Tag: Diamond
The Loot Crate Effect Reaches “Cartoonish Levels” on Comics Sales
Note: The distribution numbers used below are estimates, not hard sales numbers. They're accurate to the trends, but take the exact unit measurements with...
BookCon 2015: The Con Expert Gets Conned and Learns a Lesson in Management
Last Saturday, I headed to the NYC Javits Center to spend a day at BookCon 2015, part of a five day publishing industry extravaganza....
Mark Hamill promotes Free Comic Book Day in a video
Every few years Diamond lines up a celebrity spokesperson for Free Comic Book Day and this year its Luke Skywalker himself, Mark Hamill, who is an admitted "lifelong comic book fan." I found this one persuasive than the first one I can remember, a sun bleared Hugh Jackman.
Dark Horse Now At Books A Million Through Diamond
The last time we talked about Books A Million and Diamond, I told you'd I'd been advised to keep an eye on Dark Horse...
Star Wars #1 leads Marvel to a commanding market share in January
Diamond just released its January figures and Marvel had a pretty thorough market share dominance, 41.05% dollar share and a 45.64% unit share to DC's...
Diamond 2014 Stats: top manga, indies and small publishers
Diamond released a bunch of year end charts yesterday including the top 1000 comics and GNs. I may load those up at some point but...
Amazing Spider-Man #1 and Marvel top 2014 Sales in ‘up’ year
Amazing Spider-Man #1 was the top selling comics of 2014, and Marvel the #1 publisher according to charts just released by Diamond Comics. And...
The unbelievable world of 80s comics sales
Over the holiday I spotted something pretty eye-popping on Tumblr—this comics sales chart from Amazing Heroes #49, published in 1984 and posted by Sam Humphries.
Your jaw will drop in amazement to see a world where American Flagg!, a daring SF comic by Howard Chaykin outsold Captain America, and Groo outsold Batman, Detective and Green Lantern.
New world order: The Walking Dead and Ms. Marvel top October sales
The Walking Dead #132 topped the October charts, helping Image lands a 9.77% dollar share and impressive 12.28% unit share, according to figures just released...
Thanos and Batman top August sales — UPDATED
I'll post John Jackson Miller's analysis when it comes in, but sales for the year inched up, although down from Five Wednesday July. Image...
Sales Charts: Batman leads June, but Marvel still on top
It was the usual story for June sales figures just released by Diamond. DC led the single issue chart with Batman #32, but Marvel...
Comichron: Image has its best month since 2000
by John Jackson Miller
Comics sales months in the mirror may be smaller than they appear. That's one of the lessons of the data released...
