It was another busy week for Marvel… those folks put out a lot of comic books!! It’s out of hand. On May 25, 2011, Marvel released 23 new comics with 194 credited creators, 173 men and 21 women. Let’s take a look at the percentages:
I’m glad to see Marvel end the month on a strong note. A 10.8% is definitely above average for them, so that’s a nice change of pace after some pretty bad weeks. A rebound was sort of inevitable after such a poor showing last week, but you never know how Marvel is going to turn out. Here are the numbers by category:
And in the form of a colourful chart:
Both editorial categories, cover artists, and colourists all had a great week, but the other four categories were bad. We expect no female letterers at Marvel, as that just seems to be how they roll, but no female writers is VERY odd for them… it’s rare that they don’t a couple female writers. A zero is practically unheard of. One penciller and one inker is surprisingly low too. Marvel kind of looks like DC this week. And amusingly, DC looked like Marvel with their two female writers. Half of the chart was really good numbers, but the rest was markedly below average.
Notes
- The busiest book of the week yet again is Amazing Spider-Man… issue #662 had 15 creators, two of them women. In second place was Incredible Hulks #629. Man, do I have NO idea what is going on with Hulk right now… it appears that there are several of them, and Betty is some sort of Hulk too? I don’t know.
- Amazing Spider-Man #662, Captain America #618, Ruse #3, and Wolverine #9 all had two female creators each, but percentagewise Wolverine #9 won for most female creators at 2 of 6.
- To learn more about this statistics project and its methodology click here, and to see the previous stats click here.
TIM HANLEY 