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!

Kirkman’s Die Die Die #1 tops reorders; Power Rangers, Batgirl lead advance reorders

The surprise-shipped Die Die Die #1 from Image Comics led comics shop reorders for the week ending July 22, pushing Marvel‘s Amazing Spider-Man #1 into second among reorders for comic books. Infinity Gauntlet again the top reordered softcover. The Avengers: Endless Wartime graphic novel from 2013 was part of a special sale, and was as a … Read more

Fantastic Four #1 dominates week’s advance reorder charts; Batman #50 again leads reorders

The reorder charts for the second week of July are out from Diamond Comic Distributors, and show that, again controversy or not, DC Comics‘ Batman #50 was the top reordered comic book last week by North American retailers. The Jonathan Hickman Avengers Omnibus Vol. 2 was the top hardcover. We’ve consolidated our reorder reports so that the charts appear on … Read more

Comics and graphic novel sales down 6.5% in 2017

According to new estimate by ICV2 and Comichron The comics and graphic novel market slipped 6.5% in 2017, with sharper declines in comic store and newsstand sales mitigated by stronger sales in the book channel and digital, according to a new joint estimate by ICv2’s Milton Griepp and Comichron’s John Jackson Miller. Total comics and … Read more

Batman #50 leads retailer reorders for first week of July

The reorder charts for the first week of July are out from Diamond Comic Distributors, and show that, controversial or not, DC Comics‘ Batman #50 was the top reordered comic book last week by North American retailers. Dark Nights Rising was the top hardcover; Infinity Wars was the top graphic novel. We’ve consolidated our reorder … Read more

June 2018 comics orders online: Justice League #1 sells 200k copies; Infinity Gauntlet year’s top graphic novel so far

June 2018 lacked the major anniversary issues that had propelled April and May to positive months, and was further up against June 2017, the second-best month of its year, with a couple of major hits. But while Justice League #1 and its 200,000 copies was no Action #1000 or Amazing Spider-Man #800, eight titles topped 100,000 … Read more

June sales off on fewer releases, but first up quarter since summer 2016; Justice League, Magic Order lead comics

June’s comic shop orders weren’t likely to turn the entire year positive, but they were enough to ensure that the second quarter was the first growth quarter, year-over-year, since the summer of 2016, during the heat of DC’s Rebirth launch. According to Comichron’s analysis of data released by Diamond Comic Distributors, retailers ordered $42.11 million … Read more