The record-setting Spawn #300 led September’s sales charts, as we noted on Friday, and we can now report our estimate that it sold nearly 262,300 copies into the North American comic shop market. Priced at $7.99, that puts the dollar value of the comics’ orders well over $2 million — which, coincidentally, is close to what … Read more
In September, Spawn matched the issue count of Cerebus — and while creator Todd McFarlane did not write and draw every issue of his title, as Dave Sim did with the latter, Spawn #300 (or, more specifically, the next issue) earned the title a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records under “longest-running creator-owned super-hero … Read more
As reported here on Friday, Absolute Carnage #1 led new comics sales by Diamond Comic Distributors to retailers in July — and our full estimates, just posted, place its sales at more than 233,000 copies to North America. That puts it ahead of the nearly 207,000 copies of Marvel Comics #1000. Together, they brought the publisher … Read more
The question going into August was whether Marvel Comics #1000, Absolute Carnage #1, and HoX/PoX — the biweekly alternating House of X/Powers of X combo from Marvel — would add enough to the month to offset the fact that August 2018 had an additional shipping week. They were not, though they went some … Read more
As reported here on Friday, House of X #1 led new comics sales by Diamond Comic Distributors to retailers in July — and our full estimates, just posted, place its sales at more than 185,000 copies to North America. We’re also able to report that Walking Dead #193, the surprise final issue, topped 111,000 copies … Read more
Value judgments are tough to avoid in describing economic activity, even when the changes under discussion are very small. One person’s “stable” is another person’s “stagnant.” Much depends on expectations: if you think comics stores should be proliferating like sandwich shops, then “flat” is a bad word. If you think over-fast growth often … Read more