Continuing the look at what came before June 2009 — when Batman & Robin #1 topped the charts with approximately 168,500 copies ordered by comics shops through Diamond… June 2008‘s top seller was Marvel’s Secret Invasion #3, with first-month orders of approimately 175,700 copies in the direct market. Check out the sales chart here. June … Read more
A lot of things put off finishing the calculations this month — half the industry is in San Diego, and I’ve busy promoting my new projects (both my new Star Wars ebook and news of my new Mass Effect series were released this week). As it is, I’ll be doing the usual comics-sales-through-history notes in … Read more
Diamond Comic Distributors released its top-seller charts reporting its sales to comics retailers in North America for the month of June today, and the June charts now appear on Comichron, along with some initial data massaging. (Publisher names have been identified, average prices have been calculated, and links have been established to Amazon sales rankings … Read more
The Diamond comics rankings and estimates for 1997 are now finally online here with the addition of pages for October, November, and December 1997. It’s a period that saw major drops year-over-year against some pretty big events — November 1997 unit and dollar sales were off more than a quarter (!) versus the Superman wedding … Read more
Wall Street reports often speak of “market leadership” in tracking intraday rallies and slides; what’s happening with the big issues often drives the market. On the new comics racks, market leadership counts for even more — instead of thousands of stocks, we’re looking at a few hundred new issues each month. And as we’ve seen, … Read more
Diamond Comic Distributors has released its comics sales charts for May 2009, and while the actual estimates with copy counts will follow here shortly, you can see from the link that there’s an interesting change to the chart. Within the chart itself, Marvel’s New Avengers #53 led the list; there isn’t a new #1 until … Read more