{"id":3851,"date":"2018-06-15T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-30T17:07:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T22:07:42","slug":"may-2018-comics-sales-best-in-year-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/15\/may-2018-comics-sales-best-in-year-and\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2018 comics sales best in year and a half; Amazing Spider-Man #800 top comic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Comichron2018-05Preliminary-1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"328\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"386\" data-original-width=\"753\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Improvement continued in the comic shop market in May, with retailers ordering $49.05 million in comic books, graphic novels, and magazines from <b>Diamond Comic Distributors<\/b> according to Comichron&#8217;s estimates; that&#8217;s the largest amount since <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/2016\/2016-11.html\">November 2016<\/a><\/b>. (6\/18 UPDATE: The full sales charts are <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/2018\/2018-05.html\">now online<\/a><\/b>.)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/201805-AmazingSpiderMan800-3.jpg\" alt=\" Find this issue at TFAW\" width=\"208\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1528\" data-original-width=\"994\" \/><\/span>Earlier last week I <b><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/comichron\/status\/1004426676661641217\">tweeted<\/a><\/b> that this May had a decent shot at beating the same month a year earlier, despite that month having the best sales of 2017. Both months had five weeks, and May 2018 had some major events, including the top-selling\u00a0<i style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/shrsl.com\/thbn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Amazing Spider-Man #800<\/a>, Man of Steel #1, <\/i>and a hit<i style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> Avengers<\/i> movie in theaters all month (not to mention <b><i>Deadpool<\/i><\/b> and a Star Wars film). This May beat last May by nearly 2% and came close to flirting with the $50 million level. <b>Marvel<\/b>\u00a0dollar sales saw significant year-over-year improvement, as did those of <b>Image<\/b>; total Marvel titles shipped to market exceeded $20 million, the best figure for the company since June 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The year-to-date shortfall was shaved yet again, to 2.67%; comics dollar sales, separate from graphic novels, which continued to lag, are now positive for the year. We know a bit about <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/2018\/2018-06.html\">June&#8217;s sales<\/a><\/b> already; it&#8217;s up against <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/2017\/2017-06.html\">a relatively good month<\/a><\/b> from 2017, so completely erasing the year&#8217;s deficit at halftime (which is around $6 million) is unlikely. But April and May are up a combined 6% over the same months in 2017, and it&#8217;s now nearly a mathematical certainty that the second quarter will be up, thus ending the recession in comics, at least as far as the conventional definition is concerned. (Check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=11zw-r_cgaY&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>explainer video<\/b><\/a>\u00a0below.)<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"YOUTUBE-iframe-video\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/11zw-r_cgaY?feature=player_embedded\" width=\"320\" height=\"266\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-thumbnail-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/11zw-r_cgaY\/0.jpg\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Economists often define a recession as any period in which growth has fallen two quarters in a row; our string of down quarters year-over-year began in the fourth quarter of 2016, running for a year and a half \u2014 which is about how long recessions tend to run in the general economy. We came close to a down period of this length in 2010-11, though it was interrupted by a growth quarter; it took the DC New 52 to kick off several years of growth. The comparison charts:<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n table.tableizer-table {<br \/>\n  font-size: 12px;<br \/>\n  border: 1px solid #CCC;<br \/>\n  font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;<br \/>\n }<br \/>\n .tableizer-table td {<br \/>\n  padding: 4px;<br \/>\n  margin: 3px;<br \/>\n  border: 1px solid #CCC;<br \/>\n }<br \/>\n .tableizer-table th {<br \/>\n  background-color: #104E8B;<br \/>\n  color: #FFF;<br \/>\n  font-weight: bold;<br \/>\n }<br \/>\n<\/style>\n<table class=\"tableizer-table\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"tableizer-firstrow\">\n<th><\/th>\n<th>Dollars<\/th>\n<th>Units<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>May 2018 Vs. April 2018<\/b><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Comics<\/td>\n<td>+7.00%<\/td>\n<td>+2.99%*<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Graphic Novels<\/td>\n<td>+6.94%<\/td>\n<td>+4.85%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>TOTAL COMICS\/GNs<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>+6.98%<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>+3.13%<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Toys<\/td>\n<td>+4.95%<\/td>\n<td>+23.84%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>May 2018 Vs. May 2017<\/b><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Comics<\/td>\n<td>+6.23%<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: red;\">-8.63%*<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Graphic Novels<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: red;\">-8.04%<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: red;\">-13.85%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>TOTAL