Diamond has released its preliminary charts for February, and incredibly, the Spidey-Obama issue of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN topped the charts for the second straight month. WATCHMEN, BATMAN RIP and SCOTT PILGRIM top the book list.
TOP COMIC BOOK PUBLISHERS
|
Publisher
|
Unit Market Share
|
Retail Dollar Market Share
|
| MARVEL COMICS |
47.83%
|
44.70%
|
| DC COMICS |
28.27%
|
26.83%
|
| DARK HORSE COMICS |
4.66%
|
5.16%
|
| IDW PUBLISHING |
4.43%
|
4.93%
|
| IMAGE COMICS |
3.95%
|
3.71%
|
| DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT |
2.28%
|
2.07%
|
| VIZ MEDIA |
0.89%
|
1.85%
|
| EAGLEMOSS PUBLICATIONS LTD |
0.40%
|
1.32%
|
| WIZARD ENTERTAINMENT |
0.89%
|
1.20%
|
| BOOM! STUDIOS |
0.69%
|
0.77%
|
| OTHER NON-TOP 10 |
5.70%
|
7.47%
|
TOP 10 COMICS
|
Quantity Rank
|
Description
|
Price
|
Item Code
|
Vendor
|
|
1
|
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #583 |
$3.99
|
|
MARVEL COMICS |
|
2
|
BATMAN #686 |
$3.99
|
|
DC COMICS |
|
3
|
NEW AVENGERS #50 (DARK REIGN) |
$4.99
|
|
MARVEL COMICS |
|
4
|
THOR #600 |
$4.99
|
|
MARVEL COMICS |
|
5
|
DARK AVENGERS #2 (DARK REIGN) |
$3.99
|
|
MARVEL COMICS |
|
6
|
HULK #10 |
$3.99
|
|
MARVEL COMICS |
|
7
|
MIGHTY AVENGERS #21 (DARK REIGN) CORRECTED COPY |
$3.99
|
|
MARVEL COMICS |
|
8
|
MIGHTY AVENGERS #22 (DARK REIGN) |
$2.99
|
|
MARVEL COMICS |
|
9
|
UNCANNY X-MEN #506 |
$2.99
|
|
MARVEL COMICS |
|
10
|
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #30 (ORIGINS) |
$2.99
|
|
DC COMICS |
TOP 10 GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS
|
Quantity Rank
|
Description
|
Price
|
|
Vendor
|
|
1
|
WATCHMEN TP |
$19.99
|
|
DC COMICS |
|
2
|
BATMAN RIP DELUXE EDITION HC |
$24.99
|
|
DC COMICS |
|
3
|
SCOTT PILGRIM VOLUME 5: SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE UNIVERSE GN |
$11.95
|
|
ONI PRESS |
|
4
|
ALL STAR SUPERMAN VOLUME 2 HC |
$19.99
|
|
DC COMICS |
|
5
|
DMZ VOLUME 6: BLOOD IN THE GAME TP (MR) |
$12.99
|
|
DC COMICS |
|
6
|
THE DARKNESS: ACCURSED VOLUME 1 TP |
$4.99
|
|
IMAGE COMICS |
|
7
|
NARUTO VOLUME 34 TP |
$7.95
|
|
VIZ MEDIA |
|
8
|
HULK VOLUME 1: RED HULK TP |
$19.99
|
|
MARVEL COMICS |
|
9
|
MINI-MARVELS: SECRET INVASION DIGEST TP |
$9.99
|
|
MARVEL COMICS |
|
10
|
CAPTAIN AMERICA VOLUME 3: THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN AMERICA TP |
$14.99
|
|
MARVEL COMICS |
|
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Good Job IDW!
Way to take 4th place overall!
Next up…Dark Horse!
:)
Looking back, I found that the repeat is highly unusual, but probably not unprecedented:
http://blog.comichron.com/2009/03/february-2009-top-sellers-obama-repeat.html
The problem is that reordered titles never made the distributor top-seller lists until 2003.
Also noticed the price tags on all those issues at the top. Another price hike is on the way.
I had to Google that Eaglemoss company. From the looks of it they make licensed figurines though their web site isn’t really clear to me. Does this even much sense?
“Eaglemoss specialises in producing informative, highly illustrated
partworks but we are also publishers of the ever popular Dairy
Diary. Please click on the titles below for more information on
our current, hugely successful publications.”
What is a partwork? Was this originally written in English?
I find it incredibly sad that the 8th largest company in Diamond’s catalog isn’t even a comics publisher. Then again, I also find it incredibly sad that nobody but Marvel and DC can even clear a measly 5%.
How long before IDW overtakes Dark Horse for that #3 spot? I’d say that would signal a pretty momentous shift- although maybe it says more about that whole cover price debate and that no matter how much some fans loudly complain (and I seem to remember IDW getting a lot of flack for their prices a while back) the companies are making money with higher priced books even if they lose a handful of outraged fans (and maybe it’s me but I always suspect these are the same people buying 4 day passes to San Diego and the Kindle and the iPhone and all the deluxe absolute hardcover editions of stuff they already have along with those Randy whatshisname statues without worrying about the price).
Ok , that is like 700k comics for a short lame Obama story.
Marvel must very happy.
Here’s a description of partworks. While I was at the Grand Forks AFB Base Library several years ago, we regularly purchased partworks published by Marshall Cavendish for the juvenile nonfiction section.
SRS
Ah, yes… partworks… discovered those while I was in New Zealand. The magazine was about human anatomy, and each issue came with a body part which would make a human body.
As for 5%… well, that’s difficult, when the top two publishers command 75% of the market. Anyone know what 1% of the market share is worth?
And… for comparison:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/13/graphic-books-best-seller-lists/?scp=1&sq=%22graphic%20books%22&st=cse
The New York Times Graphic Books Best Seller list for March 7.