SIX DAYS: THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF D-DAY’S LOST CHAPTER HC UNDER THE MOON: A CATWOMAN TALE TP DC INK TOP 10 GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS BY DOLLARS INVOICEDĪMAZING SPIDER-MAN BY J. LEGEND OF KORRA PART 1: RUINS OF EMPIRE TP TOP 10 GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS BY UNITS SHIPPED I don’t know the details on what’s driving that but you must admit, it is a grand time for tchatchkes. This was mentioned at the retailer summit last month as well. GN sales were up quite a bit in May over April, and I’ll be curious to see the sales estimates on these.Īlthough I don’t really report on it, Diamond also includes toy sales in these charts and toys have been booming. Umbrella Academy collections did well, buoyed by the Netflix series.

Marvel’s “keep pumping it out” strategy appears to be working in the short term but it rarely works out well. That appears to be the all-time record for it or any other American publisher. At the peak of the early 1990s comics boom, Marvel shipped 126 new comic books to retailers in August 1993, of which 123 issues made Diamond’s Top 300. The month’s total wouldn’t be an all-time record, though. Marvel placed 119 comics in the Top 300 in June 2009, but several of those were previously listed books that had been reordered. But if that 118 number holds, it’s likely to be the highest figure this century. We’re not absolutely certain that figure represents only unique new comic books, with no second or later printings included it depends on how Diamond is keeping track. Diamond reported that market-share leader Marvel shipped 118 new comic books to market, a figure that’s higher than any since Diamond began reporting monthly release counts in 2013. The tale of two strategies we’ve seen in 2019 continued with Marvel publishing more different periodical titles, and DC and Image publishing fewer. , and some funky stuff is happening overalls with several publishers adjusting their output, John Jackson Miller reports (quoted with permission):

What did I tell ya about everyone pivoting to all ages? If you’d told me an explicitly YA Catwoman graphic novel would one day lead sales in comics shops I would have plotzed. Maybe less is more after all.ĭC also led graphic novels sales units with Catwoman: Under the Moon, the first release in the YA Ink line. Marvel still led DC in dollars, but DC came close in units, losing by a mere 1% despite publishing half as many books! Very interesting.

which was the top periodical for the month.

DC had a dream month with a new issue of Doomsday Clock, lots of Batman and a new blockbuster in DCeased #1. After a pretty glum April, comics sales were a bit better in May, according to sales figures just released by Diamond.

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