The debut of X-Men #1 moved nearly 256,000 copies to stores in North America in October, helping to propel the Direct Market to its best month in three years. Six comics sold over 100,000 copies. Click to see the full comics sales estimates for October 2019. Additionally, the 300th place title sold 6,699 copies, a Diamond … Read more
Memories in the comics hobby are often short, a condition Comichron exists to help address. With a poor year for the comics shop market in 2017 and with much of 2018-19 spent bobbing along, neither gaining nor losing much ground, it’s easy to forget that the decade of the 2010s has been a strong one … Read more
The record-setting Spawn #300 led September’s sales charts, as we noted on Friday, and we can now report our estimate that it sold nearly 262,300 copies into the North American comic shop market. Priced at $7.99, that puts the dollar value of the comics’ orders well over $2 million — which, coincidentally, is close to what … Read more
In September, Spawn matched the issue count of Cerebus — and while creator Todd McFarlane did not write and draw every issue of his title, as Dave Sim did with the latter, Spawn #300 (or, more specifically, the next issue) earned the title a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records under “longest-running creator-owned super-hero … Read more
As reported here on Friday, Absolute Carnage #1 led new comics sales by Diamond Comic Distributors to retailers in July — and our full estimates, just posted, place its sales at more than 233,000 copies to North America. That puts it ahead of the nearly 207,000 copies of Marvel Comics #1000. Together, they brought the publisher … Read more
The question going into August was whether Marvel Comics #1000, Absolute Carnage #1, and HoX/PoX — the biweekly alternating House of X/Powers of X combo from Marvel — would add enough to the month to offset the fact that August 2018 had an additional shipping week. They were not, though they went some … Read more