While this September had one fewer shipping weeks than last September, comics sales nonetheless bested their performance from a year ago, according to a preliminary report issued this morning from Diamond Comic Distributors. Comichron estimates that comics ships in North America ordered $46.33 million in comic books, graphic novels, and magazines in the month of … Read more
The August 2016 sales estimates are now online, marking a full 20 years that I’ve been doing the monthly sales reports, both here and in its previous incarnations. It’s a whopper of a month, showing us some numbers that we haven’t seen since back in the earliest days of my estimates. I’ll get to some … Read more
Since 1998, Diamond Comic Distributors has never shipped more than 10 million comic books to comics shops in a single month. That changed in August, as DC‘s “Rebirth” resulted in shipments of 10.26 million comics to retailers in North America. [UPDATE 9/19: The final estimates are out! Click for our August 2016 comics sales analysis … Read more
A number of publishers carried by Diamond Comic Distributors have dabbled with accepting returns from comics shops over the years; DC, in particular, has embraced it more aggressively. With the returnable “Rebirth” titles sending the number of comics ordered per month skyward this summer, some have asked what the real, final impact is of comics … Read more
The DC “Rebirth” event with its returnable $2.99 releases resulted in a boom for comics unit sales in July 2016, according to Comichron’s analysis of data released by Diamond Comic Distributors. Retailers ordered 8.58 million copies of the Top 300 comics in the month, eclipsing the 17-year high set last month — and a whopping … Read more
DC‘s Rebirth franchise allowed it to best Marvel in market share in July 2016 for the first time in nearly three years, according to new statistics released today by Diamond Comic Distributors. DC led Marvel in total orders of comics, graphic novels, and magazines in by a little over 1%, 35.36% to 34.20%. That’s in … Read more