John Jackson Miller 
The hardcover celebration, Action Comics: 80 Years of Superman releases today — and we know that retailers were already stocking up, as it was the top reordered item last week according to Diamond Comic Distributors‘ reorder charts, also out today. First we’ll look first at how the books already in stores fared, and move on to … Read more
Our comics sales estimates for March 2018 are now online, and they find a new comic as the bestseller of the year — at least until Action #1000 comes along in April with its reported orders exceeding 500,000-copies. Dark Nights Metal #6 wrapped up that series with orders of more than 187,500 copies, more than any … Read more
(Update: The estimated sales are now online.) Last week, I tweeted that the fact that March 2017 was a month with five New Comic Book Days instead of four meant that this March’s comics and graphic novel sales to the Direct Market would very likely be down in comparison, as it had one less Wednesday. … Read more
ComicsBeat‘s Heidi MacDonald reports from the Diamond Comic Distributors Retail Summit at C2E2 this afternoon that DC has announced that more than 500,000 copies of Action Comics #1000 have been ordered. The issue, with ten variant covers, celebrates the second title in North American comics to make the 1,000th copy mark, surpassed only by Dell‘s Four … Read more
In advance of the March sales charts, the final reorders and advance reorders placed with Diamond Comic Distributors during the month were released today. Let’s look first at how the books already in stores fared, and move on to the future: TOP REORDERED ITEMS for Mar. 26-Apr. 1, 2018 (in invoiced dollars) These are items that … Read more
A lot of data out this week about the comics business. Brian Hibbs has his fifteenth (!) annual Bookscan report at ComicsBeat, where he finds the top 750 graphic novels in the book channel stores the service surveys up 3.44% in units and down the same in dollars. The overall category sits at $302 million, … Read more