Marvel Comics
Comics are big business. Well, actually that’s not true, since sales of funny books have been steadily declining – although helped by the leap into digital as of late – but that doesn’t mean there hasn’t been some huge successes over almost a century of sequential art.
Some series have managed to break the million-selling mark due to popularity, some to notoriety, some down to sheer perseverance. A lot of them might surprise you, too – they’re not all underwear perverts in there – but how’s about we stop beating around the bush, and start counting down the nine biggest-selling comic book series of all time?
9. The Phantom
Sales: Over 150 million
Beginning life as the hero of a newspaper strip in 1936, The Phantom’s escapades are frequently repackaged into full-length comic books for the overseas market, which is partly why the number of sales has reached such heights.
Comics are big business. Well, actually that’s not true, since sales of funny books have been steadily declining – although helped by the leap into digital as of late – but that doesn’t mean there hasn’t been some huge successes over almost a century of sequential art.
Some series have managed to break the million-selling mark due to popularity, some to notoriety, some down to sheer perseverance. A lot of them might surprise you, too – they’re not all underwear perverts in there – but how’s about we stop beating around the bush, and start counting down the nine biggest-selling comic book series of all time?
9. The Phantom
Sales: Over 150 million
Beginning life as the hero of a newspaper strip in 1936, The Phantom’s escapades are frequently repackaged into full-length comic books for the overseas market, which is partly why the number of sales has reached such heights.
- 5/21/2014
- by Tom Baker
- Obsessed with Film
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