The comics sales estimates for July 2015 are now online here at Comichron, completing the picture reported Friday of a slightly off month for new comics orders, influenced at least partially by a lower number of new comic book releases. There were seven titles with sales over 100,000 copies, including the relaunched Archie #1 which … Read more
The comics industry in North America moved into positive territory for 2014 with a record-setting month of July, according to Comichron’s analysis of data released by Diamond Comic Distributors. Click to see the sales estimates for comics ordered in July 2014. A much larger number of new comic book and graphic novel releases for the … Read more
Archie Andrews has cheated the calendar for many years, having been a teenager since his comics debut in the 1940s, but death finds him — at least in an alternate reality—in the upcoming Life With Archie #36, according to CBR reports today. “Wein’s Law” — named for Len Wein, the writer who coined it — … Read more
One of the few major publishers still shipping comics to subscribers Periodical Class — and thus filing Statements of Ownership with sales figures — is Archie. Seeing the Statements for it is always particularly useful, as Archie owes more of its sales to the newsstand and thus direct market numbers are not very meaningful. As … Read more