John Jackson Miller 
Owing to the lower volumes the comics shop market sees in the winter, we have frequently observed here that a mildly good April is often enough to erase losses during a slow winter. In 2017, it’ll have to be a different month that does it, because April was off year-to-year more than any month in … Read more
Saturday, May 6 is Free Comic Book Day, the sixteenth observance of the comics industry’s official holiday; in recent years, many libraries have taken part, as well. I’ll be doing a FCBD event in the Chicago area at noon on Saturday at the Algonquin Area Public Library — and heading over at 3 to do … Read more
Every so often we post a new Title Spotlight here on Comichron, listing all the postal Statement of Ownership circulation data from the 500+ titles confirmed to have run forms with numbers — and every so often some event from the outside world moves to push a title to the head of the line. … Read more
Comics retailers in North America ordered nearly 114,000 copies of the $9.99 Amazing Spider-Man #25 in March, making it both a million-dollar item at full retail and the most expensive comic book ever to top the monthly sales charts. That’s according to Comichron’s estimates based on an analysis of the latest information released by … Read more
If you didn’t know a number of things about the comics market this past winter, looking at the comics shop market sales estimates for the first quarter would be extremely confusing. By the numbers, for example, fewer comics were shipped in five-shipping-week March, 7.47 million copies, than in either of the four-week months of January … Read more
Diamond Comic Distributors has released its full comics sales report for February 2017, and the Comichron estimates based on those sales figures are now online. The estimates now appear on our master page for February 2017 Comic Book Sales, and are sortable and searchable. As mentioned here Friday, February was another month in which a … Read more