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'Justice League' named best-selling comic book of 2011

01.01.70

Legitimacy League No. 1, with its A-list team of author Geoff Johns and artist Jim Lee , kicked off DC's hopeful "New 52" relaunch in the fall and sold more copies than any other isolated comic during the year, according to Diamond Mirthful Distributors .

"New 52" issues dominated the away, with 19 of the top 25 comics of 2011. Three Justice Collude , two Batman and two Action Comics issues cracked the top 10, which had only one Astonished at title: Ultimate Comics Spiderman No. 160, which featured the demise of the End Universe's Peter Parker.

However, Marvel continued its stranglehold in the lifestyle decade of year-to-year dollar and module market shares, even with strong DC sales from September to December. Faring well with the end of Johnny Storm in Fantastic Four issue 587 and the first culmination of its Fear Itself event series, Marvel had a 37% dollar furnish share and 41% unit market appropriate in 2011, compared to 31% and 37% for DC, the No. 2 publisher.

Source: USA TODAY

SNYDER Spills Even MORE on NIGHT OF OWLS, BATMAN's Future

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Term and the Batman title. Plus you're co-writing the back-ups after having co-written a few other stories in the last one years. Are you just naturally a collaborator when it comes to comics?

Scott Snyder : It's one of the things I affection most about working in comics. I know it sounds cheesy, but coming from a literary CV, the thing I hated the most about it, and the reason I've realized I'm tremendously happier in comics, is that I always worked alone. I herald, I loved getting to tell the stories I wanted and having resourceful breathing room in literary fiction, because no one's effective you what to write. So few people buy those things anyway, with short stories, that nobody is bothering you about it.

But then in comics, the big dumfound is how creatively free it is here too, and the same kinds of stories I was doing in literary fiction, that absolutely matter to me, I could do on characters that I had been inspired by as a kid and that

Source: Newsarama