By John Jackson Miller on 8/28/2007 12:00 AM

The comics sales estimates for July 2007 are now online here at The Comics Chronicles.

TOP 300 UNIT SALES
7.64 million copies, up 3% from last July
2007 YTD: 49.77 million copies, up 6% from 2006 YTD

TOP 300 DOLLAR SALES
$24.02 million, up 6% from last July
2007 YTD: $156.6 million, up 9% from 2006 YTD

TOP 100 TRADE PAPERBACKS
$4.37 million, up 1% from last July
2007 YTD: $32.31 million, up 23% from 2006 YTD

COMBINED TOP 300 COMICS & TOP 100 TRADES
$28.39 million, up 5% from last July
2007 YTD: $188.9 million, up 12% from 2006 YTD

OVERALL DIAMOND SALES (including all comics, TPBs, and magazines)
$36.82 million, up 5% from last July
2007 YTD: $246.93 million, up 10% from 2006 YTD

Marvel’s Top 300 Comics unit and dollar sales were slightly higher than in May 2007, breaking that month’s 11-year record in those two categories.

By John Jackson Miller on 7/20/2007 12:00 AM

The June 2007 comics shop order totals have been posted; my estimates for individual titles can be found here.

The detailed data:

TOP 300 UNIT SALES
6.93 million copies, down 1% from last June
Q2: 21.83 million copies, up 5% from Q2 2006
2007 YTD: 42.13 million copies, up 7% from 2006 YTD

TOP 300 DOLLAR SALES
$22.11 million, up 4% from last June
Q2: $68.44 million, up 6% from Q2 2006
2007 YTD: $132.58 million, up 6% from 2006 YTD

TOP 100 TRADE PAPERBACKS
$4.85 million, up 33% from last June
Q2: $16.05 million, up 48% from Q2 2006
2007 YTD: $27.94 million, up 28% from 2006 YTD

COMBINED TOP 300 COMICS & TOP 100 TRADES
$26.96 million, up 8% from last June
Q2: $84.49 million, up 12% from Q2 2006
2007 YTD: $160.52 million, up 13% from 2006 YTD

OVERALL DIAMOND SALES (including all comics, TPBs, and magazines)
$35.08 million, up 10% from last June
Q2: $110.81 million, up 11% from Q2 2006
2007 YTD: $210.11 million, up 11% from 2006 YTD

Prospects at midyear for topping 2006 performance in all categories continue to be good. TPB performance looks to be surging in 2007, after last year when the periodicals seemed to have more momentum.

Been on the road a lot lately; I should be getting back to posting data more regularly here soon.

By John Jackson Miller on 6/27/2007 12:00 AM

David Beard has an interesting article in the latest Comics Journal (#283) on distributor sales charts -- and whether the reporting of them distorts their importance. It's in stores now, and worth checking out. My thoughts (from my own discussions with David) are here.

By John Jackson Miller on 5/3/2007 12:00 AM

 

I'm still working my way through getting more year-by-year data online, but there have been enough media requests in advance of Spider-Man 3 that I figured I'd go ahead and add one of the title pages that I intend to do, showing sales accoring to the Statements of Ownership across time.

Click for Amazing Spider-Man sales figures from the beginning in the 1960s to 2006. (Or, rather, 2005, as Marvel seems not to have run a form in it for the end of 2006, near as I can figure. If someone has one, drop me a line in the Forum. Marvel did run forms in some other titles for the year, just not this one, or so it seems.)

I'll do more of these title pages, linking from the year-by-year pages, in the future -- hopefully there will be enough for their own section at some point.

By John Jackson Miller on 5/2/2007 12:00 AM

With Spider-Man 3 approaching fast, I have gotten a number of requests for yearly aggregate data in chart form. For quick reference, I've added the following to the main Yearly Reports page:

• Overall Market Dollars (estimated range)
• Overall Diamond Comics, Trade Paperback, and Magazine Sales
• And for each of the 12 months of each year:
• Unit Sales for Diamond's Top 300 Monthly Comics from each month of the year (hence, 3,600 comics)
• Dollar Sales for Diamond's Top 300 Comics
• Dollar Sales for Diamond's Top Trade Paperbacks from each month (number varies depending on Diamond's reportage)
• Combined Dollar Sales for Diamond's Reported Top-Selling Comics and Trade Paperbacks

Additionally, there are annual averages for each year for prices of comics sold by Diamond, both raw and weighted by orders.

The component monthly lists for this material are all on my repository on CBGXtra -- the links are here -- and there's additional annual information elsewhere on the site here, such as my back-of-the-envelope guesses at annual circulation from before 1996.