With Diamond Comic Distributors soon to announce its 2009 year-end sellers and market shares, The Comics Chronicles is also beginning to post some of Diamond’s year-end tables from previous years, beginning with 2007. More years will be soon to follow. Some years have a full 300 entries; earlier ones have fewer. But all show something we can’t see just from looking at the monthly comics reports, because the year-end tallies include all reorders that individual comics and trade paperbacks garnered throughout the year.
2007, as the link shows, was the year that featured the end of Civil War
Since Diamond does not provide indexed figures with its year-end reports, these tables are simply rankings without estimates. The end-of-decade page does feature aggregated unit sales estimates for several of the highest-ranking issues, but, again, since not all months of reorders appear in Diamond’s Top 300, those figures are slightly lower than the actual numbers of copies shipped.
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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