As reported here on Friday, House of X #1 led new comics sales by Diamond Comic Distributors to retailers in July — and our full estimates, just posted, place its sales at more than 185,000 copies to North America. We’re also able to report that Walking Dead #193, the surprise final issue, topped 111,000 copies — and more than that, given that its returnability means Diamond reduced its reported sales in the charts. Click to see our comics sales estimates for July 2019.
Of additional note is something new we’ve tried. With DC’s Year of the Villain resulting in many comics having their sales split across multiple entries (standard practice when versions of the same comic book have different cover prices), 22 different comics got additional entries. Using the sorting functionality of our tables, the Comichron chart for July can be sorted in an additional way — to combine those comics into single entries. It’s uncertain yet whether this is just for this month or for the entire duration of DC’s event, but it seemed to be worth an experiment. Check it out!
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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