{"id":3848,"date":"2018-06-18T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-30T17:06:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T22:06:56","slug":"may-2018-comics-sales-estimates-spidey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/18\/may-2018-comics-sales-estimates-spidey\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2018 Comics Sales Estimates: Spidey #800 tops 411,000 copies, Venom 225k; Action #1000 passes 500k"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As reported here in greater detail <\/a><\/b>on Friday, April’s strong sales continued into May, with the month beating any one from 2017. We’ve now got our estimates for the individual title sales for the month, and they make Amazing Spider-Man<\/i> #800<\/a><\/b> the second book in two months to top 400,000 copies. Further, April’s leader, Action Comics<\/i> #1000<\/a><\/b>, piled up even more sales, passing 500,000 copies in North America, as expected \u2014 meaning that both issues have a nearly even dollar value at full retail of around $4 million. Click to see the comics sales charts for May 2018<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n

We have also updated our running sales tally for 2018<\/a><\/b>, and two books from May made the Top 5: Spidey’s issue, of course, and Venom<\/i> #1<\/a><\/b>, which shipped more than 225,000 copies.<\/p>\n

The influence of the top-sellers resulted in the average weighted price of comics ordered by shops to vault to $4.40, blowing away the previous record of $4.18 set in November 2015. (See other modern-era sales records<\/a><\/b>.) The average cost of comics offered (rather than ordered) was $3.93, about normal for this year.<\/p>\n

We have a video walkthrough<\/b><\/a> of the month’s preliminary sales report; be sure to take a look.<\/p>\n

The vital statistics for the month:
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