It was another hard month for the direct comic book market in September. According to the most recent report from Diamond Comic Distributors, overall single issues slumped 6.07% compared to August 2017, while graphic novel sales dropped 13.14%.
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Even though Dark Nights: Metal #1 sold 250,000 copies to the direct market, overall comic sales were down quite a bit in August 2017. Take the jump for a breakdown of the top 300 comics sold in the direct market last month.
Dark Nights: Metal #1 sold enough copies in August 2017 for it to claim the number one spot in direct comic sales.
Diamond Comic Distributors has released the listing of the top 300 comics sold in the direct market in July 2017. Though the market was down, a lot of comics were sold last month.
Diamond Comic Distributors has released its market data for June 2017, and while the top comic publisher ranking comes as no surprise, comics sales did take a slight drop.
Diamond Comic Distributors has released the top 300 list for comics sold in the direct market during May 2017.
May saw the highly controversial release of Secret Empire #1 from Marvel. Even though many were upset with the direction the creators took Steve Rogers, sales of the issue were enough to send Marvel to the top of the direct market charts for the month.
Last week, we learned of the tumble in direct market comic sales. Today, we get to see what comics made the top 300 list.
Diamond Comic Distributors has released market share data for April 2017, that has Marvel’s Secret Empire #0 taking the top spot.
Diamond Comic Distributors has released its list of the top 300 comics sold to the direct market in March 2017.
March was a strange month for the comic book industry. While Marvel was able to make the most money (Amazing Spider-Man #25 sold for $9.99), DC was able to ship more books than anyone else. There has been a lot of back and forth over the last couple of weeks with a lot of fingers being pointed, but the final numbers are here, and it is somewhat disappointing.
Diamond Comic Distributors has released the complete list of the top 300 comics sold in the direct market in February 2017. We already know the top ten, now it is time to see where the rest of the titles fell during the month.
We are only a few days into March, but we know how comics sold for the month that was. As the headline suggests, Star Wars: Darth Maul #1 was able to snag the top spot for February.
Previously, we shared the market share data for comics that shipped in January 2017. Today, we have the complete list of the top 300 comics sold in the direct market during the month that was.