DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: November 2008
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
While the economic crisis still didn't seem to have any noticeable effect on the periodical comics direct market in November, the unplanned absence of several major titles certainly did. In the case...
Marvel Month-to-Month Sales: November 2008
by Paul O'Brien
November was meant to be the final month of SECRET INVASION, but that slipped into December, taking some high-profile crossover issues with it. In fact, perhaps the most striking feature of...
Comics periodical sales down 11 percent in November
That's the bad news. However, ICV2 attributes it to the fact that so many top titles were absent in November.
The top comic titles were AWOL in November, leading to a weak month over-all....
DC Month-to-Month Sales October 2008
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
Any signs yet of the financial crisis affecting the periodical direct market in October? No, not really. Thanks to several high-profile books that weren't published in September coming out again, DC Comics'...
Marvel month-to-month sales – October 2008
By Paul O'Brien
It's a quiet October. SECRET INVASION continues into its seventh month. Just think, when the crossover began, Hillary Clinton was still campaigning for President...
The biggest new title of the month...
Marvel Comics subscription and newsstand sales
Since we're talking numbers, Todd Allen gets a look at Marvel sub and newsstand figures via Marvel's circulation audit. The #1 subscription title is the kid-friendly MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN with 31,479. #1 at the...
Miller: October comics sales set record
John Jackson Miller's October 2008 sales estimates are up, but what's really notable, he writes, is that October was a huge month for dollars.
The October 2008 comics sales estimates are online at The Comics...
October comics sales see mixed effects of recession
ICv2 has released its October sales estimates, and the bad news is that sales slipped almost everywhere:
Sales to comic stores on the top titles in October, the first month since the global economic crisis...
DC Month to Month Sales September 2008
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
So, did the financial meltdown have an effect on the periodical comics market in September? Probably not. DC Comics' periodical business did take a massive hit, mind you, but that had more...
Marvel month-to-month sales: September 2008
By Paul O'Brien
The eight-month SECRET INVASION crossover continued to dominate Marvel's output in September, sprawling across a whole load of tie-in books. Marvel are saving most of their new launches until after the...
Charts and graphs for September
Two of the sales charts analyses came out last week; at Newsarama, John Jackson Miller does his thing, charting Marvel's big month. However here's something we noted -- the ten year comparison chart, from...
Marvel tops the chart in a big way
It's that time of the month! After a few months of sliding, ICv2 reports that comic sales were up in September -- say, maybe there is something to this "recession-proof" chatter.
Sales of periodical comics...
