{"id":5890,"date":"2008-12-11T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-28T03:08:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T03:08:25","slug":"ultimatum-1-tops-list-in-early-peek-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/11\/ultimatum-1-tops-list-in-early-peek-at\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultimatum #1 tops list in “early peek” at Diamond November list"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"About a week before Diamond Comic Distributors<\/span> would customarily release its Top 300 Comics and Top 100 Trade Paperbacks lists for November, it has announced the Top 10 sellers in each category<\/span><\/a> and the top five publisher market shares. Elissa Lynch<\/span> at Diamond has confirmed for The Comics Chronicles that this list is preparatory<\/span> to, and not<\/span> in place of, the regular indexed sales figures.<\/p>\n

The Top 10 comics:<\/span>
1) Ultimatum #1 \u2022 $3.99 \u2022 Marvel
2) Batman #681 RIP \u2022 $3.99 \u2022 DC
3) Hulk #8 \u2022 $2.99 \u2022 Marvel
4) Wolverine #69 \u2022 $2.99 \u2022 Marvel
5) Uncanny X-Men #504 MD \u2022 $2.99 \u2022 Marvel
6) Amazing Spider-Man #577 \u2022 $3.99 \u2022 Marvel
7) Captain America #44 \u2022 $2.99 \u2022 Marvel
8) Buffy the Vampire Slayer #19 \u2022 $2.99 \u2022 Dark Horse
9) JSA Kingdom Come Special: Superman #1 \u2022 $3.99 \u2022 DC
10) Justice Society of America #20* \u2022 $2.99 \u2022 DC<\/p>\n

The Top 10 Trade Paperbacks:<\/span>
1) Fables Vol. 11: War & Pieces \u2022 $17.99 \u2022 DC
2) Michael Turner Tribute \u2022 $8.99 \u2022 Aspen
3) Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 Vol. 3: Wolves at the Gate \u2022 $15.95 \u2022 Dark Horse
4) Heroes HC Vol. 2 \u2022 $29.99 \u2022 DC
5) Watchmen HC \u2022 $39.99 \u2022 DC
6) JLA\/Avengers \u2022 $19.99 \u2022 DC\/Marvel
7) Watchmen SC \u2022 $19.99 \u2022 DC
8) Joker HC \u2022 $19.99 \u2022 DC
9) Naruto Vol. 32 \u2022 $7.95 \u2022 Viz
10) Fruits Basket Vol. 21 \u2022 $9.99 \u2022 TokyoPop<\/p>\n

The top five companies’ market shares:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Dollars <\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Units <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Marvel <\/b> <\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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36.96% <\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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42.90% <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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DC <\/b> <\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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34.21% <\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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34.52% <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Dark Horse <\/b> <\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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5.86% <\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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4.84% <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Image <\/b> <\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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4.35% <\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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3.80% <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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IDW <\/b> <\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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2.96% <\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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2.83% <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Other <\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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15.65% <\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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11.11% <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The “early peek” at the top-sellers lists appears to be an enhancement from Diamond, capitalizing on the attention the indexed charts receive each month \u2014 charts that have appeared from one distributor or another in comics since the early 1980s, when Milton Griepp introduced them to Internal Correspondence at Capital City<\/span>. Diamond is a longstanding supporter of increasing public awareness of what’s going on in the medium, and The Comics Chronicles<\/span> applauds its continuing efforts to do that with this added, early release of information.<\/p>\n

EDIT: Link added and column headers corrected for table.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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