COMICS\/GNs<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>+1.84%<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b><span style=\"color: red;\">-9.06%<\/span><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Toys<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: red;\">-28.63%<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: red;\">-30.85%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Year-To-Date 2018 Vs. Year-To-Date 2017<\/b><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Comics<\/td>\n<td>+0.22%<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: red;\">-9.80%*<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Graphic Novels<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: red;\">-9.31%<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: red;\">-10.56%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>TOTAL COMICS\/GNs<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b><span style=\"color: red;\">-2.67%<\/span><\/b><\/td>\n<td><b><span style=\"color: red;\">-9.85%<\/span><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Toys<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: red;\">-12.06%<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: red;\">-17.25%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>May&#8217;s unit sales for comics were down versus last May as reported by Diamond \u2014 but there were a couple of things going on, the first of which resulted in the asterisks we&#8217;ve placed above.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DC_Nation_Vol_2_0-1.jpg\" alt=\"See eBay listings for this issue\" width=\"208\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1600\" data-original-width=\"1041\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p>First and most important, last May included the 25-cent <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/sch\/Modern-Age-1992-Now\/900\/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_nkw=Saga+43\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><i>Saga<\/i> #43<\/a><\/b>, which sold in the hundreds of thousands of copies; this May included <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/sch\/Modern-Age-1992-Now\/900\/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_nkw=DC+Nation+0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><i>DC Nation<\/i> #0<\/a><\/b>, likewise priced at a quarter and <b><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.comichron.com\/2018\/04\/how-action-1000s-reported-500k-copies.html\">selling a reported million copies<\/a><\/b>. But while both comics were included in calculations for Image and DC&#8217;s market shares respectively, our calculations show that unlike <i>Saga<\/i> #43,\u00a0<i>DC Nation<\/i> #0 sales were not included in the computation of Diamond&#8217;s year-over-year industry-wide comics unit sales.<\/p>\n<p>Diamond would have faced a difficult choice with the issue: <b>Free Comic Book Day<\/b> issues \u2014 which <i>DC Nation<\/i>\u00a0essentially served the role of for DC this year \u2014 are traditionally not included in either the percentage change table or unit market shares. They&#8217;d distort the comparisons too much. Yet comics with a nominal cover price \u2014 even 25\u00a2 \u2014 traditionally <i>have<\/i> been counted toward both the percentage change tables and market shares. But a million promotional-rate copies is a <b><i>lot<\/i><\/b>, and would have wreaked a lot of havoc on the percentage-change tables, so it appears Diamond compromised here, giving DC its market share credit, while protecting the more important all-industry measures from distortion.<\/p>\n<p>Because<i> Saga<\/i> #43 was included for percentage-change purposes last year, the decision has the effect of making the unit sales change number for this month look worse than it is. If we calculate <b><i>DC Nation<\/i> #0<\/b> as representing an exact million copies, then comics unit sales would have been up 16.5% over April, rather than 3%; sales versus last may would have been up 3.5% rather than down 8.65%; and year-to-date sales would have been down 7.3% rather than close to 9.8%. I do not intend to alter the charts, but will serve reminders here as necessary that 2018 has something a million copies not counted that would have been counted in previous years.<\/p>\n<p>The other thing of note regarding unit sales is that this May saw 10% fewer new comics offered to market \u2014 472 versus 527 last May, 55 fewer new releases. That more than accounts for the difference in unit sales, quarter-book complications aside.<\/p>\n<p>The market shares:<\/p>\n<table class=\"tableizer-table\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"tableizer-firstrow\">\n<th>Publisher<\/th>\n<th>Dollar Share<\/th>\n<th>Unit Share<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Marvel<\/td>\n<td>42.64%<\/td>\n<td>38.35%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>DC<\/td>\n<td>25.71%<\/td>\n<td>37.87%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Image<\/td>\n<td>10.83%<\/td>\n<td>9.67%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>IDW<\/td>\n<td>3.65%<\/td>\n<td>3.07%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dark Horse<\/td>\n<td>2.54%<\/td>\n<td>1.63%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Boom<\/td>\n<td>1.96%<\/td>\n<td>1.58%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dynamite<\/td>\n<td>1.64%<\/td>\n<td>1.30%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Viz<\/td>\n<td>1.12%<\/td>\n<td>0.40%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Oni<\/td>\n<td>1.03%<\/td>\n<td>0.48%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Valiant<\/td>\n<td>0.84%<\/td>\n<td>0.90%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Other<\/td>\n<td>8.03%<\/td>\n<td>4.75%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Marvel had four of the top 10 comics (including three Fresh Start launches), DC had five, and Image one. Several of the best sellers came out on the last week of the month, so they&#8217;ll see significant traffic next month. <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/sch\/Modern-Age-1992-Now\/900\/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_nkw=man+of+steel+1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><i>Man of Steel<\/i> #1<\/a>&#8216;s asterisk means it was\u00a0returnable; unlike everything else in the top ten, it had no variants.