{"id":4538,"date":"2015-11-06T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-31T19:16:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T00:16:43","slug":"marvel-sweeps-october-2015-top-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/06\/marvel-sweeps-october-2015-top-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel sweeps October 2015 top 10; market slips on lower new release volume"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/201510InvincibleIronMan1-3.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/CCIIron1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Marvel swept the Top 10 new comics titles in the first month of its &#8220;All-New, All Different&#8221; relaunch but it wasn&#8217;t enough to top last October&#8217;s record sales month, which had an additional shipping week to boot. Retailers ordered $50.73 million in new comic books, graphic novels, and magazines in October according to Comichron&#8217;s analysis of data released this morning by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diamondcomics.com\/Home\/1\/1\/3\/597?articleID=159807\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>Diamond Comic Distributors<\/b><\/a>. That&#8217;s a healthy month but only the third best for the year.<\/p>\n<p>However, any comparison with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/2014\/2014-10.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>last October<\/b><\/a>, which was the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.comichron.com\/2014\/11\/october-comics-shop-orders-best-in-17.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>best month in seventeen years<\/b><\/a> for the Direct Market, must begin with the difference in new release volume. Diamond shipped 743 new comics, graphic novels, and magazines in the month \u2014 versus an astounding 1,020 last October; a fifth week might have brought the month into closer parity this time out. Marvel and DC&#8217;s slates were much smaller this October: Marvel shipped 68 new comics versus 94 last year, while DC&#8217;s new-release volume went from 109 comics to 78.<\/p>\n<p>Smaller new release volumes can be seen for the smaller publishers, as well; Dynamite offered less than half as many comics this October than it did last October. In any event, a month in which new release volume is off by 28% while sales are off less than 10% likely nets out positive: the titles that are out there are doing relatively better. (Last October also saw the Loot Crate<i> Walking Dead<\/i> release; another complicating factor for comparisons.)<\/p>\n<p>The comparative sales statistics for the month:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<style>table {  }td { padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-left: 1px; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; white-space: nowrap; }.xl63 { border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; }.xl64 { text-align: center; }.xl65 { text-align: center; border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; }.xl66 { text-align: center; border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; }<\/style>\n<\/div>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left; width: 310px;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<colgroup>\n<col style=\"mso-width-alt: 7680; mso-width-source: userset; width: 180pt;\" width=\"180\" \/>\n<col style=\"width: 65pt;\" span=\"2\" width=\"65\" \/> <\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"height: 15.0pt; width: 180pt;\" width=\"180\" height=\"15\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; width: 65pt;\" width=\"65\">Dollars<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; width: 65pt;\" width=\"65\">Units<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">October 2015<br \/>\nvs. September 2015<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">Comics<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">22.33%<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">20.47%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">Graphic Novels<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">-7.57%<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">-17.96%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">TOTAL<br \/>\nCOMICS\/GN<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">11.91%<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">16.59%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">October 2015<br \/>\nvs. October 2014<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">Comics<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">-7.49%<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">-12.27%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">Graphic Novels<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">-14.27%<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">-14.94%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">TOTAL<br \/>\nCOMICS\/GN<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">-9.55%<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">-12.47%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">Year-To-Date<br \/>\n2015 vs. 2014<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">Comics<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">5.37%<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">4.21%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">Graphic Novels<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">4.45%<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">5.80%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">TOTAL<br \/>\nCOMICS\/GN<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">5.08%<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">4.33%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p>Marvel&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/CCIIron1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i><b>Invincible Iron Man #1<\/b><\/i><\/a> led the comics charts. Diamond reports that <i><b>Batman #45<\/b><\/i> clocked in at 11th place for the month, which likely means that at least eleven titles topped 100,000 copies. There may be more than that; we&#8217;ll know next week.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>Top-selling comic books<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<style>table {  }td { padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-left: 1px; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; white-space: nowrap; }.xl63 { border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; }.xl64 { text-align: left; }.xl65 { text-align: center; }.xl66 { text-align: center; border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; }.xl67 { text-align: center; }.xl68 { text-align: left; border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; }.xl69 { text-align: center; border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; }<\/style>\n<\/div>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left; width: 430px;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<colgroup>\n<col style=\"mso-width-alt: 1920; mso-width-source: userset; width: 45pt;\" width=\"45\" \/>\n<col style=\"mso-width-alt: 10880; mso-width-source: userset; width: 255pt;\" width=\"255\" \/>\n<col style=\"width: 65pt;\" width=\"65\" \/>\n<col style=\"width: 65pt;\" width=\"65\" \/> <\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl68\" style=\"height: 15.0pt; width: 45pt;\" width=\"45\" height=\"15\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-left: none; width: 255pt;\" width=\"255\">Comic<br \/>\nBook<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl69\" style=\"border-left: none; width: 65pt;\" width=\"65\">Price<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; width: 65pt;\" width=\"65\">Publisher<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 1;\">\n<td class=\"xl68\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Invincible Iron Man<br \/>\n#1<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl69\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">$3.99<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Marvel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 2;\">\n<td class=\"xl68\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">2<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Amazing Spider-Man #1<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl69\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">$5.99<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Marvel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 3;\">\n<td class=\"xl68\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">3<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Spider-Gwen #1<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl69\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">$3.99<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Marvel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 4;\">\n<td class=\"xl68\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">4<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Secret Wars #6<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl69\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">$3.99<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Marvel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 5;\">\n<td class=\"xl68\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">5<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Doctor Strange #1<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl69\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">$4.99<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Marvel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 6;\">\n<td class=\"xl68\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">6<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Star Wars #10<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl69\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">$3.99<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Marvel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 