Only 3 Star Wars Titles Ship in September

The Comics Chronicles released the September 2016 estimated sales last month.  Like August, DC Rebirth titles dominated the top of the charts.  Marvel's top title in September is the Civil War II mini-series which took the 4th positio.  Marvel's next title to chart is the ongoing Star Wars in the 15th position.  This title has proven to be Marvel best selling ongoing title.  Both Darth Vader and Han Solo were delayed, so September saw only 3 Star Wars titles ship, the lower number of titles going back to February 2015, the 2nd month of the modern Marvel era.

Title	Issue	Monthly Rank	Estimated Sales	Last Estimated Sales	Percent Change
Star Wars	23	15	82,570	85,126	-3.00%
Poe Dameron	6	49	50,275	52,581	-4.39%
The Force Awakens	4	73	38,079	41,575	-8.41%

The Star Wars title saw another drop in units sold, although the percentage of the drop is low.  Still, this drop added to the over 10,000 units this title fell in the past 2 months is starting to look significant.  The trend has definitely been down.

Poe Dameron saw a larger drop than Kanan's 6th issue and the difference between the sales in these titles has narrowed by 2,000 units.  Poe Dameron #6 sold 50,275 units and Kanan #6 sold 45,402 units for a difference of less than 5,000 units.  While this might seem troubling, understand, Poe Dameron in the 49th position on the charts is Marvel's 10th best selling title for the month of September!  That is astonishing for many, many reasons, none of which are good for Marvel overall.

The Force Awakens #4 shed just under 3,500 units.  I understand someone buying the 1st issue of this title and not picking up the rest of the issues, but it is strange to think someone has picked up 2nd and 3rd issue and didn't decide to stick with this mini-series.  Regardless, with just over 38,000 units sold, it is still not Marvel's lowest selling non-reprint Star Wars issue which is Kanan #12 with 36,649 units sold in March 2016.

The following table shows the total number of Star Wars units sold per month since January 2015 along with the average number of sales per issue.  Note this chart does not include reprints.

Month/Year	Total Estimated Sales	# Issues	Average Sale per Issue
January 2015	985,976	1	985,976
February 2015	526,451	3	175,484
March 2015	596,299	4	149,075
April 2015	537,812	4	134,453
May 2015	324,835	3	108,278
June 2015	396,931	4	99,232
July 2015	597,023	5	119,404
August 2015	430,241	5	86,048
September 2015	551,880	5	110,376
October 2015	953,289	10	95,329
November 2015	1,003,954	8	125,494
December 2015	507,545	6	84,591
January 2016	465,698	5	93,139
February 2016	288,355	4	72,088
March 2016	355,554	5	71,110
April 2016	533,976	5	106,795
May 2016	299,189	4	74,797
June 2016	545,833	6	90,972
July 2016	359,166	5	71,833
August 2016	322,499	5	64,500
September 2016	174,420	3	58,140

The average sale per issue is the lowest for the modern Star Wars line.  Even considering that, it would still rank 37th on the top 300 chart for the month of September.  Star Wars trade paperbacks and reorders are not accounted for with these numbers.  The Star Wars trade paperbacks are strong sellers.

Take a look at the Star Wars Sales Estimate Chart and please read the blog posting September 2016 comic sales estimates: DC takes 39 of Top 50 slots.