<\/p>\n<p>The <b>top selling comics by units:<\/b><\/p>\n<table class=\"tableizer-table\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"tableizer-firstrow\">\n<th><\/th>\n<th>TOP COMIC BOOKS (by units)<\/th>\n<th>PRICE<\/th>\n<th>PUBLISHER<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/sch\/Modern-Age-1992-Now\/900\/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_nkw=amazing+spider-man+800\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Amazing Spider-Man #800<\/a><\/td>\n<td>$9.99<\/td>\n<td>Marvel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Venom #1<\/td>\n<td>$4.99<\/td>\n<td>Marvel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>Doomsday Clock #5<\/td>\n<td>$4.99<\/td>\n<td>DC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Avengers #1<\/td>\n<td>$4.99<\/td>\n<td>Marvel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>Black Panther #1<\/td>\n<td>$4.99<\/td>\n<td>Marvel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>Batman #47<\/td>\n<td>$2.99<\/td>\n<td>DC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>Batman #46<\/td>\n<td>$2.99<\/td>\n<td>DC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>Justice League: No Justice #1<\/td>\n<td>$3.99<\/td>\n<td>DC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>The Man of Steel #1*<\/td>\n<td>$3.99<\/td>\n<td>DC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>The Walking Dead #179<\/td>\n<td>$3.99<\/td>\n<td>Image<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>And the <b>top-selling comics by invoiced dollars<\/b>\u00a0confirms that <b><i>Action Comics <\/i>#1000<\/b> was still doing big business in May:<\/p>\n<table class=\"tableizer-table\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"tableizer-firstrow\">\n<th><\/th>\n<th>TOP COMIC BOOKS (by dollars)<\/th>\n<th>PRICE<\/th>\n<th>PUBLISHER<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/sch\/Modern-Age-1992-Now\/900\/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_nkw=amazing+spider-man+800\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Amazing Spider-Man #800<\/a><\/td>\n<td>$9.99<\/td>\n<td>Marvel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Venom #1<\/td>\n<td>$4.99<\/td>\n<td>Marvel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>Doomsday Clock #5<\/td>\n<td>$4.99<\/td>\n<td>DC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Avengers #1<\/td>\n<td>$4.99<\/td>\n<td>Marvel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>Black Panther #1<\/td>\n<td>$4.99<\/td>\n<td>Marvel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>Action Comics #1000<\/td>\n<td>$7.99<\/td>\n<td>DC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>Despicable Deadpool #300<\/td>\n<td>$5.99<\/td>\n<td>Marvel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>Batman: White Knight #8<\/td>\n<td>$4.99<\/td>\n<td>DC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>Invincible Iron Man #600<\/td>\n<td>$5.99<\/td>\n<td>Marvel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>Justice League: No Justice #1<\/td>\n<td>$3.99<\/td>\n<td>DC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/InfintityGauntlet-1.jpg\" alt=\"Find  this book on TFAW \" width=\"130\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"615\" data-original-width=\"400\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p>The graphic novel sector has lagged all year, though it&#8217;s only off single digits now. While 8% percent more new graphic novels were offered, 8% fewer dollars were made from them \u2014 a consequence, possibly, of retailers splitting up graphic novel dollars to stock Infinity War-related titles.<\/p>\n<p>The 2011 printing of<b style=\"font-style: italic;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/shrsl.com\/106e4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Infinity Gauntlet<\/a> <\/b>led reorders for most of the month (and it is <b><a href=\"http:\/\/shrsl.com\/106e4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">still continuing to<\/a><\/b>), and those combined to beat any new graphic novel out there in dollars. It just missed being the top graphic novel by units, because the $7.99<i> <\/i><b><a href=\"http:\/\/shrsl.com\/107m4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><i>Star Wars: Tag &amp; Bink Were Here<\/i> #1<\/a><\/b> from Marvel was counted in the category.<\/p>\n<p>The <b>top-selling graphic novels by units:<\/b><\/p>\n<table class=\"tableizer-table\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"tableizer-firstrow\">\n<th><\/th>\n<th>TOP GRAPHIC NOVELS (by units)<\/th>\n<th>PRICE<\/th>\n<th>PUBLISHER<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/shrsl.com\/107m4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Star Wars: Tag &amp; Bink Were Here #1<\/a><\/td>\n<td>$7.99<\/td>\n<td>Marvel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Infinity Gauntlet<\/td>\n<td>$24.99<\/td>\n<td>Marvel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>Where We Live: Las Vegas Shooting Benefit Anthology<\/td>\n<td>$19.99<\/td>\n<td>Image<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Snotgirl Vol. 2: California Screaming<\/td>\n<td>$15.99<\/td>\n<td>Image<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>Dark Days: The Road To Metal HC<\/td>\n<td>$29.99<\/td>\n<td>DC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>Wonder Woman Vol. 5: Heart Of The Amazon<\/td>\n<td>$16.99<\/td>\n<td>DC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>Amazing Spider-Man\/Venom: