In 2018, a recovery underway in the comic-book retail market gave out at the end of the year, with DC drastically cutting back its number of comic-book releases; ultimately, the year just missed being an improvement over the previous one. The same will not be true of 2019, as strength in Marvel‘s X-Men line and a … Read more
The debut of X-Men #1 moved nearly 256,000 copies to stores in North America in October, helping to propel the Direct Market to its best month in three years. Six comics sold over 100,000 copies. Click to see the full comics sales estimates for October 2019. Additionally, the 300th place title sold 6,699 copies, a Diamond … Read more
Memories in the comics hobby are often short, a condition Comichron exists to help address. With a poor year for the comics shop market in 2017 and with much of 2018-19 spent bobbing along, neither gaining nor losing much ground, it’s easy to forget that the decade of the 2010s has been a strong one … Read more
The record-setting Spawn #300 led September’s sales charts, as we noted on Friday, and we can now report our estimate that it sold nearly 262,300 copies into the North American comic shop market. Priced at $7.99, that puts the dollar value of the comics’ orders well over $2 million — which, coincidentally, is close to what … Read more
In September, Spawn matched the issue count of Cerebus — and while creator Todd McFarlane did not write and draw every issue of his title, as Dave Sim did with the latter, Spawn #300 (or, more specifically, the next issue) earned the title a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records under “longest-running creator-owned super-hero … Read more
As reported here on Friday, Absolute Carnage #1 led new comics sales by Diamond Comic Distributors to retailers in July — and our full estimates, just posted, place its sales at more than 233,000 copies to North America. That puts it ahead of the nearly 207,000 copies of Marvel Comics #1000. Together, they brought the publisher … Read more