John Jackson Miller

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. Be sure to follow Comichron on Twitter and Facebook, and check out our Youtube channel. You can also support us on Patreon!

Justice League, Batman, Venom lead reorders; first Local Comic Shop Day items appear

The Jim Lee/Scott Williams variant of Justice League #7 was the top reordered comic in last week in a Diamond chart laden with hardcover releases. Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale’s Batman Omnibus was the top reordered item by invoiced dollars. Marvel’s top reordered book comic was Old Man Logan Annual #1. Click to see the reorder charts … Read more

August 2018 comics sales estimates online: Fantastic Four #1 moves 369,000 copies

Marvel’s First Family returned in August, with nearly 369,000 copies of Fantastic Four #1 shipping to retailers in the United States and Canada. Click to see our comics sales estimates for August 2018. As reported here on Friday, August was a fourth growth month out of five, despite a dearth of new comics releases. Comics … Read more

Fantastic Four #1 leads August 2018 comics sales; market up 4%, Marvel up 22%

2017 truly was the summer of our discontent. The June-July-August stretch saw the worst year-over-year declines of any three month stretch in two decades, and August itself was down dramatically, despite a huge number of new comics releases. Marvel’s Secret Empire was ending, with multiple series wrapping up in advance of the publisher’s fall Legacy … Read more

Catwoman leads first October comics reorders; early reorder traffic for Thanos OGN

The first advance reorders for October-shipping comics are out from Diamond Comic Distributors. Last week’s top title was Stanley Lau‘s variant of Catwoman #4. The issue has a ship date of Oct. 10. The top Marvel was the new Magneto title, while November’s Thanos original graphic novel topped hardcover reorders. Our October sales chart preview … Read more

Heroes in Crisis leads advance reorders as August ends

DC’s Heroes in Crisis #1 by Tom King and Clay Mann was the top advance-reordered comic book by retailers during the last week of August; a variant appeared in first place, with the main edition in third. Second place was held by Die Die Die #3 from Image, with Marvel‘s Spider-Geddon #0 in fourth. (Click to see our September-so-far … Read more

Strong X-Men week as Return of Wolverine, Extermination lead comic shop reorders

A strong week for X-Men-related titles last week, according to Diamond Comic Distributors’ reorder data. Extermination #1 led reorders by dollar volume; the issue went on sale August 15. The top softcover for the week was Old Man Logan; the top hardcover, Batman by Grant Morrison Omnibus. Check out that and more reorder activity from … Read more