{"id":3709,"date":"2018-12-10T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-30T16:27:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T21:27:52","slug":"november-2018-comics-sales-estimates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/10\/november-2018-comics-sales-estimates\/","title":{"rendered":"November 2018 comics sales estimates online: Uncanny X-Men tops 176,000 copies in U.S., Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As reported here on Friday<\/a>, the momentum in Direct Market stores’ purchases of comics and graphic novels from\u00a0Diamond Comic Distributors<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>hit a bump in November due, in part, to significantly smaller slates from comics publishers. Click to visit our page for\u00a0November 2018 comics sales estimates<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Already at a disadvantage against November 2017, which had one more shipping week, November 2018 saw 121 fewer comics released, a drop of 22% and the smallest new comics slate since April 2016, before the DC<\/b> Rebirth event began. Marvel<\/b>‘s 79 new comic books was its lowest number of new releases since October 2015 \u2014 and DC’s 67 new comics were down from 95 the previous year. (Note that the number of items retailers had to choose from didn’t necessarily go down; all variants are merged in these calcuations.)<\/p>\n

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Despite the month’s drop overall and its smaller slate, Marvel actually had a better month than it did the year before; its overall dollar sales were up 3%. The publisher had the top comic book in dollar and unit sales in Uncanny X-Men<\/i> #1<\/a><\/b>, priced at $7.99; it had North American orders topping 176,000 copies. <\/span><\/p>\n

It was also a big month for Venom. In addition to the surprisingly strong performance of the character’s film in theaters, Marvel had the top graphic novel in Venom by Donny Cates Vol. 1<\/i><\/b> and a top-three new-comics finisher in Web of Venom: Carnage Born<\/i> #1<\/a>; it had sales topping 104,000 copies.\u00a0Amazing Spider-Man<\/i> #10<\/a><\/b> did better than #9<\/b> thanks to a J. Scott Campbell variant, seen at right.<\/p>\n

It was a much softer month for DC comparatively, year-over-year, largely because of the aforemetioned smaller slate, but also because November 2017 saw the launch of Doomsday Clock. It did have a significant launch in The Green Lantern<\/i> #1<\/a>, which shipped more than 113,000 copies to North America.<\/p>\n

November’s performance makes a return to a positive year saleswise in December more unlikely;
\nclick to see some of our scenarios for 2018’s final totals<\/a><\/b>. 2018 will join four other years in the last decade with sales either up by less than 2% or down by less than 2%; it will be a much smaller drop than we saw in 2017, regardless.<\/p>\n

Here are the vital statistics for the month:
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