The Dark Knight struck again in November, with the first issue of the revival of Frank Miller’s 1980s classic take on Batman selling more than 440,000 copies into the Direct Market. That’s according to Comichron’s estimates based on charts released this morning by Diamond Comic Distributors. Click to see the estimated sales for comics shipped … Read more
Frank Miller’s Dark Knight returned again in November, giving DC the top slot on a new comic book chart otherwise dominated by Marvel, according to a report released today by Diamond Comic Distributors, Comichron projects the month’s orders of new comics, graphic novels, and magazines amounted to $52 million, up nearly 6% over last November, … Read more
The final sales report for October is now out from Diamond Comic Distributors, and the sales estimates have been calculated here at Comichron. There’s a problem upstream from us at the moment so we’ve temporarily posted the sales figures at the bottom of this post. (Update: Service has apparently been restored: you can click here … Read more
Marvel swept the Top 10 new comics titles in the first month of its “All-New, All Different” relaunch but it wasn’t enough to top last October’s record sales month, which had an additional shipping week to boot. Retailers ordered $50.73 million in new comic books, graphic novels, and magazines in October according to Comichron’s analysis … Read more
The third quarter in the comic-book Direct Market closed off about 3% versus the same quarter in 2014, according to data released by Diamond Comic Distributors. Click to see Comichron’s estimates for comics ordered in September.) That 3% amounts to a drop of about $4 million in orders for the quarter, to $141 million. Marvel’s … Read more
The ordering slowdown for periodical comic books in advance of the Marvel relaunch continued in September, according to preliminary data released today by Diamond Comic Distributors. (UPDATE: The September estimates are now online here.) Comics dollar orders were down 19.6% year-to-year and graphic novel orders were up 12.5%, netting out to an overall drop of … Read more