As reported here on Friday, House of X #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 185,000 copies to North America. We’re also able to report that Walking Dead #193, the surprise final issue, topped 111,000 copies … Read more
Value judgments are tough to avoid in describing economic activity, even when the changes under discussion are very small. One person’s “stable” is another person’s “stagnant.” Much depends on expectations: if you think comics stores should be proliferating like sandwich shops, then “flat” is a bad word. If you think over-fast growth often … Read more
Our full comics and graphic novel sales estimates for June 2019 are now online — and we see there’s a lot of competition for the second-place comic book for the year overall. In April, War of the Realms #1 became the second-bestselling comic book of the year so far; in May, DCeased #1 did the … Read more
We can say two things for sure about the first half of 2019: DC released a lot fewer comic books, and Marvel came close to taking every shelf space its rival vacated. The result was that Marvel beat its own dollar sales performance from the first half of 2018, though not by as much as all … Read more
A month after War of the Realms #1 became the second-bestselling comic book of the year so far, DCeased #1 did the same thing, with retailers ordering more than 242,000 copies. Click to see our estimates for comics shipping in May 2019. Several of the internal benchmarks showed growth year-over-year, with the 50th, 200th, 400th, and … Read more
May’s orders of comic books and graphic novels in the comics shop market were higher than in any month since last October, but not quite good enough to beat May 2018, which had Amazing Spider-Man #800 among other blockbusters in the mix. Retailers ordered almost exactly $47 million in comic books and graphic novels from … Read more