{"id":5900,"date":"2008-11-18T19:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-28T03:08:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T03:08:26","slug":"october-2008-secret-invasion-7-in-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/18\/october-2008-secret-invasion-7-in-top\/","title":{"rendered":"October 2008: Secret Invasion #7 in top slot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 235px;\" src=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/200810SecretInvasion7-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270084709088483378\" border=\"0\" \/>It will be a little while before I can attend to estimates, but the Diamond charts for October have been released (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsarama.com\/comics\/081118-diamond-sales-october.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">story at Newsarama<\/span><\/a>). Usually in October I can make a good projection as to the overall year, but 2008 versus 2007 so far is looking like a very close-run thing, so we&#8217;ll have to see what the margins are in each category.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Secret Invasion #7<\/span> is the top book, meaning that the Marvel title has topped the charts for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/2008.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">every single month of 2008 since it began<\/span><\/a>. This is the longest such run in the Diamond era since <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Uncanny X-Men<\/span> had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/1999.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">ten-issue run topping the charts in 1999.<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Civil War<\/span>&#8216;s run was broken up by not shipping in two months, but it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/2006.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">also had seven issues at the #1 slot<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Uncanny X-Men<\/span> likely had longer runs than that at #1 in the 1980s, though further research is required to say exactly how long it went for consecutive months unbroken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It will be a little while before I can attend to estimates, but the Diamond charts for October have been released (story at Newsarama). Usually in October I can make a good projection as to the overall year, but 2008 versus 2007 so far is looking like a very close-run thing, so we&#8217;ll have to &#8230; <a title=\"October 2008: Secret Invasion #7 in top slot\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/18\/october-2008-secret-invasion-7-in-top\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about October 2008: Secret Invasion #7 in top slot\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5901,"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-5900","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\/5900","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=5900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5902,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900\/revisions\/5902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}