{"id":4715,"date":"2014-07-14T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-01T14:50:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T19:50:28","slug":"june-2014-comics-sales-estimates-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/14\/june-2014-comics-sales-estimates-market\/","title":{"rendered":"June 2014 comics sales estimates: Market bounces back to a tie at halftime"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The full estimates for June 2014 comics sales are now online<\/b><\/a>, and as reported last weekend, at “halftime” we see a market that has rebounded from winter to bring this year’s sales even with last year.<\/p>\n

Retailers spent almost the exact same amount of money on comics and graphic novels in the period in the first halves of this year and last year, but this year they bought slightly more graphic novels and slightly fewer comic books. But the losses in comic books mainly came during the winter; they’ve perked up since. We were down 4% in overall sales in the first quarter and up 4% in the second. (So there’s no “comics recession,” at least in the two-negative-quarters definition of the term.)<\/p>\n

\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/AfterArch\"Further, the “long tail” in comics has outperformed the Top 300. This is even more true of the long tail in graphic novels, though there is a caveat: the fact that Top 300 graphic novel revenue reads as off 8% for the year while Diamond says that the category overall is up 3% is partially explained by the fact that there were larger quantities of graphic novels dumped on the market at deep discount in the first half of 2013. We’re seeing fewer graphic novels in the itemized charts, yes, but Diamond is seeing more wholesale revenue \u2014 which is what it bases its percentages on.<\/p>\n

June itself was led by Batman<\/i> #32<\/b><\/a> \u2014 and saw some upward movement by several titles, including Harley Quinn<\/i><\/b>. The top graphic novel, as noted on Friday, was Afterlife with Archie Vol. 1<\/b><\/i><\/a>, the first Archie graphic novel to top the book list with orders approaching 12,000 copies.<\/p>\n

The comparison data:<\/p>\n

TOP 300 COMICS UNIT SALES<\/b><\/u><\/div>\n

June 2014<\/a>: <\/b>6.46 million copies
\nVersus 1 year ago this month<\/b><\/a>: -8%
\nVersus 5 years ago this month<\/b><\/a>: -2%
\nVersus 10 years ago this month<\/b><\/a>: -1%
\nVersus 15 years ago this month<\/b><\/a>: -1%
\nQ2 2014: 20.09 million copies, -3% vs.Q2 2013
\nYEAR TO DATE: 38.39 million copies, -8% vs. 2013, +8% vs. 2009, +6% vs. 2004, +1 vs. 1999<\/p>\n

ALL COMICS UNIT SALES<\/b>
\nJune 2014 versus one year ago this month: -4.51%<\/b>
\nQ2 2014 vs. Q2 2013: -1.29%<\/b>
\nYEAR TO DATE: -6.36%<\/b><\/p>\n

TOP 300 COMICS DOLLAR SALES<\/b><\/u><\/div>\n


\n<\/u>June 2014: $23.75 million
\nVersus 1 year ago this month: -7%
\nVersus 5 years ago this month: +5%
\nVersus 10 years ago this month: +28%
\nVersus 15 years ago this month: +43%
\nQ2 2014: $76.77 million, +2% vs. Q2 2013
\nYEAR TO DATE: $144.77 million, -4% vs. 2013, +20% vs. 2009, +41% vs. 2004, +49% vs. 1999<\/p>\n

ALL COMICS DOLLAR SALES<\/b>
\nJune 2014 versus one year ago this month: -2.93%<\/b>
\nQ2 2014 vs. Q2 2013: +3.9%<\/b>
\nYEAR TO DATE:<\/b> -1.43%<\/b><\/p>\n

TOP 300 TRADE PAPERBACK DOLLAR SALES<\/b><\/u><\/div>\n


\n<\/u>June 2014: $6.93 million
\nVersus 1 year ago this month: +2%
\nVersus 5 years ago this month: +15%
\nVersus 10 years ago this month, just the Top 100 vs. the Top 100: +25%
\nVersus 15 years ago this month, just the Top 25 vs. the Top 25: +27%
\nQ2 2014: $21.77 million, -7% vs. Q2 2013
\nYEAR TO DATE: $42.4 million, -8% vs. 2013<\/p>\n

ALL TRADE PAPERBACK\u00a0 SALES<\/b>
\nJune 2014 versus one year ago this month: +8.09%<\/b>
\nQ2 2014 vs. Q2 2013: +4.33%<\/b>
\nYEAR TO DATE: +2.93%<\/b><\/p>\n

TOP 300 COMICS + TOP 300 TRADE PAPERBACK DOLLAR SALES<\/b><\/u><\/div>\n

June 2014: $30.68 million
\nVersus 1 year ago this month: -5%
\nVersus 5 years ago this month: -2%
\nVersus 10 years ago this month, counting just the Top 100 TPBs: +15%
\nVersus 15 years ago this month, counting just the Top 25 TPBs: +52%
\nQ2 2014 vs. Q2 2013: $98.54 million, unchanged vs. Q2 2013
\nYEAR TO DATE: $187.18 million, -5% vs. 2013 <\/b><\/p>\n

ALL COMICS AND TRADE PAPERBACK\u00a0 SALES<\/b>
\nJune 2014 versus one year ago this month: +0.33%<\/b>
\nQ2 2014 vs. Q2 2013: +4.04%<\/b>
\nYEAR TO DATE: -0.08%<\/b><\/p>\n

OVERALL DIAMOND SALES (including all comics, trades, and magazines)<\/b><\/u>\u00a0<\/span>
\nJune 2014:<\/span> <\/span>approximately $41.68 million (subject to revision)
\nVersus 1 year ago this month: unchanged
\nVersus 5 years ago this month: +13%
\nVersus 10 years ago this month: +91%
\nQ2 2014 vs. Q2 2013: $132.94 million, up 4% vs. Q2 2013
\nYEAR TO DATE: $249.53 million, unchanged vs. 2013<\/b><\/p>\n

RELEASES<\/b><\/span>
\nNew comic books released: 424<\/b>
\nNew graphic novels released: 246<\/b>
\nNew magazines released: 34<\/b>
\nAll new releases: 704<\/b><\/p>\n

The average comic book in the Top 300 cost $3.72; the average comic book
\nretailers ordered cost $3.67, a considerable drop. The median and most common price for comics offered was $3.99. Click to see comics prices across time.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Diamond only released the Top 300 this month, after several months of the Top 400. Various small publisher titles in the 300s and 400s were provided, and are shown on the listing page.<\/p>\n

Look here tomorrow for the release of the long-awaited 2013 end-of-year data, including the direct market, outside channels, and digital, the product of our first-ever joint analysis with ICV2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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