - APR07 - CYBERTRON BALANCING ACT (241)  - 3,253
### - MAY07 - COVER GALLERY 2 (282)          - 3,197
086 - MAY07 - ANIMATED MOVIE ADAPTATION      - 1,570
094 - MAY07 - TRANSFORMERS ESCALATION        - 1,410
026 - JUN07 - TRANSFORMERS MOVIE ADAPTATION  - 3,100
031 - JUN07 - TRANSFORMERS MOVIE PREQUEL     - 2,884
088 - JUN07 - TRANSFORMERS SPOTLIGHT         - 1,320
096 - JUN07 - GREATEST BATTLES               - 1,239
062 - JUL07 - TRANSFORMERS MOVIE PREQUEL     - 1,852
064 - JUL07 - TRANSFORMERS MOVIE ADAPTATION  - 1,843
048 - DEC07 - TRANSFORMERS MEGATRON ORIGIN   - 1,872
025 - JAN08 - NEW AVENGERS TRANSFORMERS TP   - 2,742 
065 - JAN08 - TRANSFORMERS ANIMATED VOL 1 TP - 1,662 
044 - FEB08 - TRANSFORMERS ANIMATED VOL 2 TP - 1,896
083 - FEB08 - TRANSFORMERS SPOTLIGHT V2      - 1,269
087 - FEB08 - BEAST WARS ASCENDING           - 1,207

Source Notes

Numbers sourced from the ICv2 indexes. The preceding three-digit numbers are rankings compared to other titles sold through Diamond for the month given, including Marvel, DC and books by other independent publishers. These figures represent sales to comic stores, not individuals, and do not include Diamond UK sales or sales to Europe through Diamond UK. Reorders that don't place in the top 300 (or top 100 for trades) aren't represented either — anything below 3,170 copies for November 2006, for example, as the direct market's on an upswing right now — making the figures primarily useful as comic store trends in the United States.

Trade paperback sales also appear to be strengthening across the direct market. Escalation barely made the comic store chart with 094 in May and 1,410 units recorded, more than a ranking in September the previous year that notched up 060.