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Diamond Comic Distributors<\/b><\/a> has started the rollout of its December 2014 and 2014 year-end comics sales reports, and as in past years Comichron<\/b> will provide estimates and analysis as information is released. The first news was released in Wall Street Journal report<\/b><\/a> announcing the Top 10s for comics and graphic novels and the market shares, but now more is out from Diamond.<\/p>\n

Diamond said combined comics and graphic novel sales for 2014 were up 4.39%, which would amount to around $540 million total, an increase of $22 million over 2013. (That would suggest a December in the $43-44 million range, up gently from the same month last year.) That represents a cooldown from 2013’s 9.04% increase<\/b><\/a>, which itself was a drop from 2012’s 14.72% boost. To a degree, this isn’t surprising \u2014 as the volumes get higher, it takes a lot more comics sold to equal the same percentage increases. The farther we get from the recession-era lows, growth is less likely to look quite as explosive as it was then.<\/p>\n

Comics dollar sales were up 4.03% for the year and graphic novel sales were up 5.18%, but no change figures were reported for unit sales. Those figures suggest that December’s comics sales beat last December’s, while December’s graphic novel sales lagged. We should see the December data in full shortly.<\/p>\n

As expected, Marvel’s Amazing Spider-Man<\/i> #1<\/b><\/a> from April topped the charts as the best-selling comic book of the year. The book had orders of more than 532,000 copies in its first month<\/b><\/a> and reorders that made the charts for several months afterward, making it the most ordered comic book of the 21st century \u2014 a claim that it will keep for about a week, with Star Wars<\/i> #1 reported to have sales over a million copies<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Top Comics of 2014 chart:<\/p>\n

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