[SPEAKER_00]: Denny Moonstar gets solo comic.
[SPEAKER_00]: Batman, elsewhere, stories get on the bus.
[SPEAKER_00]: Graphic novel sales down in 2025.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is comic book club news for November 7th, 2025.
[SPEAKER_00]: New Mutants and X-Men famed Danny Moonstar's getting her own solo comic for Marvel.
[SPEAKER_00]: The issue titled Moonstar No.
[SPEAKER_00]: 1 was first revealed to the back of this week's issue of Echo's Secret of Truth, a Marvel Voices Special Celebrating Native American Heritage Month.
[SPEAKER_00]: In the back of the issue, there were six titles suggested as follow-up
[SPEAKER_00]: reading, but the surprise inclusion of the not previously solicited Moonstar, which is dated for January 28.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are no additional details offered, and thus far, no writer artist has laid claim to the title, or even the cover art on display.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've reached out to Marvel for additional information, but did not receive a response as of recording time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some of the best ever Batman Elseworld's tales alongside some that might not be considered the best Batman Elseworld tales are being collected by DC Comics at a new Omnibus.
[SPEAKER_00]: For ICV2, Elseworld's Batman Omnibus Volume 1 will run 1,384 pages of the little priceier than your regular Omnibus at 175 bucks.
[SPEAKER_00]: In it, you'll get Gotham by Gaslight and Batman in Dracula, Red Rain, alongside Batman, Holy Terror, Batman, Man-Bat, and a bunch of other one-shots, annuals, and other assorted issues.
[SPEAKER_00]: Upside, you'll get two-thirds of the classic Doug Monk, Kelly Jones, Batman Vampire trilogy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Downside, you'll have to wait until the Omnibus is released on March 17, 2026.
[SPEAKER_00]: Despite the single issue part of the comic book industry being up, graphic novel sales are down in 2025.
[SPEAKER_00]: For the beat, as announced at Comic Pro's annual event, sales of graphic novels slipped 4.7% by September versus the scene period in 2024.
[SPEAKER_00]: While kids, graphic novels were up 5% bringing them to 36% of the total sales, adults
[SPEAKER_00]: and YA were both down.
[SPEAKER_00]: The adult fell 1.5% still dominating with 61% of the market.
[SPEAKER_00]: While YA graphic novel sales were down 2.4% to only 3% to the market.
[SPEAKER_00]: Of important note, this represents sales only via bookscad, which means graphic novel sales are bookstores versus comic bookstores.
[SPEAKER_00]: In this sector, kids continue domination of graphic novels as due to the strength of titles like Dog Man, War Here's Wings of Fire on the Baby Citter Club, while the decline in YA is due to less interest in properties like Heart Stopper and Five Nights at Freddy's.
[SPEAKER_00]: As for the adult category, while manga is still huge with 40% of the sales, the superhero sector has seen growth thanks to DC's compact comics and Marvel's premiere editions.
[SPEAKER_00]: The big winner, though, is horror, which grew 18% year over year.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks to it's like jujitsu kaisin and beneath the trees, we're nobody sees.
[SPEAKER_00]: And overall, in bookstores, 41 million graphic novels were still sold in 2025.
[SPEAKER_00]: So even though they're down, that's still not too shabby.
[SPEAKER_00]: For comic book club news, I'm Alex Alben.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not too shabby.
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