{"id":3608,"date":"2019-06-10T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-30T16:12:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T21:12:28","slug":"may-2019-comics-sales-estimates-dceased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/10\/may-2019-comics-sales-estimates-dceased\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2019 Comics Sales Estimates: DCeased #1 ships 242,000 copies, five titles above 100k"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Comichron2019-05Final-1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"322\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"379\" data-original-width=\"753\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p>A month after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/sch\/Modern-Age-1992-Now\/900\/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_nkw=War+of+the+Realms+1+2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><b><i>War of the Realms<\/i> #1<\/b> <\/a>became the second-bestselling comic book of the year so far, <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/sch\/Modern-Age-1992-Now\/900\/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_nkw=DCeased+1+2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><i>DCeased<\/i> #1<\/a><\/b> did the same thing, with retailers ordering more than 242,000 copies. Click to see our\u00a0<b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/2019\/2019-05.html\">estimates for comics shipping in May 2019<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Several of the internal benchmarks showed growth year-over-year, with the 50th, 200th, 400th, and 500th place comics all seeing increases versus the books in the same slot in May 2018. Click to see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comichron.com\/vitalstatistics\/50thplace.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><b>benchmark tables<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p>As mentioned here Friday, DC&#8217;s 25-cent <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/sch\/Modern-Age-1992-Now\/900\/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_nkw=Year+Of+The+Villain+1+2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><i>Year of the Villain<\/i> #1<\/a> <\/b>was counted toward its unit market share, which is part of why the unit gap between DC and Marvel was narrow. Our analysis shows the market share tables appear to been calculated based on a data set that included as many as a million copies that do not appear in the regular comics charts; the DC issue likely accounts for most of them.<\/p>\n<p>All the year&#8217;s bestsellers had reorders that charted in the month:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Comichron2019toDate-1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"322\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"379\" data-original-width=\"753\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i><b>Detective Comics <\/b><\/i><b>#1000<\/b> picked up a couple more thousand copies. Click to see the sales for the <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/2019.html\">year to date<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month after War of the Realms #1 became the second-bestselling comic book of the year so far, DCeased #1 did the same thing, with retailers ordering more than 242,000 copies. Click to see our\u00a0estimates for comics shipping in May 2019. Several of the internal benchmarks showed growth year-over-year, with the 50th, 200th, 400th, and &#8230; <a title=\"May 2019 Comics Sales Estimates: DCeased #1 ships 242,000 copies, five titles above 100k\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/10\/may-2019-comics-sales-estimates-dceased\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about May 2019 Comics Sales Estimates: DCeased #1 ships 242,000 copies, five titles above 100k\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,17],"class_list":["post-3608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2019-sales","tag-diamond-monthly-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6198,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608\/revisions\/6198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}