In advance of the larger releases of its December and 2012 year-end sales tables, Diamond Comic Distributors has released a sneak peek at the topline figures for the year. Comic shop orders for comic books and graphic novels reportedly increased by 14.72% over 2011. This would bring the year in at nearly $475 million — … Read more
Diamond Comic Distributors has released its lists of Top Comics and Top Trade Paperbacks and graphic novels for 2011, and as I did the last two years I have combined that information with my own estimates of aggregated sales of comics and trades throughout the year and other information to project longer lists, with … Read more
And in advance of the release of the larger lists for 2011, Diamond has released the Top 10 Comic Books and Trade Paperbacks of the year, plus the market shares. The Top 10 Comics for the year are not surprisingly dominated by the DC relaunch: RANK DESCRIPTION PRICE PUBLISHER 1 Justice League #1 $3.99 DC … Read more
Diamond Comic Distributors has released the full report for last month, and it completes the picture for the year for comics sales to North American comics shops. Click to see the sales estimates for December 2011. As reported here on Friday, sales of periodical comics to comics shops went up during the year: sales … Read more
Best-seller for 1991 (and all time!) This is the week for end-of-year lists, but the comics bestseller list won’t be out for a week or so. So how about 20 old lists, instead — some seeing the light of day for the first time in years? December tends to be the time of year … Read more
Yesterday, Diamond released its Top 500 comics and trades, extended on Comichron here to the Top 1000s in each case; this post described the process. Today, in line with Diamond’s monthly release of supplemental lists of items sold by “non-Premier” (or back-of-the-catalog) publishers Diamond has added the top 200 comics and top 200 trades from … Read more