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June 2015 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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The first half of 2015 is in the books, and comic books in particular put up some amazing numbers. The comic book market continued to grow at a fast pace in June; its $48.7 million in sales meant that that the first half of 2015 was up nearly 13% over the first half of 2014. Comics retailers bought $282 million in comics, graphic novels, and magazines from Diamond in the first half of the year, an increase of more than $33 million over the same period in 2014.



Secret Wars #3 led the market with more than 218,000 copies shipped. May's leader, Secret Wars #1, had an additional 8,000 copies ship in June, bringing the total so far to more than 535,000. Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows #1 also topped 200,000 copies, with the Justice League of America relaunch and Thors debuting at approximately 151,000 and 114,850 respectively.



There were no Loot Crate comics last month, but there were three issues in the June Comic Block, a new service from Nerd Block. Marvel's Groot #1 placed tenth, while IDW's Ghostbusters Get Real #1 and Titan's 21st Century Tank Girl #1 also were included.



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 listings for each issue on eBay. You can also find the books at your comics shop.

June 2015 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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Graphic novel unit sales were up greatly, with a wide gap separating unit and dollar sales; while this usually means deep discounting — which we did see this month on a range of titles — an increasing factor is the large number of graphic novels (like the market-leading Wytches) at the $9.99 price point.



