Comic sales figures for March

The estimated sales figures for March have been released, so I'll do my usual thing of looking at a few of the ongoing Marvel titles (since that's all I'm reading at the moment) to see what trends there are for those titles. As usual, note that as usual, they're just based on domestic estimates and don't include any sales outside of the Diamond channel such as newstands, book stores or overseas markets.

One thing to note, before we start looking at the regular titles, is that top five with Wolverine weighing in at number 4, ahead of Uncanny X-men at number 6. Millar's "alternative future" run on Wolverine might be suffering from the usual Millar scheduling but it's been consistently edging out the main X-men titles, which is worth a mention. Apparently the choice not to schedule this story as a stand-alone mini-series was the right one, in terms of sales. Although I suppose it would have given them a chance to shift another Wolverine title in a month. It'll be interesting what happens when the next creative team start on the book - amusingly before Millar's final issue comes out, meaning that issue #73 will be released before #72. Fun.

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