Marvel’s Secret Wars revival made a big splash in the comics market in May, moving more than 527,000 copies to comic shops in North America. That’s according to Comichron’s estimates for May 2015 comics sales based on information released by Diamond Comic Distributors. You can find the report here. That’s enough to place the issue … Read more
Marvel’s Secret Wars first topped the comics charts more than 30 years ago — and did so again in May 2015, according to preliminary sales reports released this morning by Diamond Comic Distributors. The event — along with Free Comic Book Day, attention from the second Avengers movie, and a boost from a repackager … Read more
Modern-era records fell all over the place last month in the comic shop market, according to Comichron’s analysis of data reported by Diamond Comic Distributors. Click to see the comics sales estimates for April 2015. Among the Diamond Era records that fell, or nearly fell: • Comics ordered (units): Retailers ordered 8.39 million copies of … Read more
Last year, April provided a big rebound from a weak winter in comics sales; this year’s winter was strong in comics shops, and its April was better still. Retailers ordered $56.72 million in comic books, graphic novels, and magazines in April, according to Diamond Comic Distributors, beating last October’s Diamond Era record by more than … Read more
The final sales report for last month is now out from Diamond Comic Distributors, and as reported here on Friday, the first quarter closed with some modest improvement overall versus the same period last year. Marvel‘s Princess Leia #1, the top-selling title, topped a quarter million copies. Click to see the sales estimates for comics … Read more
March closed the winter quarter on a mildly positive note in the comics industry, according to data released this morning by Diamond Comic Distributors. Comic shops ordered nearly $42 million in comics and graphic novels, up about 3% over last March, which like this one had four shipping weeks. Marvel’s relaunch of the Star Wars … Read more