December 2021 Comic Book Sales to Comics Shops by Diamond

Estimated Comics Shipped to North American Comics Shops
Based on Reports from Diamond Comic Distributors

This data refers to sales by Diamond. Click to see those from the Overall market.

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December 2021 marked the third month that Penguin Random House was the sales agent for Marvel Comics, with Diamond acting as a wholesaler. As such, while Marvel's comics were sold by Diamond, its sales reported below accounted only for a little over a third of the overall total. To date, Diamond has not released a sales chart for the month, owing to the November ransomware attack it suffered. In the meantime, the one below is constructed from Diamond's end-of-year final sales list, examining only the comics that came out in November.

The top comic book in the five-week month was Stray Dogs Dog Days #1 from Image, and it likely would have been even if Marvel had been fully at Diamond.

The top Marvel, Venom #2, had sales through Diamond of 30,815 copies. That put it in 11th place. That puts its total overall sales likely around 85,000 copies, once Penguin Random House is included. That would have put it in second place at Diamond.

Reverse-engineering alert: What appears below is different from a usual monthly sales chart. It is all of the December-shipping titles that made Diamond's end-of-year Top 4000 list. That means that while the chart below is exactly what Diamond sold of new titles in December, it is not everything that it sold, because reordered comics from earlier months do not appear below. There's no way to separate them from their initial sales. It's also possible that some new December comics did not make the Top 4000 for the year, but given that the bottom of the chart was in the 600-copy range, that's unlikely to impact many items.

"Marvel PRH" is coded below as a reminder that around 65% of the sales of its titles came from Penguin Random House; tripling the Marvel sales below gives a good rough estimate for overall sales. Diamond was also not the exclusive distributor this month for Scout and Ahoy, several of whose titles had sales through Lunar Distribution, but Diamond is likely to have retained most of the volume for those publishers.

Click to skip to the Top Graphic Novels for the month. And you can see the reorders that were placed during the month on our pages for reorders and advance reorders for the year.

—John Jackson Miller

This list includes all new items for the month that appeared on Diamond's end-of-year chart.
Diamond only accounts for about 36% of sales of items marked with Marvel PRH.
When there are versions of an issue with different cover prices, Diamond lists them in seprate entries.
Click to read the methodology for this table's estimates.
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December 2021 Graphic Novel Sales to Comics Shops

Estimated Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks Shipped to North American Comics Shops Based on Reports from Diamond Comic Distributors

This list includes all items released new this month that appeared on Diamond's end-of-year chart.
The links lead to title details on Amazon (paid links). You can also find the books at your comics shop.

The titles below appeared in Diamond's end-of-year list and had release dates in our records from this month. It does not include sales for any older titles. Orders for Marvel graphic novels may be presumed to be significantly smaller portions of their overall sales following that publisher's move to Penguin Random House for distribution.