According to Wall Street sources, the Walt Disney Company will acquire Marvel Entertainment Inc. for $4 billion in stocks and cash. Comics industry observers and fans alike are already discussing the potential implications of the news, and will be for days — but at first blush, it appears to complete, in an ironic way, a … Read more
And now let’s continue our look at what came before July 2009 — when Captain America Reborn #1 topped the charts with approximately 193,000 copies ordered by comics shops through Diamond… July 2008‘s top seller was Marvel’s Secret Invasion #4, with first-month orders of approximately 175,400 copies in the direct market, just slightly less than … Read more
The summer seems to be breathing some life back into comics sales figures in several categories, according to The Comics Chronicles analysis of July 2009 comics ordered from Diamond Comic Distributors. The decline in Top 300 comics unit sales has slowed, and we picked up a few points in Top 300 comics dollars, thanks to … Read more
Diamond Comic Distributors began the monthly roll-out of comics sales information today with its release of the top ten sellers in the month of July for several categories, and the charts find Marvel’s Captain America: Reborn #1 in the top slot, followed by DC’s Blackest Night #1. With a top-ten chart that includes two more … Read more
Marvel Comics celebrated its 70th anniversary — dating from the shipment of Marvel Comics #1 — on August 11 in a variety of locations, and events are continuing through this week. Some have asked how a specific date could have been fixed for a book that shipped so long ago. In truth, as I said … Read more