On the morning of the second day of the release, Wu Ming received a call from Zhang Dexin, and the sales of "Weekly Junior Star" reached 53,000 copies on the first day.

As a new manga magazine, it's actually remarkable to be able to get such sales on the first day.

Although according to the estimates of the Phoenix Society, a large part of these sales were contributed by loyal readers of Wu Ming's "Go Boy" and "Speeding YOYO", as well as Shangguan Xiaobao's "Bruce Lee". The total sales of the following days are estimated to be less than the first day.

The next day, Weekly Shonen Star's sales plummeted from 50,000 to 3,000 copies, and for the next few days, it fluctuated between 3,000 and 4,000 copies.

Wu Ming was not disappointed, after all, the people of Xiangjiang were used to paying for books before, and now that they suddenly changed to a comic weekly, there will definitely be many people who are not adaptable. His psychological bottom line is that "Weekly Junior Star" will be considered successful as long as it sells more than 50,000 copies in the first issue, and now it has sold more than 50,000 copies on the first day, and more than 70,000 copies have been sold in the next six days.

Even if a "Weekly Shonen Star" can earn a net profit of more than 5 Hong Kong dollars after deducting printing costs, channel fees and tax deductions, 70,000 copies will have a net profit of about 350,000 Hong Kong dollars, and most of the manuscript fees of those cartoonists can be left, which is already a perfect start.

The development of "Weekly Junior Star" did not disappoint Wu Ming, and with the support of Wu Ming spending a lot of resources, "Weekly Junior Star" got better and better.

After a few months, it rose to 100,000 copies, a year later it reached 150,000 copies, and even exceeded 300,000 copies at its peak in the 90s, which is 100,000 copies more than the more than 200,000 copies at the peak of Hong Kong comics in the previous life.

Decades later, in the island country, there is still a lot of controversy about whether the god of manga is Osamu Tezuka or Wu Ming. But in Xiangjiang, Wu Ming is the absolute king, the undoubted god of comics.

Shangguan Xiaobao often claimed in the media: "Mr. Wu Ming is the god of comics among the Chinese, not only because Mr. Wu Ming's comics sell well, but no one can match the popularity." It was also because he reformed the comic industry in Hong Kong, creating science fiction comics, mystery comics, juvenile comics, shoujo comics, children's comics, ghost comics, funny comics, and even dark comics, etc., laying the foundation for the establishment of genre comics. It can be said that all Xiangjiang comics are plagiarized from Mr. Wu Ming. Moreover, he also actively founded various comic magazines, gave many people the opportunity to serialize comics, tapped many talents, and cultivated a large number of well-known cartoonists. If it weren't for him, I can't imagine what our local comics in Xiangjiang and even the entire Chinese mainland would be like by island comics or American comics, and I guess I can only tremble in front of them. ”

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At this time, Huang Yulang and several high-level executives were listening to his female secretary report on the first day of sales of the Phoenix Society's "Weekly Junior Star".

"What? 50,000 copies?"

Huang Yulang, who originally wanted to start a comic weekly to compete with the Phoenix Society, couldn't help but exclaim when he heard the first-day sales of "Weekly Shonen Star" from the secretary's newspaper.

The female secretary saw that Huang Yulang, the boss, looked dumbfounded, so she could only say it cautiously: "Yes, our company got the news from the Phoenix Society, "Weekly Boy Star" sold 53,000 copies yesterday, and we also asked the owners of various bookstores, even if it is more, it will not be much more, and the data of 50,000 copies should be accurate." ”

You must know that 50,000 copies is not a small amount, and the first-day sales of each issue of his "Dragon Tiger Gate" are only 20,000 or 30,000 more than these.

But "Weekly Shonen Star" is a comic magazine, and the comics above can be sold again in a single book in the future. And his "Dragon Tiger Gate" was originally a single book, even if he did any more joint order book, it is estimated that no one would buy it. In this way, the victory or defeat of the two comic companies is obvious, and in the long run, it must be that the Phoenix Society makes more money than Yulang International.

"And ......"

The female secretary was a little hesitant and didn't say anything for a long time.

When Huang Yulang saw the female secretary's appearance, he sighed in his heart, knowing that there was bad news again. He said weakly: "Say, if there is anything else, tell it." ”

The female secretary listened to the boss and immediately said another bad news.

"We found out that Weekly Shonen Star has the authors of four comics on it, and they are our company's original manga assistants. There are also three comic book authors, who are cartoonists who have jumped from the Order of the Phoenix, and their comic book assistants. In addition to them, many comic assistants have quit their jobs and run to work as assistants for those comic assistants who have been given serialization opportunities. ”

"What!?"

Huang Yulang stood up from his seat with a "swoop", the news came so suddenly that he was shocked and speechless for a while.

"Bang!"

Huang Yulang, who came back to his senses, was furious and slapped the desk in front of him vigorously.

"Damn, these street boys, I don't want to think about who raised them for so long, they are so ungrateful, and they went to the Order of the Phoenix to help Wu Ming's little ghost and Shangguan Xiaobao's old thief. ”

Everyone else here secretly slandered in their hearts: "It's not that there is no future in Yulang International, how many years do you have to stay here as a comic assistant to become the main comic writer, and it is estimated that you will still be poor when you are old." If you go to the Order of the Phoenix, at least you still have a chance to fight, and no matter how poor you are, the salary of your assistant is higher than ours. ”

If it weren't for the fact that the Order of the Phoenix has a limit on every cartoonist's assistant, only those within the limit will be employees of the Order of the Phoenix, and the Order of the Phoenix will pay their salary. If the limit is exceeded, the cartoonist will have to pay for it himself, and it is estimated that there will be more comic assistants who resign.

At this time, a high-level executive reminded: "Boss, let's hurry up and settle down people's hearts, and first increase the salary of the assistant to about the same as the Order of the Phoenix, otherwise more people will leave, and then there will only be a group of comic book writers left, and they won't be able to draw comics." ”

Huang Yulang also calmed down at this time, and replied: "Yes, now I will be merciful and give them a salary increase." However, our comic weekly should also be released early, the treasure hall where the Jade Emperor lives is called Lingxiao Treasure Palace, and our comic weekly is called "Lingxiao Comic Weekly".

It will be released at the same time as "Weekly Shonen Star" next Monday, and it must be crushed to the "Weekly Shonen Star" of the Phoenix Society. I don't believe that "Lingxiao Comic Weekly", which is serialized by so many of our well-known cartoonists, can't compete with Wu Ming, Shangguan Xiaobao and a bunch of crooked melons and cracked dates "Weekly Boy Star"