Diamond Comic Distributors has released its initial sales report for November 2010, a month in which it appears that dollar sales on collected editions including TV-boosted Walking Dead jumped nearly 12%, while comics dollar sales dropped nearly 5%. Combined dollar sales were slightly up, by less than 1%. Last November was boosted in part by … Read more
by John Jackson Miller and Joyce Greenholdt We’ve added two magazines to our Title Spotlight section this week, but apart from their physical sizes and the fact that there are comics inside, they don’t have a thing in common but the staples. Warren Publishing released the first issue of Vampirella in 1969. Like its sister … Read more
Following the report on comics orders for October 2010, here’s a look back at what was going on in previous years… October 2009‘s top seller was DC’s Blackest Night #4, with first-month orders of 136,100 copies copies. By the end of the year, it would have orders of more than 140,200 copies, making it the … Read more
In place of this week’s Flashback Friday, a much more expansive look back on the past. With the help of T.M. Haley, I’m pleased to announce the expansion of monthly sales rankings into a tumultuous stretch of history: 1995 and 1996, the period of the Exclusivity Wars in the comic-book Direct Market. I’ve written … Read more
by John Jackson Miller and Joyce Greenholdt Within a year or so of Jack Kirby’s Challengers of the Unknown getting their own title in 1958, DC Comics introduced several new teams of non-super-powered adventurers: Cave Carson, Rip Hunter, and the Sea Devils. The latter two got their own titles in the early ’60s, though neither … Read more
by John Jackson Miller, with special thanks to T.M. Haley One of the events you may have missed from Comic-Con International in 2010 was that the Guinness Book of World Records added Marvel Comics to its latest edition for publishing the best-selling comic book of all time: X-Men Vol. 2, #1, with its five variant … Read more