by John Jackson Miller and T.M. Haley DC‘s raise-the-dead event comic book Blackest Night shipped in the last week of March, but interest in the Geoff Johns series was enough to make it the top comic book ordered by comics shops in the month, according to top-sellers lists released by Diamond Comic Distributors. The top-sellers … Read more
by John Jackson Miller and T.M. Haley Following the report on comics orders for February 2010, here’s a look back at what was going on in previous years… February 2009‘s top seller was once again Marvel’s Amazing Spider-Man #583, the top seller for 2009 with estimated Diamond year-end orders of 530,500 copies. Sales for … Read more
by John Jackson Miller and T.M. Haley Before last month, no comic book had sold for more than $1 million. Since then, there have been three. ComicConnect, which kicked off things last month with a $1 million sale of Action Comics #1 (the first appearance of Superman) announced today that it has sold a higher-graded … Read more
Just back from Midsouthcon, where we had some interesting panels on the past, present, and future of comics. So it’ll be a bit before I get all the pieces of the February 2010 report online — the Flashbacks section will be on the way in a bit, and the Overall sales estimate will be refined. … Read more
This time last year, the Obama inaugural issue of Amazing Spider-Man was doing something likely unprecedented for a single issue of a comic book by repeating in the top slot, two months in a row. That didn’t happen this time out, but we did have another repeat of sorts: DC’s Blackest Night, after a month … Read more
It’s a strange week when you can say a million dollars being paid for a comic book isn’t unexpected, but that’s exactly how it’s played out this week. When ComicConnect announced its private sale of Action Comics #1 for $1 million earlier this week, one industry observer I spoke with said it was likely timed … Read more