Posted in: Archie, Boom, Comics, DC Comics, Dynamite, Fantagraphics, Image, Marvel Comics, Oni Press, Titan, Valiant, Viz Media | Tagged: ablaze, dynamite, marketshare, per capita

Dynamite Third For Per-Capita Marketshare For January 2020, Ablaze Beats IDW

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2020 09:00:24 -0600

by Rich Johnston

Comments

Welcome to Bleeding Cool's Monthly 'Per Capita' List. The usual comics industry marketshare shows how much share of the overall market a comics publisher has. But the Per Capita list takes that figure and divides it by the number of new titles they publish in that month.

We've already looked at publisher marketshare in the North American direct market of comic book shops for January 2020.

But if you divide the marketshare by the number of individual titles published that month, you get a very different picture. Marvel still tops DC – but nowhere near as much. Dynamite overtakes every other publisher to be third, with Boom beating Dark Horse and IDW to fifth. And Ablaze shows the power of Conan, Charlie Adlard and Mirka Andolfo to beat IDW to seventh place, pushing IDW back to eighth…

Publisher	Dollar Marketshare Per Capita x1000	Retail Marketshare Per Capita x1000
MARVEL COMICS	255	297
DC COMICS	229	232
DYNAMITE	123	115
IMAGE COMICS	112	112
BOOM! STUDIOS	108	110
DARK HORSE	91	67
ABLAZE MEDIA	88	107
IDW	79	64
ONI PRESS	68	51
VIZ MEDIA	60	24
FANTAGRAPHICS	60	9
TITAN COMICS	52	37
VALIANT	49	56
ZENESCOPE	28	31
ARCHIE COMICS	27	30
VAULT	21	21