June 2006 Comic Book Sales to Comics Shops

Estimated Comics Shipped to North American Comics Shops
Based on Reports from Diamond Comic Distributors

Despite June 2006 having one less shipping week than June 2005, the industry posted similar figures in several categories and 15% above the previous year when it came to dollar sales for Diamond's Top 300 comics. It was the only month of the year to show a year-over-year drop, and just barely so.

For the first six months of the year, the industry was up 12%: Diamond's overall sales including all comics, trade paperbacks, and magazines were at $188.88 million, over the previous year's pace of $168.44 million. 

Marvel's Civil War #2 led the list, selling at least 253,900 copies and dropping off only slightly from the first issue's totals. (With reorders, it would outsell the first issue.) Orders for DC's issues of 52 were only estimated by Diamond, owing to that title's returnability -- but estimates for all four were above 100,000 copies. 

For the second month in a row, the powerful sales coming from the major publishers again resulted in not a single new publisher appearing on the list. That despite the fact that, in June, 300th place on the chart dropped from 2,800 copies, where it was in May, to just 1,100 copies. 

Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, and Image accounted for 85% of the industry's sales, a high since Diamond began reporting "actual" sales in 1998. 

Diamond did not release the dollar sales rankings for the comics in 101st through 300th place this month.

Read more in our original report from the month. You can also click to skip to the Top Graphic Novels for the month.

—John Jackson Miller

This list includes all items on Diamond's Top 300 chart. If you don't see a book, Diamond released no data for it.
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The links lead to current listings for each item on eBay. You can also find the books at your comics shop.

June 2006 Graphic Novel Sales to Comics Shops

Estimated Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks Shipped to North American Comics Shops Based on Reports from Diamond Comic Distributors

This list includes all items on Diamond's Top 100 Graphic Novel chart. If you don't see a book, Diamond released no data for it.

The links lead to title details on Amazon (paid links). You can also find the books at your comics shop.

The Top 100 trade paperbacks and graphic novels reported by Diamond had orders worth $3.64 million at full retail in June, almost exactly the same as the May figure and a decrease of 4% versus the same month in 2005.