{"id":3744,"date":"2018-10-15T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-30T16:33:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T21:33:07","slug":"september-2018-comics-sales-estimates_15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/15\/september-2018-comics-sales-estimates_15\/","title":{"rendered":"September 2018 comics sales estimates online: Return of Wolverine #1 ships 260k copies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In September, Marvel’s Return of Wolverine<\/i> #1<\/a><\/b> became the tenth comic book in 2018 to ship more than 200,000 copies and the sixth to top 250,000 copies, according to our analysis of data released by Diamond Comic Distributors.<\/b> By contrast, only three comics topped 200,000 copies in all of 2017, and only two were above a quarter-million. Click to see the comics sales estimates for September 2018<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n

As reported here on Friday, the recovery in the comics shop market gained steam<\/b><\/a> in the third quarter of 2018, as September comics and graphic novel orders rose 4% over the previous year, allowing the three-month period to close up 6%. Significantly better than the second quarter’s 1% win, the $137.5 million quarter was the best in dollar terms since the fourth quarter of 2016. In all, orders during the past six months were up $9 million over the same period in 2017. The $45.18 million month of September was up $1.6 million, meaning that the year-to-year loss piled up this winter was cut in half for the third month in a row.<\/p>\n

Graphic novels were a big winner in the month, up 12% year-over-year thanks to the Image<\/strong> trio of new editions of Saga<\/a>, Walking Dead<\/a><\/i>, <\/b>and Monstress<\/a><\/i><\/b>, which finished 1-2-3 in the unit sales charts.<\/p>\n

Marvel offered a free overship on
\nIceman <\/a><\/em>#1<\/a><\/strong>, doubling its paid orders; it’s the only Marvel title all year where an overship is evident, and the extra copies’ effect on both Marvel’s unit share for the month and the overall unit sales for the Direct Market is negligible. Oblivion Song<\/a><\/em> #7<\/a><\/strong> saw a modest increase and shows evidence of a significant added discount.<\/p>\n

The average cover price for new comics dropped back down under $4, to $3.93.<\/p>\n

The vital statistics:
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