John Jackson Miller    Nearly all the partners have changed, three years after the pandemic caused Diamond to shut down for several weeks, prompting DC comics to ultimately take its distribution elsewhere. Image announced today it was moving to Lunar as its exclusive distributor effective in September though Diamond...

John Jackson Miller    The Comichron ICv report is out and it’s a blockbuster. Comics and graphic novel sales rose to . billion; up vs . All formats grew in what was the the industry’s biggest year ever in dollar terms, even when adjusted for inflation. Graphic novels exploded, with manga having...

John Jackson Miller    April comics order estimates are online at Comichron. They find TMNT: The Last Ronin from IDW topping k copies, with Brzrkr and Something Is Killing the Children placing third and fourth once their variants are combined. Amazing Spider Man would’ve been by far the market leader were...

John Jackson Miller    We’ve posted the monthly estimates for February and March , and there’s a lot of good news to them. It looks like the Direct Market had a million first quarter, which beats the same three months of our last winter with data from Diamond by million. The Marvel adjustments are ....

John Jackson Miller    X Men Red was the April shipping comic book most reordered by Diamond retailers last week.

John Jackson Miller    January estimates are online. Scorched from Image sold over , copies to retailers in the first monthly list since the majority of Marvel’s distribution went to Penguin Random House. Total Direct Market orders likely million: see the charts here. For the latest batch of changes, we...

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John Jackson Miller    A huge tranche of data available now at Comichron First, we have the Top comics and graphic novels from Diamond on our page. News since Friday: with variants merged, House of Slaughter moved into first by copies. A photo finish or a dead heat it’s really just a snapshot in ......

John Jackson Miller    Over decades, comics historian Robert Beerbohm has accumulated the largest private collection of advertising and magazines related to comics distribution in the early days of the market. With his cooperation, Comichron.com is pleased to provide a public home for some of these rare materials,...

John Jackson Miller    With Diamond in another sales chart pause due to November’s ransomware attack, we’ve again drawn on our retail initial order dataset to fill in the blanks, starting with our October all industry chart, led by Boom’s House of Slaughter . Find the report here. Like our charts from previous pauses,...

John Jackson Miller    We’ve added our projections for DC comics orders to Diamond’s data for September, and a strong month got stronger. Comic books alone topped . million copies for million, increases of and respectively over Sept. . Charts: https: bit.ly Sep Comics We don’t see much inflation in...

John Jackson Miller    The August sales estimates are now online for the Direct Market including DC and also for August just at Diamond marking a full years that I’ve been doing the monthly sales reports, both here and in its previous incarnations. It’s another month that easily beat its pre pandemic...

John Jackson Miller    July Diamond comics sales estimates are out X Men and Moon Knight topped k copies in a . million month for the Top comics and Top graphic novels. That’s up over the million for the non DC Top s in July . Find July’s chart here. To clarify the comparatives...

John Jackson Miller    I knew it would happen: like magic, I would leave for my first convention and the Diamond charts, absent since last October, would return with no warning. I was literally at the gate when the report arrived and I was so sure they wouldn’t that I didn’t bring my laptop. I was able to ... Read more

John Jackson Miller    June looks to have been a colossal month for periodical comics, according to Comichron’s projected rankings for comics initial orders, just posted. Venom led a five week month slate that was the largest yet since the pandemic began. Find the June charts here. We counted new comics...