TOP REORDERED ITEMS for Apr. 16-22, 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; as noted, it came out on April 18. Diamond reports that it is still in stock for reorders. Six of the variant versions also made the reorder Top 25, in the following order: 1930s, 1940s, 1990s, 1960s, 2000s, and 1950s. The 1970s Jim Steranko variant is reported as out of stock, and the 1980s variant’s stocking level is marked as low.
The top hardcover was once again DC’s Action Comics: 80 Years of Superman hardcover, which previously had topped the advance reorder charts. It released in shops April 11. Diamond reports that it’s still in stock as of today, but remaining quantities are low. A much more expensive hardcover, the Superman: Exile and Other Stories Omnibus placed third. It shipped April 11 as well.
And — no surprise — the Infinity Gauntlet trade paperback repeated yet again as the top reordered softcover; the book wound up 17th overall in the charts for March and is likely to improve on that with the movie releasing this week.
We have to go to 12th 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 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. 16-22, 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.
After a couple of Marvel Fresh Start books led the last two weeks, DC’s Batman #47 led the advance reorder charts last week. It’s slated for May 16 release. Avengers #2 was second; it ships the same day.
The top advance reordered trade paperback has led the list before: Ricanstruction: Reminiscing and Rebuilding Puerto Rico from Somos Arte. A May 23 release.
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. 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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