DC Month to Month Sales: July 2007
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
DC Comics' performance in July was an improvement on the previous month, not unexpectedly. The publisher's numbers were bolstered by issues of three high-selling titles, Batman, All Star Superman and Action...
Marvel Month-to-Month sales: July 2007
by Paul O'Brien
The era of big events continues apace, as Marvel's WORLD WAR HULK squares off against DC's COUNTDOWN. And while WWH isn't a sales juggernaut on quite the same scale as CIVIL...
DC Month-to-Month sales June 2007
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
June was a relatively quiet month for DC Comics: There was the Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps Special #1 and, at the publisher's WildStorm imprint, The Highwaymen #1, and that's it, in terms...
Marvel Month-to-Month sales: June 2007
By Paul O'Brien
After a comparatively quiet May, Marvel went all out in June. The major event of the month, WORLD WAR HULK, involved three miniseries and a slew of crossover titles. It...
June sales figures: GNs boffo
ICv2 has all the usual news and analysis of June's sales figures, and the star of the show is easy to spot:
Graphic novels sales in comic stores grew by 33% in June versus sales...
Comics Sales: An examination
The monthly publication here of Paul and Marc-Oliver's sales chart comparisons are always occasions for analyses across the comics blogosphere and industry sites. Although as we all know by now the numbers are low...
DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales May 2007
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
DC Comics' big launch in May was, of course, the weekly Countdown. Succeeding the tremendously successful 52 and widely publicized as the "spine of the DC Universe" for the coming twelve...
Marvel Month-to-Month Sales May 2007
by Paul O'Brien
Have you been suffering from withdrawal symptoms ever since CIVIL WAR ended? Well, good news, because WORLD WAR HULK kicked off in May, leading into another few months of crossovers. ...
ICv2 chart analysis: Marvel on top again
ICv2 looks at Diamond's may comics sales charts:
Marvel dominated periodical comic sales in the May earning big gains in both dollar and unit market share thanks to a slate that included eight of the...
DC Comics Month-to-month Sales: April 2007
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
Thanks to a successful performance of the four-part World War III blockbuster series, DC Comics' overall and average periodical sales in the direct market received a much-needed boost in April. World...
Marvel Month-to-Month Sales April 2007
by Paul O'Brien
With CIVIL WAR finally behind us, and WORLD WAR HULK not yet underway, Marvel have space for a little breather between major crossovers. But that doesn't mean it's a quiet month....
DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: March 2007
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
The recovery of DC Comics average sales in the direct market continued in March, but that didn't prevent the publisher from losing more market share -- largely thanks, of course, to two...
