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Diamond November 2008 data rollout continues

And Diamond now has posted more charts on its website: the Top 100 comics for November, the Market Shares, the Top 50 Manga, and something called the Top 50 Independent Comics chart. I am told that the full charts are still yet to come. The manga are, as in previous such lists, not indexed. The … Read more

Tags 2008 sales, Diamond monthly reports

Ultimatum #1 tops list in “early peek” at Diamond November list

About a week before Diamond Comic Distributors would customarily release its Top 300 Comics and Top 100 Trade Paperbacks lists for November, it has announced the Top 10 sellers in each category and the top five publisher market shares. Elissa Lynch at Diamond has confirmed for The Comics Chronicles that this list is preparatory to, … Read more

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2004 monthly sales figures now online

And the posting of earlier months continues — this time with the full year 2004 and then back to fill in the end of 2003 for good measure. This is the year with Identity Crisis and “Avengers Disassembled,” culminating in December with New Avengers #1. February 2004 marked the first month that Diamond released indexed … Read more

Tags 2000s sales, Diamond monthly reports, Website

October 2008 comics set sales records

The October 2008 comics sales estimates are online at The Comics Chronicles, and it turned out to be a record-setting month in a number of categories. The Top 300 Comics Dollar sales were the highest they’ve been since the beginning of the Diamond Exclusive era, in April 1997. Likewise, the Top 300 Comics Plus Top … Read more

Tags 2008 sales, Diamond monthly reports, State of the Market

Average retail prices for comic books, 1996-2008

This is something I’ll be setting up in table form along with some other pricing information on Comichron, but here are the average prices of comics in the Diamond Top 300 back to the beginning of the Exclusive Era. The first column is the flat average (all prices divided by 300), while the second column … Read more

Tags Comics prices, State of the Market

October 2008: Secret Invasion #7 in top slot

It will be a little while before I can attend to estimates, but the Diamond charts for October have been released (story at Newsarama). Usually in October I can make a good projection as to the overall year, but 2008 versus 2007 so far is looking like a very close-run thing, so we’ll have to … Read more

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