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Is Jughead Cancelled? » Comics Worth Reading — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:24:38 +0000

[...] seen by the company’s sales figures, Jughead is far and away the poorest-selling of the (small) line of comics Archie puts out, so its [...]

By: Mark Moore

Mark Moore — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:00:14 +0000

According to this thread, Jughead has been canceled:

http://www.archiefans.com/all-about-archie/jughead-cancelled/?all

By: Mike Nielsen

Mike Nielsen — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:29:20 +0000

I also noticed that what grocery stores do carry the digests, They seem to only carry certain ones. One store seems to only have the Jughead Double Digest. Another seems to have the Archie Double Digest and the Jughead Double Digest, but none of the others.

Luckily Barnes & Nobles still carries all the digests so I can pick them up there.

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By: Johanna

Johanna — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:08:35 +0000

I’ve noticed them as harder to find, too, especially since Borders shut down (where I used to get them locally). I wonder if stores are asking more for rack placements, with more magazines wanting into that space.

By: Jim Kosmicki

Jim Kosmicki — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:09:53 +0000

One point on the digests, and this might be a local thing only, but they are not as widespread as they used to be. They used to be in the little wire racks at the checkout stands at every department and grocery store in the area. Now, if they are there at all, it’s usually in only one or two of the checkstands, instead of most of them. Since those are paid placements, that would indicate that Archie is making the determination to lower the amount of slots themselves.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:48:52 +0000

At a ballpark guess, the digital are doing about 8-10% of the print sales. But that’s overall, for the superhero books, and individual titles might have very different ratios.

I don’t read the Sonic and Megaman books, so I didn’t gather those figures, but they typically do better than the Archie family of periodicals, yes.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 02:04:59 +0000

Any possible guesses how well digital sales are doing, though?

Though you didn’t list them, I assume the Sonic comics are doing well as usual?

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 12:24:03 +0000

No digital figures are available, since the digital distributors don’t release them.

By: jdh417

jdh417 — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 02:54:00 +0000

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/03/09/top-100-comics-and-graphic-novels-with-full-marketshare-stats-for-february-2012/

Archie is about 1% of the Direct market for February, and we presume, any other month.

The other venue to look at would be digital, but I have no idea where those numbers would be.