I held off on this until I found another site or two that is reporting this without giving the initial website to be the source, but Bleeding Cool is reporting that DC has pulled the plug on their "First Wave" books. The line was a seperate universe where it had more of a film noir atmosphere and none of the heroes had powers.If these numbers are right, Doc Savage and The Spirit books were selling under 10,000 copies a month. By comparison, last month's # 1 book was Fantastic Four #587 which sold over 115,000 copies (granted it's the death of Human Torch issue) followed by Brightest Day #s 17 & 18 which were around 72,000 copies each. The delays of the main book didn't help much either. Then there's all the money spent on licensing the characters....
This is sad. I'm guilty of abandoning ship too, I was excited about the premise and to see a Doc Savage book again. However, the delays, plus they could have done better choices on the books (not all of them were bad, some were good), PLUS it didn't take the $2.99 plunge like the other book. Why keep it at $3.99 when ALL the other books were $2.99? Almost like they wanted to kill it off. Plus, there was talk of a "First Wave" version of Batman comic which never happened...so the signs where there I guess.
Maybe The Spirit and Doc Savage can move to another company and join up with The Shadow and a couple of other pulp heroes and start a new universe. I would like to see that.