TOP REORDERED ITEMS for Mar. 12-18, 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.
In second place last week, Marvel’s Infinity Gauntlet Box Hardcover Slipcase Set, which at $500 is the most expensive item seen in these charts this year, was the top reordered hardcover or item of any kind, by dollars. It was a March 7 item.
Oblivion Song #1, so long the most advance-reordered comic book releasing in March, was the top comic book reordered. It also arrived in stores March 7.
Second was Oni‘s Rick & Morty Presents the Vindicators #1, which sold out of its March 7 release and now has a reprint set for April 11. As such, filled- and unfilled-orders for the issue caused it to make both the reorder and the advance reorder charts.
Continuing with the theme, the first Rick & Morty trade paperback from 2015 was 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 Mar. 12-18, 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 ruled the advance reorder charts for several weeks, but a comic book a thousand issues in the making happened along. Action Comics #1000, due out on April 18, was the top advance-reordered April issue — and all 10 of its covers made the Top 12. Domino #1 was the top Marvel title, in second. It goes on sale April 11.
Perhaps as a consequence of the Action issues, no graphic novels, hardcover or softcover, made the list 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 March 2018, 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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