{"id":5874,"date":"2009-01-13T01:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T01:46:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-28T03:08:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T03:08:12","slug":"diamond-releases-2008-overall-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/13\/diamond-releases-2008-overall-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamond releases 2008 overall top seller list"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"As in past years, Diamond<\/span><\/a> has released Year-in-Review charts for sales in 2008<\/span><\/a> \u2014 this time, in advance of the December 2008 data. Comics, trade paperback and graphic novel, and market share charts are in the release.<\/p>\n

2008 TOP COMIC BOOK PUBLISHERS<\/span> (Dollar Share)
Marvel: 40.81%
DC: 29.94%
Dark Horse: 6.49%
Image: 3.73%
IDW: 3.08%
Others: 15.95%<\/p>\n

In 2007, Marvel<\/span> stood at 40.22%, DC<\/span> 31.92%, Dark Horse<\/span> 5.61%, Image<\/span> 3.82%, and IDW<\/span> 2.08%. So IDW picks up a full point.<\/p>\n

2008 TOP COMIC BOOK PUBLISHERS<\/span> (Unit Share)
Marvel: 45.82%
DC: 31.67%
Dark Horse: 5.05%
Image: 3.32%
IDW: 2.92%
Others: 11.22%<\/p>\n

2008 TOP COMICS (Unit Sales)
<\/span>1) Secret Invasion #1 \u2022 $3.99 \u2022 Marvel
2) Secret Invasion #2 \u2022 $3.99 \u2022 Marvel
3) Secret Invasion #3 \u2022 $3.99 \u2022 Marvel
4) Secret Invasion #4 \u2022 $3.99 \u2022 Marvel
5) Secret Invasion #5\u2022 $3.99 \u2022 Marvel
6) Secret Invasion #6 \u2022 $3.99 \u2022 Marvel
7) Uncanny X-Men #500 \u2022 $3.99 \u2022 Marvel
8) Secret Invasion #7 \u2022 $3.99 \u2022 Marvel
9) Final Crisis #1 \u2022 $3.99 \u2022 DC
10) Secret Invasion #8 \u2022 $3.99 \u2022 Marvel<\/p>\n

A real pattern there… and note every one at $3.99. Looks from this like the December list will lead off, not unexpectedly, with Secret Invasion<\/span> #8<\/span>, and at some figure less than 156,000 (which is #7’s estimated initial orders in October<\/span><\/a>, plus the highest figure that reorders for it could be from November<\/span><\/a>).<\/p>\n

2008 TOP TRADE PAPERBACKS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS (Unit Sales)<\/span>
1) Watchmen \u2022 $19.99 \u2022 DC
2) Batman: The Killing Joke Special Ed. \u2022 $17.99 \u2022 DC
3) Joker HC \u2022 $19.99 \u2022 DC Comics
4) Y: The Last Man Vol. 10: Whys and Wherefores \u2022 $14.99 \u2022 DC
5) Walking Dead Vol. 8: Made to Suffer \u2022 $14.99 \u2022 Image Comics
6) Batman: The Dark Knight Returns \u2022 $14.99 \u2022 DC
7) Fables Vol. 10: The Good Prince \u2022 $17.99 \u2022 DC
8) Wanted \u2022 $19.99 \u2022 Image
9) Buffy the Vampire Slaver Season 8 Vol. 2: No Future for You \u2022 $15.95 \u2022 Dark Horse
10) Y: The Last Man Vol. 1: Unmanned \u2022 $12.99 \u2022DC Comics<\/p>\n

\u201cComic book and graphic novel sales through comic book specialty shops remained strong in 2008, with graphic novel sales increasing five-percent over 2007\u201d said Diamond CEO Steve Geppi<\/span>. My tracking of the Top 100 trades for the first 11 months of the year reads as up 4% over the same grouping in 2007<\/span><\/a>; so the “long tail” is overperforming last year, kicking in an additional percent. The news is making the P.R. rounds, and has already gone up on USA Today<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also as in past years, the charts are not indexed, meaning that no copy counts can be derived from the lists; it’s one reason these particular charts, while informative, may not get the kind of traffic as some others. I do have all of them somewhere, and will try to get them online at some point.<\/p>\n

Once the December roll-out of data is complete, I’ll be able to see how my “overall” estimates for the year squares with what’s reported above; if magazines are counted in one calculation and not the other, that might be a source of some variance. Stay tuned…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As in past years, Diamond has released Year-in-Review charts for sales in 2008 \u2014 this time, in advance of the December 2008 data. Comics, trade paperback and graphic novel, and market share charts are in the release. 2008 TOP COMIC BOOK PUBLISHERS (Dollar Share)Marvel: 40.81%DC: 29.94%Dark Horse: 6.49%Image: 3.73%IDW: 3.08%Others: 15.95% In 2007, Marvel stood … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[112,21],"class_list":["post-5874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2008-sales","tag-diamond-annual-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5874","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=5874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5876,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5874\/revisions\/5876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}