The graphics section here on the site — including comics market shares across time and unit and dollar comics order trends, both recent and for the entire Diamond Exclusive Era — have been updated. I didn’t intend to let this slide for so long, but other projects intervened. In any event, an addition this time … Read more
The full report will follow later — an exceptionally busy month here — but the April 2009 sales charts are online here. As expected, they report a significant rebound, helping the market to recover some of the ground lost in the first part of the year. There are also some other factors of interest, about … Read more
Well, not really — but resuming the process of posting prior months of data on the site, all of the Diamond estimates for 2003 are now online, starting with January. This completes all of the months for which Diamond Final Orders are known, which Diamond Comic Distributors began releasing in February 2003. But 2003 is … Read more
What’s the best-selling comic book in the last dozen years? What’s the worst-selling top-seller? There’s a reference for that now — as the Comichron “book of records,” long-delayed, is finally beginning on site, with the Diamond Era Records page now online. Covering April 1997 to present, it’s a first step — and it includes, beyond … Read more
In advance of the January 2009 figures being posted, the sales estimates for January 1999, February 1999, and March 1999 have been added to the main Comichron site. Return to a time when the Dead Quarter was indeed fairly dead — with Kitchen Sink folding at the end of the previous year and sales dropping … Read more
And the posting of earlier months continues — this time with the full year 2004 and then back to fill in the end of 2003 for good measure. This is the year with Identity Crisis and “Avengers Disassembled,” culminating in December with New Avengers #1. February 2004 marked the first month that Diamond released indexed … Read more