Comic Book Sales for 2013

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2013 Comic Book Sales Figures
Comics Sold to North American Comics Shops as Reported by Diamond Comic Distributors

OVERALL North American Dollar Sales for Diamond's Comics, Trade Paperbacks, and Magazines for 2013 (through MAY)
around $208.2 million
(up 14.07% year-over-year)

My analyses of final orders from Diamond Comic Distributors for individual months can be found here:

January 2013	February 2013	March 2013	April 2013
May 2013	June 2013	July 2013	August 2013
September 2013	October 2013	November 2013	December 2013

Overview To the past

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2013
The year in comics
shop orders

Vital statistics
(Comics sales to shops by Diamond through MAY,
all figures estimated)

The Top 300 Comics each month sold
34.69 million copies
(+11% vs. previous year)
(+6% vs. 5 years earlier)
(+21% vs. 10 years earlier)
(+0% vs. 15 years earlier)

All Comics sold to comics shops (in units)
up 12.25%

The Top 300 Comics each month had sales worth
$124.88 million
(+15% vs. previous year)
(+20% vs. 5 years earlier)
(+56 vs. 10 years earlier)
(+48% vs. 15 years earlier)

All Comics sold to comics shops (in dollars)
up 15.04%

The Top 300 Trade Paperbacks and Graphic Novels each month had sales worth
$39.38 million
(+19% vs. previous year)

All Trade Paperbacks and Graphic Novels sold to comics shops
up 12.01%

Combined, the Top 300 Comics and Top 300 Trade Paperback categories had sales worth
$169.26 million
(+16% vs. previous year)

All Comic Books, Trade Paperbacks and Graphic Novels sold to comics shops
up 14.07%

OVERALL
including all comics, trades, graphic novels, and magazines, Diamond had sales of
around $208.2 million
(up 14% vs. previous year)

Aggregate totals across time

Even with the first week of the calendar year counted with 2012 for Diamond's tracking purposes, this was only the second time in a decade that January sales beat the previous December's. DC's 50-plus multiple-cover Justice League of America #1 topped 300,000 copies sold to retailers in Feburary. March closed out the first quarter up 20%.

April continued the pace, althought without many blockbuster titles. May sales continued the story, with a wide range of publishers contributing to the year-over-year increase.

— John Jackson Miller

MARKET SHARES
Find market shares across time
here.

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THE FINE PRINT

The sales estimates above are for comics shipped byDiamond Comic Distributors, the largest comic-book distributor in North America.

Diamond publishes "indexed" sales figures, in which it keys orders for all comics it lists sales for to a single comic book (usually Batman), with one “order index point” being equal to 1% of that title’s orders. We use the actual Diamond final orders from titles accounting for more than 25% of Diamond’s Top 300 to approximate what an order index point equals each month. The result is applied to the Diamond charts to produce the agggregate estimates seen above.

RESOURCES
BOOKS ON COMICS
- All in Color for a Dime
- Standard Catalog of Comics

MARKET SHARES

THE FINE PRINT

RESOURCES

BOOKS ON COMICS