Diamond monthly reports

Diamond Comic Distributors has released the full charts for December, completing the picture of sales by comics shops for the year. Click to see the Comichron estimates for December 2012 comics sales. As described here on Friday, Amazing Spider-Man #700 was the best-seller, and as projected it narrowly topped 200,000 copies. (As before, previous publisher … Read more

Comic-book stores in North America ordered nearly $40 million in comic books and bound editions in December 2012, according to Comichron‘s anaylsis of data released this morning by Diamond Comic Distributors. This is an increase of 15.74% over last year, and it confirms our estimate for 2012’s overall sales earlier this week; retailers ordered $474.6 … Read more

The full tables reporting the orders of comics shops in North America were released this morning by Diamond Comic Distributors, and as reported here on Friday, they depict a market that is maintaining most of its momentum heading into the end of the year. With the “Marvel Now” releases — led by All-New X-Men #1 … Read more

Comics shops in North America ordered nearly $41 million worth of comic books, hardcover graphic novels, and trade paperback collections in November, using a spate of new Marvel first issues to keep pace with last year’s clip. According to preliminary data released this morning by Diamond Comic Distributors, the four-week month ended just a few … Read more

  (REVISED: See below) The comic-book industry’s momentum continued unabated into October, and in fact, grew, setting yet another record in a year of record-setting performances, according to preliminary data released this morning by Diamond Comic Distributors. Comics shops in North America ordered more than $47 million in comic books, graphic novels, and  trade paperbacks … Read more