They don’t come out until October, but we saw the first of the Walking Dead 15th Anniversary Blind Bag editions turn up in last week’s advance reorder charts from Diamond Comic Distributors. First, we’ll look at what’s already in stores before moving on to the future:
TOP REORDERED ITEMS for June 18-24, 2018 (in invoiced dollars)
These are items that have already shipped, but have been receiving additional orders from retailers. In most cases below, the items are in stock and so the orders are being filled; occasionally items are back-ordered, so their reorders will enter into the channel once they become available.
DC’s new edition of its Infinite Crisis Omnibus was the top reordered hardcover and top reordered item overall in dollars spent by retailers. It went on sale June 13.
Marvel’s Fresh Start launch of Thor #1, which previously appeared in the advance reorder charts, was the top-reordered comic book of the week. It also went on sale June 13.
The Infinity Gauntlet collection was yet again the top trade paperback.
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 June 18-24, 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.
The Artgerm variant of Life of Captain Marvel #1 from Marvel was the top advance-reordered comic book. It goes on sale July 18. Justice League #4 from DC was right behind it — it goes on sale the same day.
And they don’t go on sale until Oct. 10, but solicitations were taken for the Walking Dead 15th Anniversary Blind Bag editions — variants of previously released comics shipped in bags to hide their covers. Twelve made the list, led by #1.
Once again this week, no hardcovers or softcovers made the list.
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 June 2018 and July 2018. Check them out for a further glance at the future.
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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