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Marvel Maintains Over 15 Point Marketshare Lead Over DC In June 2015 As Renew Your Vows Indicates Desire For A Return To Watson-Parker Marriage

Amazing-Spider-Man-Renew-Your-Vows-2015-a906cMarvel Comics was June's top publisher with a 40.86% dollar share and a 43.16% unit share, aintaining their over-15 point lead on DC Comics who are on 25.06% dollar share and a 28.03% unit share. DC's much vaunted DC YOU mini-relaunch and promotion has not translated well into sales, it seems, at least not against Marvel's Secret Wars crossover machine.

Meanwhile Image maintain their recent ten-percent-as-standard position with a 9.81% dollar share and a 10.83% unit share.

Marvel also dominates the top ten, with seven titles, and the Renew Your Vows spinoff coming just under the main Secret Wars series, emphasising the desire by a large number of fans for a return, in some for, of the Peter Parker/Mary Jane Watson marriage. If this demand continues through its run, will Marvel feel the need to keep supplying it?

And the launch of Bryan Hitch's Justice League Of America #1 beats out both the new Batman and the Justice League Darkseid War.

While the first volume of Scott Snyder and Jock's Wytches topped the graphic novel chart, ahead of the original graphic novel by Jim Starlin, Thanos: The Infinity Relativity, at #2.

Year on year, 2015 is beating 2014 by over 15% so far…

TOP COMIC BOOK PUBLISHERS

RETAIL MARKET SHARE
PUBLISHER SHARE
MARVEL COMICS 40.86%
DC COMICS 25.06%
IMAGE COMICS 9.81%
IDW PUBLISHING 5.18%
DARK HORSE COMICS 4.25%
BOOM ENTERTAINMENT 1.93%
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT 1.83%
TITAN COMICS 1.26%
ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS 0.96%
VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT 0.72%
OTHER NON-TOP 10 8.13%
UNIT MARKET SHARE
PUBLISHER SHARE
MARVEL COMICS 43.16%
DC COMICS 28.03%
IMAGE COMICS 10.83%
IDW PUBLISHING 3.86%
DARK HORSE COMICS 3.51%
BOOM ENTERTAINMENT 1.74%
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT 1.65%
TITAN COMICS 1.20%
ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS 1.01%
VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT 0.82%
OTHER NON-TOP 10 4.19%

NEW TITLES SHIPPED

PUBLISHER COMICS SHIPPED GRAPHIC NOVELS SHIPPED MAGAZINES SHIPPED TOTAL SHIPPED
MARVEL COMICS 72 33 0 105
DC COMICS 68 25 1 94
IMAGE COMICS 65 16 0 81
DARK HORSE COMICS 32 31 0 63
IDW PUBLISHING 41 21 0 62
BOOM ENTERTAINMENT 31 10 0 41
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT 27 5 0 32
TITAN COMICS 10 7 2 19
ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS 14 2 0 16
VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT LLC 8 2 0 10
OTHER NON-TOP 10 85 136 36 257

COMPARATIVE SALES STATISTICS

  DOLLARS UNITS
JUNE 2015 VS. MAY 2014
COMICS -6.09% -5.33%
GRAPHIC NOVELS 14.39% 23.02%
TOTAL COMICS/GN -0.35% -3.30%
JUNE 2015 VS. JUNE 2014
COMICS 16.34% 14.66%
GRAPHIC NOVELS 18.03% 31.35%
TOTAL COMICS/GN 13.49% 18.78%
YEAR-TO-DATE 2015 VS. YEAR-TO-DATE 2014
COMICS 16.46% 16.52%
GRAPHIC NOVELS 5.85% 4.06%
TOTAL COMICS/GN 13.07% 15.46%
SECOND QUARTER 2015 VS. FIRST QUARTER 2015
COMICS 19.03% 16.19%
GRAPHIC NOVELS 24.63% 31.88%
TOTAL COMICS/GN 20.67% 17.32%
SECOND QUARTER 2015 VS. FIRST QUARTER 2014
COMICS 18.74% 19.01%
GRAPHIC NOVELS 10.43% 16.71%
TOTAL COMICS/GN 16.09% 18.82%

