John Jackson Miller 
Marvel‘s Secret Wars #8 was the top-selling comic book in the comic shop market in December, according to information that Diamond Comic Distributors released today. As suggested by the bottom line projection in our end-of-year post, retailers ordered $52.9 million worth of comic books, graphic novels, and magazine in December, up a considerable 21.85% over … Read more
The comics market’s growth accelerated in 2015, with a strong finish to the year helping to negate a weaker third quarter, according to Comichron’s analysis of end-of-year data released by Diamond Comic Distributors. Comics retailers ordered more than $579 million in comic books, graphic novels, and magazines from Diamond in 2015, beating last year’s total … Read more
Given that much of my professional comics and fiction output has been associated with Star Wars, it’s perhaps surprising that I haven’t gotten around to doing a circulation spotlight on the original 1977 Marvel series — especially since I’ve had all the Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation postal forms from the title on hand … Read more
The Dark Knight struck again in November, with the first issue of the revival of Frank Miller’s 1980s classic take on Batman selling more than 440,000 copies into the Direct Market. That’s according to Comichron’s estimates based on charts released this morning by Diamond Comic Distributors. Click to see the estimated sales for comics shipped … Read more
Frank Miller’s Dark Knight returned again in November, giving DC the top slot on a new comic book chart otherwise dominated by Marvel, according to a report released today by Diamond Comic Distributors, Comichron projects the month’s orders of new comics, graphic novels, and magazines amounted to $52 million, up nearly 6% over last November, … Read more
The final sales report for October is now out from Diamond Comic Distributors, and the sales estimates have been calculated here at Comichron. There’s a problem upstream from us at the moment so we’ve temporarily posted the sales figures at the bottom of this post. (Update: Service has apparently been restored: you can click here … Read more