Harley Quinn isn’t going to have a problem purchasing hyena chow this month… Dynamite’s Harley Quinn x Elvira crossover has sold over 91,000 copies to comic book stores.
“The combination of such a unique cross-over that no one expected with Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner writing it,” said Nick Barrucci, CEO and Publisher of Dynamite in an email shared with Comic Book Club, “and this is the creative team who had some of the best-selling Harley Quinn stories, excited fans and hit the numbers we were hoping for.”
As Barrucci notes, the book is written by Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti, who previously wrote the lauded DC Comics run for Harley. Art on the book is by Juan Samu, and while it was originally announced in February and solicited for August, the book is now scheduled to be released on October 1. Not only is that more seasonally appropriate to a crossover between the Mistress of the Dark and perennial Halloween costume favorite Harley Quinn, but the extra lead time may have helped with advance sales… Despite the delay likely being due to the ongoing legal battles with the bankrupt Diamond Comics Distributors that have caused comic book release schedules to be wobbly, at best.
While 91,000 orders doesn’t make Harley Quinn x Elvira a powerhouse on the order of, say, Absolute Batman, Invincible Universe Battle Beast, or [checks notes] Mark Spears’ Monsters? Really? Okay. It’s still a sizable amount of books, and points to the continued strength of both Dynamite’s publishing line and crossovers in general. It also probably doesn’t hurt that there are 21 separate covers for the first issue, including one by, you guessed it, Mark Spears.
You can check out some of the covers below:
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