by John Jackson Miller And the data for August 2007 is now up — bringing to an even 11 years the archives of estimates of Diamond Comics Distributors’ sales available here. A five-week month compared to a five ship week month from last year, August 2007 still managed improvements in all categories except for the … Read more
by John Jackson Miller The comics sales estimates for July 2007 are now online here at The Comics Chronicles. TOP 300 UNIT SALES 7.64 million copies, up 3% from last July 2007 YTD: 49.77 million copies, up 6% from 2006 YTD TOP 300 DOLLAR SALES $24.02 million, up 6% from last July 2007 YTD: $156.6 … Read more
by John Jackson Miller The June 2007 comics shop order totals have been posted; my estimates for individual titles can be found here. The detailed data: TOP 300 UNIT SALES6.93 million copies, down 1% from last June Q2: 21.83 million copies, up 5% from Q2 2006 2007 YTD: 42.13 million copies, up 7% from 2006 … Read more
by John Jackson Miller And now the May charts are online, he said redundantly. Many, many records broken or matched this month. One resource I’ll try to get up here one day is a record book of the highs and lows that I’ve observed. For example, the lowest unit sales ever recorded for the Top … Read more
by John Jackson Miller And my estimates of the Diamond sales for April are now online — sorry for the delay. Another strong growth month for the industry, helped considerably by the various Civil War trade paperback releases. It’s only the second month that Diamond’s Top 100 trade paperbacks topped $5 million in sales.
by John Jackson Miller I’m still working my way through getting more year-by-year data online, but there have been enough media requests in advance of Spider-Man 3 that I figured I’d go ahead and add one of the title pages that I intend to do, showing sales accoring to the Statements of Ownership across time. … Read more