{"id":5817,"date":"2009-02-12T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-28T03:07:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T03:07:48","slug":"diamond-january-2009-obama-issue-adds-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/12\/diamond-january-2009-obama-issue-adds-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamond January 2009: Obama issue adds $1 mil+ to market"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beginning the release of information for January 2009, Diamond has released its market shares and top sellers for the month \u2014 and as expected, Amazing Spider-Man #583<\/span>, the Barack Obama issue, led the charts:<\/p>\n

1 ) Amazing Spider-Man #583 \u2022 $3.99 \u2022 Marvel Comics
2) Dark Avengers #1 \u2022 $3.99 \u2022 Marvel Comics
3) Final Crisis #6 \u2022 $3.99 \u2022 DC Comics
4) Final Crisis #7 \u2022 $3.99 \u2022 DC Comics
5) New Avengers #49 \u2022 $3.99 \u2022 Marvel Comics
6) Captain America #46 \u2022 $2.99 \u2022 Marvel Comics
7) Batman #685 \u2022 $2.99 \u2022 DC Comics
8) Astonishing X-Men #28 \u2022 $2.99 \u2022 Marvel Comics
9) Justice League of America #29 \u2022 $2.99 \u2022 DC Comics
10) Buffy the Vampire Slayer #21 \u2022 $2.99 \u2022 Dark Horse Comics<\/p>\n

Looking at the market share, word from retailers, and other information at hand, I feel confident that my initial hunch was close to correct<\/span><\/a>, and that the issue’s sales roughly quintupled<\/span> across all versions. (I’d figured somewhere between quadrupling and quintupling \u2014 with the new printings increasingly piling on more.) That would put the issue’s direct-market sales in the mid 300,000s \u2014 and add a little more than $1 million to the market for the month. Again, this would have the effect of offsetting a 4% drop in unit sales elsewhere, should January be its usual slow self.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

How does this answer my own question of how the issue would rank in Spider-history<\/span><\/a>? Unless the newsstand adds more than I’m expecting (I think it initially got the “cougar” cover, but I don’t know for sure), it’ll be better than anything in the last 15 years<\/span><\/a>, and up there past most of the 1960s and 1970s issues, too. So it’s likely the best seller for the series outside of the early 1990s boom period.<\/p>\n

To the trades:<\/p>\n

1) Walking Dead Vol. 9: Here We Remain \u2022 $14.99 \u2022 Image Comics
2) Watchmen \u2022 $19.99 \u2022 DC Comics
3) Secret Invasion \u2022 $29.99 \u2022 Marvel Comics
4) Ultimate Spider-Man Vol. 21: War of the Symbiotes \u2022 $15.99 \u2022 Marvel Comics
5) Justice Vol. 3 \u2022 $14.99 \u2022 DC Comics
6) House of Mystery Vol. 1: Room and Boredom \u2022 $9.99 \u2022 DC Comics
7) Star Wars: Vector Vol. 1: Chapters 1 & 2 \u2022 $17.95 \u2022 Dark Horse Comics
8) Batman: The Man Who Laughs \u2022 $14.99 \u2022 DC Comics
9) Joker HC \u2022 $19.99 \u2022 DC Comics
10) Criminal Vol. 4: Bad Night \u2022 $14.99 \u2022 Marvel Comics<\/p>\n

Watchmen<\/span> still right up there, in advance of the movie; I would guess Secret Invasion<\/span> is the top dollar book. And, full disclosure, I did write that Star Wars<\/span> book, along with Mick Harrison \u2014 as with everything, I’m just conveying Diamond’s report.<\/p>\n

And finally, the market shares:<\/p>\n

DOLLAR SHARES<\/span>
Marvel \u2022 42.82%
DC \u2022 31.24%
Dark Horse \u2022 5.22%
Image \u2022 4.19%
IDW \u2022 3.00%
Dynamic Forces \u2022 1.75%
Viz \u2022 1.52%
Wizard \u2022 1.35%
Avatar Press \u2022 0.88%
Tokyopop \u2022 0.90%
Other \u2022 7.14%

UNIT SHARES<\/span>
Marvel \u2022 45.86%
DC \u2022 33.45%
Dark Horse \u2022 4.55%
IDW \u2022 3.10%
Image \u2022 3.05%
Dynamic Forces \u2022 1.88%
Wizard \u2022 1.10%
Avatar Press \u2022 0.86%
Viz \u2022 0.81%
Tokyopop \u2022 0.39%
Other \u2022 4.94%<\/p>\n

That’s it. Look for further data as the next week unfolds.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beginning the release of information for January 2009, Diamond has released its market shares and top sellers for the month \u2014 and as expected, Amazing Spider-Man #583, the Barack Obama issue, led the charts: 1 ) Amazing Spider-Man #583 \u2022 $3.99 \u2022 Marvel Comics2) Dark Avengers #1 \u2022 $3.99 \u2022 Marvel Comics3) Final Crisis #6 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104,77,17],"class_list":["post-5817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2009-sales","tag-barack-obama","tag-diamond-monthly-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817","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=5817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5818,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817\/revisions\/5818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}