John Jackson Miller 
As you might expect from a site with a name like The Comics Chronicles, we pay special attention to the calendar — and thus took special note of the fact that last month was one of those one-in-28-year Februaries with five Wednesdays. This is why, last month, we cautioned that just as this January was … Read more
Between the new movie and the lawsuit, Ghost Rider is much in the news, and The Comics Chronicles has received a number of requests for historic data. Complete Statement of Ownership data for three series have been posted here: Ghost Rider Vol. 1 (1973-83), Ghost Rider Vol. 2 (1990-98), and Ghost Rider 2099 (1994-96). The … Read more
As in past years, Brian Hibbs has gotten access to the actual sales for trade paperbacks and graphic novels in 2011 as recorded by Bookscan, a service of Nielsen. I encourage readers to take a look at Hibbs’s article and see how the figures break down. Bookscan draws upon cash-register data from many member bookstores … Read more
I’ve been adding quite a lot of Statement of Ownership data to the Comichron database for an update coming soon; the list of titles I have information for in 1960 has more than doubled in length since my initial post here. It’s all coming soon, but for an early taste, I’ve added a full Title … Read more
In comics, the month of January has often stolen the life from whatever good things were going on in the trade, saleswise, so it is usually good enough when we can say that the first month of the year didn’t foul the nest. This January, however, seems to have been a good one for the … Read more
On a day in which the United States celebrated a very good jobs report and the Dow Jones Industrial Average traded at its highest level since the financial crisis began, it is perhaps fitting that that we have a report for comics sales in January that doesn’t make people sick. It would, in fact, … Read more