Sales Charts

by David Carter Greetings, sales charts fans! It's time once again to look at DC's sales figures. This is month that DC released the fiftieth issues...

I don't have a lot of time today (or any day) so this is going to be quick and dirty. But a piece by Adam...

      Marvel remained the #1 publisher accoridng to sales figures just released by Diamond, but they lost some of their dollar share from February, as...

Saga takes a tumble!

The return of Justice League and Dark Knight III helped bolster DC Comics' flagging sales in February, but will it be enough to sustain them in the long term?

Marvel may need a bit more than a "bless you" to recover from this illness.

The Comics Beat's Image sales analyst takes a look at how their trade paperbacks have sold over the years and discloses some astounding findings!

Yes, the *total* number of comics sold in a month still sounds impressive, but what about the individual books?  It's time to check in...

The comics sales estimator cabal did their work yesterday and the analysis of February's sales was not good. Via ICv2: February Comics and Graphic...

Comics Experience owner Brian Hibbs has done his annual service to the industry byanalyzing the yearly graphic novels sales charts as reported to Bookscan. This is information people normally pay thousands of dollars for so it is technically leaked info, but while it's there let's take advantage of it. As Hibbs points out, these numbers do not reflect comics shops, indie bookstores, book fair or libraries, to name but four huge outlets for GN sales. So they are not complete. However they are a metric , and one that's worth studying.

Gaze upon my works, ye mighty...

Marvel continued its dominance of DC, although by a lesser margin than January, when DC's dollars/units were literally half of Marvel's. However Dark Knight...