John Jackson Miller

As described here on Friday, the Direct Market slowdown accelerated into July, as North American comic shop orders could not keep up with the blistering pace set by DC’s Rebirth a year before, according to our analysis based on data released by Diamond Comic Distributors. Click to see our comics sales estimates for July 2017. … Read more

The pace of comics and graphic novel orders by North American comics shops worsened in July, according to data released today by Diamond Comic Distributors. Shipments for comic books, graphic novels, and magazines only reached a little over $40.76 million. That’s down more than 19% from last year’s blockbuster month for DC, when the publisher … Read more

The sales estimates for comics ordered by North American comics shops in June 2017 have been computed, and we have a new most-ordered comic book of the year: out in advance of the Spider-Man: Homecoming movie, Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man #1 clocked in with orders of nearly 225,000 copies. Click to see the comics … Read more

Last June was the biggest month in comics in 20+ years, thanks to Rebirth and Civil War II — and the fifth week giveth, the fifth week taketh away. Pick your explanation, but the totals were very definitely down in June 2017, according to a report issued this morning by Diamond Comic Distributors. Comichron’s analysis … Read more

I mentioned here on Friday that, as in April, orders for DC‘s two “Button” issues of Batman and Flash would likely be split in reporting between the $3.99 lenticular and $2.99 standard-edition covers — and that posed the prospect that one or both of those issues would again edge past the reported top-seller, Marvel’s Secret Empire, once … Read more