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June 2019 Comic Book Sales to Comics Shops

Estimated Comics Shipped to North American Comics Shops

Based on Reports from Diamond Comic Distributors

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Retailers ordered $42.3 million dollars of comics, graphic novels, and magazines from Diamond Comic Distributors in June, an increase of 0.4% over the same month in 2018. Comics dollar sales were up 3.6%, while graphic novels suffered comparatively against a slate the previous year that was led by three Dark Nights Metal titles.



The new-title austerity accelerated for DC in June, as it published just 50 new comic books in the month, a new 28-year low for the publisher. Marvel more than doubled its total number of new comic books, with 104. (Several of those releases were dollar-copy True Believers titles.)



Marvel also more than doubled DC's total output of new graphic novels in the month, 43 to DC's 20. June saw DC's smallest new graphic novel slate since March 2015, and that could be an echo of the smaller new comics slate: when there are fewer new titles out, logically there are fewer issues to collect into squarebound editions.



Marvel's dollar sales of comics and graphic novels rose 13% in June over the same month in 2018, aided by the top-selling Black Cat #1; retailer purchased more than 256,000 copies of the comic book. (Dozens of variants exist, including one that was sold to Marvel's Walmart bundler.) Marvel sold 7% more dollars worth of material into comics shops in the first half of 2019 than it did in the same period in 2018 — while DC's per-title performance was such that its overall dollar sales were only off 5%, far better than its new release volume in the first half of the year would suggest.



Some publishers are bundled together in Diamond's market shares by the distributors from which it obtains the books. St. Martin's shares include books listed below as being from First Second and Seven Seas; Random House's shares includes Kodansha and Vertical; Hachette includes Disney Hyperion; and SCB includes One Peace.



Read more in our preliminary post for the month. You can also click to skip to the Top Graphic Novels for the month. And you can see the reorders that were placed during the month on our pages for reorders and advance reorders for the year.



—John Jackson Miller

This list includes all items on Diamond's Top 500 charts, plus any post-#500 items from its Top Independent Publisher charts. If you don't see a book, Diamond released no data for it.

Items marked with asterisks [*] had their reported orders reduced by 10% due to returnability.

Distributor charts are regional commodity reports, not measures of a work's total reach. Read our FAQ.

The links lead to current listings for each item on eBay. You can also find the books at your comics shop.

June 2019 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 500 charts, plus any post-#500 items from its Top Independent and Manga charts. If you don't see a book, Diamond released no data for it.

The links lead to details about each title on Amazon. You can also find the books at your comics shop.

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Many low-priced titles found their way into the unit sales top sellers in June, a month in which graphic novels were considerably down against a strong trio of Dark Nights Metal releases in June 2018. Dynamite had a sale offering retailers up to 90% off on older Vampirella items, hence their appearance in the charts with much lower market shares.



