June 2017 comics estimates: Average comic offered tops $4 for first time; our 250th consecutive monthly report!

The sales estimates for comics ordered by North American comics shops in June 2017 have been computed, and we have a new most-ordered comic book of the year: out in advance of the Spider-Man: Homecoming movie, Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man #1 clocked in with orders of nearly 225,000 copies. Click to see the comics … Read more

May 2017 comics sales estimates online; combining orders again gives Batman top slot

I mentioned here on Friday that, as in April, orders for DC‘s two “Button” issues of Batman and Flash would likely be split in reporting between the $3.99 lenticular and $2.99 standard-edition covers — and that posed the prospect that one or both of those issues would again edge past the reported top-seller, Marvel’s Secret Empire, once … Read more