{"id":5510,"date":"2010-02-04T18:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-01T18:33:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T23:33:50","slug":"siege-leads-off-january-2010-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/04\/siege-leads-off-january-2010-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Siege leads off January 2010 top sellers list"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/201001Siege1-3.jpg\" width=\"129\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p>As a new decade dawned for comics shops, Marvel&#8217;s <b><i>Siege<\/i> #1<\/b> was first off the UPS truck \u2014 and first in the preliminary rankings released by Diamond Comic Distributors for January orders.<\/p>\n<p>Comics shops ordered more copies of the new Marvel event title in a month that did not see a new Blackest Night issue, breaking DC&#8217;s string of months topping the list. Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/2010\/2010-01.html\"><b>complete top-sellers chart<\/b><\/a>; this is, again, Diamond&#8217;s preliminary release, so more will be coming later.<\/p>\n<p>Marvel led the market shares, with DC in second and Dark Horse in third for both unit and dollar sales.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Walking-Dead-11-Fear-Hunters\/dp\/1607061813?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=farawaypcom-20&amp;link_code=bil&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ws.amazon.com\/widgets\/q?MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ASIN=1607061813&amp;tag=farawaypcom-20\" alt=\"The Walking Dead Volume 11: Fear The Hunters\" \/><\/a><i><b>Walking Dead Vol. 11<\/b><\/i><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=farawaypcom-20&amp;l=bil&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=1607061813\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> topped the trade paperback and graphic novel list.<\/p>\n<p>A final note: we&#8217;ve restored a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/forum.html\"><b>research forum<\/b><\/a> of sorts to the site. The earliest iteration of the site had a forum where readers could ask questions and post information they&#8217;d discovered; that vanished in the database crash of 2008, but we were able to rescue some of the more interesting posts and restore them to the new forum. It&#8217;s a very no-frills message board \u2014 no memberships required \u2014 but hopefully it will allow readers to ask and answer on topic we don&#8217;t get to in our blog.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a new decade dawned for comics shops, Marvel&#8217;s Siege #1 was first off the UPS truck \u2014 and first in the preliminary rankings released by Diamond Comic Distributors for January orders. Comics shops ordered more copies of the new Marvel event title in a month that did not see a new Blackest Night issue, &#8230; <a title=\"Siege leads off January 2010 top sellers list\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/04\/siege-leads-off-january-2010-top\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Siege leads off January 2010 top sellers list\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[94,17,45],"class_list":["post-5510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-sales","tag-diamond-monthly-reports","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5510","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=5510"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6636,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5510\/revisions\/6636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}