{"id":5977,"date":"2008-03-19T22:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-28T03:09:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T03:09:12","slug":"february-2008-comics-analysis-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/19\/february-2008-comics-analysis-online\/","title":{"rendered":"February 2008 comics analysis online"},"content":{"rendered":"
by John Jackson Miller<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n

\nMy Newsarama feature for the month appears here<\/b><\/a> (with lots of cool historical comparatives), and the charts and graphs here are updated, as well. X-Force #1<\/b> led the top-selling comics list in February<\/b><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n


\nTOP 300 COMICS UNIT SALES<\/b><\/span>
\nFebruary 2008: 6.26 million copies<\/b>
\nVersus 1 year ago this month: -5%<\/b>
\nVersus 5 years ago this month:+7%<\/b>
\nVersus 10 years ago this month: -5%<\/b>
\nYEAR TO DATE: 13.02 million copies, -2% vs. 2007
\n<\/b>
\nTOP 300 COMICS DOLLAR SALES<\/b><\/span>
\nFebruary 2008: $19.62 million<\/b>
\nVersus 1 year ago this month: -6%<\/b>
\nVersus 5 years ago this month: +19%<\/b>
\nVersus 10 years ago this month: +25%<\/b>
\nYEAR TO DATE: $40.65 million, -3% vs. 2007<\/b><\/p>\n

TOP 100 TRADE PAPERBACK DOLLAR SALES<\/span><\/b>
\nFebruary 2008: $4.01 million<\/b>
\nVersus 1 year ago this month: +7%<\/b>
\nVersus 5 years ago this month, just the Top 50 vs. the Top 50: +13<\/b>%
\nYEAR TO DATE: $8.14 million, +5% vs. 2007<\/b><\/p>\n

TOP 300 COMICS + TOP 100 TRADE PAPERBACK DOLLAR SALES<\/span><\/b>
\nFebruary 2008: $23.63 million<\/b>
\nVersus 1 year ago this month: -4%<\/b>
\nVersus 5 years ago this month, just the Top 50 TPBs: +18%
\nYEAR TO DATE: $48.76, -1% vs. 2007<\/b>
\n
\nOVERALL DIAMOND SALES <\/b><\/span>(including all comics, trades, and magazines)
\nFebruary 2008: $32.53 million<\/b> ($36.85 million with UK)
\nVersus 1 year ago this month: +1%<\/b>
\nVersus 5 years ago this month: +48<\/b>%
\nYEAR TO DATE: $67.09 million, +2% vs. 2007<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

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\nThe year-to-date figures are also available from anywhere on the site, on the Comichrometer at upper left.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by John Jackson Miller My Newsarama feature for the month appears here (with lots of cool historical comparatives), and the charts and graphs here are updated, as well. X-Force #1 led the top-selling comics list in February: TOP 300 COMICS UNIT SALES February 2008: 6.26 million copies Versus 1 year ago this month: -5% Versus … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5978,"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-5977","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\/5977","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=5977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5979,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977\/revisions\/5979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}