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[SPEAKER_00]: D.C.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Dominates November sales charts.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I know my two reprint Ursula comic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Looter doing well, so that's pretty nice.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is comic book club news for December 4, 2025.

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[SPEAKER_00]: DC Comics, once again, absolutely dominated the November 2025 sales chart.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But this time, not just thanks to the absolute universe.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Perrising me to you, DC took nine of the spots in the top 10 for the month, seating only the nine spot to Marvel's amazing Spider-Man number 15.

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[SPEAKER_00]: At the top of the charts was DC's Batman Deadpool number one, with Batman number three, and number two, and absolute Batman number 14 and number three.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The DCKO event picked up Steam with Nightfight, another Batman book coming in at number 4, but the second issue of the main title at number 5.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In total, the publisher took 17 slots on the top 50 with Marvel taking 26.

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[SPEAKER_00]: For the House of Ideas, other than that issue of Spider-Man, the final issue of one world under Doom charted at 12, and of the Ultimate Universe titles only Ultimate Wolverine 11 charted in the top 20.

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[SPEAKER_00]: of note, no issue of ultimate Spider-Man debut during the month, which might have shaken things up a bit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Also of note, the X-Men event, Age of Revelation, seems to be DOA, with only two of the 16 issues released, charting in the top 50.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That left room for six image comics titles.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Transformers, two issues of GI Joe, void rivals,

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a corpse's and Rob Lifehilt's new young blood number one coming in at number 44.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that left one slot for ITW for teenage mutant Ninja Turtles Godzilla number one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Dynamite is continuing to expand its Dizzy Villains line with one shot titled Dizzy Villains Ursula coming next year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: However, any poor unfortunate souls hoping for a brand new story will be out of luck.

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[SPEAKER_00]: As this particular comic came out five years ago from Dark Horse.

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[SPEAKER_00]: As first reported by Bleeding Cool, Dark Horse released Dizzy Villains Ursula in the seven seas, by Sherriel Smith and Gabriel Magnoli back in 2020.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The new version seems to be the exact same comic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll be

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[SPEAKER_00]: So if you picked it up back in 2020, our new covers and stuff of an incentive to sign on the dotted line and pick it up again, you can use your voice and decide for yourself for the book hit stores on February 11, 20, 26.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Lunars, Kristina Merkler is feeling a real positive about the comic book industry after a battery year for the distributor.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Not only are they doing well according to Merkler, so our comic book stores.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The news comes via the off panel podcast and the whole interview is worth listening to, but via the beef they quote Merkler is saying comic book sales are bonkers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: up double digits, and in some cases up 1,000 percent for the previous year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: At least part of this likely has to do with the shift in business from Diamond, which went bankrupt to Lunar, but still, it's a positive sign for the industry, but a lot of things are looking down.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Perhaps more importantly, Lunar signed up 462 new accounts this year, which, again, could be due to Diamond uploading, but it does mean that the reports of comics dying have been greatly exaggerated.

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[SPEAKER_00]: For comic book club news, I'm Alex Albitt, and never underestimate the importance of

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