{"id":4525,"date":"2015-12-14T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-31T19:13:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T00:13:54","slug":"comichron-november-2015-comics-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/14\/comichron-november-2015-comics-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Comichron November 2015 comics sales estimates online: Dark Knight III tops 440,000 copies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Dark Knight struck again in November, with the first issue of the revival of Frank Miller’s 1980s classic take on Batman selling more than 440,000 copies into the Direct Market. That’s according to Comichron’s estimates based on charts released this morning by Diamond Comic Distributors. Click to see the estimated sales for comics shipped in November 2015.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Orders of Dark Knight III: The Master Race<\/i> #1<\/b><\/a> were more than double the preorders for Dark Knight Strikes Again<\/i> #1<\/b>, back in December 2001<\/b><\/a>; that title, which was priced nearly two dollars higher at $7.95, had first-month sales to retailers of more than 187,300 copies. In all, orders for Dark Knight III<\/i> and the reprint volumes of earlier Dark Knight <\/i>editions accounted for 5.35% of all dollars in the Direct Market in November; that would be enough to make those titles alone the fourth largest publisher in the industry last month. DC’s market share without it would have been exactly 21%.<\/p>\n

Marvel’s relaunch continued to give comics sales a boost, 13 titles had sales over 100,000 copies, 11 of them from Marvel. Marvel’s dollar sales within the Top 300 Comics grouping set a new
\nhigh mark for the publisher in the Diamond Exclusive Era, as did its
\ndollar sales when the Top 300 Graphic Novels are added to that grouping.<\/p>\n

An ongoing thread to 2015 continued: Whereas in recent times the unit sales numbers at the top of the charts have been flattening while the sales of the lower tier titles have been increasing, the opposite has been true for most of this year. The 300th place title had orders of 4,197 copies, the lowest figure seen since March 2013. (Click to see the list of 300th place titles across time<\/b><\/a>.) A lot has to do with the smaller number of titles Marvel and DC are offering: as almost everything those publishers produce charts in the Top 300, things drop off a little faster when their release slates shrink.<\/p>\n

The aggregate changes are as follows:<\/p>\n

TOP 300 COMICS UNIT SALES<\/b><\/span>
\nNovember 2015<\/a>: <\/b>8.3 million copies
\nVersus 1 year ago this month<\/b><\/a>: +23%
\nVersus 5 years ago this month<\/b><\/a>: +51%
\nVersus 10 years ago this month<\/b><\/a>: +28%
\nVersus 15 years ago this month<\/b><\/a>: +45%
\nYEAR TO DATE: 81.22 million copies, +7% vs. 2014, +28% vs. 2010, +17% vs. 2005, +27% vs. 2000
\nALL COMICS UNIT SALES<\/b>
\nNovember 2015 versus one year ago this month: +18.19%<\/b>
\nYEAR TO DATE: +5.45%<\/b><\/p>\n

TOP 300 COMICS DOLLAR SALES<\/b><\/div>\n

November 2015: $34.73 million
\nVersus 1 year ago this month: +38%
\nVersus 5 years ago this month: +72%
\nVersus 10 years ago this month: +79%
\nVersus 15 years ago this month: +124%
\nYEAR TO DATE: $321.02 million, +12% vs. 2014, +42% vs. 2010, +59% vs. 2005, +83% vs. 2000
\nALL COMICS DOLLAR SALES<\/b>
\nNovember 2015 versus one year ago this month: +30.05%<\/b>
\nYEAR TO DATE: +7.54% <\/b><\/p>\n

TOP 300 TRADE PAPERBACK DOLLAR SALES<\/b><\/div>\n

November 2015: $7.12 million
\nVersus 1 year ago this month: -19%
\nVersus 5 years ago this month: -1%
\nVersus 10 years ago this month, just the Top 100 vs. the Top 100: -4%
\nVersus 15 years ago this month, just the Top 25 vs. the Top 25: -46%
\nYEAR TO DATE: $82.21 million, unchanged vs. 2014
\nALL TRADE PAPERBACK SALES<\/b>
\nNovember 2015 versus one year ago this month: -17.50%<\/b>
\nYEAR TO DATE: +2.24%<\/b><\/p>\n

TOP 300 COMICS + TOP 300 TRADE PAPERBACK DOLLAR SALES<\/b><\/div>\n

November 2015: $41.85 million
\nVersus 1 year ago this month: +23%
\nVersus 5 years ago this month: +43%
\nVersus 10 years ago this month, counting just the Top 100 TPBs: +52%
\nVersus 15 years ago this month, counting just the Top 25 TPBs: +136%
\nYEAR TO DATE: $403.22 million, +9% vs. 2014
\nALL COMICS AND TRADE PAPERBACK SALES<\/b>
\nNovember 2015 versus one year ago this month: +13.84%<\/b>
\nYEAR TO DATE: +5.89%<\/b><\/p>\n

OVERALL DIAMOND SALES (including all comics, trades, and magazines)<\/b><\/div>\n

November 2015: approximately $52.1 million (subject to revision)
\nVersus 1 year ago this month: +14%
\nVersus 5 years ago this month: +49%
\nVersus 10 years ago this month: +61%
\nYEAR TO DATE: $526.73 million, +6% vs. 2014<\/b><\/p>\n

RELEASES<\/b><\/span>
\nNew comic books released: 470<\/b>
\nNew graphic novels released: 281<\/b>
\nNew magazines released: 39<\/b>
\nAll new releases: 790<\/b><\/p>\n

The average comic book in the Top 300 cost $3.90; the average comic book
\nretailers ordered cost $4.18, a new record. The median and most common price for comics offered was $3.99. Click to see comics prices across time.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Only $14 million in orders are needed in December for
\n2015 to top 2014.\u00a0 Comichron projects that 2015’s Direct Market sales
\nwill finish at around $570 million, up by about 6%, or $30 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Dark Knight struck again in November, with the first issue of the revival of Frank Miller’s 1980s classic take on Batman selling more than 440,000 copies into the Direct Market. That’s according to Comichron’s estimates based on charts released this morning by Diamond Comic Distributors. Click to see the estimated sales for comics shipped … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[66,17],"class_list":["post-4525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2015-sales","tag-diamond-monthly-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525","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=4525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6387,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions\/6387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}