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 latest release, Star Trek: Discovery – Die Standing. 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!

Three Jokers #2 leads DC September unit sales, Detective #1027 leads dollars

Here’s stage two in what has turned out to be a process that’s evolving every month: we have our charts for DC comics ordered in September, along with our projected rankings for same. Once again, Joker and Batman dominated the list, with Death Metal pitching in. The process behind the creation of the DC reports … Read more

Venom, X of Swords lead September Diamond comics sales; market shares resume; full charts already online

In the second month since the return of sales charts for August 2020, the distributor carrying most of the comics released in North America, Diamond Comic Distributors, has announced its September 2020 top-sellers — and while comparative month-to-month and year-to-year sales statistics did not return, we did get market shares again — our first official … Read more

DC drops UCS six months into distribution deal; some shops unlikely to hit DC’s new minimums

And then there was one… again. Reports began appearing this morning that retailers had received messages from DC Comics that it would be ending its distribution relationship with UCS Comic Distributors, a sister firm to Midtown Comics, in favor of the other new distributor DC helped launch in April, Lunar Distribution, as of product shipping … Read more

Diamond August 2020 and our combined 2020 sales charts now online; DC sweeps top five

Diamond’s full charts for August 2020 are out — and so are ours! The Diamond charts are full top 500s with dollar rankings, though that category works best when it draws upon nonreturnable comics sold at regular discounts every month. Publisher relief efforts for shops, though welcome in all ways, have altered that dynamic some … Read more

Batman: Three Jokers leads DC orders in August by wide margin

With Diamond resuming its monthly Top 10 reports yesterday, we’re now proceeding with the next step in our August sales report: orders from DC’s distributors. The process behind the DC reports was discussed here. Not surprisingly, we project that Batman: Three Jokers #1 was the top comic book ordered by retailers buying from DC’s distributors, … Read more

Diamond charts resume with Venom, Thor, Maestro leading its August 2020 comics sales

They’re back — to a degree, anyway! This afternoon, Diamond Comics Distributors has released its first monthly comics Top Ten charts since March 2020, when the industry shut down due the Coronavirus pandemic. It’s also the first monthly Top 10 since DC Comics withdrew from Diamond at the end of June. Venom #27 by Donny … Read more