The fantastic four bombed with the first movie.
i’m sure that ‘the bombing movie’, also made the sales of that comic book go down too.
(yes, i know today’s millemials call these things ‘graphic novels’, which to me means over-priced, over-rated, and still tripe, when compared to what WERE comic books.)
There’s a difference between comic books and graphic novels.
Comic books are still approximately 20 pages long and currently cost about $4 apiece. Often, a complete story requires several issues of comics to tell it from start to finish. If a storyline is deemed to be successful, a number of issues may be collected together and published as an anthology, with a new cover on heavier stock.
A graphic novel is a longer story, usually original (ie never having appeared previously in any comic series) and published on stock similar to what is used for an Anthology.