{"id":4621,"date":"2015-03-13T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-01T14:29:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T19:29:43","slug":"loot-crate-charged-orphan-black-gives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/13\/loot-crate-charged-orphan-black-gives\/","title":{"rendered":"Loot Crate-charged Orphan Black gives IDW its first top-seller in strong February market"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/CCOrphan1\"In the strangest turn yet in what has turned into the Mail-Order Grab-Bag Era of comics sales, a comic book has topped the Diamond Comic Distributors<\/b><\/a> charts in February 2015 based in large degree on the sales of a mail-order variant that has not, as of this writing, been shipped to its customers.<\/p>\n

IDW<\/b>‘s Orphan Black<\/i> #1<\/a> <\/b>appeared atop the preliminary Diamond sales charts for February released today, giving the publisher its first #1 book and making IDW only the fifth publisher in the Diamond Exclusive Era to have a book top the charts. (It joins Marvel, DC, Image, <\/b>and Dreamwave,<\/b> which was the last new publisher to top the list in April 2002<\/b><\/a>.) And while we won’t know until the mail-order boxes arrive, it very much appears that the comic book may be in the Loot Crate for March<\/b><\/a>, which doesn’t reach subscribers’ mailboxes until later this month.<\/p>\n

The Top Ten list:<\/p>\n

Top 10 Comics for March<\/b> <\/span><\/div>\n
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