The record-setting Spawn #300 led September’s sales charts, as we noted on Friday, and we can now report our estimate that it sold nearly 262,300 copies into the North American comic shop market. Priced at $7.99, that puts the dollar value of the comics’ orders well over $2 million — which, coincidentally, is close to what the dollar take for Spawn #1 was in May 1992. (Of course, that issue cost $1.95, and the values haven’t been adjusted for inflation.) Still, it was a significant sale, enough to make it the bestselling issue of the comic in the Diamond Exclusive Era.
Click to see the full comics sales estimates for September 2019.
Spawn‘s performance was enough to make it the #2 comic book so far in 2019, supplanting Black Cat #1. But the interesting movement in the year-to-date charts was below the Top Five for the year. House of X #1 launched in July with more than 185,000 copies shipped; its second printing in August had an order deadline set before any copies of the first issue shipped, and it consequently didn’t add much. Not so in September, as its reprints added more than 15,000 copies, bringing the title over the 200,000-copy mark.
Click to see the bestselling comics to date for 2019.
Once again, many DC titles saw their orders bifurcated between cardstock and regular versions in the charts; we included a feature in the monthly chart allowing the issues to be sorted as single entries if desired.
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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