{"id":4586,"date":"2015-06-12T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-31T19:34:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T00:34:11","slug":"secret-wars-1-tops-may-2015-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/12\/secret-wars-1-tops-may-2015-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Wars #1 tops May 2015 comics sales; Loot Crate-powered Bravest Warriors takes second"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Marvel’s Secret Wars<\/b><\/i><\/a> first topped the comics charts more than 30 years ago \u2014 and did so again in May 2015, according to preliminary sales reports released this morning by Diamond Comic Distributors<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The event \u2014 along with Free Comic Book Day, attention from the second Avengers<\/b><\/i> movie, and a boost from a repackager contributed to nearly $49 million in orders for new comic books, graphic novels, and magazines by North American comics shops in the month.<\/p>\n

Periodical comic book unit sales were up 20% year-over-year against last May<\/b><\/a>, while graphic novel sales were flat; the result was that overall sales were up 13.5%. (That makes sense, because periodicals are about two-thirds of Diamond’s combined print comics sales, while graphic novels make up the other third.)<\/p>\n

The aggregate changes:<\/p>\n

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