{"id":5712,"date":"2009-05-22T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-28T03:07:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T03:07:17","slug":"april-2009-sales-charts-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/22\/april-2009-sales-charts-online\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2009 sales charts online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The full report will follow later \u2014 an exceptionally busy month here \u2014 but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/2009\/2009-04.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">April 2009 sales charts<\/span><\/a> are online here. As expected, they report a significant rebound, helping the market to recover some of the ground lost in the first part of the year. There are also some other factors of interest, about which more in the upcoming report.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 129px; height: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/FantasticForce2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338704730352393810\" border=\"0\" \/>In the meantime, a few other updates not mentioned before \u2014 with <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Fantastic Force<\/span> relaunched at Marvel, a title spotlight has been established here for the single year of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/titlespotlights\/fantasticforce.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Fantastic Force<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> in the 1990s.<\/span><\/a> A small addition, but a trivial note is that it was the &#8220;guinea pig&#8221; title I used in pitching the <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Standard Catalog of Comic Books<\/span> line nearly a decade ago; the printed version looks not too much different from the original mock-up.<\/p>\n<p>Also, many comics from <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Bluewater<\/span> on the site had mistakenly been labeled<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> Blue King<\/span> products (they both have the same three-letter abbreviation at Diamond); these have all been corrected.<\/p>\n<p>More to come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The full report will follow later \u2014 an exceptionally busy month here \u2014 but the April 2009 sales charts are online here. As expected, they report a significant rebound, helping the market to recover some of the ground lost in the first part of the year. There are also some other factors of interest, about &#8230; <a title=\"April 2009 sales charts online\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/22\/april-2009-sales-charts-online\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about April 2009 sales charts online\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104,17,42,45],"class_list":["post-5712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2009-sales","tag-diamond-monthly-reports","tag-title-spotlights","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5712","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=5712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5714,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5712\/revisions\/5714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}