{"id":5922,"date":"2008-10-29T03:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T03:36:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-28T03:08:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T03:08:42","slug":"2006-charts-now-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/29\/2006-charts-now-online\/","title":{"rendered":"2006 comics sales charts, title search tool now online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 128px; height: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/200601InfiniteCrisis4-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262416095585522802\" border=\"0\" \/>And we&#8217;re marching ahead \u2014 by marching backwards. Now online are all the charts from 2006, beginning with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/2006\/2006-01.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">January 2006<\/span><\/a> and running to <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/2006\/2006-12.html\">December 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Return with us to what was a pretty good year for comics, sales-wise \u2014 the year of both <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Infinite Crisis<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Civil War<\/span>. It also marked the start of the weekly comics series <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">52<\/span>. One of the results was that while sales increased across all categories, unit and dollar sales for Diamond&#8217;s Top 300 Comic Books over the 12-month period actually increased more than its sales for its Top-Selling Trade Paperbacks and Graphic Novels. Theretofore, growth in trades generally outpaced growth in new comics sales.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing to move along with this part of the project; 2005 monthly charts will be up in the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>And we now have a search tool for the site set up, so it should be easier to find individual titles. I&#8217;m not sure how well it&#8217;ll find specific issue <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">numbers<\/span> \u2014 note that I keep issue numbers in a separate table column with no number sign, so Google reads the issues as comma-delimited. (Thus <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Civil War<\/span> #1 becomes <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Civil War<\/span>, 1.) That&#8217;s less than ideal, but it&#8217;s important to be able to present issue numbers in a separate column.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And we&#8217;re marching ahead \u2014 by marching backwards. Now online are all the charts from 2006, beginning with January 2006 and running to December 2006. Return with us to what was a pretty good year for comics, sales-wise \u2014 the year of both Infinite Crisis and Civil War. It also marked the start of the &#8230; <a title=\"2006 comics sales charts, title search tool now online\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/29\/2006-charts-now-online\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 2006 comics sales charts, title search tool now online\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,17,45],"class_list":["post-5922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2000s-sales","tag-diamond-monthly-reports","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922","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=5922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5924,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922\/revisions\/5924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}