The final full week of reorder and advance reorder charts from January is out from Diamond Comic Distributors. Let’s look first at how the books already in stores fared, and move on to the future:
TOP REORDERED ITEMS for Jan. 22-28, 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.
Image‘s Saga Vol. 8 trade paperback, the top graphic novel for December, was both the top reordered softcover for the third week in a row and also the top reordered item overall by dollars.
The top reordered comic book was DC‘s Doomsday Clock #3, which went on sale January 24. It had previously led the advance reorder charts.
The top reordered hardcover was DC’s Superman: Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 5, which went on sale January 24.
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.
As with last week, it was another week in which the advance reorder chart was mostly dominated by comic books. Topping the list overall was Marvel’s Infinity Countdown Prime #1, a $4.99 issue which is set to go on sale February 21. A Logan variant of the issue was the #2 advance reordered comic; a trading-card variant also made the list.
Dark Nights Metal #6 was the top advance-reordered March comic book. Gone finally from the list was Oblivion Song by Kirkman and De Felici Collector’s Edition, a recent fixture.
The Action Comics #1000: 80 Years of Superman book repeated in the top hardcover slot; it’s been first among hardcovers four out of five weeks. It’s an April 11 title.
For the third week in a row, 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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