I only caught this now, but Fortune has an article on “old-fashioned [comics] publishing” and how it’s helping Marvel. A lot of interesting numbers here. A favorable piece — though there is that line that comics shops are “one of the most archaic distribution systems in existence.” One might note to the author that those … Read more
The new site has sped the restoration of pages to the point that now, we’re back where we were, and then some. Now online are the Yearly Diamond (and Heroes World) Overviews, summing all the reports the distributors put out in each individual year. So you can start with the 1996 Comics Sales Market Summary … Read more
And The Comichron Report for September 2008 is now online at Newsarama. Return to those years of the past with DC One Million, X-Men “Inferno”, — and the beginning of the first Wolverine ongoing series. I have a few more of these comics flashback features online over there — I hope to get an index … Read more
And here are the comics sales charts for September, with my estimates. Same-day — that doesn’t happen often! Orders from the comics direct market, composed of all the comics specialty shops in North America, were up for the month across all categories — and up for the quarter and year in the widest category and … Read more
Still putting together the Diamond estimates for September 2008 — but I can convey now that based on the numbers I have in, the Overall category (all comics, all trade paperbacks, and all magazines sold to retailers by Diamond) is up for the month, the third quarter, and the year to date. The estimates: September … Read more
The Diamond charts for September 2008 are out today, and while I will have them here soon, I wanted to produce a supporting document to something mentioned in Michael Doran’s Newsarama piece: whether Marvel’s topping of 50% in the Final Pieces Sold Unit Share category represents a first in the post-bankruptcy era. I don’t often … Read more