MARKET SHARES

Share of Overall Units Marvel 36.30% DC 33.14% Image 8.51% IDW 4.98% Dark Horse 4.80% Dynamic Forces 2.93% Boom 2.07% Zenescope 1.03% Valiant 0.97% Aspen 0.65% Avatar 0.59% Archie 0.50% Viz 0.36% Eaglemoss 0.29% Oni 0.24% Titan 0.22% Hachette 0.14% Random House 0.13% Fantagraphics 0.09% Abstract 0.05% Other 2.03% Share of Overall Dollars Marvel 33.70% DC 30.16% Image 7.86% IDW 5.70% Dark Horse 5.47% Dynamic Forces 3.01% Boom 2.05% Eaglemoss 1.34% Avatar 0.95% Zenescope 0.94% Valiant 0.90% Viz 0.84% Fantagraphics 0.53% Random House 0.49% Hachette 0.48% Archie 0.47% Abstract 0.37% Oni 0.35% Aspen 0.34% Titan 0.33% Other 3.72% Items in Top 300 DC 80 Marvel 67 IDW 32 Image 32 Dark Horse 24 Dynamic Forces 23 Zenescope 11 Boom 10 Valiant 6 Avatar 4 Bongo 3 Archie 2 Aspen 2 Black Mask 1 Hermes 1 Oni 1 United Plankton 1 Share of Units in Top 300 Marvel 39.61% DC 35.07% Image 7.87% IDW 4.76% Dark Horse 4.26% Dynamic Forces 2.66% Boom 1.60% Zenescope 1.14% Valiant 1.05% Aspen 0.54% Avatar 0.46% Bongo 0.28% Archie 0.28% Hermes 0.11% United Plankton 0.11% Oni 0.10% Black Mask 0.08% Share of Dollars in Top 300 Marvel 41.44% DC 33.96% Image 6.90% IDW 5.06% Dark Horse 4.07% Dynamic Forces 2.94% Boom 1.79% Valiant 1.16% Zenescope 1.06% Avatar 0.51% Bongo 0.24% Aspen 0.24% Archie 0.23% Hermes 0.12% Oni 0.11% United Plankton 0.09% Black Mask 0.08% Dollar Share of Top 300 Comics & Top 300 TPBs Marvel 39.48% DC 32.59% Image 8.31% IDW 5.01% Dark Horse 4.72% Dynamic Forces 2.51% Boom 1.66% Valiant 0.98% Zenescope 0.91% Avatar 0.76% Abstract 0.40% Viz 0.35% Fantagraphics 0.33% Archie 0.23% Hachette 0.21% Bongo 0.19% Aspen 0.19% Top Shelf 0.17% St. Martins 0.14% Humanoids 0.14% Random House 0.13% Archaia 0.10% Hermes 0.10% Oni 0.09% United Plankton 0.07% Black Mask 0.06% NBM 0.05% Arcana 0.03% Pocket 0.03% Consortium 0.02% Scholastic 0.02% Lerner 0.01% New comics released Marvel 83 DC 67 Dynamic Forces 49 Image 39 IDW 35 Dark Horse 29 Boom 20 Zenescope 11 Avatar 7 Other 66 TOTAL 406 New graphic novels released DC 34 Marvel 23 IDW 18 Dark Horse 15 Image 9 Dynamic Forces 4 Avatar 4 Zenescope 3 Boom 2 Other 100 TOTAL 212

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.