by John Jackson Miller and T.M. Haley With Diamond Comic Distributors soon to announce its 2009 year-end sellers and market shares, The Comics Chronicles is also beginning to post some of Diamond’s year-end tables from previous years, beginning with 2007. More years will be soon to follow. Some years have a full 300 entries; earlier … Read more
Diamond Comic Distributors has started its roll-out of sales charts for the final month of 2009, and Blackest Night has again topped the list of comics ordered by comics shops. The sixth issue of the series joins several other DC “Blackest Night” spinoffs on the Top 10 list, seen here. DC also topped the trade … Read more
And now, here at the end of the year, a last little bit of comics history: Disney shareholders approved the purchase of Marvel Entertainment for $4.3 billion. The Associated Press reports that Marvel shareholders will receive $30 per share in cash, plus 0.745 Disney shares for every Marvel share they own. Given Disney’s value, the … Read more
The Barack Obama commemorative issue of Amazing Spider-Man was the comic book ordered most by comics shops in North America in the decade of the 2000s, according to analysis by The Comics Chronicles. Comichron looked back at 119 months of comic-book orders reported by Diamond Comic Distributors, the exclusive retail agent for the largest publishers … Read more
Following the report on comics orders for November 2009, here’s a look back at what was going on in previous years… November 2008‘s top seller was Marvel’s Ultimatum #1, with first-month orders through Diamond Comic Distributors of approximately 114,200 copies. It was the slowest month of the year, unit-sales wise; Marvel’s Secret Invasion had ended … Read more
Comic book orders in direct market gained some ground in November, led by strength in the periodical market, according to The Comics Chronicles analysis of data released by Diamond Comic Distributors. The estimates appear here. This is the first month for we can do year-to-year comparisons on the full Top 300 Trade Paperbacks, which Diamond … Read more