{"id":4573,"date":"2015-07-06T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-31T19:26:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T00:26:15","slug":"secret-wars-3-tops-june-2015-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/06\/secret-wars-3-tops-june-2015-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Wars #3 tops June 2015 comics sales; first half of year up 13%"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The first half of 2015 is in the books, and comic books in particular put up some amazing numbers, according to data released on June sales by Diamond Comic Distributors<\/b><\/a>. The comic book market continued to grow at a fast pace in June; its $48.7 million in sales meant that that the first half of 2015 was up nearly 13% over the first half of 2014. Comics retailers bought $282 million in comics, graphic novels, and magazines from Diamond in the first half of the year, an increase of more than $33 million over the same period in 2014.<\/p>\n

According to Comichron and ICV2’s 2014 sales report<\/b><\/a> released last week, when bookstore, digital and other sales were added to Diamond’s sales, last year saw overall North American sales of $935 million. Were the first half sales increase to persist and be seen across all categories, that would put the overall 2015 total north of $1 billion. That’s never happened before, although when adjusted for inflation the market’s peak year, 1993, likely approached $1.4 billion.<\/p>\n

That said, the first half of 2014 was completely flat versus the year before it, so all the growth in 2014 happened in the second half. Comparatives are likely to get harder to beat as the year goes on.<\/p>\n

The comparatives for the month:<\/p>\n

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