{"id":6894,"date":"2021-07-18T17:35:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T22:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/?p=6894"},"modified":"2021-07-18T17:36:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T22:36:33","slug":"june-2021-projected-initial-comics-orders-online-huge-month-for-periodicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/18\/june-2021-projected-initial-comics-orders-online-huge-month-for-periodicals\/","title":{"rendered":"June 2021 projected initial comics orders online: Huge month for periodicals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nJune 2021 looks to have been a colossal<\/em> month for periodical comics, according to Comichron’s projected rankings for comics initial orders, just posted. Venom #35 led a five-week month slate that was the largest yet since the pandemic began. \u00a0Find the June charts here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We counted 406 new comics overall and nearly 1,000 new variants for June. Projections suggest initial orders of between 8-9 million copies totaling nearly $40 million, rivaling any of the best months of the 2010s. \u00a0DC’s 60-issue slate is near its 2019 levels; Marvel’s is still about a third smaller.<\/p>\n

A year after DC’s departure from Diamond, we’re retiring our DC-only charts. Everything on our DC pages is captured in the all-industry reports, and they no longer really function as Lunar reports as that distributor adds more publishers. \u00a0June DC can be found at https:\/\/bit.ly\/Jun21ComicsDC<\/a>; if things change and Lunar starts reporting anything, we’ll start a new section.<\/p>\n

Finally, I do still expect Diamond’s monthly charts to return at some point. That data was a product of its warehouses; it always reported shipments, not orders. (Ironically, a DC idea!) With first DC and then Marvel no longer flooring all their stock there, logistical systems are likely evolving. We shall see!<\/p>\n

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June 2021 looks to have been a colossal month for periodical comics, according to Comichron’s projected rankings for comics initial orders, just posted. Venom #35 led a five-week month slate that was the largest yet since the pandemic began. \u00a0Find the June charts here. We counted 406 new comics overall and nearly 1,000 new variants … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[131],"class_list":["post-6894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2021-sales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894","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=6894"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6898,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894\/revisions\/6898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}