Nearly all the partners have changed, three years after the pandemic caused Diamond to shut down for several weeks, prompting DC comics to ultimately take its distribution elsewhere. Image announced today it was moving to Lunar as its exclusive distributor effective in September — though Diamond also announced that it would continue to supply those … Read more
The 2021 Comichron/ICv2 report is out — and it’s a blockbuster. Comics and graphic novel sales rose 62% to $2.075 billion; up 70% vs 2019. All formats grew in what was the the industry’s biggest year ever in dollar terms, even when adjusted for inflation. Graphic novels exploded, with manga having an enormous year. Traditional … Read more
April 2022 comics order estimates are online at Comichron. They find TMNT: The Last Ronin #5 from IDW topping 100k copies, with Brzrkr and Something Is Killing the Children placing third and fourth once their variants are combined. Amazing Spider-Man #1 would’ve been by far the market leader were all Marvel’s sales at Diamond. Diamond’s … Read more
We’ve posted the monthly estimates for February and March 2022, and there’s a lot of good news to them. It looks like the Direct Market had a $145 million first quarter, which beats the same three months of 2020 — our last winter with data from Diamond — by $28 million. The Marvel adjustments are … Read more
January 2022 estimates are online. Scorched #1 from Image sold over 257,000 copies to retailers in the first monthly list since the majority of Marvel’s distribution went to Penguin Random House. Total Direct Market orders likely $45 million: see the charts here. For the latest batch of changes, we consolidated lists into a single page, … Read more
A huge tranche of data available now at Comichron! First, we have the Top 1000 comics and graphic novels from Diamond on our 2021 page. News since Friday: with variants merged, House of Slaughter #1 moved into first by 29 copies. A photo finish or a dead heat — it’s really just a snapshot in … Read more