June 2018 lacked the major anniversary issues that had propelled April and May to positive months, and was further up against June 2017, the second-best month of its year, with a couple of major hits. But while Justice League #1 and its 200,000 copies was no Action #1000 or Amazing Spider-Man #800, eight titles topped 100,000 … Read more
The Comichron estimates are now available for comics and graphic novels shipped by Diamond Comic Distributors in October, and as reported here Friday, we saw a mild increase in overall sales during the month driven in part by a much larger slate of new items. Click to see the detailed comics sales estimates for October … Read more
Well, we thought we were done with it. After an absence from the sales rankings of more than a year, the repackaging service Loot Crate again in October vaulted an unlikely lead comic book atop Diamond Comic Distributors chart of best-selling comics. Boom Studios‘ Big Trouble in Little China/Escape from New York #1, in addition … Read more
Marvel’s Secret Wars revival made a big splash in the comics market in May, moving more than 527,000 copies to comic shops in North America. That’s according to Comichron’s estimates for May 2015 comics sales based on information released by Diamond Comic Distributors. You can find the report here. That’s enough to place the issue … Read more
Marvel’s Secret Wars first topped the comics charts more than 30 years ago — and did so again in May 2015, according to preliminary sales reports released this morning by Diamond Comic Distributors. The event — along with Free Comic Book Day, attention from the second Avengers movie, and a boost from a repackager … Read more
In baseball, many of the statistics of the 1990s must be viewed with caution, as they’re part of the “Steroid Era.” Comics had its own Steroid Era in the early 1990s, in the sense that orders were inflated by an unprecedented number of retail accounts that had been opened on easy credit terms by the … Read more