{"id":4687,"date":"2014-10-03T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-01T14:45:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T19:45:06","slug":"death-of-wolverine-futures-end-dominate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/03\/death-of-wolverine-futures-end-dominate\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of Wolverine, Futures End dominate September 2014 comics sales"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wolverine’s death topped the new comics charts in September, but DC buried shelves with “Futures End”-ing new releases to give the publisher the top unit and dollar market share slots, according to preliminary data released today by Diamond Comic Distributors<\/b><\/a>. Comic book stores in North America ordered nearly $50.8 million in comic books, graphic novels, and magazines in the month, a 5.6% increase over last September.<\/p>\n

It’s the second month this year to top $50 million in total orders, and just the third in the last decade and a half.<\/p>\n

Both this September and last September had four shipping weeks, so we finally have a complete quarter of straight-up comparisons: and July, August, and September found the market up 14.52%, 2.84%, and 5.6% respectively to net out at a 9.33% increase for the third quarter. At $395 million for the year, Direct Market orders are $12 million ahead of last year’s pace; the fourth quarter need only come in at 90% of last year’s total in order for 2014 to see a year-over-year increase.<\/p>\n

DC, again, had a remarkable number of new comics releases in September: 124, to Marvel’s 80. This would appear to have come from the large number of Standard Editions for its “Futures End” books: at a dollar less, Diamond would give those titles separate entries in its records (as opposed to same-priced variant covers, which are all fused in single entries). For comparison, DC had 85 new comics releases in August.<\/p>\n

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

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