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Comic Geek Speak Podcast - The Best Comic Book Podcast

Special - CCL - Mayo Report

Comic Geek Speak Podcast - The Best Comic Book Podcast

Speakers of Geek

Graphic Novel, Superhero, Comicbook, Comicbooks, Comic Book, Comics, Arts, Comic Books, Arts & Entertainment, Comic

4.6653 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2006

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

No one knows the business of trade paperbacks quite like Chris Marshall, host of the Collected Comics Library. This month we handed off the trade portion of the Mayo Report to Chris. Chris and John will get into all the nitty gritty details. Enjoy.

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0:00.0

How do you want to do tonight?

0:05.0

I have no idea.

0:08.0

That's a great way to start off.

0:12.0

I got a, I mean basically, my analysis of the trade stuff kind of sucks, and I'll freely admit that, because I mean, part of it's, I don't read that many trades.

0:22.6

Part of it is they're just harder to analyze.

0:25.4

I haven't got things structured to where I can compare, you know, the various volumes of Ultimate Spider-Man's trades and that kind of crap.

0:33.6

I'll see if I can work towards that.

0:36.5

And then the other thing is, like, the total sales column I've got is really a crapshoot

0:41.6

because they keep changing the title of a given thing.

0:46.2

You know, they'll put the volume first, then the subtitle or vice versa,

0:49.3

and they'll change the item code.

0:51.0

So I don't have a single data point.

0:53.5

So, I mean, like, I don't think

0:55.5

this was the first cut of the identity crisis trade. And so I've got a total that's the same

1:01.8

as the estimated sales for the month. And I'm like, is that really right or not? It's 7,700, right?

1:07.3

Yeah, well, for the month. For the month. But for the total sales, is this, I mean, did it first come out in August or wasn't there

1:15.5

a trade before then?

1:17.7

Just for the Infinite Crisis trade?

1:19.9

Identity crisis.

1:20.6

Or identity crisis?

1:21.6

Well, there was a hardcover, too.

1:24.5

Okay.

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