{"id":5968,"date":"2008-04-24T23:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T23:21:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-28T03:09:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T03:09:03","slug":"march-2008-comics-sales-data-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/24\/march-2008-comics-sales-data-online\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2008 comics sales data online"},"content":{"rendered":"
by John Jackson Miller<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n


\n<\/a><\/span><\/a> I’ll be saving the more lengthy analysis for the Newsarama column coming up, but the tables with my raw estimates for March<\/strong> can be found here<\/strong><\/a>. I will say here that while it is a soft month, it’s one that’s following a year after a blockbuster March \u2014 and the first quarter has historically been slow in most normal years. <\/span><\/p>\n

In the widest category, the quarter is only off by almost exactly $1 million \u2014 less than the revenue of a single product, last year’s Captain America #25<\/strong>. And the five-year comparatives are way up.<\/span><\/p>\n

So it’s our first slower quarter in a while \u2014 but it takes two down quarters in a row in the general economy to make a recession. And in this business, I’d make that two not<\/em> including the first quarter!<\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
TOP 300 COMICS UNIT SALES<\/span>
\n<\/strong>March 2008: 6.08 million copies
\nVersus 1 year ago this month: -13%
\nVersus 5 years ago this month: +9%
\nVersus 10 years ago this month: -15%
\nYEAR TO DATE: 19.11 million copies, -6% vs. 2007<\/strong><\/p>\n

TOP 300 COMICS DOLLAR SALES<\/span><\/strong>
\nMarch 2008: $19.14 million
\nVersus 1 year ago this month: -15%
\nVersus 5 years ago this month: +22%
\nVersus 10 years ago this month: +10%
\nYEAR TO DATE: $64.14 million, -7% vs. 2007<\/strong><\/p>\n

TOP 100 TRADE PAPERBACK DOLLAR SALES<\/strong><\/span>
\nMarch 2008: $4.33 million
\nVersus 1 year ago this month: +5%
\nVersus 5 years ago this month, just the Top 50 vs. the Top 50: +17%
\nYEAR TO DATE: $12.47 million, +5% vs. 2007<\/strong><\/p>\n

TOP 300 COMICS + TOP 100 TRADE PAPERBACK DOLLAR SALES<\/span>
\n<\/strong>March 2008: $23.47 million
\nVersus 1 year ago this month: -12%
\nVersus 5 years ago this month, counting just the Top 50 TPBs: +21%
\nYEAR TO DATE: $72.23, -5% vs. 2007<\/strong><\/p>\n

OVERALL DIAMOND SALES (including all comics, trades, and magazines)<\/strong><\/span>
\nMarch 2008: $31.21 million ($34.67 million with UK)
\nVersus 1 year ago this month: -7%
\nVersus 5 years ago this month: +27%
\nYEAR TO DATE: $98.3 million, -1% vs. 2007, +46% vs. 2003<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n

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by John Jackson Miller I’ll be saving the more lengthy analysis for the Newsarama column coming up, but the tables with my raw estimates for March can be found here. I will say here that while it is a soft month, it’s one that’s following a year after a blockbuster March \u2014 and the first … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5969,"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-5968","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\/5968","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=5968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5970,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968\/revisions\/5970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}