DC made big moves at the end of 2024, closing their sales gap with Marvel dramatically. Comic creators including Mark Verheiden and David M. Booher have had their houses destroyed by the LA fires. 101 Dalmatians is getting a graphic novel.
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DC closes in on Marvel in sales.
Comic creators hit hard by LA fires.
101 Dalmatians to get graphic novel.
This is Comic Book Club News for January 10, 2025.
DC Closes In On Marvel In Fourth Quarter Sales:
DC Comics made some big moves towards the end of 2024, closing the sales gap it’s held with Marvel Comics by a large margin.
Per ICv2, while the House of Ideas is still beating Detective Comics Comics overall, with a 33.3% share of the comic book market, Marvel dropped over 6% in the fourth quarter of 2024, while DC went up about the same amount. This is likely due to the big sales of Absolute Universe and DC All In, and closes the gap from 13% to 6%. Whether that will change in the first quarter of 2025 is TBD.
Meanwhile, pretty much every other publisher stayed even, with Image Comics holding 12% of the comic book market, and no other publisher cracking 5%. The only real growth area? “All Others,” which went up about .5%, meaning more small publishers are getting more sales, a good sign for the trickle-down theory of comic book sales.
Mark Verheiden, David M. Booher, Hit Hard By LA Fires:
The horrific fires in Los Angeles have destroyed thousands of homes, and led many others to seek refuge. Two comic creators hit particularly hard? Mark Verheiden, and David M. Booher.
Verheiden is likely best known now for his TV work, but he started in comics working for Dark Horse, penning Aliens, Predator, and more. Replying to fellow comic creator Paul Chadwick on X, who was worried about his safety, he noted that it’s “not looking good,” and in a separate post responding to the Trump’s families rude comments on the fires added that “my house burned.”
Meanwhile, Booher, who has written Killer Queens and Canto, among others, lost his house in the Eaton Fire. On a GoFundMe to raise money to replace household items and comics he lost in the fire, he noted that he and his partner, as well as their dogs, are safe.
With fires still raging out of control throughout the Los Angeles area, our thoughts are with everyone affected at this time.
101 Dalmatians Gets Graphic Novel:
Here’s something to hang your coat on: 101 Dalmatians is getting a graphic novel adaptation from Papercutz, an imprint of Mad Cave Studios.
Announced at The Beat, the book is an adaptation of the classic Disney movie, and will be available in both hardcover and paperback. Curiously, though, there’s no writer or artist listed for the book, only “Disney Comics Group.”
We’ve reached out to Mad Cave for clarification but did not receive a response as of recording time. The book will hit stores on February 25, potentially with some words and pictures.
For Comic Book Club News, I’m Alex Zalben. And maybe all of Disney is writing and drawing it like some sort of mental collective, I don’t know.
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