(Further returns may well have brought it back to second.) That was a big improvement over the number 77 ranking in June 2022. Its sales are enough to make it the top title of the decade. I am proud of everyone! 1, Avengers By Jason Aaron Vol. I am ready for David Zaslav to come parachuting into DC Comics office and start firing everyone at this point. That is a very small drop between a debut issue and the second issue. At this point, I think hoping that She-Hulk can just remain a Top 50 title is more realistic. I am mad for you. And that was down from the five minority lead titles in the Top 50 in May 2022. 3 Shu Torun Wa, Invincible Vol. This title already failed as Excalibur. Maybe A.X.E. Comic book sales in North America generated nearly $2.08 billion in 2021, up from $1.28 billion in 2020. Nine titles were outside of the Top 100. 41 Dark Crisis Worlds Without A Justice League Superman #1 (One-Shot). 1," published in 1939, is so valuable because the publisher used it to record the payments he owed to. But, you gotta let go of these bad Bendis creations. Our projections for DC suggest that it would have contributed about $136 million. Published in November of 1961, their origin fed off the space race of the era, having Reed, Susan, Johnny, and Ben attempting to . This shows how diversified Marvel Comics has become. Image Comics had two titles in the Top 25. Jesus, it barely made it into the Top 100. Clicking on the following button will update the content below. Three of those six Batman titles star Bruce Wayne. ICv2 released several sales charts for August 2021 including the Top 100 Graphic Novels, Top 20 Superheroes Graphic Novels, Top 20 Manga Graphic Novels, and Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels. 12 Shattered Web, Amazing Spider-Man By Spencer Vol. Studios had in June 2022. However, it is certain that this mini-series will conclude outside of the Top 50. The average for the past 12 months is 6,364,130 units. Iron Cat is an example of lazy writing. 1, Mighty Marvel Masterworks Fantastic Four Vol. Again, it is a mantle swap title so I am not surprised at all. 1 Dark Heart of Si, Spider-Man By Todd Mcfarlane Complete Colle, Annihilation Conquest Omnibus HC Briclot Cvr, Moon Knight Epic Collection Bad Moon Rising, Deadly Class Vol. I love you guys! Shang-Chi #12 came in at the number 104 spot in May 2022. You may opt-out by. 0, Avatar Last Airbender Lost Adventures Library Ed HC, Superior Spider-Man Vol. Miles Morales #5 (Marvel Comics), 67 Miles Morales Spider-Man #40 (Marvel Comics), 104 Captain America Symbol Of Truth #3 (Marvel Comics), 157 Spider-Man 2099 Exodus #3 (Marvel Comics) (Resolicitation), 159 Black Adam #1 (DC Comics) (Resolicitation), 161 Captain America Symbol of Truth #2 (Marvel Comics) (Resolicitation), 187 Miles Morales Spider-Man #39 (Marvel Comics) (Resolicitation), Unranked Naomi: Season Two #5 (DC Comics). Things are getting murkier in terms of actual unit numbers. Our industrywide analyses covering orders from Diamond Comic Distributors and DC's distributor Lunar for individual months can be found below. We have already talked about most of these titles earlier in this article. Marvel Comics and DC Comics need to reevaluate what they are doing with these titles because their approaches clearly are not working. DC Comics came in second place with nineteen titles in the Top 75. Batgirls #8 took the number 107 spot. I said this would happen when we saw Multiversity Teen Justice #1 debut at the number 100 spot in June 2022. Clicking on links to various merchants on this site and making a purchase can result in this site earning a commission. Aquamen #6 also being unranked. Digital comic sales, after having a record year during the pandemic, jumped by 6.25% in 2021 and stood at $170 million. This is bad news. The current editors and writers on the Wonder Woman franchise have been complete and total failures. Some of that material can be found in our Postal Data Repository, also reachable by the annual links here: Comichron has on hand more than 99% of the existing postal data for comics. The failure of all of the Dark Crisis tie-in issues shows how weak the Dark Crisis brand is despite the massive build-up and hype by DC Comics. The top 300 comics sold at least 24.2 million copies in June, July, and August - more than any summer . Despite these headwinds, the comics industry roared during the year, with Direct Market sales of comic books and graphic novels projected at around $600 million, when our projections for DC and Random House are added to the Diamond total. This is obviously a three-issue mini-series that nobody was interested in reading. All comics sold in the Direct Market including DC/Lunar and Random House (in units) As with all graphic novels in Diamond's end-of-year chart, the listings below merge entries at different price points. Remember that these pages only show what the comics shops of North America ordered, whereas the Statements of Ownership report sales through all channels. 