7;\">\n<td class=\"xl68\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">7<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Chewbacca #1<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl69\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">$3.99<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Marvel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 8;\">\n<td class=\"xl68\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">8<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Star Wars: Shattered<br \/>\nEmpire #2<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl69\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">$3.99<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Marvel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 9;\">\n<td class=\"xl68\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">9<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Guardians Of The<br \/>\nGalaxy #1<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl69\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">$3.99<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Marvel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 10; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;\">\n<td class=\"xl68\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">10<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Amazing Spider-Man #2<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl69\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">$3.99<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Marvel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p>Graphic novels were off considerably this month, which saw the charts led by the first collection of Marvel&#8217;s main Star Wars series:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>Top-selling graphic novels<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<style>table {  }td { padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-left: 1px; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; white-space: nowrap; }.xl63 { border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; }.xl64 { text-align: left; }.xl65 { text-align: center; }.xl66 { text-align: center; border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; }.xl67 { text-align: center; }.xl68 { text-align: left; border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; }.xl69 { text-align: center; border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; }<\/style>\n<\/div>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left; width: 430px;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<colgroup>\n<col style=\"mso-width-alt: 1920; mso-width-source: userset; width: 45pt;\" width=\"45\" \/>\n<col style=\"mso-width-alt: 10880; mso-width-source: userset; width: 255pt;\" width=\"255\" \/>\n<col style=\"width: 65pt;\" width=\"65\" \/>\n<col style=\"width: 65pt;\" width=\"65\" \/> <\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 10; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;\">\n<td class=\"xl68\" style=\"height: 15.0pt; width: 45pt;\" width=\"45\" height=\"15\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-left: none; width: 255pt;\" width=\"255\">Graphic<br \/>\nNovel<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl69\" style=\"border-left: none; width: 65pt;\" width=\"65\">Price<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; width: 65pt;\" width=\"65\">Publisher<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 1;\">\n<td class=\"xl68\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Star Wars Volume 1:<br \/>\nSkywalker Strikes<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl69\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">$19.99<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Marvel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 2;\">\n<td class=\"xl68\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">2<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Star Wars: Darth<br \/>\nVader Volume 1: Vader<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl69\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">$19.99<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Marvel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 3;\">\n<td class=\"xl68\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">3<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Bitch Planet Vol. 1:<br \/>\nExtraordinary Machine<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl69\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">$9.99<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Image<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 4;\">\n<td class=\"xl68\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">4<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Deathstroke Book and<br \/>\nMask Set<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl69\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">$29.99<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">DC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 5;\">\n<td class=\"xl68\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">5<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Marvel Super Hero:<br \/>\nContest Of Champions Vol. 1<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl69\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">$7.99<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Marvel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 6;\">\n<td class=\"xl68\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">6<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">The Walking Dead<br \/>\nCompendium Volume 3<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl69\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">$59.99<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Image<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 7;\">\n<td class=\"xl68\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">7<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Saga Volume 5<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl69\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">$14.99<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Image<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 8;\">\n<td class=\"xl68\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">8<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Outcast By Kirkman<br \/>\n&amp; Azaceta Volume 2<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl69\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">$14.99<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Image<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 9;\">\n<td class=\"xl68\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">9<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Lumberjanes Volume 2<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl69\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">$14.99<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Boom<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 10; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;\">\n<td class=\"xl68\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">10<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Injection Volume 1<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl69\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">$9.99<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl66\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">Image<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Now for the market shares, which found Marvel beating DC nearly two-to-one in dollar shares. It is Marvel&#8217;s highest dollar share since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/2009\/2009-12.html\"><b>December 2009<\/b><\/a>, when it posted 44.57%; and DC&#8217;s lowest dollar share since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/1998\/1998-03.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>March 1998<\/b><\/a>, which was just a bit lower at 21.83%. That was DC&#8217;s low-water mark for the Diamond Exclusive Era, incidentally; Marvel&#8217;s high for the era was <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/2008\/2008-09.html\">September 2008<\/a><\/b>, and 45.31%. Recall that market share means little without considering the size of the pie; October 2015 is enough larger than August and September that DC&#8217;s order volume is in fact not that much changed from those months.