{"id":5639,"date":"2009-08-13T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-28T03:06:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T03:06:56","slug":"diamond-july-top-sellers-released-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/13\/diamond-july-top-sellers-released-cap\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamond July Top Sellers released; Cap Reborn on top"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Diamond Comic Distributors<\/span><\/a> began the monthly roll-out of comics sales information today with its release of the top ten sellers in the month of July<\/span><\/a> for several categories, and the charts find Marvel’s Captain America: Reborn<\/span> #1<\/span> in the top slot, followed by DC’s Blackest Night<\/span> #1<\/span>. With a top-ten chart that includes two more “Blackest Night” issues and 600th issues for both Amazing Spider-Man<\/span> and Incredible Hulk<\/span> (also an anniversary for Tales to Astonish<\/span>, but who’s quibbling), the recent spate of comparatively event-free months seems to be past.<\/p>\n

As can be seen from the link, these are just the top ten, not indexed; more will come later. We can see from this that only one item was at $2.99 in the Top 10 comics list; all else was at $3.99 or $4.99. Last July<\/span><\/a> \u2014 a month with relatively fewer “big event” issues \u2014 all but two books were at $2.99. However, Top 300 comics unit sales last July were at 7.2 million copies, one of the better months for the year, so there still could be some steep comparatives overall.<\/p>\n

We also see quite a lot of hardcovers in the Top 10 graphic novel list as compared with last July \u2014 but it may not make much difference to the overall, since that month included a Watchmen<\/span> re-release and retailers bought a whopping 19,000-plus copies of the book. (Numerology fans may find something fun in seeing 100 Bullets Vol. 13<\/span>: Wilt<\/span> on the list \u2014 the latest in a play on numbers in the 100 Bullets<\/span> TPB titles. 13 is, of course, Wilt Chamberlain’s number.)<\/p>\n

The Top 10 Publisher market shares<\/span><\/a> can also be seen; the rankings for both units and dollars were Marvel\/DC\/Dark Horse\/IDW\/Image\/Dynamic Forces<\/span> (Dynamite). Interestingly, except for Boom and Viz flip-flopping in the unit and dollar lists, the rankings within the two lists were identical. This doesn’t happen often, and could be associated with a growing parity between unit and dollar shares between companies. When there was a lot of divergence on pricing, we’d see publishers with much higher dollar shares and lower unit shares and vice versa. We may be getting more cost-covergence as the market looks toward $3.99.<\/p>\n

More to come…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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