Black Panther’s command of the reorder lists only increased last week, with nine softcover and hardcover books among the top books that comics shops reordered from Diamond Comic Distributors. That’s up from seven the week before. Let’s look first at how the books already in stores fared, and move on to the future:
TOP REORDERED ITEMS for Feb. 26-Mar. 4, 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, continuing to be propelled by interest due to the movie’s release, repeated as the top item and top trade paperback.
Image‘s Saga Vol. 8 trade paperback, third last week, moved back to second.
Marvel’s Vision was the top reordered hardcover; it had held that honor one week back in January.
The top reordered comic book was Marvel’s Infinity Countdown Prime #1, which led advance reorders in late January. The issue released on February 21.
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. 26-Mar. 4, 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’s command of the advance reorder charts lessened this week, going from 21 of the 25 top spots to 15. The top advance-reordered comic book and top advance-reordered item overall was the Stuart Immonen third printing variant of Amazing Spider-Man #794. It’s expected to go on sale March 28.
The top April-shipping comic book was the second printing Alex Ross cover of Amazing Spider-Man #797. That issue is expected to become available April 4.
And we have our first May-shipping title in the advance reorder charts: It’s — there’s a theme here — Amazing Spider-Man #800, a $9.99 96-page issue due out May 30 wrapping up Dan Slott‘s ten-year run.
No hardcovers or softcovers on the advance reorder list this week at all, though that 96-pager would qualify if not for its issue number!
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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