{"id":4694,"date":"2014-09-05T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-01T14:46:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T19:46:34","slug":"batman-thanos-lead-keep-strong-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/05\/batman-thanos-lead-keep-strong-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Batman, Thanos keep strong summer for comics sales going in August"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After a summer of “bombshell” covers, anniversary covers, high-profile relaunches, and giant purchases by online retailers, August appears to have been something more resembling a generic month in the comics industry. Comic-book retailers purchased more than $41 million in comic books, trade paperbacks, and magazines in August 2014, according Comichron’s analysis of data released today by Diamond Comic Distributors. Dollar sales for the month were up 7.6% year over year, bringing annual sales to $344 million, up nearly 3% over 2013.
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\n\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/CCThanos\"July’s sales, the highest recorded dollar amount paid for comics and graphic novels in the seventeen-year long Diamond Exclusive Era, were boosted in part by a fifth week to the month, by the addition of thousands of Rocket Raccoon<\/i> #1<\/b><\/a> copies bought by Loot Crate<\/b>, and by DC’s Batman 75th Anniversary covers, among other things. August’s sales appear to have returned to a more regular pattern, with Batman<\/i> #34<\/b><\/a> taking the top slot.<\/p>\n

The leading new series launch\u00a0 was DC’s Multiversity<\/i> #1<\/b>, in fourth place, with the Thanos: The Infinity Revelation<\/a> <\/b><\/i>hardcover from Marvel leading the graphic novel list.<\/p>\n

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