In September, Marvel’s Return of Wolverine #1 became the tenth comic book in 2018 to ship more than 200,000 copies and the sixth to top 250,000 copies, according to our analysis of data released by Diamond Comic Distributors. By contrast, only three comics topped 200,000 copies in all of 2017, and only two were above … Read more
The recovery in the comics shop market gained steam in the third quarter of 2018. September comics and graphic novel orders rose 4% over the previous year, allowing the three-month period to close up 6%. Significantly better than the second quarter’s 1% win, the $137.5 million quarter was the best in dollar terms since the … Read more
No October-shipping comics made the first reorder list for the first week of October, so Heroes in Crisis #1 was the top reordered comic book. The Final Crisis 10th Anniversary Omnibus was the top reordered hardcover. The first Hellboy Omnibus was the #2 item overall in reorder dollars. X-Men: Black: Emma Frost #1 was the … Read more
The Jim Lee/Scott Williams variant of Justice League #7 was the top reordered comic in last week in a Diamond chart laden with hardcover releases. Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale’s Batman Omnibus was the top reordered item by invoiced dollars. Marvel’s top reordered book comic was Old Man Logan Annual #1. Click to see the reorder charts … Read more
Marvel’s First Family returned in August, with nearly 369,000 copies of Fantastic Four #1 shipping to retailers in the United States and Canada. Click to see our comics sales estimates for August 2018. As reported here on Friday, August was a fourth growth month out of five, despite a dearth of new comics releases. Comics … Read more
2017 truly was the summer of our discontent. The June-July-August stretch saw the worst year-over-year declines of any three month stretch in two decades, and August itself was down dramatically, despite a huge number of new comics releases. Marvel’s Secret Empire was ending, with multiple series wrapping up in advance of the publisher’s fall Legacy … Read more