As part of our ongoing renovations, we’re building out our FAQ section to give permanent homes to a lot of the primers and essays once found as blog posts here. Some of the pages there are among our most popular:
The Best-Selling Comic Book of All Time
A look at X-Men Vol. 2, #1 (1991), and how it compares with international rivals.
Comics Buyer’s Guide: A Look BackA 46th anniversary look back at how a newspaper started by a teenager became one of the hubs of comics fandom, running nearly 1,700 issues.
Where Did Comics Numbering Come From?
Comics are numbered unlike most other American magazines; a look at some of the historical reasons that may be involved.
There are also pieces on how to interpret our postal sales figures and monthly distributor reports. Much more to come!
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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