I realized there was still one section yet to be restored from the previous incarnation of the site — only, it wasn’t really a section then, and it wasn’t how I wanted to present it. The Yearly Comics Sales section presents rankings of comics sales figures reported in postal Statements of Ownership — but that’s … Read more
And now the other half of 2005 is online, starting with January. January is an odd month when it comes to the comparatives, as the Top 100 Trade Paperbacks only began being reported in February 2004. Forty-seven months online now, 98 to go. John Jackson MillerComichron founder John Jackson Miller has tracked the comics industry … Read more
If you’re wondering what the initial comics-shop sales were for All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder, wonder no more. The second half of 2005 is now online at The Comics Chronicles, starting with July 2005. Now less than nine years of Diamond-era sales to be posted. It actually gets a little easier going … Read more
And we’re marching ahead — by marching backwards. Now online are all the charts from 2006, beginning with January 2006 and running to December 2006. Return with us to what was a pretty good year for comics, sales-wise — the year of both Infinite Crisis and Civil War. It also marked the start of the … Read more
The new site has sped the restoration of pages to the point that now, we’re back where we were, and then some. Now online are the Yearly Diamond (and Heroes World) Overviews, summing all the reports the distributors put out in each individual year. So you can start with the 1996 Comics Sales Market Summary … Read more
And beginning with January 2007, the sales charts for 2007 have all been reposted — along with trade paperback charts and multi-year comparatives. Much more to come! John Jackson MillerComichron founder John Jackson Miller has tracked the comics industry for more than 25 years, including a decade editing the industry’s retail trade magazine; he is … Read more