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Something we’ve never done before on Comichron<\/b> is look at the reorder and advance reorder charts released by Diamond Comic Distributors<\/b>.<\/a> We do so now, looking at the report released today, December 20, covering orders placed between December 11 and 17<\/b>.<\/p>\n

These charts have been available from Diamond since at least the 1990s, when they appeared in the distributor’s Diamond Dateline newsletter; then, as now, they served to supplement for retailers the monthly sales charts by informing on which already-released comics and graphic novels were being\u00a0ordered again, as well as what books that hadn’t been released were generating orders beyond their initial order cutoff dates. Both tables are indicators of customer interest, and suggest what we may see in future monthly sales charts.<\/p>\n

While I’ve got reorder charts going all the way back to the Dateline days, the tables never found their way into my previous magazine work or into Comichron’s archives for several reasons. There aren’t order indexes, as you see with the monthly charts, suggesting unit counts \u2014 but more importantly, the orders don’t necessarily equate to filled shipments. The information is more along the lines of the preorder charts which appear on Comichron for years before 2003; it reflects consumer desire as expressed through retailer intent, but it doesn’t speak to the number of copies ultimately in circulation. Reorders that are filled, meanwhile, already get reflected in the monthly charts both in the aggregate total, and also when they make the Top 300.<\/p>\n

That said, reorder information is certainly of interest, and while it doesn’t necessarily fit with our archive tracking the numbers of books in print, it is easily enough conveyed here on the blog. If you’re interested in this feature appearing weekly, please let us know in the comments and on social media.<\/p>\n

TOP REORDERED ITEMS for December 11-17, 2017 (in dollars)<\/b><\/p>\n

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\nThese are items that have already shipped, but have been receiving additional orders. In most cases below, the items are in stock and so the orders are being filled; occasionally items are back-ordered, so their reorders will enter into the channel once they become available.<\/p>\n

These are ranked by invoiced dollars, so retailers’ discounts have already applied to the totals before ranking. Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Omnibus<\/a><\/i><\/b> is the top reordered hardcover; Marvel’s Infinity Gauntlet<\/i><\/b> the top-reordered softcover. Batman: White Knight<\/i> #3,<\/b> which went on sale Dec. 6, is the top reordered comic book in dollars. The links in the table go to the Diamond information pages for each book.<\/p>\n