Here’s a look at the Decade in Review, a year-by-year glance back at the trends shaping comics shop orders. It’s mostly been a decade of growth, with downturns in 2010-11 and 2017-18. PRICES UP, SALES DOWN. Summer new comics sales were the worst since 2001; only one issue after July topped 100,000 copies. DC reversed its … Read more
The debut issue of New Mutants moved more than 138,000 copies to stores in North America as part of Marvel‘s X-Men relaunch in November. The month saw increases in both units and dollars for bot the comics and the graphic novel category. Click to see the full comics sales estimates for November 2019. The split … Read more
In 2018, a recovery underway in the comic-book retail market gave out at the end of the year, with DC drastically cutting back its number of comic-book releases; ultimately, the year just missed being an improvement over the previous one. The same will not be true of 2019, as strength in Marvel‘s X-Men line and a … Read more
It was with shock and sadness I read last night about the untimely passing of Tom Spurgeon, whose The Comics Reporter website has been on our resource list here at Comichron since day one. Tom and I were the same age, and both sort of in the second generation of staffers at the respective publications … Read more
The debut of X-Men #1 moved nearly 256,000 copies to stores in North America in October, helping to propel the Direct Market to its best month in three years. Six comics sold over 100,000 copies. Click to see the full comics sales estimates for October 2019. Additionally, the 300th place title sold 6,699 copies, a Diamond … Read more
Memories in the comics hobby are often short, a condition Comichron exists to help address. With a poor year for the comics shop market in 2017 and with much of 2018-19 spent bobbing along, neither gaining nor losing much ground, it’s easy to forget that the decade of the 2010s has been a strong one … Read more