Our full comics and graphic novel sales estimates for June 2019 are now online — and we see there’s a lot of competition for the second-place comic book for the year overall. In April, War of the Realms #1 became the second-bestselling comic book of the year so far; in May, DCeased #1 did the … Read more
We can say two things for sure about the first half of 2019: DC released a lot fewer comic books, and Marvel came close to taking every shelf space its rival vacated. The result was that Marvel beat its own dollar sales performance from the first half of 2018, though not by as much as all … Read more
Reports began circulating the evening of July 3 regarding Mad magazine (the latest is that new content is ending and that the title is leaving newsstands), so I’ve responded by doing something that’s been long overdue: I’ve posted the full postal-data sales history of the title since 1960 in our Title Spotlights section. The main reason … Read more
Tim Burton‘s Batman movie came out 30 years ago this weekend, so we’ve just posted the June 1989 sales charts for both Diamond Comic Distributors and Capital City Distribution. See what was selling by clicking the links: June 1989: Capital City Sales Charts June 1989: Diamond Sales Charts Capital was the second largest distributor, with … Read more
A month after War of the Realms #1 became the second-bestselling comic book of the year so far, DCeased #1 did the same thing, with retailers ordering more than 242,000 copies. Click to see our estimates for comics shipping in May 2019. Several of the internal benchmarks showed growth year-over-year, with the 50th, 200th, 400th, and … Read more
May’s orders of comic books and graphic novels in the comics shop market were higher than in any month since last October, but not quite good enough to beat May 2018, which had Amazing Spider-Man #800 among other blockbusters in the mix. Retailers ordered almost exactly $47 million in comic books and graphic novels from … Read more