{"id":4555,"date":"2015-09-11T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-31T19:19:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T00:19:53","slug":"august-2015-comics-orders-up-7-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/11\/august-2015-comics-orders-up-7-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"August 2015 comics orders up 7%; strong market heading into Marvel’s relaunch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Four years ago, August saw the comics market slumping in the days before the DC relaunch invigorated the market. Comics sales in July 2011 were down 7% for the year-to-date. The first day of the DC relaunch, August 31 with Justice League<\/b><\/i> #1, erased half that deficit<\/b><\/a> \u2014 and the year would go on to recover most of the rest of it, finishing nearly flat, mostly because of a year-long weakness in graphic novels that could not be fully erased.<\/p>\n

By contrast, August 2015, in advance of the Marvel line relaunch, saw comic shop managers ordering $43.81 million in comic books, graphic novels, and magazines, according to Comichron’s analysis of data released this morning by Diamond Comic Distributors<\/a>. <\/b>That brings the total for the year to approximately $378.1 million, an increase of $34 million over the same period in 2014.<\/p>\n

So that’s in the bank, before we get to whatever action the Marvel line relaunch generates in the fall. The year is already up nearly 10%. And while the pace of growth slowed in July and August, the industry is starting from a larger base of revenue this time around. Orders for 2011 through August, including the one-day Justice League numbers, were $259 million; today’s market is 46% larger, amounting to nearly $120 million difference. That’s not all inflation, folks; retailers are moving well over a million more comic books a month than they did in the pre-DC-relaunch summer of 2011.<\/p>\n

On to the charts, which were topped by Marvel’s Secret Wars <\/i>#5<\/b><\/a> and a new Walking Dead<\/a> <\/b><\/i>compendium:<\/p>\n

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