January 2010 comics sales steady, market up slightly overall

by John Jackson Miller and T.M. Haley Despite having the best-selling direct market comic book of the decade after reprints figured in — the Obama appearance in Amazing Spider-Man #583 — last January was a pretty bad month in comparison with January 2008. So this January didn’t have a lot to live up to — … Read more

Siege leads off January 2010 top sellers list

As a new decade dawned for comics shops, Marvel’s Siege #1 was first off the UPS truck — and first in the preliminary rankings released by Diamond Comic Distributors for January orders. Comics shops ordered more copies of the new Marvel event title in a month that did not see a new Blackest Night issue, … Read more