The June 2007 comics shop order totals have been posted; my estimates for individual titles can be found here.
The detailed data:
TOP 300 UNIT SALES6.93 million copies, down 1% from last June
Q2: 21.83 million copies, up 5% from Q2 2006
2007 YTD: 42.13 million copies, up 7% from 2006 YTD
TOP 300 DOLLAR SALES$22.11 million, up 4% from last June
Q2: $68.44 million, up 6% from Q2 2006
2007 YTD: $132.58 million, up 6% from 2006 YTD
TOP 100 TRADE PAPERBACKS$4.85 million, up 33% from last June
Q2: $16.05 million, up 48% from Q2 2006
2007 YTD: $27.94 million, up 28% from 2006 YTD
COMBINED TOP 300 COMICS & TOP 100 TRADES$26.96 million, up 8% from last June
Q2: $84.49 million, up 12% from Q2 2006
2007 YTD: $160.52 million, up 13% from 2006 YTD
OVERALL DIAMOND SALES (including all comics, TPBs, and magazines)
$35.08 million, up 10% from last June
Q2: $110.81 million, up 11% from Q2 2006
2007 YTD: $210.11 million, up 11% from 2006 YTD
Prospects at midyear for topping 2006 performance in all categories continue to be good. TPB performance looks to be surging in 2007, after last year when the periodicals seemed to have more momentum.
Comichron founder John Jackson Miller has tracked the comics industry for more than 25 years, including a decade editing the industry’s retail trade magazine; he is the author of several guides to comics, as well as more than a hundred comic books for various franchises.
He is the author of novels including Star Wars: Kenobi, Star Wars: A New Dawn, Star Trek: Discovery – The Enterprise War, and his upcoming release, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The High Country. Read more about them at his fiction site.
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