A thought struck me, looking at press releases for new printings for the first issues of the current Action Comics and Batman runs (amongst others): How many Justice League #1s are there out there? That issue is in, I believe, its seventh printing, but tracking how many copies that translates into is difficult; the issue stops showing up on the Diamond chart after October (which is still impressive, when you stop to think about it – How many comics have reorder activity so high that it charts in the top 300 after three months?), but that’s still several printings behind the current total. By the end of October, orders seemed to be somewhere in the region of 248,039 (if my math and figures from ComicChron are correct), and assuming that reorders since then have been too low to show up in the top 300, I’m guessing that we can’t be looking at much more than around 260,000 copies in the North American market – except, of course, as every publisher is quick to point out, estimates based on the Diamond chart are notoriously low and unreliable. So, how many copies of the Best Selling Issue In Recent Memory (Well, until Avengers vs. X-Men #1, by all accounts) are out there, I wonder…?

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