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December 2014's Stats In Percentage-Per-Published-Comic

Published Mon, 19 Jan 2015 14:00:41 -0600

Last updated Mon, 19 Jan 2015 14:31:08 -0600

December saw DC Comics take the lead in marketshare in the number of comic books published in 2014, but how much of that was down to publishing more titles?

Quite a bit it seems.

Using unit marketshare divided by the number of books shipping and multiplied by a hundred gives us a comparative score of percentage per published book – first by comics, then by comics/magazines/graphic novels combined.

And in order of percentage per comic, a different line-up to usual occurs… Valiant, Avatar and Archie are all ahead of Dynamite and Boom, whose number of comics usually pushed them up the ranks, and Titan is ahead of IDW. And IDW's large line of graphic novels pushes them down even further on that score as well.

PUBLISHER	COMICS SHIPPED	GRAPHIC NOVELS SHIPPED	MAGAZINES SHIPPED	TOTAL SHIPP	% UNIT SALES	% PER COMIC	% PER ITEM
MARVEL COMICS	77	24	0	101	34.10%	443	337
DC COMICS	102	36	1	139	36.17%	355	260
IMAGE COMICS	52	18	0	70	10.40%	200	149
DARK HORSE COMICS	30	12	0	42	2.95%	98	70
TITAN	9	1	1	11	0.87%	97	79
IDW PUBLISHING	44	24	0	68	4.17%	94	25
AVATAR	8	0	1	8	0.74%	93	81
VALIANT	10	4	0	14	0.91%	91	65
ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS	11	1	1	13	0.91%	83	70
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT	33	3	0	36	2.26%	68	63
BOOM! STUDIOS	42	6	0	48	2.82%	67	58
ZENESCOPE	11	3	0	14	0.57%	52	41