DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales February 2008
by Marc-Oliver FrischThe big DC Comics release in February was... ah, nothing. The biggest news across the publisher's various imprints were a new creative team on The Spirit, an Astro City special and a...
Marvel Month-to-Month Sales – February 2008
By Paul O'Brien
After the chaos of the January chart, we're back to normal in February. And it's a pretty quiet month. For Marvel, this is a lull between crossovers. We've had...
The middle is STRONG
John Jackson Miller does his usual insightful number crunching with February's sale numbers:
...the February 2008 Top 300 as a group…sold 1.22 million more copies than the February 2001 grouping, an increase of 24%. Why?...
DC Month-to-Month Sales January 2008
DC COMICS MONTH-TO-MONTH SALES: JANUARY 2008
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
With Justice League of America, DC Comics only had one book selling above 70,000 units in January. As a consequence, the publisher's average periodical sales saw a...
Marvel Month-to-Month Sales January 2008
by Paul O'Brien
Yes, I know it's March. But as you may know, the original version of the January charts was way, way off - so crazily haywire that we looked through them and...
Revised Diamond figures for January released
As previously suspected, January sales figures released by Diamond were elevated due to a technical glitch, ICv2 reports.
Corrected figures are now available and rather than the previously reported 7% gain in periodical sales, they...
UPDATE: The continuing obsession with sales figures
The Great Bookscan debate continues. Rich Johnston has helpfully leaked the actual chart so everyone can play along at home. ADD, Brian Hibbs and Dick Hyacinth all weigh in with second third or 99th...
Where are the charts?
In case you missed the discussion going on in our comment section, the comparative sales charts for January have been delayed because the numbers from Diamond are a bit odd. Marc-Oliver Frisch explains:
For...
John Jackson Miller picks up his calculator again
Newsarama has started a new columns by noted sales figure collector John Jackson Miller. there is much to absorb in his maiden outing, but here's a snippet: then and now.
January 2008 sales are up...
Homework assignment: Bookscan
Perhaps the biggest thing to happen while we were away was this wholescale lid-ripping by Brian Hibbs who gets hold of the Bookscan graphic novelssales chart for all of 2007 and analyses the top...
Mayo: “Sales Advances & Declines”
Over at CBR, John Mayo does a monthly sales analysis which charts the ups and downs of sales trends. His report on the December figures cuts right to the chase:
A friend of mine is...
DC Month-to-Month Sales December 2007
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
DC Comics' successful "Sinestro Corps War" and "Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul" crossovers both concluded in December, and with Green Lantern #25 and Justice League of America #15, two bestselling stragglers from...
