{"id":6949,"date":"2022-04-28T19:08:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T00:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/?p=6949"},"modified":"2022-12-20T13:27:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T19:27:44","slug":"february-and-march-2022-diamond-sales-reports-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/28\/february-and-march-2022-diamond-sales-reports-online\/","title":{"rendered":"February and March 2022 Diamond sales reports online"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"We’ve posted the monthly estimates for <\/span>February<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>March 2022<\/span><\/a>, and there’s a lot of good news to them. It looks like the Direct Market had a $145 million first quarter, which beats the same three months of 2020 \u2014 our last winter with data from Diamond \u2014 by $28 million.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Marvel adjustments are in there \u2014 and I additionally took a look at how the independent comics are doing compared with what they did when Marvel and DC were fully at Diamond. The news is startling. There were 737 indie comics that charted in the first quarter of 2020; looking at the Top 737 indies in 2022 in the same period shows a unit sales increase of 67%. A lot of it comes from the fact that Image and Boom generated a lot of hits; the first-place indie in early 2020 would only place ninth in winter 2022.<\/p>\n

So that’s a positive for Diamond, one supposes: between Marvel’s sales increases and those with the indies it’s pushing, it’s basically replaced DC’s periodical sales. It’s not enough to make up for losing two-thirds of Marvel, but it is something noteworthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve posted the monthly estimates for February and March 2022, and there’s a lot of good news to them. It looks like the Direct Market had a $145 million first quarter, which beats the same three months of 2020 \u2014 our last winter with data from Diamond \u2014 by $28 million. The Marvel adjustments are … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[135,17],"class_list":["post-6949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2022-sales","tag-diamond-monthly-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6949","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=6949"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6977,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6949\/revisions\/6977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}