1 Fortune and Fate, Fire Power By Kirkman & Samnee Vol. Dark Crisis Young Justice #2 continues to completely crash and burn as it falls to the number 72 spot. No surprise. 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Issue #5 took the number 26 spot. The below charts collect the comics shop market data I've calculated across time. This title consistently comes in the 40-50 range every single month. Comic-book sales boomed during the second year of the Coronavirus pandemic, beating the record sales from the year before and exceeding sales. I am surprised by the performance of Captain America Sentinel of Liberty #2. Savage Spider-Man ended with a thud as Savage Spider-Man #5 ended well outside of the Top 100 at the number 123 spot. This was even better than the twenty-eight comics that Marvel Comics had in the Top 50 in June 2022. Judgment Day #1 coming in at the number 6 spot is a disappointment. In that case, total units sold in 2019 numbed 83.2 million after dropping 1.2 million year-over-year. It really isnt. I am proud of you guys! I thought that was a phony number driven up by speculators. for individual months in the fourth quarter, we have reverse-engineered charts for October, November, and December. 2 Doctor Aphra Enormous Profi, Deadly Hands of Kung Fu Omnibus HC Vol. Around $420 million WordsRated is a non-commercial, international research data and analytics group.Through detailed research projects, we tackle the big issues concerning reading, books, authors, and the publishing industry to inform and entertain. We got no new issue of the Hulk for the second month in a row. DC Comics continues to have absolutely nothing other than the Batman franchise. This is exactly the same number of titles that Marvel Comics had in the Top 25 in June 2022. Action City Comics in Brooklyn, NY. Are you interested in testing our business solutions? 4, Daredevil By Chip Zdarsky Vol. Marvel Comics crushed everyone by placing forty-six titles in the Top 75. So far in the decade of the 2010s, up through the end of 2019, Star Wars was the most ordered comic by comic shops in North America. The staff have come together to read and review nearly everything that released today. That is impressive. At least $600 million That is probably a realistic hope. So, I will just focus on the ones that we have not touched on, yet. See our Terms of Use. Amazing. In 2017, the company had its best year ever, with sales of over $1.3 billion. The comic-book total is higher than any in unadjusted dollars since the early 1990s. Three titles were outside of the Top 150. The number of female lead titles in the Top 75 has continued to decline since the high of eight titles in April 2022. $110.9 million Of course, not all is perfect for the Batman franchise. 100 Black Adam Justice Society Files Hawkman #1 (One-Shot), 117 Justice League vs The Legion of Super-Heroes #4 (Of 6), Unranked Aquaman & The Flash: Voidsong #2. Wonder Woman #789 came in at the number 130 spot. 63 The Flash #784 (Dark Crisis) (DC Comics), 72 Dark Crisis Young Justice #2 (Of 6) (DC Comics). 4 Last Flight of the Harbinger, Star Wars High Republic Vol. Again, it is a mantle swap title so the weak sales ranking is to be expected. Adult fiction led the way, up 11% over 2020, and the manga boom and its 107% growth helped this. DC Comics limped into second place with twenty-seven titles in the Top 100. Overall the best selling comics of the 21st Century sold over 7.8 Million units all together. Winning the market share battle among hardcore readers confers bragging rights, even if it doesnt mean quite as much as it used to. The major difference, however, was that many of those comic books were no longer coming out from Diamond Comic Distributors. comic shop! DC Comics has to be happy with the performance of this mini-series. 3 Home Again Home Again, Marvel Two In One Epic Collection Cry Monster, Heroes Reborn America Mightiest Hero Companion Vol. Flashpoint Beyond #3 remained in the Top 15 by taking the number 14 spot. Jane Foster & The Mighty Thor #2 had a big drop down out of the Top 25 as it came in at the number 28 spot. It is interesting to see that the Avengers franchise rankings are bookended by the two Captain America titles. On the other hand, in that report we add to the Direct Market Eve Judgment #1 (Marvel Comics), 41 Dark Crisis Worlds Without A Justice League Superman #1 (One-Shot) (DC Comics), 44 DC Vs Vampires All-Out War #1 (Of 6) (DC Comics), 69 Shang-Chi And The Ten Rings #1 (Marvel Comics), 75 Starhenge Dragon & Boar #1 (Of 6) (Image Comics), 84 Defenders Beyond #1 (Of 5) (Marvel Comics), 95 DC Vs Vampires Killers #1 (One-Shot) (DC Comics), 96 Superman Space Age #1 (Of 3) (DC Comics), 100 Black Adam Justice