TOP 10 COMIC BOOKS

RANK DESCRIPTION PRICE VENDOR
1 SECRET WARS #3 $3.99 MAR
2 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: RENEW YOUR VOWS #1 $3.99 MAR
3 STAR WARS #6 $3.99 MAR
4 JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #1 $5.99 DC
5 BATMAN #41 $3.99 DC
6 THORS #1 $3.99 MAR
7 DARTH VADER #6 $3.99 MAR
8 X-MEN '92 #1 $4.99 MAR
9 JUSTICE LEAGUE #41 [*] $4.99 DC
10 GROOT #1 $3.99 MAR

TOP 10 GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS

RANK DESCRIPTION PRICE VENDOR
1 WYTCHES VOLUME 1 TP (MR) $9.99 IMA
2 THANOS: THE INFINITY RELATIVITY OGN HC $24.99 MAR
3 EAST OF WEST VOLUME 4: WHO WANTS WAR TP $14.99 IMA
4 MS. MARVEL VOLUME 3: CRUSHED TP $15.99 MAR
5 CIVIL WAR TP $24.99 MAR
6 SAGA VOLUME 1 TP (MR) $9.99 IMA
7 SAGA VOLUME 4 TP (MR) $14.99 IMA
8 HOUSE OF HEM TP $7.99 MAR
9 ODYC VOLUME 1 TP (MR) $9.99 IMA
10 MARVEL UNIVERSE: ANT-MAN DIGEST TP $9.99 MAR

TOP 10 BOOKS

RANK DESCRIPTION PRICE VENDOR
1 LEAGUE OF REGRETTABLE SUPERHEROES $24.95 QUI
2 THE SHADOW DOUBLE NOVEL VOLUME 96 SC $14.95 SAN
3 DOC SAVAGE DOUBLE NOVEL VOLUME 81 SC $14.95 SAN
4 WORLD OF READING: ANT-MAN: THIS IS ANT-MAN SC $3.99 HAC
5 REALMS: THE ROLEPLAYING GAME ART OF TONY DITERLIZZI $39.99 DAR
6 ANT-MAN: ZOMBIE REPELLENT: MIGHTY MARVEL CHAPTER BOOK $5.99 HAC
7 LEGEND OF ZELDA: HYRULE HISTORIA HC $34.99 DAR
8 MARVEL ENCYCLOPEDIA 75TH-ANNIVERSARY EDITION HC $40.00 DK
9 CHAIKA COFFIN PRINCESS VOLUME 1 HC $13.00 YEN
10 DC COMICS: THE NEW 52 POSTER BOOK SC $24.99 PUB

TOP 10 TOYS

RANK DESCRIPTION VENDOR
1 MARVEL NOW: DEADPOOL X-FORCE ARTFX+ STATUE KOT
2 DC COMICS: COVER GIRLS HARLEY QUINN STATUE DC
3 BATMAN 75TH-ANNIVERSARY ACTION FIGURE 4 PACK SET 2 DC
4 STAR WARS: LUKE SKYWALKER & PRINCESS LEIA ARTFX+ STATUE KOT
5 MARVEL NOW: DEADPOOL ARTFX+ STATUE KOT
6 MARVEL: SHE-HULK BISHOUJO STATUE KOT
7 MARVEL SELECT: THE INCREDIBLE HULK ACTION FIGURE DST
8 DC COMICS BOMBSHELLS: WONDER WOMAN STATUE DC
9 POP! HEROES: DEATHSTROKE VINYL FIGURE FUN
10 PREDATOR PLAY ARTS KAI: PREDATOR MOVIE ACTION FIGURE SQU

TOP 10 GAMES

RANK DESCRIPTION VENDOR
1 MARVEL HEROCLIX: AVENGERS AGE OF ULTRON BOOSTER BRICK 1 NEC
2 GAME OF THRONES MONOPOLY USA
3 MARVEL HEROCLIX: AVENGERS ASSEMBLE BOOSTER BRICK NEC
4 MARVEL HEROCLIX: ANT-MAN BOX SET NEC
5 JURASSIC WORLD MONOPOLY USA
6 PATHFINDER BATTLES DUNGEONS DEEP BOOSTER BRICK NEC
7 ADVENTURE TIME CARD WARS PACK 4 CRY
8 MARVEL HEROCLIX: CLASSIC AVENGERS FAST FORCES 6-PACK NEC
9 MUNCHKIN ADVENTURE TIME 2: IT'S A DUNGEON CRAWL EXPANSION PSI
10 JAY & SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK MONOPOLY DST

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Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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