by John Jackson Miller and Joyce Greenholdt This week’s Title Spotlight is shining on DC Comics’ Metal Men series from the ’60s. The Metal Men were created for a last-minute filler feature in Showcase #37-40 in 1962, and the characters proved popular enough for DC to give them their own bimonthly series the following year. … Read more
Having had some time to digest the numbers from Diamond’s wave of October data — and prompted by the helpful findings of an analysis by ICV2 — I’ve taken another look to see what the additional data means when it comes to those comics ranking beneath 300th place. As ICV2 notes, the new Diamond data … Read more
A week ago, I posted an analysis of Diamond Comic Distributors‘ Top 300 Comics list for September — and my assertion that the number of lower-ranking comics constituted sales of increasing importance. I had also observed throughout the year that my “Overall Comics Sales” model, which integrates complete publisher sales data with Diamond’s market shares … Read more
by John Jackson Miller and Joyce Greenholdt We’ve added several new titles to the Title Spotlights section today, and we’re hoping to make some regular updates to the section in the future. This week we added circulation statements for a number of titles for Marvel Comics’ 2099 imprint from the 1990s. The imprint re-imagined the … Read more
My report earlier this week on the September 2010 sales of comics through Diamond detailed an increasing problem: that the Top 300 comics were providing less and less of the overall picture, and actually showing the industry as worse off than my calculations of its overall size were finding. With today’s release of the top … Read more
Following the report on comics orders for September 2010, here’s a look back at what was going on in previous years… September 2009‘s top seller was DC’s Blackest Night #3, with first-month orders of 140,700 copies copies. By the end of the year, it would have orders of more than 161,400 copies, making it the … Read more