TOP REORDERED ITEMS for Apr. 23-29, 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.
These are ranked by invoiced dollars, so retailers’ discounts have already applied to the totals before ranking.
Action Comics #1000 was the top reordered comic and top reordered item overall in dollars. It released on April 18. All nine of the variant versions also made the reorder Top 25, in the following order: Blank Edition, 1930s, 1960s, 1940s, 1990s, 2000s, 1980s, 1970s, and 1950s, which is fairly close to last week’s listing. They’re all marked as out of stock now in Diamond’s system.
We have to go to 15th place among reorders to find the first non-Action comic book: Amazing Spider-Man #799, which went on sale April 18. (See listings for it on eBay.)
The top hardcover was a new entry, the $150 Absolute Preacher Vol. 3. It went on sale April 25.
And, shocking absolutely no one in the week in which Avengers: Infinity War released, the Infinity Gauntlet trade paperback repeated yet again as the top reordered softcover.
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 Apr. 23-29, 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.
Marvel had 22 of the top 25 advance-reordered items in the week, which may be the most this year. Another Marvel Fresh Start book led the charts: Black Panther #1, which is due to ship May 23. It has a significant discount promotion attached, keying off retailers orders of Black Panther #172.
The Doomsday Clock #5 Gary Frank variant edition is the top DC title on the list, and with a June 20 cover-date is the first June release to appear in the advance-reorder charts.
Otherwise, the list has many Amazing Spider-Man #800 variants and Thanos reprintings, with no softcover or hardcover editions appearing at all.
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 April 2018 and May 2018 — and now we have a page for June 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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