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Vital statistics

(All figures below are estimated)



Shipping weeks (New Comics Days) in month: 5



One point on the chart released by Diamond equals 595 copies.

COMICS UNIT SALES

The Top 300 Comics sold

7.96 million copies

(+10% vs. same month previous year)

(-5% vs. same month 5 years earlier)

(+28% vs. same month 10 years earlier)

(+34% vs. same month 15 years earlier)

(+23% vs. same month 20 years earlier)

(-1% vs. previous year)



Category to date for year:

The Top 500 Comics Sold

8.64 million copies

(+11% vs. same month previous year)

(+10% vs. same month previous year)

(-2% vs. previous year)

comics sold by Diamond (in units)Year to date

COMICS DOLLAR SALES

The Top 300 Comics sold had a total retail price of

$35.77 million

(+21% vs. same month previous year)

(+12% vs. same month 5 years earlier)

(+67% vs. same month 10 years earlier)

(+109% vs. same month 15 years earlier)

(+106% vs. same month 20 years earlier)

(+5% vs. previous year)



Category to date for year:

The Top 500 Comics sold had a total retail price of

$38.72 million

(+22% vs. same month previous year)

(+21% vs. same month previous year)

(+4% vs. previous year)

comics sold by Diamond (in dollars)Year to date

GRAPHIC NOVEL DOLLAR SALES

The Top 300 Graphic Novels sold had a total retail price of

$6.63 million

(-9% vs. same month previous year, comparing just the Top 300 GNs vs. Top 300 GNs)

(-25% vs. same month 5 years earlier, comparing just the Top 300 GNs vs. Top 300 GNs)

(+12% vs. same month 10 years earlier, comparing just the Top 300 vs. Top 300)

(-9% vs. same month 15 years earlier, comparing just the Top 100 vs. the Top 100)

(-8% vs. previous year)



Category to date for year:

The Top 500 Graphic Novels sold had a total retail price of

$7.93 million

(-3% vs. same month previous year)

(-4% vs. previous year)

graphic novels sold by Diamond (in dollars)Year to date

COMICS AND GRAPHIC NOVEL DOLLAR SALES

The Top 300 Comics and Top 300 Graphic Novels sold had a combined total retail price of

$42.4 million

(+16% vs. same month previous year, comparing just the Top 300 GNs vs. Top 300 GNs)

(+4% vs. same month 5 years earlier, comparing just the Top 300 GNs vs. Top 300 GNs)

(+37% vs. same month 10 years earlier, comparing just the Top 300 GNs vs. Top 300 GNs)

(+132% vs. same month 15 years earlier, comparing just the Top 100 GNs vs. the Top 100 GNs)

(+2% vs. previous year)



Category to date for year:

The Top 500 Comics and Top 500 Graphic Novels sold had a total retail price of

$46.65 million

(+14% vs. same month previous year)



(+2% vs. previous year)



comics and graphic novels sold by Diamond (in dollars)Year to date

OVERALL

including all comic books, graphic novels, trade paperbacks, and magazines, Diamond shipped material worth

(+14% vs. same month previous year)

(unchanged vs. same month 5 years earlier)

(+65% vs. same month 10 years earlier)

(+102% vs. same month 15 years earlier)

(+2% vs. previous year)

Note: This category diverges slightly from Diamond's reported measures for all comics and graphic novels. Slight differences are introduced by the presence of magazines and other factors.

MARKET SHARES Share of Overall Units Marvel 45.20% DC 32.02% Image 7.18% IDW 3.16% Boom 2.21% Dark Horse 2.11% Dynamite 1.67% Viz 0.51% Archie 0.46% Vault 0.44% Titan 0.42% Aftershock 0.37% Ablaze 0.36% Zenescope 0.35% Valiant 0.35% Oni 0.33% St. Martins 0.14% Random House 0.12% Fantagraphics 0.06% Hachette 0.06% Other 2.46% Share of Overall Dollars Marvel 39.51% DC 31.67% Image 7.59% IDW 3.42% Dark Horse 2.93% Boom 2.32% Dynamite 2.21% Viz 1.33% Oni 0.56% Titan 0.48% Random House 0.47% St. Martins 0.47% Vault 0.46% Archie 0.43% Aftershock 0.42% Fantagraphics 0.40% Zenescope 0.36% Valiant 0.33% Ablaze 0.31% Hachette 0.20% Other 4.13% Items in Top 300 Marvel 115 DC 102 Image 26 IDW 21 Boom 11 Dark Horse 9 Dynamite 5 Ablaze 2 Oni 2 Titan 2 Valiant 2 Ahoy 1 Archie 1 Vault 1 Share of Units in Top 300 Marvel 50.37% DC 35.19% Image 6.05% IDW 2.55% Boom 1.97% Dynamite 1.24% Dark Horse 1.15% Ablaze 0.43% Oni 0.27% Titan 0.24% Valiant 0.17% Vault 0.15% Ahoy 0.11% Archie 0.11% Share of Dollars in Top 300 Marvel 49.78% DC 36.56% Image 5.95% IDW 2.51% Boom 1.77% Dynamite 1.11% Dark Horse 1.02% Ablaze 0.38% Oni 0.24% Titan 0.22% Valiant 0.15% Vault 0.13% Ahoy 0.10% Archie 0.10% Dollar Share of Top 300 Comics & Top 300 TPBs Marvel 46.57% DC 35.79% Image 7.17% IDW 2.48% Dark Horse 2.04% Boom 1.84% Dynamite 1.33% Viz 0.40% Oni 0.35% Ablaze 0.32% Titan 0.18% Fantagraphics 0.17% Valiant 0.17% Vault 0.15% Archie 0.13% Aftershock 0.11% Ahoy 0.11% First Second 0.11% Seven Seas 0.07% Z2 0.06% Humanoids 0.05% Book Palace 0.04% Lion Forge 0.04% Tokyopop 0.04% Pocket 0.04% Drawn & Quarterly 0.04% Random House 0.03% Action Lab 0.03% Countryman 0.02% Albatross 0.02% Scholastic 0.02% Heavy Metal 0.02% Impact Theory 0.02% Yen 0.01% New comics released Marvel 110 DC 107 Image 50 IDW 39 Dark Horse 26 Boom 18 Dynamite 15 Titan 6 Oni 3 Other 147 TOTAL 521 New graphic novels released Marvel 50 DC 30 Viz 22 Dark Horse 21 IDW 16 Boom 15 Image 12 Dynamite 9 Oni 9 Titan 4 Other 229 TOTAL 417

THE FINE PRINT The monthly sales estimates at right are for items preordered from 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 preorded by 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.

Preordered items may not have actually shipped in the month for which they were ordered — and some were not shipped at all. Such items may reappear in later preorder charts marked as resolicitations; in those cases the preorders appearing in earlier lists are cancelled.

Rankings of all comic books that eventually came out can be found in the year's report in the the Year Overview section, where available.

More information can be found in the FAQ section.

Category to date for yearAverage cost of comics in the Top 300:Average cost of comics in the Top 300, weighted by orders:Average cost of comics in the Top 25:Median cost of comics in the Top 300:Most common cost of comics in the Top 300: