Below you will find the sales for all 66 Preacher comic books. For the first 18 issues we only have the order index as we don’t get estimated sales until issue #19. We will use a 700 multiplier for the index to generate the sales number assuming issue 18 and issue 19 are similar around 50,000 copies sold. This is one of the only modern comic books in history to double sales in less than two years; 14 issues to be exact.

All data from Comichron.

Preacher
Issue Date Released Estimated Sales
1 2/1/1995 28.2 19740
2 3/1/1995 30.9 21630
3 4/1/1995 29 20300
4 5/1/1995 32.46 22722
5 6/1/1995 35.87 25109
6 7/1/1995 37.84 26488
7 8/1/1995 38.34 26838
8 9/1/1995 39.04 27328
9 10/1/1995 40.08 28056
10 11/1/1995 44.1 30870
11 12/1/1995 45.1 31570
12 1/1/1996 46.5 32550
13 2/1/1996 49.1 34370
14 4/1/1996 57.4 40180
15 5/1/1996 0
16 6/1/1996 61 42700
17 7/1/1996 64.7 45290
18 8/1/1996 72.33 50631
19 9/1/1996 50569
20 10/1/1996 51202
21 11/1/1996 49918
22 12/1/1996 49835
23 1/1/1997 49236
24 2/1/1997 48358
25 3/1/1997 49532
26 4/1/1997 47722
27 5/1/1997 45720
28 6/1/1997 45692
29 7/1/1997 45027
30 8/1/1997 45866
31 9/1/1997 45819
32 10/1/1997 45260
33 11/1/1997 45473
34 12/1/1997 44816
35 1/1/1998 43791
36 2/1/1998 42320
37 3/1/1998 43148
38 4/1/1998 44433
39 5/1/1998 42708
40 6/1/1998 42957
41 7/1/1998 41381
42 8/1/1998 40956
43 9/1/1998 41120
44 10/1/1998 41004
45 11/1/1998 40597
46 12/1/1998 40012
47 1/1/1999 40297
48 2/1/1999 39554
49 3/1/1999 40344
50 4/1/1999 44436
51 5/1/1999 41383
52 6/1/1999 41102
53 7/1/1999 41938
54 8/1/1999 40888
55 9/1/1999 40184
56 10/1/1999 41240
57 11/1/1999 39889
58 12/1/1999 39411
59 1/1/2000 39509
60 2/1/2000 37946
61 3/1/2000 39252
62 4/1/2000 39972
63 5/1/2000 40199
64 6/1/2000 41291
65 7/1/2000 42205
66 8/1/2000 43328

For comparison’s sake we will look at the first 25 issues of The Walking Dead. As you can see, it took The Walking Dead 12 issues to double sales but remember that The Walking Dead had an extremely low print run on the first issue. Either way, Preacher and The Walking Dead are very similar in the popularity at the outset. We haven’t found many other modern comic books that grew this quickly. I guess that is why they are both AMC TV shows now, huh?

The Walking Dead
Issue Date Releasted Estimated Sales
1 10/1/2003 7266
2 11/1/2003 6067
3 12/1/2003 6992
4 1/1/2004 7019
5 3/1/2004 8829
6 4/1/2004 7727
7 5/1/2004 10490
8 6/1/2004 11689
9 7/1/2004 11286
10 9/1/2004 13719
11 9/1/2004 13555
12 11/1/2004 14590
13 12/1/2004 14714
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15 2/1/2005 15461
16 3/1/2005 15683
17 4/1/2005 15614
18 4/1/2005 15540
19 6/1/2005 17222
20 7/1/2005 16917
21 8/1/2005 17667
22 10/1/2005 17623
23 11/1/2005 18482
24 12/1/2005 18545
25 1/1/2006 19331