In advance of the January 2009 figures being posted, the sales estimates for January 1999, February 1999, and March 1999 have been added to the main Comichron site. Return to a time when the Dead Quarter was indeed fairly dead — with Kitchen Sink folding at the end of the previous year and sales dropping … Read more
Following up on yesterday’s estimate placing the direct-market January sales of the Barack Obama Amazing Spider-Man #583 in the mid-300,000 copy range, Corey Henson has noted the presence of second printings in large numbers in a supermarket stand with no other comics. While the comics spinner rack is the way most of us remember comics … Read more
Beginning the release of information for January 2009, Diamond has released its market shares and top sellers for the month — and as expected, Amazing Spider-Man #583, the Barack Obama issue, led the charts: 1 ) Amazing Spider-Man #583 • $3.99 • Marvel Comics2) Dark Avengers #1 • $3.99 • Marvel Comics3) Final Crisis #6 … Read more
The Diamond January 2009 sales data will be along next week, and Amazing Spider-Man #583 will almost certainly be #1 for the month — as some retailers have said, the Barack Obama inauguration day issue helped put what is usually a slow month overall into positive territory. Its role in the present day aside, it … Read more
Kiel Phegley’s account of the ICV2 forum at New York Comicon included an interesting comment by Dave Roman, cartoonist and associate editor at Nickelodeon magazine: “Most people I know and that I’ve talked to don’t read books more than once. There is that collector mentality, but that’s a very niche comic book mentality that has … Read more
With much of the comics world’s attention focuesed on New York for the Comicon, another mainstream media report about comics shops has appeared on the other side of the continent. Only this one, from the Seattle Times, involves the chain Comic Stop and presents a more hopeful outlook. Obama did indeed save January, according to … Read more