Here's something that's bothered me for a while now:
Take a look at Marvel's release schedule for May, in terms of how many new comics are being released each week:
May 5: 46 titles
May 12: 20 titles
May 19: 18 titles
May 26: 14 titles
There are more than twice as may titles being released on the first week as there are any other week. That's 47% of their total monthly output scheduled for the first week. This pattern is not atypical for Marvel.
Mu question is: why? Do they count on many of these titles slipping a week or two? Are they playing games with FOC dates? Do they want reorders to show up on that month's shipping to game the monthly Diamond market share?
Tuesday 16 February 2010
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