MARKET SHARES

Share of Overall Units Marvel 35.85% DC 32.56% Image 10.97% IDW 4.67% Dark Horse 4.03% Dynamite 2.40% Boom 2.14% Valiant 1.07% Archie 0.74% Avatar 0.67% Zenescope 0.62% Oni 0.48% Eaglemoss 0.43% Viz 0.42% Random House 0.38% Titan 0.29% Action Lab 0.20% Fantagraphics 0.10% St. Martin's 0.10% Hachette 0.07% Other 1.83% Share of Overall Dollars Marvel 34.27% DC 28.71% Image 8.83% IDW 5.43% Dark Horse 4.73% Dynamite 2.59% Boom 2.32% Eaglemoss 1.65% Random House 1.14% Viz 1.04% Valiant 0.99% Oni 0.96% Archie 0.89% Avatar 0.86% Zenescope 0.62% Fantagraphics 0.55% St. Martin's 0.34% Titan 0.33% Hachette 0.23% Action Lab 0.21% Other 3.32% Items in Top 300 Marvel 80 DC 75 Image 42 IDW 27 Dark Horse 20 Dynamite 17 Boom 11 Valiant 9 Avatar 5 Archie 4 Bongo 2 Oni 2 Zenescope 2 Abstract 1 William Gaines 1 Titan 1 United Plankton 1 Share of Units in Top 300 Marvel 40.25% DC 34.92% Image 10.48% IDW 4.16% Dark Horse 3.16% Dynamite 2.19% Boom 1.46% Valiant 1.23% Avatar 0.56% Archie 0.49% Bongo 0.22% Zenescope 0.20% Oni 0.19% Titan 0.16% Abstract 0.11% William Gaines 0.10% United Plankton 0.10% Share of Dollars in Top 300 Marvel 43.88% DC 31.85% Image 9.19% IDW 4.75% Dark Horse 2.99% Dynamite 2.28% Boom 1.56% Valiant 1.32% Avatar 0.72% Archie 0.45% Bongo 0.21% Oni 0.20% Titan 0.17% Zenescope 0.16% Abstract 0.12% United Plankton 0.08% William Gaines 0.06% Dollar Share of Top 300 Comics & Top 300 TPBs Marvel 40.86% DC 32.32% Image 9.07% IDW 4.43% Dark Horse 3.60% Dynamite 2.10% Boom 1.67% Valiant 1.16% Oni 0.75% Archie 0.70% Avatar 0.68% Random House 0.41% Fantagraphics 0.38% Viz 0.34% Zenescope 0.22% St. Martins 0.19% Bongo 0.16% Titan 0.14% HarperCollins 0.11% Scholastic 0.11% Abstract 0.10% Slave Labor 0.08% Udon 0.07% United Plankton 0.06% William Gaines 0.04% Panini 0.04% Hachette 0.03% NBM 0.03% Houghton Mifflin 0.03% Drawn & Quarterly 0.02% Antarctic 0.02% New comics released DC 85 Marvel 78 Image 63 IDW 42 Dark Horse 36 Dynamite 25 Boom 23 Random House 1 Other 98 TOTAL 451 0 0 New graphic novels released Marvel 29 Random House 27 Viz 24 DC 22 Dark Horse 18 IDW 17 Dynamite 12 Boom 9 Image 5 Other 117 TOTAL 280

THE FINE PRINT

The monthly sales estimates at right are for items shipped by Diamond Comic Distributors, the largest comic-book distributor in North America.

Diamond does not publish sales figures; instead it publishes "indexed" sales tables, 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.

Along with other methods, we use the actual Diamond final orders from titles to approximate what an order index point equals each month.The result is applied to the Diamond charts to produce the estimates seen at right.

The figures represent only those comics and graphic novels that Diamond shipped to North American retailers in the calendar month. While Diamond's sales represent the majority of periodicals in circulation, they are a smaller portion of the overall graphic novel market.

An item may appear in more than one month's charts due to reorders; for a better idea of a comic book's overall sales, look for its end-of-year sales in the Year Overview section, where available.

More information can be found in the FAQ section.