{"id":4725,"date":"2014-06-13T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-01T14:55:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T19:55:45","slug":"marvels-original-sin-1-leads-may-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/13\/marvels-original-sin-1-leads-may-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel’s Original Sin #1 leads May 2014 comics sales"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Marvel’s Original Sin<\/i> #1<\/b><\/a> led the market in a month that included a Spider-Man movie release and what Diamond Comic Distributors<\/b> reported was its best Free Comic Book Day<\/b> yet. That’s according to Diamond’s just-released report<\/a> <\/b>on what comics shops in North America ordered in the month of May.<\/p>\n

Retailers purchased a little over $43 million in comic books in May, down 4.52%; periodical sales were down only 2%. It was a four-week month versus a five-week month last year, so that performance is not bad, if unremarkable. The slate of new titles was much lighter than we’ve seen in a while: 427 new comic books came out, down 54 from April. It’s the lowest number of new comic releases in six months.<\/p>\n

Year-to-date sales are now essentially flat at a little less than $208 million, down about a third of a million dollars versus the same period in 2013. The comparative sales statistics:<\/p>\n

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