After some delay associated with implementation of yet more new procedures, our projections for DC comics sales to retailers in October 2020 are now online. Batman: Three Jokers #3 completed the trifecta, with the title leading for its third consecutive month. Noteworthy is the fact that DC only released 49 new comics books in October … Read more
The portion of the comics market represented by Diamond Comic Distributors continued its post-shutdown recovery in October, with the distributor shipping what Comichron projects to be nearly 5.5 million comic books, graphic novels, and magazines to North American accounts, including a little over 5.1 million comic books. Click to see the full Top 500s for … Read more
Last week, Diamond released its Top 500 lists, as well as its market shares — and between the two, plus our own research, we’ve been able to generate something we haven’t had here for six months: unit sales estimates for comics. They appear first on the Diamond charts for September 2020 page, which preserves the … Read more
Here’s stage two in what has turned out to be a process that’s evolving every month: we have our charts for DC comics ordered in September, along with our projected rankings for same. Once again, Joker and Batman dominated the list, with Death Metal pitching in. The process behind the creation of the DC reports … Read more
In the second month since the return of sales charts for August 2020, the distributor carrying most of the comics released in North America, Diamond Comic Distributors, has announced its September 2020 top-sellers — and while comparative month-to-month and year-to-year sales statistics did not return, we did get market shares again — our first official … Read more
And then there was one… again. Reports began appearing this morning that retailers had received messages from DC Comics that it would be ending its distribution relationship with UCS Comic Distributors, a sister firm to Midtown Comics, in favor of the other new distributor DC helped launch in April, Lunar Distribution, as of product shipping … Read more