I was looking over the New 52 sales thus far and discovered an interesting tidbit...

Based purely on reader-retention, Aquaman is actually the most successful of the New 52, having lost only 17% of its initial readership. It is followed closely by The Dark Knight (21%), Nightwing (23%), Batman and Robin (25%), Detective Comics (25%), and Batman (27%).

This is pretty cool news for all the Aquaman fans out there :)

wow. amazing.

This just proves that any character with the right team can be sucessfull. Way to go Aquaman!

@Danial79: One thing to say: Aquaman rocks

Oops I'm responsible for part of the 25% loss in initial readership of Batman and Robin lol. Anyway this is great news for Aquaman!

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I thought the news would be well-received :)

If anyone's curious, the worst (ongoing) series is The Savage Hawkman, having lost 62% of it's readers.

It's about time that Aquaman gets some due respect!

Also, how did I know that all the other books after that would be Bat books?

@jakob187 said:

Also, how did I know that all the other books after that would be Bat books?

Indeed. It's good to know he's up there with the greats :)

Aquaman deserves this. He is a damn good character when he has damn good writers on the job.

I'm surprised that Batman lost so many readers. I thought Batman New 52 series was critically acclaimed? Are they already going downhill?

hot damn!!!

@dvader: Every DC series is declining in sales still. I'm sure they'll eventually level out, but it hasn't happened yet. Batman #2 sold around 178k and Batman #10 was down to 130k.

Aquaman and Batman and Robin FTW! (Not sure how it's possible that The Dark Knight has maintained its initial readers better than Batman and Robin....)

@Blood1991 said:

This just proves that any character with the right team can be sucessfull. Way to go Aquaman!

This.

That's good to know, though it doesn't surprise me.

I've been hearing great critics about his issues :)

I cry tears of joy.... Aquaman has always been one of my favorite superheroes now he's getting the respect he always deserved.

@dvader said:

I'm surprised that Batman lost so many readers. I thought Batman New 52 series was critically acclaimed? Are they already going downhill?

I have a feeling many of the new readers for the New 52 may have only picked up Batman or Justice League, and only the first few issues before quitting. Just because Aquaman didn't lose so many readers doesn't mean it sold great, it means it has extremely loyal fans.

By the way, how good did Aquaman sell? Wasn't it top 10, 15? Can I have the link for the sales lists?

@Danial79 said:

I thought the news would be well-received :)

If anyone's curious, the worst (ongoing) series is The Savage Hawkman, having lost 62% of it's readers.

I am glad. I dropped it at issue 4. Couldn't stand it, I wanted it to be good :(

Naysayers needs to get spayed

That character deserves that love after all he's been through the past years

@Funrush said:

By the way, how good did Aquaman sell? Wasn't it top 10, 15? Can I have the link for the sales lists?

Aquaman is currently the 10th selling New 52 series.

Here's the link to the sales charts: http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/1850.html

@jwalser3 said:

@Danial79 said:

I thought the news would be well-received :)

If anyone's curious, the worst (ongoing) series is The Savage Hawkman, having lost 62% of it's readers.

I am glad. I dropped it at issue 4. Couldn't stand it, I wanted it to be good :(

You made it further than me. I dropped it after #2 :)

Those drop off rates are very suprising, not Aquaman retaining most of its readers, but how on earth people haven't been dropping off Detective Comics and Dark Knight.

People do like him.

@polo327 said:

Those drop off rates are very suprising, not Aquaman retaining most of its readers, but how on earth people haven't been dropping off Detective Comics and Dark Knight.

This, XD. I have to admit that I dropped Aquaman at Issue 6, but it was because I couldn't afford to keep buying it, and too many panels without dialog.

@Danial79 said:

@jwalser3 said:

@Danial79 said:

I thought the news would be well-received :)

If anyone's curious, the worst (ongoing) series is The Savage Hawkman, having lost 62% of it's readers.

I am glad. I dropped it at issue 4. Couldn't stand it, I wanted it to be good :(

You made it further than me. I dropped it after #2 :)

Oh, so YOU were the guys who kept who kept that number from being only 16%.

@Hatutzeraze:Don't get me wrong, I like the guy but his new series is just boring and I can't stand reading it.

@BiteMe-Fanboy said:

Aquaman deserves this. He is a damn good character when he has damn good writers on the job.

@jwalser3 said:

@Hatutzeraze:Don't get me wrong, I like the guy but his new series is just boring and I can't stand reading it.

Haha! No worries. I was just kidding around. Everyone's welcome to their own opinion.

@Hatutzeraze said:

Oh, so YOU were the guys who kept who kept that number from being only 16%.

If our 2 sales accounted for 46%, the series was in worse shape than I thought :P

Cool

This is great news.