by John Jackson Miller With Spider-Man 3 approaching fast, I have gotten a number of requests for yearly aggregate data in chart form. For quick reference, I’ve added the following to the main Yearly Reports page: Overall Market Dollars (estimated range) Overall Diamond Comics, Trade Paperback, and Magazine Sales And for each of the 12 … Read more
by John Jackson Miller And I now have the Top 300 Comics sales estimates and the aggregate sales figures for March 2007 online here. My analysis article, along with the trade paperback data, appears at the bottom. A note about this data and timing, as my reports will be handled a little differently than others you may … Read more
by John Jackson Miller And the first of the Monthly Sales charts is now online here, starting with February 2007. The following report was originally published on CBGXtra: After a strong January, the comics industry went right ahead and did it again, turning out a February nearly as strong as the five-week month before it, … Read more
by John Jackson Miller Thanks for visiting Comichron, alternately known as the Comics Chronicles (either spelling will get you to the site). Having worked in comic professionally for may years, I’m really looking at Comichron as a chance to both reclaim the “hobby” element of my comics-collecting life — while providing a location for similarly interested folks … Read more
by John Jackson Miller Saying that the first months of the year are no longer the “dead quarter” they once were in comics is no longer news — but the industry’s mammoth increases in January 2007 seem to qualify, according to analysis of the sales reports released by Diamond Comic Distributors on February 16. Diamond’s sales … Read more
by John Jackson Miller The comics industry completed its sixth consecutive year of sales increases in December, surpassing 2005’s sales by $37 million overall, according to my analysis of the sales reports released by Diamond Comic Distributors on January 15. See the charts here. Increases for the year came in all sales categories — with … Read more