DC month-to-month sales: August 2008
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
With Final Crisis and Batman both showing up on shelves and spawning more crossover books, August was the strongest month for DC Comics' periodical business in quite a while. Thanks to the...
Marvel month-to-month sales: August 2008
by Paul O'Brien
It's month five of SECRET INVASION, and the crossover continues to dominate Marvel's output. August also sees the X-books continuing their "Manifest Destiny" direction, and relaunches for RUNAWAYS and AMAZING SPIDER-MAN...
Kirkman and Bendis battle for the very soul of comics
So anyway, the Kirkman/Bendis debate thingie. Perhaps it was just because everyone was still amped about the previous night's Obama/McCain matchup, but everyone came expecting a real debate. What they got was Bendis and...
Comics periodical sales decline for 7th month in a row
ICv2's monthly sales charts for August are out, and while the 43,000+ copies of WATCHMEN sold is a fantastic number that dwarfs all expectations, it's the seventh month in a row of declining periodical...
DC month-to-month sales: July 2008
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
For the DC Comics' mainstream line of periodicals, July was the most eventful month in ages. Although the company's big blockbuster Final Crisis missed its July shipping date, the series saw its...
Marvel month-to-month sales: July 2008
By Paul O'Brien
UNCANNY X-MEN celebrates five hundred issues, while SECRET INVASION enters a fourth month, with a range of crossover titles in tow. Marvel tend to save their major launches until after the...
Comics sales down again in July
ICv2 has released its July sales analysis. Periodical sales continued a slight decline:
The dollar total for comics purchased by comic stores dropped again in July, by 3%, the sixth consecutive month of year over...
America tops BookScan for once
The unthinkable has happened, and an American-produced graphic novel has topped the BookScan chart, ICv2 reports. In fact, in a breathtaking comeback for the home team, no less than 10 -- that's TEN --...
Way Back Machine: 1959
Tireless John Jackson Miller, ever busy peering thrugh the tomes of years past for nuggets of information, find some circulation information from 1959 on what various comics publishers sold per month:
Here's what the 1960...
DC Month-to-Month Sales June 2008
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
In June, DC Comics' periodical business was mostly defined by all the things that didn't happen. Final Crisis #2 didn't seize the top spot. The new weekly Trinity, DC's big launch of...
Marvel Month-to-Month Sales June 2008
by Paul O'Brien
Crossover season continued in June, with SECRET INVASION and its tie-ins still leading Marvel's output. But this time round, the event hasn't completely taken over Marvel's output. There's also the...
HYPE: Platinum, Flagg!, BPA in PWCW
We often forget to talk about each PW Comics Week's newsletter -- you have all subscribed, right, because it's free? -- but this week's issue turned out pretty good, especially considering we had to...
