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December 2016 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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Comics shop orders of comic books, graphic novels, and magazines finished up for the year, just barely, after a fourth quarter that lost much of the momentum gained in a strong summer. The comparatives were difficult, given that 2015 was infused by more than $30 million in new dollars generated from the return of Star Wars to Diamond.



Marvel offered large overships of free copies on several titles: you can see the wide disparity between the unit sales rankings and the dollar sales rankings for titles including Hawkeye, Gamora, Guardians of the Galaxy, Rocket Raccoon, Nova, Mighty Captain Marvel, Star-Lord, and others. Overships do not impact dollar market share, which is the more meaningful category; you can get an idea of the biggest earners for the month by sorting by dollar rank.



The unit market share of Dynamite was raised by nearly six points by sales of the 25-cent Red Sonja #0, which does not appear in the charts below because it's below the $1 threshold set by Diamond.



Read more in our preliminary and final analysis posts for the month. You can also click to skip to the Top Graphic Novels for the month.





This list includes all items on Diamond's Top 300 charts, plus any post-#300 items from its Top 50 Indy and Small 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.

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



December 2016 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 300 charts, plus any post-#300 items from its Top 50 Indy, Manga, and Small Publisher 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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IDW's Love is Love led the charts in a month in which graphic novels performed relatively better than comics.



