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Star Wars Sees Marvel Sell Almost 1 In Every 2 Comics In January

Last month, DC Comics started to crawl marketshare back from Marvel without any special reason. No 3D covers, no relaunch, hey were just starting to sell more comics.

Then Star Wars happened. And Marvel sold almost half of every comic book sold by Diamond Comic Distrubutors to North American comic book stores in January 2015. DC Comics are knocked back to under a quarter of every dollar spent in a comic store. It's to their credit that Image Comics got almost 10% of those dollars in the face of such a monster as the million-plus selling Star Wars #1…

It's worth pointing out that while January 2015 is up on January 2014, even with Star Wars, it's still down on December 2014…

TOP COMIC BOOK PUBLISHERS

RETAIL MARKET SHARE
PUBLISHER SHARE
MARVEL COMICS 41.05%
DC COMICS 24.18%
IMAGE COMICS 9.21%
IDW PUBLISHING 5.78%
DARK HORSE COMICS 4.01%
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT 2.41%
BOOM! STUDIOS 2.26%
EAGLEMOSS PUBLICATIONS LTD 1.46%
AVATAR PRESS INC 1.08%
VIZ MEDIA 0.95%
OTHER NON-TOP 10 7.61%
UNIT MARKET SHARE
PUBLISHER SHARE
MARVEL COMICS 45.64%
DC COMICS 27.06%
IMAGE COMICS 8.91%
IDW PUBLISHING 4.52%
DARK HORSE COMICS 3.03%
BOOM! STUDIOS 2.28%
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT 2.22%
VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT LLC 0.93%
AVATAR PRESS INC 0.81%
TITAN 0.71%
OTHER NON-TOP 10 3.89%

NEW TITLES SHIPPED

PUBLISHER COMICS SHIPPED GRAPHIC NOVELS SHIPPED MAGAZINES SHIPPED TOTAL SHIPPED
MARVEL COMICS 79 33 0 112
DC COMICS 86 23 0 109
IDW PUBLISHING 50 26 0 76
IMAGE COMICS 54 14 0 68
DARK HORSE COMICS 28 19 0 47
BOOM! STUDIOS 34 6 0 40
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT 31 6 0 37
VIZ MEDIA 0 31 0 31
EAGLEMOSS PUBLICATIONS 0 0 19 19
AVATAR PRESS 10 2 1 13
OTHER NON-TOP 10 78 115 28 221

COMPARATIVE SALES STATISTICS

  DOLLARS UNITS
JANUARY 2015 VS. DECEMBER 2014
COMICS -2.69% -2.59%
GRAPHIC NOVELS 9.12% 10.49%
TOTAL COMICS/GN 0.77% -1.66%
JANUARY 2015 VS. JANUARY 2014
COMICS 10.27% 9.65%
GRAPHIC NOVELS 16.83% 12.33%
TOTAL COMICS/GN 12.27% 9.86%

TOP 10 COMIC BOOKS

RANK DESCRIPTION PRICE VENDOR
1 STAR WARS #1 $4.99 MAR
2 BATMAN #38 $3.99 DC
3 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #12 $3.99 MAR
4 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #13 $3.99 MAR
5 UNCANNY AVENGERS #1 $3.99 MAR
6 WOLVERINES #1 $3.99 MAR
7 ANT-MAN #1 $4.99 MAR
8 THOR #4 $3.99 MAR
9 JUSTICE LEAGUE #38 $3.99 DC
10 THE WALKING DEAD #136 (MR) $2.99 IMA

TOP 10 GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS

RANK DESCRIPTION PRICE VENDOR
1 DEATH OF WOLVERINE HC $24.99 MAR
2 OUTCAST BY KIRKMAN & AZACETA VOLUME 1 TP $9.99 IMA
3 SAGA VOLUME 4 TP (MR) $14.99 IMA
4 BLACK SCIENCE VOLUME 2: WELCOME TO NOWHERE TP $14.99 IMA
5 SAGA VOLUME 1 TP (MR) $9.99 IMA
6 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN VOL. 2: SPIDER-VERSE PRELUDE TP $17.99 MAR
7 SAGA VOLUME 3 TP (MR) $14.99 IMA
8 SAGA VOLUME 2 TP (MR) $14.99 IMA
9 THE WALKING DEAD VOL. 1: DAYS GONE BYE TP (MR) $14.99 IMA
10 DEADPOOL: THE ONES WITH DEADPOOL TP $15.99 MAR

TOP 10 BOOKS

RANK DESCRIPTION PRICE VENDOR
1 DC SUPER HEROES: BATMAN: THE ORIGIN STORY TP $4.95 CAP
2 DC SUPER HEROES: WONDER WOMAN: THE ORIGIN STORY $4.95 CAP
3 DC SUPER HEROES: SUPERMAN: THE ORIGIN STORY TP $4.95 CAP
4 LEGEND OF ZELDA: HYRULE HISTORIA HC $34.99 DAR
5 DC SUPER HEROES: GREEN LANTERN: THE ORIGIN STORY TP $4.95 CAP
6 LEGEND OF KORRA: ART OF ANIMATED SERIES BOOK 3:  CHANGE HC $34.99 DAR
7 IN SEARCH OF LOST DRAGONS HC $34.99 DE
8 THE SHADOW DOUBLE NOVEL VOLUME 91 SC $14.95 SAN
9 BATMAN: YOU CHOOSE STORIES: THE JOKER'S DOZEN $6.95 CAP
10 BATMAN: YOU CHOOSE STORIES: THE SEED BANK HEIST $6.95 CAP

TOP 10 TOYS

RANK DESCRIPTION VENDOR
1 LEGEND OF ZELDA: SKYWARD SWORD: LINK FIGMA GOO
2 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: ELECTRONIC DANCING BABY GROOT KID
3 DC COMICS: WONDER WOMAN ARTFX STATUE KOT
4 THE WALKING DEAD SERIES 6 ACTION FIGURES TMP
5 POP! GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: DANCING GROOT VINYL FIGURE FUN
6 BATMAN: ARKHAM ORIGINS PLAY ARTS KAI: THE JOKER SQU
7 BATMAN "BLACK COSTUME" ARTFX STATUE KOT
8 MARVEL SELECT: DEADPOOL ACTION FIGURE DST
9 BATMAN: ARKHAM ORIGINS PLAY ARTS KAI: ROBIN SQU
10 MARVEL SPIDER-MAN 8-INCH RETRO ACTION FIGURE DST

TOP 10 GAMES

RANK DESCRIPTION VENDOR
1 MONOPOLY: THE WALKING DEAD SURVIVAL EDITION USA
2 JAY & SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK MONOPOLY DST
3 YU-GI-OH! HEROCLIX SERIES TWO NEC
4 STAR WARS: IMPERIAL ASSAULT BOARD GAME FAN
5 MARVEL DICE MASTERS: UNCANNY X-MEN SET-UP BOX NEC
6 YU-GI-OH! DICE MASTERS SERIES ONE NEC
7 ADVENTURE TIME CARD WARS PACK 1: FINN VS. JAKE CRY
8 X-FILES: THE BOARD GAME IDW
9 MARVEL DICE MASTERS: AVENGERS VS. X-MEN BOOSTER PACKS NEC
10 YU-GI-OH! DICE MASTERS SERIES ONE STARTER SET NEC

 

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Dollar Market Share – January 2015

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Unit Market Share– January 2015


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

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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