{"id":5441,"date":"2010-05-26T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-28T03:05:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T03:05:51","slug":"april-2010-flashbacks-to-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/26\/april-2010-flashbacks-to-past\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2010: Flashbacks to the past"},"content":{"rendered":"
by John Jackson Miller and T.M. Haley<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n

\nFollowing the report on comics orders for April 2010<\/b><\/a>, here’s a look back at what was going on in previous years…<\/p>\n


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April 2009<\/span><\/span>‘s top seller was DC’s Detective Comics #853<\/b><\/i><\/span>, with estimated first-month Diamond orders of <\/span>104,100 copies. The Neil Gaiman<\/span> issue performed an interesting feat: as Comichron reported, it was the first time an issue of Detective<\/i>, the longest-running ongoing series in American comics, had ever topped the charts. Check out the detailed analysis of the month’s sales here<\/a> <\/span>\u2014 and sales chart <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/span>April 2005<\/span>‘s top-seller was Marvel’s New Avengers #5<\/i><\/b>,<\/i> with Diamond first-month orders of over 162,300 copies. But DC took the next four of the top five slots in a month where the narrower categories were flat or slightly off year-over-year. Star Wars Episode III<\/b><\/i> helped Dark Horse to one of its higher market shares across history; the movie came out in May, but orders for the adaptation issues and trade were recorded in April. Check out the sales chart here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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April 2000<\/span>‘s top-seller was Image’s Fathom #12<\/b><\/i>, with estimated Diamond preorders of approximately 124,500 copies. Image topped the charts only twice more in the 2000s, with an anniversary issue of Spawn<\/b><\/i> and Masters of the Universe<\/i> #1<\/b> a couple of years later.<\/p>\n

Also in April 2000, Marvel boosted its cover prices from $1.99 to $2.25 for most of its line, helping its market share. Check out the sales chart here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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April 1995<\/b>‘s top seller at Diamond and at Capital City Distribution was Marvel’s X-Men Omega<\/b><\/i>, the final chapter of the “Age of Apocalypse” storyline. Capital reported preorders of approximately 143,050 copies, placing overall orders north of 400,000 copies. Omega<\/i> represented something close to an end to the enhanced-cover era; its acetate outer cover makes it one of those issues where online scans look nothing like the comic book!  <\/p>\n

The book was priced at $3.99 \u2014 and the average comic book ordered within Diamond’s Top 300 cost $2.39. The most common cost of comics was $2.50, believe it or not: Marvel and DC’s lines were scattered across several price points, including $1.50, $1.75,  $1.95, and $2.25, whereas Image, Malibu, Dark Horse, and Acclaim had many of their comic books priced at $2.50.<\/p>\n

April 1990<\/span>‘s top seller at Diamond and Capital City was Legends of the Dark Knight #8,<\/span> the third issue of Grant Morrison<\/b>‘s “Gothic” storyline. Capital City’s orders on the issue were 84,950 copies, suggesting that overall sales were closer to half a million copies.<\/p>\n

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April 1985<\/b>‘s top seller at Capital City was Marvel’s Secret Wars II #2<\/b><\/i>, the shorter sequel to 1984’s best-selling comics series. Capital’s orders were approximately 65,000 copies, suggesting overall sales in the 300,000-to-400,000-copy range.<\/p>\n

While the identically priced Crisis on Infinite Earths<\/b><\/i> undeniably had a longer-term impact on its publisher’s line, Secret Wars II <\/i>was nearly outselling it two-to-one at Capital in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by John Jackson Miller and T.M. Haley Following the report on comics orders for April 2010, here’s a look back at what was going on in previous years… April 2009‘s top seller was DC’s Detective Comics #853, with estimated first-month Diamond orders of 104,100 copies. The Neil Gaiman issue performed an interesting feat: as Comichron … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-5441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-flashbacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5445,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441\/revisions\/5445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}