Venom, Inc<\/td>\n<td>$19.99<\/td>\n<td>Marvel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>Hellboy Omnibus Vol. 1: Seed Of Destruction<\/td>\n<td>$24.99<\/td>\n<td>Dark Horse<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>Black Magick Vol. 2: Awakening II<\/td>\n<td>$16.99<\/td>\n<td>Image<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>Black Panther: Long Live The King<\/td>\n<td>$14.99<\/td>\n<td>Marvel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Marvel had a big blowout sale on older Marvel Masterworks hardcovers in May; while those sales are reflected in the unit charts, the dollars chart is based on what retailers actually paid. It&#8217;s a new one that made the chart below, which is the top-selling graphic novels by invoiced dollars:<\/p>\n<table class=\"tableizer-table\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"tableizer-firstrow\">\n<th><\/th>\n<th>TOP GRAPHIC NOVELS (by dollars)<\/th>\n<th>PRICE<\/th>\n<th>PUBLISHER<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/shrsl.com\/106e4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Infinity Gauntlet<\/a><\/td>\n<td>$24.99<\/td>\n<td>Marvel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Punisher Max By Garth Ennis Omnibus Vol. 1 HC<\/td>\n<td>$100.00<\/td>\n<td>Marvel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>Star Wars: Tag &amp; Bink Were Here #1<\/td>\n<td>$7.99<\/td>\n<td>Marvel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Dark Days: The Road To Metal HC<\/td>\n<td>$29.99<\/td>\n<td>DC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>Where We Live: Las Vegas Shooting Benefit Anthology<\/td>\n<td>$19.99<\/td>\n<td>Image<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>Wolverine Goes To Hell Omnibus HC<\/td>\n<td>$100.00<\/td>\n<td>Marvel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>Infinity War<\/td>\n<td>$29.99<\/td>\n<td>Marvel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>Marvel Masterworks: Marvel Team-Up Vol. 3 HC<\/td>\n<td>$75.00<\/td>\n<td>Marvel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>Hellboy Omnibus Vol. 1: Seed Of Destruction<\/td>\n<td>$24.99<\/td>\n<td>Dark Horse<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>Weapon X: The Return Omnibus HC<\/td>\n<td>$125.00<\/td>\n<td>Marvel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Finally, here are the number of offerings. As noted, fewer new comics shipped:<\/p>\n<table class=\"tableizer-table\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"tableizer-firstrow\">\n<th>Publisher<\/th>\n<th>Comics<br \/>\nshipped<\/th>\n<th>Graphic Novels<br \/>\nshipped<\/th>\n<th>Magazines<br \/>\nshipped<\/th>\n<th>Total<br \/>\nshipped<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Marvel<\/td>\n<td>92<\/td>\n<td>42<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>134<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>DC<\/td>\n<td>74<\/td>\n<td>30<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>104<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Image<\/td>\n<td>65<\/td>\n<td>22<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>87<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>IDW<\/td>\n<td>39<\/td>\n<td>24<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>63<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Boom<\/td>\n<td>23<\/td>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dark Horse<\/td>\n<td>17<\/td>\n<td>16<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>33<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dynamite<\/td>\n<td>20<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>25<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Viz<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>22<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>22<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Valiant<\/td>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Oni<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Other<\/td>\n<td>131<\/td>\n<td>208<\/td>\n<td>32<\/td>\n<td>371<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Total shipped<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>472<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>386<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>32<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>890<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I&#8217;m a guest at <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theallstarcomiccon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">All-Star Comic-Con<\/a><\/b> in Tysons Corners, Virginia this weekend; look for the estimates on our <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/2018\/2018-05.html\">May 2018 comics chart sales page<\/a><\/b> next week when I return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Improvement continued in the comic shop market in May, with retailers ordering $49.05 million in comic books, graphic novels, and magazines from Diamond Comic Distributors according to Comichron&#8217;s estimates; that&#8217;s the largest amount since November 2016. (6\/18 UPDATE: The full sales charts are now online.) Earlier last week I tweeted that this May had a &#8230; <a title=\"May 2018 comics sales best in year and a half; Amazing Spider-Man #800 top comic\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/15\/may-2018-comics-sales-best-in-year-and\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about May 2018 comics sales best in year and a half; Amazing Spider-Man #800 top comic\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,17],"class_list":["post-3851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2018-sales","tag-diamond-monthly-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851","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=3851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6252,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions\/6252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}