{"id":3759,"date":"2018-09-17T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-30T16:37:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T21:37:33","slug":"august-2018-comics-sales-estimates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/17\/august-2018-comics-sales-estimates\/","title":{"rendered":"August 2018 comics sales estimates online: Fantastic Four #1 moves 369,000 copies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Marvel’s<\/b> First Family returned in August, with nearly 369,000 copies of Fantastic Four<\/i> #1<\/a> <\/b>shipping to retailers in the United States and Canada. Click to see our comics sales estimates for August 2018<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n

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As reported here<\/a><\/b> on Friday, August was a fourth growth month out of five, despite a dearth of new comics releases. Comics dollar sales were up 5% and units were down 5% in a five-week month that saw 11% fewer new comics released than the same month in the previous year. August 2017<\/a><\/b> was one of the most disappointing months of the comics recession that year, so a rebound was welcome. Graphic novels were also up, thanks to significant deep-discount sales; it was just the second month both comics and graphic novels were up since 2016.<\/p>\n

Marvel’s Fresh Start relaunch mostly past, the month saw only three comics selling over 100,000 copies. But DC<\/b> saw a strong launch for Sandman Universe<\/i> #1<\/a><\/b>, placing third in dollars and sixth in units with more than 83,500 copies shipped to the United States and Canada, a large number for a Vertigo launch.<\/p>\n

The average cover price of comics in the Top 300 set a new record, $4.12; the previous record had been set in June 2017. Click to see monthly cover prices across time<\/a><\/b>, and also all of our Diamond Exclusive Era records<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n

Batman<\/i><\/b> #50<\/b> did not chart again, despite having led the comics reorder charts twice in July. The comic book was made retroactively returnable. You can see the year-to-date bestsellers here<\/a><\/b>; we’ve doubled the length of both the comics and graphic novel charts to 200 items each.<\/p>\n

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The first two-thirds of the year closed down 1.1%, but prospects for a slight year-over-year improvement remain good.<\/p>\n

The vital statistics:<\/p>\n

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