We’re starting to get word on some reorders and advance reorders that comics shops placed in February with 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. 29-Feb. 4, 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 fourth week in a row and also the top reordered item overall by dollars.
The top reordered comic book for the second week in a row 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 Dark Horse‘s Hellboy in Hell Library Edition, which came back into stock after its October 11 release.
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. 29-Feb. 4, 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.
After several weeks with hardcovers and trade paperbacks mostly squeezed out of the list, last week saw a few reenter the list. The Action Comics #1000: 80 Years of Superman book was the top item in advance-reorder dollars; it’s been first among hardcovers five out of six weeks. It’s an April 11 title.
The Dark Nights Metal Deluxe Edition was second among hardcovers; it won’t be out until June 6.
The top advance reordered comic book was Thanos #16 from Marvel, due out on Feb. 28. Returning to the list as the top March-slated comic book was the Oblivion Song by Kirkman and De Felici Collector’s Edition.
The top trade paperback (after three weeks in which none made the list) was Walking Dead Vol. 29, due out March 7.
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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