{"id":5801,"date":"2009-02-18T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-28T03:07:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T03:07:40","slug":"diamond-era-records-now-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/18\/diamond-era-records-now-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamond-era records now online"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"What’s the best-selling comic book in the last dozen years? What’s the worst<\/span>-selling top-seller? There’s a reference for that now \u2014 as the Comichron “book of records,” long-delayed, is finally beginning on site, with the Diamond Era Records page<\/span><\/a> now online. Covering April 1997 to present, it’s a first step \u2014 and it includes, beyond high-and-low-selling issues and months, info on highest average prices and market share peaks for the major companies.<\/p>\n

We find that the Obama Amazing Spider-Man<\/span> issue, which does indeed look to land around the 353,000-copy direct sales mark, looks to be the best-seller since December 1997, and Image’s Darkness<\/span> #11<\/span>, which had preorders of 357,000 copies across 11 covers. Missed it by that<\/span> much!<\/p>\n

Obviously, this is a page which will grow and be amended over time. There is also an all-time page in the works. And follow the caveats on the page; the records here are derived from estimates using the Diamond data, and thus include nothing else, like a comic’s sales on the newsstand. Both Pok\u00e9mon<\/span> #1 <\/span>and Ultimate Spider-Man<\/span> #1<\/span> had significant external sales, for example \u2014 and we have no way of adding for sure what the Obama Spidey’s newsstand sales<\/a> <\/span>were as of yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What’s the best-selling comic book in the last dozen years? What’s the worst-selling top-seller? There’s a reference for that now \u2014 as the Comichron “book of records,” long-delayed, is finally beginning on site, with the Diamond Era Records page now online. Covering April 1997 to present, it’s a first step \u2014 and it includes, beyond … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,46,45],"class_list":["post-5801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-diamond-monthly-reports","tag-record-setters","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5801","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=5801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5803,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5801\/revisions\/5803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}