{"id":6905,"date":"2021-08-25T12:16:59","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T17:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/?p=6905"},"modified":"2021-08-25T12:16:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T17:16:59","slug":"diamond-july-2021-comics-sales-estimates-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/25\/diamond-july-2021-comics-sales-estimates-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamond July 2021 comics sales estimates online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 2021 Diamond comics sales estimates are out! X-Men #1 and Moon Knight #1 topped 200k copies in a $35.5 million month for the Top 300 comics and Top 300 graphic novels. That&#8217;s up 32% over the $27 million for the non-DC Top 300s in July 2019. Find July&#8217;s chart <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/2021\/2021-07Diamond.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6906\" src=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Comichron2021-07-Diamond16x9-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Comichron2021-07-Diamond16x9-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Comichron2021-07-Diamond16x9-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Comichron2021-07-Diamond16x9-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Comichron2021-07-Diamond16x9.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To clarify the comparatives: We&#8217;re taking the Top 300 grouping for July 2019 (seen at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8QEpr7G185?amp=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/Jul19Comics<\/a>), knocking out all the DC books, and then refilling the rest of the Top 300s with non-DC items. You can see an example on this July&#8217;s page of what that means for just the Top 10s. It gives us as close a comparison as we can get, imagining what if DC wasn&#8217;t around for Diamond back then, either.<\/p>\n<p>And in a first after doing these charts for 25 years, a book of mine, Marvel&#8217;s <em><strong>Star Wars Legends Omnibus: The Old Republic Vol. 1<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0led graphic novel sales in units and dollars. Definitely a strange feeling, but I&#8217;m thankful to everyone who supported the book.<\/p>\n<p>These are just the Diamond charts; our charts merging our projections for DC comics sales will appear later this week at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7jNTm82PGE?amp=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/Jul21Comics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 2021 Diamond comics sales estimates are out! X-Men #1 and Moon Knight #1 topped 200k copies in a $35.5 million month for the Top 300 comics and Top 300 graphic novels. That&#8217;s up 32% over the $27 million for the non-DC Top 300s in July 2019. Find July&#8217;s chart here. To clarify the comparatives: &#8230; <a title=\"Diamond July 2021 comics sales estimates online\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/25\/diamond-july-2021-comics-sales-estimates-online\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Diamond July 2021 comics sales estimates online\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6905","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=6905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6907,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6905\/revisions\/6907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}