{"id":5866,"date":"2009-01-15T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-28T03:08:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T03:08:11","slug":"december-2008-comics-sales-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/15\/december-2008-comics-sales-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"December 2008 Comics Sales: Secret Invasion tops list"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Diamond began its roll-out of December 2008 sales figures<\/span> today with the release of market shares and the Top 10s for several categories.<\/p>\n

The Top 10 comics for December and their cover prices, order codes and publishers:<\/p>\n

1) Secret Invasion #8 \u2022 $3.99 \u2022 SEP082358-60 \u2022 Marvel Comics
2) Final Crisis #5 \u2022 $3.99 \u2022 AUG080114 \u2022 DC Comics
3) Secret Invasion Dark Reign \u2022 $3.99 \u2022 OCT082339-40 \u2022 Marvel Comics
4) New Avengers #47 \u2022 $2.99 \u2022 SEP082361 \u2022 Marvel Comics
5) New Avengers #48 \u2022 $2.99 \u2022 OCT082345 \u2022 Marvel Comics
6) Batman #682 \u2022 $2.99 SEP080111-2 \u2022 DC Comics
7) Batman #683 \u2022 $2.99 SEP080113-4 \u2022 DC Comics
8) Hulk #9 \u2022 $2.99 \u2022 OCT082409-10 \u2022 Marvel Comics
9) Mighty Avengers #20 \u2022 $2.99 \u2022 SEP082368 \u2022 Marvel Comics
10) Ultimatum #2 \u2022 $3.99 \u2022 SEP082309-10 \u2022 Marvel Comics<\/p>\n

“The conclusion to Brian Michael Bendis<\/span> and Leinil Yu<\/span>\u2019s epic limited series event, Secret Invasion <\/span>#8<\/span> joins other series issues at the top of the sales charts, marking an unprecedented run for the title,” Diamond reports. The Comics Chronicles<\/span> can confirm the unprecedented nature; every issue of Civil War<\/span> topped the charts in their release months in 2006<\/span><\/a> and 2007<\/span><\/a> \u2014 but there were seven issues of that, as opposed to eight of Secret Invasion<\/span>. Only the November break<\/span><\/a> kept there from being eight consecutive months for the title on top. The longest Diamond-era run for a series on top of the chart was for Uncanny X-Men<\/span> #366-375<\/span> in the ten months from January 1999 to October 1999<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The top trade paperbacks and graphic novels:
1) Joker HC \u2022 $19.99 \u2022 JUL080124 \u2022 DC Comics
2 ) Watchmen \u2022 $19.99 \u2022 FEB058406 \u2022 DC Comics
3 ) Jack of Fables Vol. 4: Americana \u2022 $14.99 \u2022 SEP080219 \u2022 DC Comics
4 ) Naruto Vol. 33 \u2022 $7.95 \u2022 SEP084332 \u2022 VIZ Media
5 ) Star Wars Clone Wars Vol. 2: Crash Course \u2022 $7.95 \u2022 AUG080083 \u2022 Dark Horse Comics
6) Star Wars Legacy Vol. 4: Alliance \u2022 $15.95 \u2022 AUG080086 \u2022 Dark Horse Comics
7) Bleach Vol. 25 \u2022 $7.95 \u2022 SEP084333 \u2022 VIZ Media
8) Astonishing X-Men HC Vol. 2 \u2022 $34.99 \u2022 SEP082437-8 \u2022 Marvel Comics
9) Ultimates 3 Premium HC: Who Killed Scarlet Witch? \u2022 $24.99 \u2022 OCT082502-4 \u2022 Marvel Comics
10) Batman Jokers Asylum \u2022 $14.99 \u2022 SEP080172 \u2022 DC Comics<\/p>\n

I am checking into the market shares to see if the quantity and dollar columns in the charts provided were accidentally transposed (as it has Marvel’s dollar share higher than its unit share and the reverse for “Other,” something which would be highly unusual). I’ll update as I get confirmation. In any event, the ranking for both categories was Marvel\/DC\/Dark Horse\/Image\/IDW.<\/span><\/p>\n

Diamond reports the full listings will be out on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Diamond began its roll-out of December 2008 sales figures today with the release of market shares and the Top 10s for several categories. The Top 10 comics for December and their cover prices, order codes and publishers: 1) Secret Invasion #8 \u2022 $3.99 \u2022 SEP082358-60 \u2022 Marvel Comics2) Final Crisis #5 \u2022 $3.99 \u2022 AUG080114 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[112,17],"class_list":["post-5866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2008-sales","tag-diamond-monthly-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5866","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=5866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5868,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5866\/revisions\/5868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}