I had mentioned before that, while looking at things like how many copies the #1 title each month had sold over time (and that data appears here) was interesting, we could learn some more by looking at the changes across the entire distributor Top 300 Comics lists. To show what I mean, here’s a quick … Read more
Continuing the look at what came before March 2009 — when Dark Avengers #3 topped the charts with approximately 96,600 copies ordered by comics shops through Diamond… March 2008‘s top seller was Dark Tower: The Long Road Home #1, with orders of approimately 123,800 copies in the direct market. Check out the sales chart here. … Read more
The March 2009 sales estimates are now online here — later than planned due to various other projects, which also mean that some of the usual historical analysis will be staggered over the next little while as well. Trade paperback sales (both frontlist and backlist) brought March 2009 almost equal in overall dollars to March … Read more
The March 2009 analysis is still coming together, and will be along here soon. The market seems to be holding up better than the general retail economy, though the top book of the month does appear to have nudged under the 100,000-copy threshhold. That said, this is an event deserving of some wider context, which … Read more
March 2009 will be remembered in comics history annals as the month of the Watchmen movie release; and, indeed, the trade paperback again appeared at the top of the trade charts, according to the preliminary report on comics sales to retailers released today by Diamond Comic Distributors. The basic information appears in this posting, but … Read more
The direct market for comic book sales began the most tumultuous period in its history the last week of 1994 when Marvel Entertainment announced its purchase of Heroes World Distribution, then the third largest distributor for comic books in North America. It did not announce then that Heroes World would be taking over Marvel’s distribution … Read more