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Contents:

• DC COMICS NCELS S GAY SUPERMAN BOOK SERI AFTER JT 18 ISSU AS SAL FALL FLAT
• DC NCELS GAY SUPERMAN IC AMID SAL CLE
• TOM TAYLOR AND DC COMICS’ GAY SUPERMAN BOOK COMPLETELY FALLS OFF TOP 50 SAL CHART
• DC COMICS CANCELS GAY SUPERMAN COMIC DUE TO DISMAL SAL

DC COMICS NCELS S GAY SUPERMAN BOOK SERI AFTER JT 18 ISSU AS SAL FALL FLAT

“Characters that were unknown to most of the general public — like Starman, say, or Maggie Sawyer, or Green-Lantern-no-not-the-active-one-wh-a-seri-but-the-olr-one-nobody-outsi-of-ics-fandom-knows-by-name — uld be gay, but Superman had to be able to sell movie tickets and toothpaste the Midwt.

DC NCELS GAY SUPERMAN IC AMID SAL CLE

“You n see a clear shift between so-lled ‘gay vague’ marketg and queer normalizatn mastream advertisg around 2015, ” Grayson ntu. A gay, or bi, or ace, or trans superhero might be a small and ut gture, but every gture tak on outsized meang when speakg out is self a source of fear. I remember when Batwoman beme the pany’s first gay character to headle a book 2009, and Midnighter beme DC’s first solo seri for a gay man 2015, and the long stretch of the 2010s when Wonr Woman, and Harley Qun, and Poison Ivy, and John Constante were fally allowed to be irrevobly queer.

DC Comics and wrer Tom Taylor’s gay Superman book, Superman: Son of Kal-El pletely fell out of the Top 50 sal charts for the month of Febary. Neverthels, this data pot seemgly dited that Taylor and DC Comics’ edorial cisn to make Superman gay was a one and done gimmick and that might have actually driven away rears of the seri.

TOM TAYLOR AND DC COMICS’ GAY SUPERMAN BOOK COMPLETELY FALLS OFF TOP 50 SAL CHART

Eltaeb was thrilled to see the end of the gay Superman seri.

DC COMICS CANCELS GAY SUPERMAN COMIC DUE TO DISMAL SAL