With the February sales estimates posted earlier this week, we now have another look at March with the top books that comics shops reordered from Diamond Comic Distributors. Let’s look first at how the books already in stores fared, and move on to the future:
TOP REORDERED ITEMS for Mar. 5-11, 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.
DC‘s Kamandi by Jack Kirby Omnibus was the top reordered hardcover and top reordered item by dollars. It went on sale March 7. In second was Marvel’s Infinity Gauntlet Box Hardcover Slipcase Set, which at $500 is the most expensive item seen in these charts this year; it was also a March 7 item.
The Infinity Gauntlet trade paperback was the top reordered softcover, which dislodged Black Panther Vol. 1: A Nation Under Our Feet from its position atop the charts.
The top reordered comic book was Terrifics #1 by DC, which shipped on February 28; it’s still available through Diamond, though its inventory is currently marked as low. Oblivion Song #1 from Image was the top March-shipping comic book reordered.
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. 5-11, 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’s command of the advance reorder charts increased this week, going from 15 of the 25 top spots to 17. The top advance-reordered comic book and top advance-reordered item overall was the regular edition of Amazing Spider-Man #798, which goes on sale April 4.
No hardcovers in the chart, but we did have the new printing of Black Panther: Shuri – Deadliest of the Species as the top advance-reordered graphic novel. Also an April 4 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 March 2018 and April 2018. A page has also been started with the first data from 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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