Comic Book Stats - The Supergirl Movie Project

Last database update: January 30, 2008

This is a small Java applet I made. If you don't have Java, you can download it here . The Applet works fine with Sun's Java 1.5 and 1.6, but I haven't tested it in any other version, so I'm not sure it works.

Anyway, the applet is intended to give you a whole bunch of stats regarding comic book sales. It has four different sets of stats:

Comic Books:

This one shows the sales of the individual comic books. Just select one or more comics from the list and click the "Add" button. The textbox above the list is used for filtering the names.

Once you add the comic, you'll get all the sales of that comic in a table to the right, and a graph above. You can use the combo box below the table to switch between total sales, total dollars and percentage. The percentage refers to the percentage of total sales of each comic.

It's better if you don't add too many comics.

Publishers:

This one gives you the monthly total of each publisher, and it looks and works almost exactly like the Comic Book section above.

Top 100 Comics/Top 100 Titles:

These sections shows you the top 100 comics of the selected year or the total in the database. The difference is that the first one totals individual comics, while the other shows the totals for all the issues published in that year.

Notes:

The database was created using the data extracted from CBGXtra.com, though I only got the data from January 2004. The data there goes back to September 1996, but I wasn't bored enough to get all of it.

I'll try to keep the database up to date so come back about the 20th of each month or so to check the previous month's sales.

Also, since the database was extracted from a webpage, it does have quite a few glitches. To begin with, if a comic didn't make it to the top 300, it simply won't appear on the list. And the maintainers of the website do seem to have very little regard for naming conventions, so sometimes they have up to four different ways to write the comic's title, which is okay if a human is reading it, but murderous when you have a script trying to get the data. So there might be instances where one comic appears with two or more different titles (e.g., "Adv. of Superman" and "Adventures of Superman"). I try to clean up the database as much as I can, but I'm not perfect. Same happens with the "name" of the issues itself. The website tends to add asterisks or things like "res" (resolicited), "2nd Prt" (2nd printing), and other stuff that will show up as two different issues in my database, thus screwing up the totals.

And last, this database tries to put all the sales of a single issue together even when they occur in different months, which, then again, can screw up some times when the website gets creative with the issue's name.