March is a ways off, but we already know a few things about the comics sales charts then. First, this March has four shipping weeks versus five last year, so it’ll face a bit of a challenge there; our extra week this quarter falls in January. We also know that the big ticket for the … Read more
Earlier this month, MAD magazine did something it’s done regularly every year since the 1950s: it ran its Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation for the year, this one in issue #549. It did so as well at the end of 2016, in #543 — and while that year’s form was notable for being the … Read more
I know from experience that people are frequently looking to see the charts for future months before they’re released; until now, those requests have gone to a redirect page. But we’ve seen enough reorders and advance from the past few weeks from Diamond Comic Distributors to be able to collate some information onto pages for … Read more
Something we’ve never done before on Comichron is look at the reorder and advance reorder charts released by Diamond Comic Distributors. We do so now, looking at the report released today, December 20, covering orders placed between December 11 and 17. These charts have been available from Diamond since at least the 1990s, when they … Read more
DC’s Doomsday Clock #1 took both the first and second spots on the new comics sales charts in November, its sales divided almost exactly in half between its lenticular and standards editions. Comichron estimates that North American retailer orders for the two versions combined for nearly 239,000 copies, making the issue one of the year’s … Read more
Doomsday Clock and its continuing Batman-related event during the Justice League movie’s release month combined to give DC its strongest month of 2017 by far in November 2017, outstripping its previous November (which also had five shipping weeks) by 21%. That’s a major beat, and a reversal after a long string of comparatives against Rebirth … Read more