Post by G on Mar 9, 2011 19:17:51 GMT -5
Sales Estimates for February, 2011
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by John Mayo
February was the fourth worst month for comic book sales since Diamond first started releasing final order information back in March 2003. It also set a new record low for the top selling item on the comic book list.
Below you'll find the sales estimates for comics and trade paperbacks sold in the direct market for February, 2011. The sales numbers below are estimates based on the information provided by Diamond Comics Distributors earlier this month. Sales estimates for January, 2011 can be found here.
There are a couple of things to keep in mind when reading this data. These numbers are just estimates for the sales through Diamond to direct market retailers. It does not include any sales outside of the Diamond channel such as newstands, book stores or overseas markets. Since the majority of habitual comic book readers are served through this sales channel, these numbers are a good indicator of the core sales trends at the retail level. While not all copies will sell to readers, each retailer is buying what they think they can sell so the trends at the retail level should be a close enough reflection of the sales trends at the reader level for the purposes of discussion.
The breakdowns are for just the top comics and top trades listed below. These are not the overall market share. I only deal with numbers that I can see and kick around in my ever evolving number crunching system. Sometimes the numbers get a bit battered and bruised in the process.
The estimated total sales for the 300 comics was 5,167,242 comics which is up by 764,504 units from January and down by 217,715 units from February 2010. Marvel Comics had the largest percentage of the top 300 comics with 48.49% of the total units sold followed by DC Comics with 32.74%.
The top selling comic from Marvel Comics was "Avengers" #10 in slot 4 with an estimated 63,924 units and for DC Comics was "Green Lantern" #62 in rank 1 with an estimated 71,517 units.
The estimated total sales for the 300 trades was 256,552 trades which is up by 24,296 units from January and down by 22,322 units from February 2010.
Topping the trades list in February was "Batman the Return of Bruce Wayne Deluxe Ed" by DC Comics with 5,310 units.
www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=31223
by John Mayo
February was the fourth worst month for comic book sales since Diamond first started releasing final order information back in March 2003. It also set a new record low for the top selling item on the comic book list.
Below you'll find the sales estimates for comics and trade paperbacks sold in the direct market for February, 2011. The sales numbers below are estimates based on the information provided by Diamond Comics Distributors earlier this month. Sales estimates for January, 2011 can be found here.
There are a couple of things to keep in mind when reading this data. These numbers are just estimates for the sales through Diamond to direct market retailers. It does not include any sales outside of the Diamond channel such as newstands, book stores or overseas markets. Since the majority of habitual comic book readers are served through this sales channel, these numbers are a good indicator of the core sales trends at the retail level. While not all copies will sell to readers, each retailer is buying what they think they can sell so the trends at the retail level should be a close enough reflection of the sales trends at the reader level for the purposes of discussion.
The breakdowns are for just the top comics and top trades listed below. These are not the overall market share. I only deal with numbers that I can see and kick around in my ever evolving number crunching system. Sometimes the numbers get a bit battered and bruised in the process.
The estimated total sales for the 300 comics was 5,167,242 comics which is up by 764,504 units from January and down by 217,715 units from February 2010. Marvel Comics had the largest percentage of the top 300 comics with 48.49% of the total units sold followed by DC Comics with 32.74%.
The top selling comic from Marvel Comics was "Avengers" #10 in slot 4 with an estimated 63,924 units and for DC Comics was "Green Lantern" #62 in rank 1 with an estimated 71,517 units.
The estimated total sales for the 300 trades was 256,552 trades which is up by 24,296 units from January and down by 22,322 units from February 2010.
Topping the trades list in February was "Batman the Return of Bruce Wayne Deluxe Ed" by DC Comics with 5,310 units.
