Throughout the last few years, we’ve been reporting the slow and steady climb of comic-book cover prices — but we’ve always also been able to say that the most common cover price for comic books offered by Diamond Comic Distributors has remained $2.99, even in months when the average cover price was climbing as much … Read more
by John Jackson Miller and T.M. Haley DC‘s raise-the-dead event comic book Blackest Night shipped in the last week of March, but interest in the Geoff Johns series was enough to make it the top comic book ordered by comics shops in the month, according to top-sellers lists released by Diamond Comic Distributors. The top-sellers … Read more
Just back from Midsouthcon, where we had some interesting panels on the past, present, and future of comics. So it’ll be a bit before I get all the pieces of the February 2010 report online — the Flashbacks section will be on the way in a bit, and the Overall sales estimate will be refined. … Read more
This time last year, the Obama inaugural issue of Amazing Spider-Man was doing something likely unprecedented for a single issue of a comic book by repeating in the top slot, two months in a row. That didn’t happen this time out, but we did have another repeat of sorts: DC’s Blackest Night, after a month … Read more
by John Jackson Miller and T.M. Haley Despite having the best-selling direct market comic book of the decade after reprints figured in — the Obama appearance in Amazing Spider-Man #583 — last January was a pretty bad month in comparison with January 2008. So this January didn’t have a lot to live up to — … Read more
When I launched The Comics Chronicles nearly three years ago, one of the major missions was to get all my earlier research into Diamond’s monthly comics sales online. Now, with the assistance of T.M. Haley, that mission is finally complete. Estimates from every month, from September 1996 forward, are now online. That’s 160 months of … Read more