The reorder list was Black Panther’s to rule last week, with seven softcover and hardcover book among the top books that comics shops reordered 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 Feb. 19-25, 2018 (in invoiced dollars)
These are ranked by invoiced dollars, so retailers’ discounts have already applied to the totals before ranking.
Black Panther Vol. 1: A Nation Under Our Feet, propelled by interest due to the movie’s release, moved from second to first in reorders for trade paperbacks, followed by its second volume. There were seven Black Panther titles in the Top 25. Image‘s Saga Vol. 8 trade paperback, the top graphic novel for December, was the top reordered softcover for the six weeks running, was third.
The new edition of DC‘s New Teen Titans Omnibus Vol. 2 was the top reordered hardcover and item overall by dollars. It went on sale February 21.
Dark Knights Rising: The Wild Hunt #1 —we’re going to have to be careful on these Dark Nights/Dark Knights spellings — was the top reordered comic book. It came out on Feb. 14.
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 Feb. 19-Feb. 25, 2018 (in full retail 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.
Marvel dominated the advance reorder charts, taking 21 of 25 spots last week. The top advance-reordered comic book and top advance-reordered item overall was the Artgerm variant of Mighty Thor #705. It’s expected to go on sale March 21.
The top April-shipping comic book was the C2E2 Venomized #1 variant, due on April 4. DC’s Curse of the Brimstone #1 was the next highest April shipping comic; another April 4 title.
No hardcovers on the list this week, but the top softcover is Cable Revolution. It’ll ship April 25.
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 February 2018 and March 2018. A page for April 2018 has also been started. Check them out for a further glance at the future.
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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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