John Jackson Miller 
As projected here a ways back, comics shop orders of comic books, graphic novels, and magazines finished up for the year, just barely, after a fourth quarter that lost much of the momentum gained in a strong summer. That’s according to my preliminary analysis of retailer orders just released by Diamond Comic Distributors, which found … Read more
The final report on comics sales to the Direct Market will surface this week, but here’s a nice thing: whatever happens, the entire comics and graphic novel market will be up for 2016, yet again. That’s the nugget of news from Publisher’s Weekly today as turned up by The Beat: while sales of books were … Read more
Top comics shop seller: Justice League #5 (DC) 138,600 copies first month, at least 148,500 in 2012 January 2012 was the best January since 2008 for comics orders, thanks to the ongoing DC relaunch, which was in its fifth month. Justice League #5 was the top seller, with nearly 138,600 copies sold in its … Read more
Since 1960 when the U.S. Postal Service began requiring publications that shipped Second Class (now Periodical Class) to include circulation data in their annual Statements of Ownership, Management, and Circulation, comics researchers have been collecting them; I currently have 3,854 out of a projected 4,100, with the remaining balance mostly in Charlton and Harvey titles … Read more
In the midst of the last comics recession in 2010, DC embarked upon a plan to cut page counts by two pages (from 22 to 20) in order to allow a price cut from $3.99 to $2.99. Much remarked upon at the time, it was not the only time price cuts had been employed as … Read more
Estimates have been calculated by Comichron for comic books shipped to North American retailers last month by Diamond Comic Distributors; click to see the estimates for November 2016. As mentioned here on Friday, it was a softer month for a number of reasons. The volume of new comics releases went down from October despite the … Read more