I mentioned here on Friday that, as in April, orders for DC‘s two “Button” issues of Batman and Flash would likely be split in reporting between the $3.99 lenticular and $2.99 standard-edition covers — and that posed the prospect that one or both of those issues would again edge past the reported top-seller, Marvel’s Secret Empire, once … Read more
February was another month in which a lot of comic books were shipped to the Direct Market at relatively little cost to retailers, although for a different reason than in January. That month, Marvel’s 10% minimum overship resulted in the largest number of comic books sent to market in any January since 1997. This time, … Read more
In the rules of golf, if a ball is lost in the woods, the player continues with a “provisional ball.” If the original ball is found within a limited time, the original is the one played; if not, the player takes a penalty and continues with the provisional ball as if it were the original. … Read more
This morning, Diamond Comic Distributors released its detailed report on comics and graphic novels ordered by North American comics shops in December, and here at Comichron we’ve completed our estimates based on it. Click to see our comics sales estimates for December 2016. I wrote yesterday about December and how its lackluster performance nonetheless brought … Read more
As projected here a ways back, comics shop orders of comic books, graphic novels, and magazines finished up for the year, just barely, after a fourth quarter that lost much of the momentum gained in a strong summer. That’s according to my preliminary analysis of retailer orders just released by Diamond Comic Distributors, which found … Read more
The final report on comics sales to the Direct Market will surface this week, but here’s a nice thing: whatever happens, the entire comics and graphic novel market will be up for 2016, yet again. That’s the nugget of news from Publisher’s Weekly today as turned up by The Beat: while sales of books were … Read more