Diamond Comic Distributors has released its listing of the top 300 comics sold in the direct market during the month of May, 2013. With Marvel dominating the top ten, it turned out to be a big fight between Batman and the X-Men for the top spot (Hint: Everything may be better with Batman, but an all girl team sells).
Take the jump for the complete breakdown, and remember, you can sort, search, and find all sorts of information if you do the work.
Diamond Comic Distributors has released the top ten comics sold in the direct market for May 2013. The list is dominated by Marvel, with titles that make up 60% of the top ten, with the other 40% going to DC Comics. With that kind of ratio, it comes as no surprise that Marvel was the top publisher in May grabbing 33.36% of the market share in retail dollars, and 37.44% of the market share in units.
While the constant back and forth between Marvel and DC continues, but big news for comic fans and retailers is how sales compare to previous measuring periods. The good news is comic sales increased by 7% over April, and up 15% compared to May 2012.
Take the jump for the Top Ten Comics and Publishers for May 2013, and check back next week, when we should have the listing of the top 300 books for May.
Diamond Comic Distributors has released their list of the top 300 comics sold in the direct market during April 2013. We already know comic sales are up, and we know that Marvel came out on top of the market and dollar share for the month, so the top ten may not come as a surprise to many, unless you count Batman #19 as the top selling book in April as a surprise.
Diamond Comic Distributors has released the market share breakdown for April, and it isn’t a huge surprise that Marvel placed first in both unit share and dollar share categories. Compared to the month to month numbers, sales dipped by five percent compared to March, but up by over 12-percent compared to a year ago at this same time, putting the overall sales up 16-percent for the year.
Take the jump for a breakdown of the top publishers for April 2013.
Diamond Comic Distributors has released its listing of the top 300 comics sold in the direct market for March 2013.
With the hype surrounding the Guardians of the Galaxy movie, it comes as no surprise that the comic took the top spot. Marvel’s latest event, Age of Ultron, made appearances in the top ten, with a few DC comics finding their way into the list as well.
On the plus side, comic sales compared to February were up 3.05%, and though the number of days in a month shouldn’t matter, I have a feeling the bump may be due to the 28 days of February. That being said, March was a very good month for the comics industry as comic sales compared to the same month a year ago saw a 26.28% growth.
Take the jump for the complete rundown of the top 300 comics to see where your favorite comic placed.
Diamond Comic Distributors has already released the top ten titles released in the direct market, and now we have the complete rundown of the top 300 comics sold in February 2013. When it comes to previous sales, February saw a boost in units sold by 3.73% compared to January 2013, and compared to February 2012, there was a 14.75% increase.
Diamond Comic Distributors has released its list of the top 300 comics sold in the direct market in January 2013. There are not a lot of surprises in the data; Marvel took the top spot again with the most comics sold, with DC Comics and Image Comics taking the silver and bronze. Month to month, January was slightly down (3.34%) compared to December 2013, but sales were up a whopping 19.86% compared to January 2012.
Take the jump for the rundown of the top 300 comics to see where your favorite comics ranked.
Diamond Comic Distributors has released the rundown of the top 300 comics sold in the direct market for December 2012. It should come as no surprise that Amazing Spider-Man #700 was the best selling comic for the month, which lead the way for Marvel Comics to claim 60% of the titles in the top ten. Take the jump for the complete rundown, and be sure to visit our sibling site, Minor Spoilers for a look at the top 50 books from the indie publishers.
Diamond Comic Distributors released sales data for comics sold in the direct market during December 2012. On the plus side, compared to December 2011, both individual comics and graphic novels sales were up last month. The bad news, compared to November 2012, sales were down by nearly 3%, and that even includes Amazing Spider-Man #700 sales.
Take the jump for a breakdown of the top comic book publishers for December 2012.
Diamond Comic Distributors has released its list of the top selling comics in the direct market for 2012. It’s an interesting list, and one that is quite different than the best comics of 2012 as named by this very website.
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Diamond Comic Distributors has released the top 300 comics released in the direct market for November 2013. Take the jump to see the complete list, and pay special attention to where Batgirl and other books placed, to see if you can figure out why Gail Simone was fired from the title.
Diamond Comic Distributors has released the market share data for comics released in the direct market for November 2012. While the year has been positive, November saw an overall drop in comic sales.