John Jackson Miller 
(Update: The final estimate report is now online here.) The comics shop market enjoyed its best summer month in the Diamond Exclusive Era in dollar terms, ordering more dollars worth of comics and trade paperbacks in the month of July than it has in all but one month since 1997. Based on Comichron’s analysis of … Read more
Comics shop order charts for June 2013 has been released by Diamond Comic Distributors, and our estimates based upon them are now up at Comichron. Click to see the comics sales estimates for June 2013. Superman Unchained #1 led the market with first-month orders of more than 251,000 copies; the Combo Pack adds another 5,300. … Read more
The preliminary monthly sales report for June 2013 has been released by Diamond Comic Distributors, and it shows that comics shop orders for comic books, graphic novels, and collected editions for the first half of the year came in just a few thousand dollars shy of the quarter-billion dollar mark. A $500 million year is … Read more
Comichron specializes in the print comics business, not digital — and as I’ve noted many times before, the amount and quality of data about digital sales lags far behind what we know about print. Diamond releases a monthly report which can be converted into unit count estimates for print comics in the Direct Market; and … Read more
There may not have been as many blockbuster titles selling into the six figures in the month of May — just two, versus five last year — but the Direct Market still managed to eke out a slight increase against what was a very hard comparative to beat. Click to see the estimated comics sales … Read more
Last May was, as the just-posted Flashback column reminds us, a blockbuster — using attention from the Avengers film release and the first of the DC relaunch hardcovers to post the largest bottom line number, unadjusted for inflation, since at least 1994. That figure would be only eclipsed in October 2012 — and again … Read more