Last week, Diamond released its Top 500 lists, as well as its market shares — and between the two, plus our own research, we’ve been able to generate something we haven’t had here for six months: unit sales estimates for comics. They appear first on the Diamond charts for September 2020 page, which preserves the … Read more
Here’s stage two in what has turned out to be a process that’s evolving every month: we have our charts for DC comics ordered in September, along with our projected rankings for same. Once again, Joker and Batman dominated the list, with Death Metal pitching in. The process behind the creation of the DC reports … Read more
In the second month since the return of sales charts for August 2020, the distributor carrying most of the comics released in North America, Diamond Comic Distributors, has announced its September 2020 top-sellers — and while comparative month-to-month and year-to-year sales statistics did not return, we did get market shares again — our first official … Read more
And then there was one… again. Reports began appearing this morning that retailers had received messages from DC Comics that it would be ending its distribution relationship with UCS Comic Distributors, a sister firm to Midtown Comics, in favor of the other new distributor DC helped launch in April, Lunar Distribution, as of product shipping … Read more
Diamond’s full charts for August 2020 are out — and so are ours! The Diamond charts are full top 500s with dollar rankings, though that category works best when it draws upon nonreturnable comics sold at regular discounts every month. Publisher relief efforts for shops, though welcome in all ways, have altered that dynamic some … Read more
With Diamond resuming its monthly Top 10 reports yesterday, we’re now proceeding with the next step in our August sales report: orders from DC’s distributors. The process behind the DC reports was discussed here. Not surprisingly, we project that Batman: Three Jokers #1 was the top comic book ordered by retailers buying from DC’s distributors, … Read more