In the midst of the last comics recession in 2010, DC embarked upon a plan to cut page counts by two pages (from 22 to 20) in order to allow a price cut from $3.99 to $2.99. Much remarked upon at the time, it was not the only time price cuts had been employed as … Read more
Estimates have been calculated by Comichron for comic books shipped to North American retailers last month by Diamond Comic Distributors; click to see the estimates for November 2016. As mentioned here on Friday, it was a softer month for a number of reasons. The volume of new comics releases went down from October despite the … Read more
Publishers always look to November as a time for graphic novels, and that was the case this month in what is almost certainly record fashion: Diamond Comic Distributors shipped 436 new graphic novels in November 2016 — while on the periodical side, the market-leading publishers didn’t increase their output to take advantage of a fifth … Read more
The Comichron estimates are now available for comics and graphic novels shipped by Diamond Comic Distributors in October, and as reported here Friday, we saw a mild increase in overall sales during the month driven in part by a much larger slate of new items. Click to see the detailed comics sales estimates for October … Read more
Well, we thought we were done with it. After an absence from the sales rankings of more than a year, the repackaging service Loot Crate again in October vaulted an unlikely lead comic book atop Diamond Comic Distributors chart of best-selling comics. Boom Studios‘ Big Trouble in Little China/Escape from New York #1, in addition … Read more
Even as the Great Recession was raging, average comics cover prices continued to increase until 2010, when DC rolled back most of its line from $3.99 to $2.99. The move was, to paraphrase one insider, one of the most popular yet least financially successful moves the publisher had tried; even with the price drop, comics … Read more