Women In Comics Statistics: Marvel, July 13, 2011

It was a busy and all around weird week for Marvel that ultimately had some mixed results.  On July 13, 2011, Marvel released 24 new comics with 206 credited creators, 187 men and 19 women.  Here are the percentages:

This is in the ballpark of average for Marvel… a 9.2% is disappointing in that I am pulling for them to hit double digits for their monthly total, but it’s not terrible.  Here’s the first weird thing about this week: As you will see momentarily, the numbers by category are terrible.  Like just AWFUL.  But somehow they pulled an average number overall.  This sort of discrepancy can happen sometimes because of the different methodology for the overall and categorized parts of the stats, and this is a good example of it.  A lot of dudes must have been pulling double or triple duty in their comics this week.  Let’s look at the categories:

And chart them up like so:

We have zeroes for pencillers, inkers, and letterers, along with terrible numbers for writers and editors.  Cover artists were below average, while colourists were in their normal range.  Only assistant editors really shone this week, with an impressive 47.1%.  It’s a pretty bad week when you break it down, and far worse than their overall 9.2% implies.  Also, here’s the second weird thing: There were SO many covers this week!!  It was out of hand… of the 24 books released, 11 had variant covers (and some had several).  It felt like the mid-90s at Marvel this week.

Notes:

• Usually Mark Millar on a Marvel book gets a lot of attention, but I’ve heard/seen barely anything about Ultimate Avengers vs. New Ultimates.  Its last issue shipped this week (1 of 13), with little to no fanfare whatsoever.  Isn’t this Millar’s last hurrah at Marvel before going completely creator-owned?  It didn’t burn up the sales charts either.
• The busiest book of the week was actually Ultimate Avengers vs. New Ultimates #6!!  I didn’t even plan that.  It was, as I mentioned, 1 of 13, with assistant editor Sana Amanat representing for all the ladies out there.
• Four books had 2 female creators each: Daken: Dark Wolverine #11, Iron Age #2, Ultimate Comics Fallout #1, and Wolverine #12, but percentagewise Daken and Fallout tied for the best at 2 of 9.
• To learn more about this statistics project and its methodology click here, and to see the previous stats click here.

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