Friend of Bleeding Cool Jetpack Comics came 26th. The Penguin Random House list also includes a bunch of names from stores ordering nothing that have closed, moved into different business models or never existed in the first place. One retailer tells Bleeding Cool that many of those"don't seem to be legitimate stores, but rather online folks trying to grab cash, while the collectable markets were spiking. A lot of those Whatnot guys that have come and gone.
There are eight-four accounts on the Penguin Random House list that ordered nothing from PRH in both 2022 and 2023, and a further sixty-eight accounts that spent money in 2022 but have not in 2023 so far. Those sixty-eight spent $495,934 last year – and they spent nothing in 2023. However, of the stores that Penguin Random House lists, they have a combined wholesale order for 2022 of $26.