With Apple’s iPad tablet product launching, much speculation surrounds what, if any, long-lasting impact the product and its like will have on the comic-book industry. Several efforts have been underway for some time to deliver comics electronically, and the addition of the new system has unsurprisingly generated much conversation. The old issues about hard-copy-versus-virtual-copy are … Read more
With more complete publisher information available, we’ve revised the final estimates for comics, trade paperback, and magazine orders placed through Diamond in December 2009 — and thus, for the entire year: OVERALL DIAMOND SALES (including all comics, trades, and magazines) December 2009: $35.67 million Versus 1 year ago this month: -10% Versus 5 years ago … Read more
With the aid of research assistant par excellence T.M. Haley, we now have all the months of 2002 online here at The Comics Chronicles, as well as, for the first time, Diamond’s end of year list for the Top 100 Comic Books and Trade Paperbacks for the year, which differs some from the monthly reports … Read more
by John Jackson Miller and T.M. Haley Following up on our report on direct market sales for 2009, Diamond has released Top 500 charts for both comics and trade paperbacks for the year. Those charts appear here on Comichron, along with our own estimates for what each of those titles likely sold. “Comic book and … Read more
by John Jackson Miller and T.M. Haley Following the report on comics orders for December 2009, here’s a look back at what was going on in previous years… December 2008‘s top seller was Marvel’s Secret Invasion #8, ending the series with orders through Diamond Comic Distributors of approximately 152,408 copies. Unit sales for December 2008 … Read more
Comic book sales showed some resilience against the recession in 2009, based on The Comics Chronicles analysis of data reported by Diamond Comic Distributors. We’re still bringing together all the information needed for December, so the figures posted here may require some further adjustment, but it appears from our initial estimates of comics ordered in … Read more