This is something I’ll be setting up in table form along with some other pricing information on Comichron, but here are the average prices of comics in the Diamond Top 300 back to the beginning of the Exclusive Era. The first column is the flat average (all prices divided by 300), while the second column … Read more
It will be a little while before I can attend to estimates, but the Diamond charts for October have been released (story at Newsarama). Usually in October I can make a good projection as to the overall year, but 2008 versus 2007 so far is looking like a very close-run thing, so we’ll have to … Read more
The October Diamond numbers won’t be out for a few days, but in advance I have posted the October 1998 and October 2003 figures for comparison. October 2003 was topped by the second issue of the long-awaited Avengers/Justice League crossover — though in a sense, Avengers/JLA #2 was actually the first issue with that name. … Read more
Marvel announced earnings this morning topping analyst expectations, Reuters reports. “It now expects earnings of $2.45 to $2.65 a share on revenue of $640 million to $670 million,” the report says. ” Marvel had earlier forecast earnings of $1.55 and $1.75 a share for 2008, on sales of $450 million to $480 million. Net profits … Read more
I realized there was still one section yet to be restored from the previous incarnation of the site — only, it wasn’t really a section then, and it wasn’t how I wanted to present it. The Yearly Comics Sales section presents rankings of comics sales figures reported in postal Statements of Ownership — but that’s … Read more
In passing on a link to a comics store closure story earlier this week, I was tempted to say that we’re far more likely to learn of a store closure from the Internet than a store opening — hence, we can’t always tell much about the market from how many such stories are out there. … Read more