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>Market shares<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<style>table {  }td { padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-left: 1px; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; white-space: nowrap; }.xl63 { border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; }.xl64 { border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; }<\/style>\n<\/div>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left; width: 222px;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<colgroup>\n<col style=\"mso-width-alt: 3925; mso-width-source: userset; width: 92pt;\" width=\"92\" \/>\n<col style=\"width: 65pt;\" span=\"2\" width=\"65\" \/> <\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"height: 15.0pt; width: 92pt;\" width=\"92\" height=\"15\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-left: none; width: 65pt;\" width=\"65\">Dollar<br \/>\nshare<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-left: none; width: 65pt;\" width=\"65\">Unit share<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 1;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">Marvel<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl64\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\" align=\"right\">43.65%<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl64\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\" align=\"right\">48.26%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 2;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">DC<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl64\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\" align=\"right\">21.85%<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl64\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\" align=\"right\">22.92%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 3;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">Image<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl64\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\" align=\"right\">9.17%<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl64\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\" align=\"right\">9.27%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 4;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">IDW<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl64\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\" align=\"right\">6.16%<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl64\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\" align=\"right\">4.96%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 5;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">Dark Horse<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl64\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\" align=\"right\">4.04%<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl64\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\" align=\"right\">3.10%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 6;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">Boom<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl64\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\" align=\"right\">2.41%<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl64\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\" align=\"right\">1.93%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 7;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">Dynamite<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl64\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\" align=\"right\">1.60%<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl64\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\" align=\"right\">1.53%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 8;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">Titan<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl64\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\" align=\"right\">1.21%<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl64\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\" align=\"right\">1.16%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 9;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">Valiant<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl64\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\" align=\"right\">0.92%<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl64\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\" align=\"right\">0.99%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 10;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">Viz<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl64\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\" align=\"right\">0.88%<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl64\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\" align=\"right\">0.34%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 11; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">Other<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl64\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\" align=\"right\">8.12%<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl64\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\" align=\"right\">5.54%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p>And here&#8217;s that breakdown of new comics and graphic novels shipped to market. Again, all of the Top 10 publishers from last year offered fewer new releases:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<style>table {  }td { padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-left: 1px; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; white-space: nowrap; }.xl63 { border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; }.xl64 { text-align: center; border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; white-space: normal; }.xl65 { text-align: center; border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; }<\/style>\n<\/div>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left; width: 325px;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<colgroup>\n<col style=\"width: 65pt;\" span=\"5\" width=\"65\" \/> <\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 45.0pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"height: 45.0pt; width: 65pt;\" width=\"65\" height=\"45\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"xl64\" style=\"border-left: none; width: 65pt;\" width=\"65\">Comics shipped<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl64\" style=\"border-left: none; width: 65pt;\" width=\"65\">Graphic novels<br \/>\nshipped<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl64\" style=\"border-left: none; width: 65pt;\" width=\"65\">Magazines shipped<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl64\" style=\"border-left: none; width: 65pt;\" width=\"65\">Total<br \/>\nshipped<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">DC<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">78<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">34<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">1<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">113<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">Marvel<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">68<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">33<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">101<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">Image<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">55<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">14<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">69<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">IDW<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">41<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">22<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">63<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">Dark<br \/>\nHorse<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">36<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">25<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">61<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">Boom<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">29<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">12<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">41<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">Titan<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">12<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">9<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">4<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">25<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">Dynamite<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">18<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">6<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">24<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">Viz<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">19<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">Valiant<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">10<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">5<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">0<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">Other<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">98<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">99<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">15<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">212<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td class=\"xl63\" style=\"border-top: none; height: 15.0pt;\" height=\"15\">Total<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">445<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">278<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">20<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl65\" style=\"border-left: none; border-top: none;\">743<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>There is more to come for the Marvel relaunch, but at least for the moment, the market has burnt off more than half of the year-to-year increase it had banked in the first six months. 2015 so far is somewhat resembling 2008, which was when the momentum behind the Civil War-era early 2000 boomlet started to wane, but a strong holiday season could easily break that pattern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marvel swept the Top 10 new comics titles in the first month of its &#8220;All-New, All Different&#8221; relaunch but it wasn&#8217;t enough to top last October&#8217;s record sales month, which had an additional shipping week to boot. Retailers ordered $50.73 million in new comic books, graphic novels, and magazines in October according to Comichron&#8217;s analysis &#8230; <a title=\"Marvel sweeps October 2015 top 10; market slips on lower new release volume\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/06\/marvel-sweeps-october-2015-top-10\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Marvel sweeps October 2015 top 10; market slips on lower new release volume\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4539,"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-4538","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\/4538","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=4538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6390,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions\/6390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}