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!

Future Chart Watch: Batman Metal titles lead reorder lists

For purposes of our retroactive tracking, here are reorders and advance orders placed with Diamond Comic Distributors between November 13-19, 2017. TOP REORDERED ITEMS for November 13-19, 2017 (in dollars) These are items that have already shipped, but have been receiving additional orders. In most cases below, the items are in stock and so the … Read more

Future Chart Watch: Batman dominates reorder charts

For purposes of our retroactive tracking, here are reorders and advance orders placed with Diamond Comic Distributors between November 6-12, 2017. TOP REORDERED ITEMS for November 6-12, 2017 (in dollars) These are items that have already shipped, but have been receiving additional orders. In most cases below, the items are in stock and so the … Read more

October 2017 comics sales estimates: Metal #3 near 159k copies, four over 100k

October brought the restoration of many Marvel titles’ legacy numberings (as well as the creation of several legacy titles through the cobbling-together of multiple miniseries) as part of its Legacy event. The promotion, which required retailers to meet certain thresholds to order special lenticular covers, helped Marvel and the Direct Market’s orders increase 5% over … Read more

Metal, Legacy dominate October sales to comic shops; Here’s Negan pushes DM graphic novel category to first win in months

Earlier this week in advance of the release of the Diamond Comic Distributors preliminary sales report for October 2017, I tweeted that the same month last year would be very hard to beat, even with Marvel’s Legacy event and DC’s Dark Multiverse storyline underway. The second best month of 2016 in the Direct Market, October 2016 had … Read more

Future Chart Watch: Discounted hardcovers, Phoenix Resurrection top reorder charts

For purposes of our retroactive tracking, here are reorders and advance orders placed with Diamond Comic Distributors between October 30-November 5, 2017. TOP REORDERED ITEMS for October 30-November 5, 2017 (in dollars) These are items that have already shipped, but have been receiving additional orders. In most cases below, the items are in stock and … Read more

Where Bendis’ Marvel successes began: Ultimate Spider-Man, the complete postal sales record

With news everywhere today about writer Brian Michael Bendis‘s departure from Marvel to an exclusive multi-year contract with DC, Comichron presents a look back to the beginning of his run with the publisher. All the filings Marvel made with the United States Postal Service about Bendis’s flagship title can now be found here at Ultimate Spider-Man: The … Read more