Sales Charts

by Duke Harrington According to data from Diamond Distributers, and the monthly sales charts compiled ICv2.com and Comichron.com, Dark Horse Comics is America’s fifth largest...

  Image has announced that with 730,000 copies ordered, February's THE WALKING DEAD #163 is the Direct Market’s highest ordered comic in nearly 20 years, a feat...

Marvel led DC again in the ongoing Big Two battle, but overall numbers show that comics and GN sales in 2016 were essentially flat...

by Duke Harrington I’m a big fan of the monthly sales chart found over on The Beat. But while I seem to remember them covering...

  Yesterday this tweet from Spirit of Retailing award winner Packrat Comics was going around: https://twitter.com/Packrat_Comics/status/818961318694809600 with a cosign from Atlas comics https://twitter.com/AtlasComics/status/819004717065977856 "Pull lists" are really a symptom...

Image shipped 48 comics in November (a low number for them, even with it being a five-Wednesday month), compared to 55 in October and 52 in September. They shipped 62 in November 2015.

Publishers Weekly has an overview of bookstore sales in 2016, via Bookscan, and print sales edged up 3.3%, the third year of growth. The...

David Carter examine DC's sales in November 2016!

Xavier Lancel examines Marvel's November sales!

Yesterday's piece on current retail issues in comics by Todd Allen drew a lot of attention and kicked off a lot of discussion. Some...

Hey, gang.  We need to talk to about the looming problem with the Direct Market. You’ve seen the articles about comic shop owners being worried...

David Carter examines Image's October sales!