Society Files Hawkman #1 (One-Shot) (DC Comics), 121 Genis-Vell Captain Marvel #1 (Of 5) (Marvel Comics), 128 Madballs Vs Garbage Pail Kids #1 (Dynamite Ent. This was up from the eighteen titles that DC Comics had in the Top 75 in June 2022. Data on the distribution of comic store sales in the United States according to publisher revealed that Marvel Comics' dollar sales share in comic stores amounted to 38.8 percent in the. 74 Star Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi #2 (Of 5) (Resolicitation), 87 Star Wars Darth Vader #24 (Resolicitation), 116 Star Wars Doctor Aphra #21 (Resolicitation), 151 Star Wars Han Solo Chewbacca #3 (Resolicitation), 179 Star Wars Crimson Reign #5 (Of 5) (Resolicitation). This cannot be a surprise to anyone. 2 Twisted Ones, Jojos Bizarre Adv 4 Diamond Is Unbreakable HC Vol. By Chase Magnett - April 19, 2023 11:00 am EDT. It is still down from the eight tiles in the Top 75 in May 2022. Manage Settings Welcome to this week in comic book reviews! We and our partners use cookies to Store and/or access information on a device. It is also impressive how many different franchises that Marvel Comics is able to draw from to power its Top 25 success. Avengers #58 surprised me by taking the number 34 spot! More will be posted in the future. That is a lower percentage than the 22% dead titles walking share that Marvel Comics had in June 2022. Based on historical numbers from the Comichron as well as projections through April 2022, titles outside of the Top 100 are usually selling under the 18,000 unit sales mark. But most manga readers dont shop at comic book stores, so Viz captured only 1.45% of dollars and 0.55% of units (good for #7/#8 in the rankings) according to Diamond. My boy is getting no love! 4 Temporary Insanitation, Avatar Last Airbender Omnibus The Promise, Star Wars Darth Vader By Greg Pak Vol. Venom Lethal Protector #4 had a nice sales bump of almost 20 spots. Scarlet Witch #4 Review - "The Bacchae's Justice! I do not know what makes DC Comics think that anybody cares about Future State in any capacity at all. More years coming soon! That goes double for Scholastic, the publisher of Dav Pilkey (Dog Man), Raina Telgemeier (Guts) and other top graphic novels for kids, whose print runs are now counted in the millions, but have zero footprint in superhero-centric comic shops. The company's Detective Comics #1000, priced at $9.99, was the year's top overall seller, followed by the landmark 300th issue of Todd McFarlane's Spawn (Image Comics), Marvel's X-Men #1. This is better than in June 2022, when Star Wars had just one title in the Top 25 and three titles in the Top 50. Spider-Man 2099 Exodus had a nice sales bump as it came in at the number 40 spot. Normally, I would be bullish about that happening. Same thing for DC Comics. 1 Into The Crucible, Sin City Vol. So, it is possible that Venom will get a big sales bump in August 2022. Not Planet Hulk Clark Kent Superman. Shang-Chi And The Ten Rings #1 had a horrible debut coming in at the number 69 spot. DC also shut Marvel out in the top ten of the increasingly-important graphic novel/trade book category. Privacy policy. Batman #125 managed to beat out not one but two big events and take the number 1 spot in June 2022. #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 +16% versus two years earlier), The Top 4000 graphic novels sold by Diamond (in dollars) (+56% vs. the previous year 3 Home Is Where Hatred Is, Daredevil By Chip Zdarsky Vol. Ghost Rider #4 took the number 16 spot. But, here we are. Ant-Man #1 had a disastrous debut coming in outside of the Top 50 at the number 53 spot. Directly accessible data for 170 industries from 50 countries and over 1 million facts: Get quick analyses with our professional research service. 1, Avatar Last Airbender Katara & Pirates Silver Vol. To comment on this article and other Comic Book Revolution content, visit ourFacebookpage, ourTwitterfeed, and ourInstagramfeed. That is even worse than the number 137 ranking Harley Quinn #16 had in June 2022. 1, Miles Morales UltimateSpider-Man UltimateColl Book 1, Generation X Epic Collection Back to School, Incredible Hulk Epic Collection Man or Monster, Peanuts Scotland Bound Charlie Brown Ogn Sc, Namor Sub-Mariner Epic Collection Enter Sub-Mariner, Thor By Jason Aaron Complete Collection Vol. DC Comics came in second place with fourteen titles in the Top 50. This tied to what Image Comics did in the Top 50 in June 2022. Then you guys had to go and do me like this with Genis-Vell Captain Marvel! I figured that meant we were in store of a larger drop for the second issue. Catwoman #45 took the number 99 spot. Marvel publishes over 40%, approx $282 million, of all comic sales in stores in the United States, giving it the highest market share by a significant margin as of 2021.
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