With all sales from the year included, Marvel’s relaunched Star Wars #1 from January rocketed to the top spot in Comichron’s chart of the top-selling comic books of the 21st Century (thus far). The chart incorporates Comichron’s estimates of 2015 sales based on information released this week by Diamond Comic Distributors, as well as our … Read more
Best-seller for 1991 (and all time!) This is the week for end-of-year lists, but the comics bestseller list won’t be out for a week or so. So how about 20 old lists, instead — some seeing the light of day for the first time in years? December tends to be the time of year … Read more
One of the sections of the site that I haven’t been able to get to as often as I would like is the Vital Statistics section, with its graphics of comics sales across time in the comics shop market. In fact, as my writing schedule has grown busier, some of the graphics hadn’t been updated … Read more
When I launched The Comics Chronicles nearly three years ago, one of the major missions was to get all my earlier research into Diamond’s monthly comics sales online. Now, with the assistance of T.M. Haley, that mission is finally complete. Estimates from every month, from September 1996 forward, are now online. That’s 160 months of … 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
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