Throughout the last few years, we’ve been reporting the slow and steady climb of comic-book cover prices — but we’ve always also been able to say that the most common cover price for comic books offered by Diamond Comic Distributors has remained $2.99, even in months when the average cover price was climbing as much … Read more
A lot of things put off finishing the calculations this month — half the industry is in San Diego, and I’ve busy promoting my new projects (both my new Star Wars ebook and news of my new Mass Effect series were released this week). As it is, I’ll be doing the usual comics-sales-through-history notes in … Read more
The Diamond June 2009 order estimates are still in process, as I get pieces into place — but an increase in periodical sales year-over-year seems likely, along with a coincident drop in dollar orders for Diamond’s top-selling trade paperbacks. This is a combination that has occured in individual months before, and in one year overall … Read more
The Top 300 comics and Top 300 trade estimates for November are now online, subject, as you’ll learn in a moment, to change. As noted earlier here, Diamond made a number of changes in the rollout of its charts this month, including the very important increase from reporting the Top 100 trade paperbacks to the … Read more
This is something I’ll be setting up in table form along with some other pricing information on Comichron, but here are the average prices of comics in the Diamond Top 300 back to the beginning of the Exclusive Era. The first column is the flat average (all prices divided by 300), while the second column … Read more