by John Jackson Miller The June 2007 comics shop order totals have been posted; my estimates for individual titles can be found here. The detailed data: TOP 300 UNIT SALES6.93 million copies, down 1% from last June Q2: 21.83 million copies, up 5% from Q2 2006 2007 YTD: 42.13 million copies, up 7% from 2006 … Read more
by John Jackson Miller And now the May charts are online, he said redundantly. Many, many records broken or matched this month. One resource I’ll try to get up here one day is a record book of the highs and lows that I’ve observed. For example, the lowest unit sales ever recorded for the Top … Read more
by John Jackson Miller And my estimates of the Diamond sales for April are now online — sorry for the delay. Another strong growth month for the industry, helped considerably by the various Civil War trade paperback releases. It’s only the second month that Diamond’s Top 100 trade paperbacks topped $5 million in sales. John … Read more
by John Jackson Miller And I now have the Top 300 Comics sales estimates and the aggregate sales figures for March 2007 online here. My analysis article, along with the trade paperback data, appears at the bottom. A note about this data and timing, as my reports will be handled a little differently than others you may … Read more
by John Jackson Miller And the first of the Monthly Sales charts is now online here, starting with February 2007. The following report was originally published on CBGXtra: After a strong January, the comics industry went right ahead and did it again, turning out a February nearly as strong as the five-week month before it, … Read more
by John Jackson Miller Saying that the first months of the year are no longer the “dead quarter” they once were in comics is no longer news — but the industry’s mammoth increases in January 2007 seem to qualify, according to analysis of the sales reports released by Diamond Comic Distributors on February 16. Diamond’s sales … Read more