After several weeks with mostly DC and Image books atop the reorder and advance reorder charts at Diamond Comic Distributors, Marvel had the largest share of both tables last week. Let’s look first at how the books already in stores fared, and move on to the future:
TOP REORDERED ITEMS for Jan. 15-21, 2018 (in dollars)
These are items that have already shipped, but have been receiving additional orders from retailers. In most cases below, the items are in stock and so the orders are being filled; occasionally items are back-ordered, so their reorders will enter into the channel once they become available.
These are ranked by invoiced dollars, so retailers’ discounts have already applied to the totals before ranking.
The top reordered hardcover was Marvel‘s Vision, a $39.99 edition collecting Tom King‘s limited series, which shipped January 10.
The top reordered comic book was Marvel’s Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey #3, an issue that also shipped January 10. As of this writing, it appears to be close to sold out at Diamond. The leader the past three weeks, Hawkman Found #1, was out of stock at Diamond last week and does not appear in the list.
Image‘s Saga Vol. 8 trade paperback, the top graphic novel for December, was the top reordered softcover for the second week in a row.
The links in the table go to the Diamond information pages for each book.
And now on to the future…
TOP ADVANCE REORDERED ITEMS for Jan. 15-21, 2018 (in dollars)
These are items that have not yet shipped, but for which the Final Order Deadlines have passed. These reorders, if books are available to fill them, may or may not land in the same shipping month as the books’ release weeks, so a book’s presence on this chart can mean that an item might make a repeat appearance in Diamond’s monthly top-seller charts.
It was mostly comic books in the advance reorder list last week. Topping the list among comic books and overall was Star Wars: Thrawn #1, launching Marvel’s take on Timothy Zahn‘s character from his novels at Del Rey. The issue is set to go on sale Feb. 14.
The top advance-reordered comic book shipping in March was yet again the Oblivion Song by Kirkman and De Felici Collector’s Edition from Image. It’s expected to go on sale March 7.
The Action Comics #1000: 80 Years of Superman book repeated in the top hardcover slot; it’s been first three out of four weeks. It’s an April 11 title.
Once again, there weren’t any trade paperbacks in the Top 25 at all.
This chart is ranked by full retail dollars and not units, or wholesale dollars.
We’ve seen enough reorders and advance from the past few weeks from Diamond Comic Distributors to be able to collate some information onto pages for January 2018, February 2018 and March 2018. Check them out for a further glance at the future.
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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