John Jackson Miller 
January 2022 estimates are online. Scorched #1 from Image sold over 257,000 copies to retailers in the first monthly list since the majority of Marvel’s distribution went to Penguin Random House. Total Direct Market orders likely $45 million: see the charts here. For the latest batch of changes, we consolidated lists into a single page, … Read more
A huge tranche of data available now at Comichron! First, we have the Top 1000 comics and graphic novels from Diamond on our 2021 page. News since Friday: with variants merged, House of Slaughter #1 moved into first by 29 copies. A photo finish or a dead heat — it’s really just a snapshot in … Read more
With Diamond in another sales chart pause due to November’s ransomware attack, we’ve again drawn on our retail initial order dataset to fill in the blanks, starting with our October all-industry chart, led by Boom’s House of Slaughter #1. Find the report here. Like our charts from previous pauses, they’re rankings only — but because … Read more
We’ve added our projections for DC comics orders to Diamond’s data for September, and a strong month got stronger. Comic books alone topped 8.78 million copies for $40 million, increases of 16% and 20% respectively over Sept. 2019. Charts: https://bit.ly/Sep21Comics We don’t see much inflation in new comics prices, at least not yet: the average … Read more
The August 2021 sales estimates are now online for the Direct Market (including DC) and also for August 2021 just at Diamond marking a full 25 years that I’ve been doing the monthly sales reports, both here and in its previous incarnations. It’s another month that easily beat its pre-pandemic equivalent from 2019, and includes … Read more
July 2021 Diamond comics sales estimates are out! X-Men #1 and Moon Knight #1 topped 200k copies in a $35.5 million month for the Top 300 comics and Top 300 graphic novels. That’s up 32% over the $27 million for the non-DC Top 300s in July 2019. Find July’s chart here. To clarify the comparatives: … Read more