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October 2010 Flashbacks: X-Factor #1, Infinite Crisis #1, and more

Following the report on comics orders for October 2010, here’s a look back at what was going on in previous years… October 2009‘s top seller was DC’s Blackest Night #4, with first-month orders of 136,100 copies copies. By the end of the year, it would have orders of more than 140,200 copies, making it the … Read more

Tags Exclusivity Wars, Flashbacks

The Lost Year: Exclusivity War months from 1995-1996 now online

  In place of this week’s Flashback Friday, a much more expansive look back on the past. With the help of T.M. Haley, I’m pleased to announce the expansion of monthly sales rankings into a tumultuous stretch of history: 1995 and 1996, the period of the Exclusivity Wars in the comic-book Direct Market. I’ve written … Read more

Tags 1990s sales, Capital City Distribution, Exclusivity Wars, Heroes World

August 2010 Flashbacks: Comic top-sellers from the past

Following the report on comics orders for August 2010, here’s a look back at what was going on in previous years…   August 2009‘s top seller was DC’s Blackest Night #2, with first-month orders of 145,600 copies. By the end of the year, it would have orders of more than 161,400, making it the fifth-best-selling … Read more

Tags Exclusivity Wars, Flashbacks

July 2010: Comics orders down, trade paperback dollars up

by John Jackson Miller and T.M. Haley In 1991, Marvel Comics launched a new “adjectiveless” X-Men title; the original 1963 X-Men series had been known as Uncanny X-Men for several years. That new X-Men issue, with its five covers, released into the superheated speculator market of the early 1990s and became the best-selling comic book … Read more

Tags 2010 sales, Diamond monthly reports, Exclusivity Wars, Flashbacks

June 2010 Flashbacks: McFarlane Spider-Man #1 at 20

Following the report on comics orders for June 2010, here’s a look back at what was going on in previous years…   June 2009‘s top seller was DC’s Batman and Robin #1, with estimated first-month Diamond orders of 168,500 copies. It would ultimately be the fourth best-selling comic book of 2009, with reorders bringing it … Read more

Tags Exclusivity Wars, Flashbacks, Heroes World, Todd McFarlane

The last months of the two-distributor era

When Marvel took its direct market comics distribution to its own distributor, Heroes World, in 1995, it was no longer possible to look at a single distributor’s rankings to see a real top-seller list. From then until August 1996, the only public sales charts that reconciled all publishers’ titles were based on retailer reports, such … Read more

Tags 1990s sales, Diamond monthly reports, Exclusivity Wars, Heroes World, Marvel
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