A month after War of the Realms #1 became the second-bestselling comic book of the year so far, DCeased #1 did the same thing, with retailers ordering more than 242,000 copies. Click to see our estimates for comics shipping in May 2019.
Several of the internal benchmarks showed growth year-over-year, with the 50th, 200th, 400th, and 500th place comics all seeing increases versus the books in the same slot in May 2018. Click to see the benchmark tables.
As mentioned here Friday, DC’s 25-cent Year of the Villain #1 was counted toward its unit market share, which is part of why the unit gap between DC and Marvel was narrow. Our analysis shows the market share tables appear to been calculated based on a data set that included as many as a million copies that do not appear in the regular comics charts; the DC issue likely accounts for most of them.
All the year’s bestsellers had reorders that charted in the month:
Detective Comics #1000 picked up a couple more thousand copies. Click to see the sales for the year to date.
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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