Legion sales figures, Nov 2020-Feb 2021 (issues 11, 12, FS1, FS2)

It's been a while since we had any sales figures for the Legion: back in October for issue #10. Due to the pandemic and DC's changes in distributors, it's been tough to get actual numbers (for both DC and Marvel).

Comichron finally has obtained relative sales data for DC comics sold since the last time I did a report. Diamond has not released details for Marvel sales in that time, so all we have at the moment are sales of DC comics in relation to each other and not overall sales for the industry. The numbers given are how many issues of Legion were ordered for every 100 issues of Justice League, Comichron’s benchmark. Also included are the top and worst seller at comic shops for DC that month, relative to Justice League.

Here’s a summary:

November:

#1	Dark Knights Death Metal #5	198
#9	Justice League #56	100
#28	Legion of Super-Heroes #11	48
#49	Scooby Doo, Where Are You #106	7

Selling more than LSH:

• 12 Batman family, 4 other event or miniseries, 1 Rorschach, 2 Justice League, 2 Superman family, 1 Hellblazer, 2 WW, 2 Flash, 1 GL

Selling less than LSH:

• Catwoman, Young Justice, Justice League Dark, Suicide Squad, Hellblazer, American Vampire, Aquaman, Hawkman, Red Hood, Batman Beyond, Teen Titans

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Issue #12 of LSH was delayed out of the December charts and into January. For completeness, here are the top and bottom sellers for December:

#1	Batman #104	219
#12	Justice League #58	100
#51	Scooby Doo, Where Are You #107	7

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January's chart has two LSH issues, LSH v8 #12 and Future State LSH #1.

#1	Dark Nights Death Metal #7	141
#6	Future State Justice League #1	100
#28	Future State Legion of Super-Heroes #1	46
#34	LSH v8 #12	34
#42	Looney Tunes #258	5

• There were 9 non-Future State books above FS:LSH: Dark Nights Death Metal, 3 Batman family, DCeased, Rorschach, Strange Adventures, and Generations Shattered.
• Future State Legion of Super-Heroes was the #20 Future State book out of 25, outselling FS Aquaman (45), Shazam (44), Robin Eternal (44), Kara Zor-El Superwoman (44), and Superman vs Imperious Lex (37).
• LSH v8 #12 outsold only one Future State book (Superman vs Imperious Lex). And all of the books that had been cancelled earlier (Hawkman, Suicide Squad, etc.) are finally not on this list.
• Since this was almost all Future State this month, you can’t compare the LSH book’s #34 ranking out of 42 with November’s #28 of 49.

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February’s chart is back to one LSH issue, Future State #2. 

#1	Future State Next Batman #3	131
#6	Future State Justice League #2	100
#29	Future State Legion of Super-Heroes #2	51
#42	Scooby Doo Where Are You #108	6

• Note that FSLSH #2 sold better relative to FSJL #2 than the issue #1s did – my take is that the FSJL title had a bigger drop from #1 to #2 (relatively speaking) than FSLSH did.
• FSLSH #2 outsold 3 Future State books (compare to 5 books from issue #1): FS Suicide Squad (51), FS Superman vs Imperious Lex (48), and FS Kara Zor-El Superwoman (47).

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LSH v8 sales and rank

Issue	Total sales (all covers)	overall #	DC #	Total DC	Percentage	#1 book
1	75,611	10	3	114	2.6	138,434
2	35,653	50	17	95	17.9	117,926
3	34,732	44	15	112	13.4	167,377
4	30,675	51	18	88	20.4	190,568
5	29,058	59	18	80	22.5	142,089
6	TBD	23	17	65	26.2	TBD
7	TBD	41	18	49	36.7	TBD
8	Est. 38,000	46	22	57	38.6	Est. 300,000
9	Est. 29,500	Tie 62	Tie 20	55	36.4	Est. 207,500
10	Est. 31,000	Tie 66	Tie 24	51	47.0	Est. 215,000
11	TBD	TBD	28	49	57.1	TBD
12	TBD	TBD	34	42	80.9	TBD
FS 1	TBD	TBD	28	42	66.7	TBD
FS 2	TBD	TBD	29	42	69.0	TBD

Looking at the Percentage column (DC # divided by Total DC issues put out), you can see that it looks like it’s falling to the back of the pack as the series goes on, but the DC # looks fairly consistent after the return from the pandemic, suggesting that DC is cutting books below it in the sales figures. Over a year ago, DC was publishing over 100 titles; last month it only published 42.

And that’s pretty much it until the next issue (or series) comes out.