Marvel pulled back a little on the comic book deluge this week, but still put out a fair number of books. This month is exhausting!! On June 15, 2011, Marvel released 19 new comics featuring 157 creators, 141 male and 16 female. Here are the totals:
Marvel is having an uncharacteristically consistent month. It’s gone 10%, 9.9%, and now 10.2%… it’s very weird. Marvel is usually all over the place. If they can keep up this pace, they are poised to just barely break into double digits for June overall. Let’s look at the numbers by category:
And chart them up:
This is a really good week for them, apart from one category. Well, two, but we don’t expect anything from letterers anymore. Cover artists did great, and writers, pencillers, and inkers all had good totals. It’s amusing that Marvel and DC both had 5 credits in those 3 categories this week, but it seems like a much bigger deal at DC. That’s a testament to Marvel regularly more women than DC on the creative side of things. Colourists did great as well, and editors had a solid week, but 14.3% is shockingly low for assistant editors. Assistant editor is the big money category for both publishers, and it’s surprisingly sparse this week. I have no idea why either, though it seems there were a lot more assistant editors overall than usual… 2 of 14 is a lot lower than, say, 2 of 8 (Marvel had 8 assistant editors overall two weeks ago). But still, this is weird. If Marvel had their usual level of assistant editors, their overall total for this week would have been around 14%. But they didn’t, so it wasn’t.
Notes:
- Hey, there’s a new Alpha Flight book!! They rarely ever last for long, but it’s still fun to see some Canadian superheroes.
- The busiest book of the week was Fear Itself: The Home Front #3 with 14 creators, 2 of them women.
- Emma #4 came out this week, so it was the book with the most female creators by number and percentage at 3 of 4. In second place was Fear Itself: Youth in Revolt #2 at 2 of 7.
- To learn more about this statistics project and its methodology click here, and to see the previous stats click here.
Tags: Marvel, Women In Comics Statistics
