For example, ICV2’s ComicHub report showed Slaughter #1 in fourth place — but it was looking at register sales thru Oct. 30, and the comic book didn’t release until Oct. 27. The attack hit at a critical time for the charts, as Marvel had just moved to Penguin Random House, and October would have shown how much of its sales Diamond kept. Steve Geppi said it kept 45% of Marvel’s business, but it’s unclear what that refers to.
Earlier this year, we posted our June all-industry projections, only for Diamond to get its own June report out; we incorporated its data into what we had. We’ll do the same here. Quite a lot of “work in progress” graphics on the site for 2020-21, but patience has paid off from time to time.
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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