Our comics sales estimates for March 2018 are now online, and they find a new comic as the bestseller of the year — at least until Action #1000 comes along in April with its reported orders exceeding 500,000-copies. Dark Nights Metal #6 wrapped up that series with orders of more than 187,500 copies, more than any … Read more
(Update: The estimated sales are now online.) Last week, I tweeted that the fact that March 2017 was a month with five New Comic Book Days instead of four meant that this March’s comics and graphic novel sales to the Direct Market would very likely be down in comparison, as it had one less Wednesday. … Read more
The comics sales estimates for February 2018 based on Diamond Comic Distributors’ reports are now online here, and the information adds some insights to what was already reported here on Friday. It is, firstly, a weak February of the sort we have often seen, with few high-profile releases — particularly when it comes to … Read more
With no new Doomsday Clock issue in the offing, February was a slow month in comics shops, according to Comichron‘s analysis of data released this morning by Diamond Comic Distributors. But whereas comics and graphic novels were equally responsible for 2017’s overall shortfall, last month graphic novels were the main culprit, with periodicals nearly, but not quite, … Read more
Normally, ongoing titles see a drop from December to January — and a much more sizable one between second and third issues. But Doomsday Clock #3 saw its orders from December decline by less than a thousand copies, shipping nearly 158,000 copies to comic shops in January. That’s according to our estimates for sales of comic … Read more
A fifth shipping week in January helped reduce the year-to-year drop in Direct Market sales to the smallest dropoff we’ve seen since last spring, just under 2%, according to information released today by Diamond Comic Distributors. We’ve been reporting reorders and advance reorders for January comics at Comichron for weeks now; now, we finally have a … Read more