{"id":4632,"date":"2015-02-06T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-01T14:32:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T19:32:37","slug":"marvels-star-wars-1-boosts-january-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/06\/marvels-star-wars-1-boosts-january-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel’s Star Wars #1 boosts January 2015 comics sales; market up 12% to start year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The year is off to a solid start, according to preliminary statistics released today by Diamond Comic Distributors<\/b><\/a>. Comic shops in North America ordered nearly $44 million in comic books and graphic novels in the month, up 12.27% over last January and topping the total for December, a rare but not unprecedented feat. It is the largest dollar figure for January in the Diamond Exclusive Era, and nearly double what it was in January ten years ago<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n

In the least surprising news in some time, Star Wars <\/i>#1<\/b><\/a> from Marvel was the chart-topper: the comic book is reported by its publisher to have sales over a million copies, helped by an unprecedented number of variant covers and boosted by special editions for Loot Crate<\/b><\/a> and other channels. Marvel’s market share jumped as a consequence, accounting for 45.64% of units and 41.05% of dollars. Overall comics unit sales were up 10.27% year-over-year, but slightly off from December.<\/p>\n

This January was a four-ship-week month, but while January 2014<\/b><\/a> had five Wednesdays, its first Wednesday was counted as part of December 2013<\/b><\/a>‘s shipping. So it’s really a four-week-to-four-week comparison.<\/p>\n

The comparative sales statistics:<\/p>\n

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