>>116919282Why am I not surprised you think that Avengers in 1985 only had 19,400 orders?
Did you even read this part?
https://www.comichron.com/monthlycomicssales/1985/1985-03Capital.html>Capital City's orders tended to range anywhere between a fifth and a twelfth of Marvel's overall sales in 1985, depending on how much newsstand and subscription attention a comic book got; we can see that for Amazing Spider-Man #266, Capital's orders of 24,300 copies were 19% of Marvel's Direct Market orders for the issue, and 8% of its sales overall. Meanwhile, on a comic book with few subscribers and where newsstand sales were nil, like the direct-only Marvel Fanfare #21, its 13,750 ordered copies were closer to about 20% of its overall sales.In other words, this chart was only Capital City's records, it didn't include Diamond and newsstand and other things at the time. And if Capital accounted for 1/5th of all the orders that could mean Marvel had 97,000 orders for Avengers. That'd be around Bendis' range for New Avengers sometime around or after Secret Invasion, at a time when there was only one direct market distributor, and newsstand was only like 2% or less of Marvel's total sales.