Our January 2020 comics sales estimates are now online. Wonder Woman #750 moved more than 167,000 copies in North America, with the series leading the market for its first time ever. That was about a third of what Action and Detective #1000 did, but WW‘s sales were strong enough to more than double the dollars spent … Read more
Longtime readers of Comichron know that the first quarter of the year is smaller than the other three in dollar terms — and that January is second only to December when it comes to months where year-to-year comparisons have a way of getting messy. For the latter, it’s mostly for the same reason as December: … Read more
We’ve just posted our estimates for December Top 500 comics and graphic novel orders. Tom King’s Batman #85 finale issue entered the Top 5 on combined orders. Fourth quarter up 10%, best quarter in 2019 and biggest quarterly year-over-year rise since 2015. John Jackson MillerComichron founder John Jackson Miller has tracked the comics industry for … Read more
Led by Doomsday Clock #12 and the House of X/Powers of X hardcover, comics shop orders of comic books and graphic novels from Diamond Comic Distributors closed 2019 out strongly, up 9.2% year-over-year in dollars in December. That’s a better-than-expected total, due to a revision Diamond’s made since its end-of-year report came out last Friday. … Read more
The debut issue of New Mutants moved more than 138,000 copies to stores in North America as part of Marvel‘s X-Men relaunch in November. The month saw increases in both units and dollars for bot the comics and the graphic novel category. Click to see the full comics sales estimates for November 2019. The split … Read more
In 2018, a recovery underway in the comic-book retail market gave out at the end of the year, with DC drastically cutting back its number of comic-book releases; ultimately, the year just missed being an improvement over the previous one. The same will not be true of 2019, as strength in Marvel‘s X-Men line and a … Read more