{"id":4703,"date":"2014-08-08T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-01T14:48:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T19:48:25","slug":"july-2014-comics-market-dollar-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/08\/july-2014-comics-market-dollar-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"July 2014 comics market tops $53 million, most in Diamond Exclusive Era; Rocket Raccoon, Walking Dead lead lists"},"content":{"rendered":"
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July in recent years has tended to be a month where things really get
\ngoing for comics; sales did indeed, reaching their highest dollar value
\nin the Diamond Exclusive Era which began in 1997. Comics shops in North
\nAmerica ordered more than $53.6 million in comics, graphic novels, and
\nmagazines, topping $50 million for the second time and besting October’s
\nprevious Diamond-Era record of $50.3 million.<\/p>\n

It was a five-week month against a five-week month, so that factor is not in play; what it was was a month in which a lot<\/i> of new comics shipped. Diamond Comic Distributors<\/a> <\/b>shipped 530 new comic books in July, which is the highest figure seen since Diamond began releasing those statistics one year ago. The release of 312 graphic novels was also the highest seen in a year \u2014 and when one of those books is Walking Dead Vol. 21<\/b><\/i><\/a>, it’s likely to be a decent July. The result was a month with the largest year-over-year change since last September: comics and graphic novel sales were up 14.52% over a year ago. The seven-month total has now topped $300 million, and is ahead 2.22% year-to-year.<\/p>\n

The aggregate sales changes:<\/p>\n

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