Archie Andrews has cheated the calendar for many years, having been a teenager since his comics debut in the 1940s, but death finds him — at least in an alternate reality—in the upcoming Life With Archie #36, according to CBR reports today. “Wein’s Law” — named for Len Wein, the writer who coined it — … Read more
The full estimates for June 2014 comics sales are now online, and as reported last weekend, at “halftime” we see a market that has rebounded from winter to bring this year’s sales even with last year. Retailers spent almost the exact same amount of money on comics and graphic novels in the period in the … Read more
Comic shops in North America spent the same amount of money on comic books and graphic novels in the first half of 2014 as they did during the first half of 2013, according to new data released by Diamond Comic Distributors. Retailers purchased almost $250 million worth of comics, graphic novels, and magazines in the … Read more
As first reported Friday, Marvel’s Original Sin #1 led the market in a month that saw the smallest number of new comic book releases in six months. That smaller slate, plus one less shipping week, combined to make May’s comic sales to retailers dip slightly year-over-year, according to data released by Diamond Comic Distributors. You … Read more
Marvel’s Original Sin #1 led the market in a month that included a Spider-Man movie release and what Diamond Comic Distributors reported was its best Free Comic Book Day yet. That’s according to Diamond’s just-released report on what comics shops in North America ordered in the month of May. Retailers purchased a little over $43 … Read more
The final comics sales estimates for April are out from Diamond Comic Distributors, and as reported here on Friday, Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 3 #1 was the best-selling title in the last 15 years in the comics market overall, and since the mid-1990s if we’re looking at just the comics shop market. (It was definitely a … Read more