Comics shop order charts for June 2013 has been released by Diamond Comic Distributors, and our estimates based upon them are now up at Comichron. Click to see the comics sales estimates for June 2013. Superman Unchained #1 led the market with first-month orders of more than 251,000 copies; the Combo Pack adds another 5,300. … Read more
The preliminary monthly sales report for June 2013 has been released by Diamond Comic Distributors, and it shows that comics shop orders for comic books, graphic novels, and collected editions for the first half of the year came in just a few thousand dollars shy of the quarter-billion dollar mark. A $500 million year is … Read more
There may not have been as many blockbuster titles selling into the six figures in the month of May — just two, versus five last year — but the Direct Market still managed to eke out a slight increase against what was a very hard comparative to beat. Click to see the estimated comics sales … Read more
Last May was, as the just-posted Flashback column reminds us, a blockbuster — using attention from the Avengers film release and the first of the DC relaunch hardcovers to post the largest bottom line number, unadjusted for inflation, since at least 1994. That figure would be only eclipsed in October 2012 — and again … Read more
Diamond Comic Distributors has released the main wave of comics sales statistics for April 2013 comics sales, and the estimates are now online here at Comichron. Click to see Comichron’s estimates for April 2013 comics sales. As reported here on Friday, North American comics shop retailers ordered just over $41 million worth of comic books … Read more
North American comics shop retailers ordered just over $41 million worth of comic books and graphic novels in April 2013, an increase of more than 18% over the same month last year, according to data released today by Diamond Comic Distributors. That figure brings the year-to-date total to $163 million, up more than $25 million … Read more