As reported here on Friday, the momentum in Direct Market stores’ purchases of comics and graphic novels from Diamond Comic Distributors hit a bump in November due, in part, to significantly smaller slates from comics publishers. Click to visit our page for November 2018 comics sales estimates. Already at a disadvantage against November 2017, which had one more … Read more
2018 is going to come down to a photo finish. We already knew that November comics orders would come in behind those of November 2017, due to that month having an extra New Comics Day, bringing the year-to-date figure back into the red and making December the deciding factor. The question was how much December … Read more
Green Lantern and mutants led the last round of reorder reports from Diamond Comic Distributors before the Black Friday weekend. Among comic books, Green Lantern #1 led retail reorders for the last week before Thanksgiving; Uncanny X-Men #1 (which had one less week on the shelves) second. The X-Men Mutant Massacre Omnibus hardcover led the … Read more
As reported last week, comics and graphic novel orders through Diamond Comics Distributors ended October ahead for the year-to-date, thanks to one additional New Comic Book Day during the month. We also know the month benefited from particularly strong sales of middle-tier titles, thanks to Comichron estimates, just posted: click to see the comics sales … Read more
As predicted here, comics and graphic novel orders through Diamond Comics Distributors ended October ahead for the year-to-date, thanks to a stronger midsection of 2018 and one additional New Comic Book Day during the month. Retailers ordered $49.39 million in comics and graphic novels in October, up 8.4% year-over-year; year-to-date orders stand at $438.4 million, … Read more
An interesting batch of reorder data from Diamond Comic Distributors today: October reorders saw the Batman White Knight TPB climb to the top spot, after having placed second last week. Alex Ross‘s Marvelocity from Random House was the top reordered hardcover. Harley Quinn #52‘s foil edition was the top reordered comic. Click to see the charts for … Read more