With Diamond in another sales chart pause due to November’s ransomware attack, we’ve again drawn on our retail initial order dataset to fill in the blanks, starting with our October all-industry chart, led by Boom’s House of Slaughter #1. Find the report here. Like our charts from previous pauses, they’re rankings only — but because … Read more
We’ve added our projections for DC comics orders to Diamond’s data for September, and a strong month got stronger. Comic books alone topped 8.78 million copies for $40 million, increases of 16% and 20% respectively over Sept. 2019. Charts: https://bit.ly/Sep21Comics We don’t see much inflation in new comics prices, at least not yet: the average … Read more
The August 2021 sales estimates are now online for the Direct Market (including DC) and also for August 2021 just at Diamond marking a full 25 years that I’ve been doing the monthly sales reports, both here and in its previous incarnations. It’s another month that easily beat its pre-pandemic equivalent from 2019, and includes … Read more
July 2021 Diamond comics sales estimates are out! X-Men #1 and Moon Knight #1 topped 200k copies in a $35.5 million month for the Top 300 comics and Top 300 graphic novels. That’s up 32% over the $27 million for the non-DC Top 300s in July 2019. Find July’s chart here. To clarify the comparatives: … Read more
I knew it would happen: like magic, I would leave for my first convention and the Diamond charts, absent since last October, would return with no warning. I was literally at the gate when the report arrived — and I was so sure they wouldn’t that I didn’t bring my laptop. I was able to … Read more
June 2021 looks to have been a colossal month for periodical comics, according to Comichron’s projected rankings for comics initial orders, just posted. Venom #35 led a five-week month slate that was the largest yet since the pandemic began. Find the June charts here. We counted 406 new comics overall and nearly 1,000 new variants … Read more