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Dynamite Third For Per-Capita Marketshare For January 2020, Ablaze Beats IDW
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 |
Dollar Market Share – January 2020 |
Unit Market Share – January 2020 |