DC Month-to-Month Sales May 2008
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
In May, DC Comics finally awoke from their year-long beauty sleep. Unfortunately, they seem to be getting up on the wrong side of the bed. The good news, now, is that the...
Marvel Month-to-Month Sales May 2008
By Paul O'Brien
The May sales charts have received a lot of attention already, and we all know what the big story is: FINAL CRISIS #1 triumphed for DC, vindicating the controversial direction of their...
DC Vs Marvel continued
Dick Kyacinth returns and looks at this week's sales numbers:
I certainly have had my reservations about Final Crisis, but I found the first issue to be pretty good, mostly due to the pervasive, foreboding...
Comics sales down in May
ICv2's May Sales figures are up and it isn't all that fab:
Sales of periodical comics declined in May for the fourth month in a row posting a 6% drop compared with sales in May...
DC Month-to-Month Sales: April 2008
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
Looking at the pertinent facts and carefully weighing all the available data, it can be safely concluded that, at DC Comics, April was the month before May. The year-long weekly Countdown to...
Marvel Month-to-Month Sales April 2008
By Paul O'Brien
The event season is upon us again, and Marvel hit the ground running with the first issue of SECRET INVASION. There aren't too many tie-in issues in this first month, but...
April sales up a bit
John Jackson Miller has posted his April 2008 sales estimates via Diamond. Jackson relates that although several categories were down, over all backlist propelled sales over a year ago:
Overall, the comics industry fared...
Manga sales decline in Japan
Also via Simon Jones, ComicsSnob looks at an overview of 2007 manga sales in Japan:
Bullet Points:
# Japanese manga sales slip another 2.3% in 2007, but# the medium is gaining currency as a tool of...
DC Month-to-Month Sales: March 2008
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
For DC Comics, March was another slack month in the periodical business. More than ten ongoing titles were slated for cancellation across the publisher's various lines, and numerous finite projects were in...
Marvel Month-to-Month Sales: March 2008
By Paul O'Brien
After a quiet couple of months, March saw Marvel starting to gear up again. In fact, there's only one really big new title this month - DARK TOWER, which returns for...
Comics sales slip in Q1
ICv2 has the March numbers and they are not great, prompting us to steal -- for the first of what will doubtless be countless times -- Vaneta Rogers' photos of the Morrison/Jones duo....
Levitz Vs Jakala round 2
We're been behind on the regular news with all the con stuff going on, but the latest blog entry from Paul Levitz is . always worth noting. In this one Paul has...
