Quote Originally Posted by griffin View Post
IDW have said a number of times that it had pre-sold more copies of this than any of their recent issues of Transformers comics... so if that is true, we should see it reflected in the weekly stats, and, if the sales figures continue over the next few issues, a lot of people must be liking it for some reason we are missing.
Looks like IDW were telling the truth on this, as Issue One sold about 23,009 copies to comic shops (not to customers), which is about double the other three Transformers titles at the moment, and one of their best numbers for Transformers since Infiltration was selling 25,000 copies in early 2006, and the Movie prequel selling 23,000 copies in mid 2007.
In comparison for July...
MTMTE sold 10,063
Windblade did 9,130
RID did 8,706 (not looking good, as they stopped doing Movie comics when they got down to 6,000 copies)

The site does note that the GIJoe/TFs comic allowed for returns - I think that means that comic stores are allowed to return any unsold copies if they want. If that is what that means, I think comic stores would have ordered more if there was less risk... so I'd be wondering how many of those 23,000 ended up being sold to customers.
Next month's stats should be more accurate if the "returns" option isn't there.