Marvel Month-to-Month Sales: May 2009
by Paul O'Brien
It's an uneventful month, in every sense of the word. By ICV2's estimates, sales were down a massive 19% compared with the previous year. But then, that's hardly surprising. ...
“Comic Sales Crash in May”
OUCH. After staying ahead of the pace in the floundering retail economy, the comics "fantasy economy" crashed hard in May, ICv2 reports. It isn't pretty.
After rebounding in April, comic sales dropped a staggering...
Indies, Charts, Diamond
John Jackson Miller, author and master number collater, alerts us to the fact that Diamond's May 2009 comics sales charts have been released, and contain a new "Top 50 Small Press" chart. The new...
Marvel Month-to-Month Sales: April 2009
By Paul O'Brien
It's Wolverine month at Marvel! To tie in with the film, we have a new ongoing Wolverine title, and a whole bunch of Wolverine variant covers. Elsewhere, the Dark Reign...
April comics are the comeback kid!
The pamphlet is back! Whoo hoo! Buckle down, Winsocki! ICv2 reports that comics sales were up in April , for the first time this year:
Comic sales rebounded in April from a lousy March (see...
DC Month-to-Month Sales: March 2009
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
Average DC Comics periodical sales in the direct market dropped to their lowest point yet in March 2009, in the context of the six years worth of available data. One reason for...
Marvel Month-to-Month Sales: March 2009
by Paul O'Brien
Dark Reign continued in March, with more tie-in issues and miniseries. As with the Initiative books a couple of years ago, Dark Reign isn't a crossover so much as an umbrella...
More Diamond cuts: WARLORD OF IO, Classics Illustrated
Two more stories on the continuing effects of Diamond's tougher benchmarks:
§ Robot 6 quotes a letter from SLG :
SLG Publishing was planning on following up the recent Warlord of IO and Other Stories one-shot...
Miller on the changing shape of the Top 300
John Jackson Miller has a pretty fascinating analysis of the Top 300's long tail -- complete with charts! (How does he DO it?) With March 2009 presenting, for the first time in a long...
This week’s NYT Graphic Books chart
As always, WATCHMEN and NARUTO top this week's Graphic Books Best Seller List. Tatsumi's epic A DRIFTING LIFE debuts at #3 on the paperback list, reflecting the surge from the huge article in the...
HUNTRESS mystery solved — for real, this time — FINALE
Okay so arriving at my Publishers Weekly desk today, I found the following:And what do you think was in these two boxes?Several other people we know were shipped copies from Amazon as well. So...in...
