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Detective Comics #1000 Pushed DC to First Place in Dollar Marketshare in March 2019

Marvel Comics retained their traditional dominance of share of comics sold in North American comic book stores in March 2019. But DC Comics' Detective Comics #1000, a ten dollar comic that sold huge numbers, helped push DC to take the dollar marketshare – for this month at least. Marvel took a 40.94% market share in items sold and a 34.46% market share in dollars. This compares to 44.48% and 40.20% in February and 41.29% and 39.24% in January. Looks like March reversed Marvel's increase and then some. This compares to January where Marvel had dollar share (39.24%) and unit share (41.29%) with DC Comics on dollar share of (29.70%) and unit share (33.39%).

While DC Comics had a 34% share of items sold and a 36.20% market share in dollars. Which compares to a February unit share of 30.64% and dollar share of 28.69%. And a January unit share of 33.39% and dollar share of 29.7%. Can DC have a Detective Comics #1000 every month? Remeber this is also in a month when DC had about 101 items to Marvel's 143 items… so the per capita share will be a little different. DC also had seven books in the top ten.

Even with all the Detective Comics action, Image Comics rose closer to their usual ten percent share with 9.63% dollar share and a 9.36% unit share.

Also, notably, 2019 is outperforming 2018 in dollars if not in sales. 7.64% more money raised than this time last year, but 1.68% fewer copies of things sold…

Image Comics' bestseller The Walking Dead #189 was at #30, BOOM! Studios' Buffy the Vampire Slayer #3 at #76, IDW Publishing's Transformers #1 at #90, Dark Horse Comics' The Umbrella Academy: Hotel Oblivion #6 at #131, and Dynamite Entertainment's Red Sonja #2 at #135.

Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard, and Cliff Rathburn's The Walking Dead Volume 31: The Rotten Core from Image Comics was the best-selling graphic novel of March. In total, Image Comics had six titles in the top ten. DC had four titles in the top ten, led by Detective Comics: 80 Years of Batman at #2.

BBC Books' Doctor Who: Thirteen Doctors 13 Stories, a young readers anthology of short stories featuring each of the Doctor's incarnation, was the best-selling book of March. Gemstone Publishing's Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide Volume 48 returned to the top ten at #5. Also in the top ten, Dark Horse Comics' Middle-Earth: Journeys in Myth and Legend, an art book featuring Donato Giancola's work based on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, ranked #7 for the month.

Good Smile's Overwatch: Reaper Figma, based on the best-selling video game from Blizzard Entertainment, was the best-selling toy product of March. Diamond Select Toys had three products in the month's top ten, led by the Marvel Gallery: Avengers Infinity War: Iron Spider-Man PVC Statue at #2. DC Collectibles also had three products among the top ten, with the Batman Family: Batman Multi-Part Statue, the first piece in a new statue line, as their best-selling product at #6.

The Creature Codex, a sourcebook for Paizo's Pathfinder role-playing game, was the best-selling game product of March and one of Paizo's eight products among the month's top ten.

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