marketshare Archives

The best indication we have of how individual titles are doing is the near-endless stream of press releases announcing first-issue sellouts and the reprints that inevitably follow, but what does that tell us beyond that? Halcyon days with a marketshare chart from Diamond five years ago. With Marvel, Dark Horse, and IDW now ensconced at Penguin Random[...]

The top 500 lists follow after the marketshare… no DC Comics of course, as DC left Diamond, but it does allow Image Comics to get a couple into the top ten And Spawn would have definitely made it anyway. Venom Tops Diamond Comics Top 500 September 2020 Chart,  Top Ten Bestsellers Of September 2020. VENOM #28 X OF SWORDS[...]

We were wondering where the Diamond Comic Distributors March 2020 marketshare statistics might have got to Well, it has been a peculiar month Rather than the usual Friday/Monday release, we are getting the marketshare and top tens today followed by the full stats tomorrow So here we go, Spider-Woman and all. As it stands comic book[...]

But later today, Bleeding Cool will run a marketshare-per-capita study to see how individual publications are performing. Among the premier publishers, Todd McFarlane and Jason Shawn Alexander's Spawn #305 was Image Comics' best-selling book in February at #38; BOOM! Studios' Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #3 ranked #55; IDW Publishing's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Jennika #1 was their top book[...]

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[...]

Diamond has provided the first of the year's marketshare reports. Of late, DC Comics has been pushing its head above the psychologically important 30% marketshare, often denied it but in the first month of 2020, it slipped under again, for both unit and retail marketshare, despite topping the chart with its ten-dollar Wonder Woman #750 and[...]

Last week, Bleeding Cool ran the marketshare statistics from Diamond Comic Distributors Which stated that Marvel Comics topped charts with a 40.20% dollar market share and a 44.72% unit share While DC Comics came second with a 29.29% dollar market share and a 30.74% unit market share But Diamond says that "due to the skip[...]

In November, Marvel saw their marketshare down with a 37.41% dollar share and a 42.68% unit share but still ahead of DC Comics as they dropped down to a 30.72% dollar share though up a bit to a 32.41%% unit share, In December, Marvel had a slight uptick in dollar share with 37.89% and a massive[...]

This is, however, down on 2018's marketshare which has Marvel on 38.24% dollar market share and a 40.40% unit share DC Comics came second with a 29.29% dollar market share and a 30.74% unit market share, up on 2018's 30.04% and 33.82%. While Image Comics' 8.04% dollar market share and a 7.69% unit market was down[...]

In October's Diamond marketshare figures, the numbers were pretty much level pegging for September when it came to Marvel marketshare, with Marvel on 39.51% dollar share and 45.2% unit share DC upped their numbers with a 31.67% dollar share and a 32.02% unit share, gaining from Image Comics which dropped to a 7.59% dollar share[...]

Selling fewer comic books but for slightly more money, demonstrating the inelastic appeal of comic books in the direct market. Marvel Comics marketshare dropped back from their close-to-50% share in August, with a still impressive 38.81% of dollars and 45.51% of units shipped In second place was DC, rising with a market share of 27.80% and[...]

Marvel has double the marketshare DC Comics has now But it seems that other publishers have suffered more, as Image Comics 8.43% share in dollars and a 8.64% share in units fell back by over two points That's called no longer publishing The Walking Dead. Absolute Carnage's launch event issue topped the chart, beating out Marvel[...]

April 2019 marketshare, released by Diamond a couple of weeks after the March marketshare, saw Marvel Comics take over 50% of the marketshare for sales numbers for that month May still sees Marvel in the marketshare lead, but the gap is narrowed, even as Marvel continues to publish many more titles than DC Comics. In March,[...]

A Marketshare-Per-Capita chart The usual comics industry marketshare shows how much share of the overall market a comics publisher has This divides it by the number of titles they publish in that month. We've already looked at publisher marketshare in the North American direct market of comic book shops for April 2019, as Marvel took 50% of[...]

We'll get more details later, I'm sure, but Bleeding Cool has been reliably informed that Dark Days: The Casting #1 by Scott Snyder, James TynionIV, Andy

This is an attempt to run a slightly different filter over May's comic book marketshare figures It may work, it may not Tell me what you think. We've run the May marketshare figures which shows Marvel way up ahead and Dark Horse way down But a lot of this may have more to do with the[...]

So while DC Universe Rebirth beat Civil War II to the top, Marvel had enough to dominate both the top ten and the marketshare With a surprisingly strong launch for Becky Cloonan and Steve Dillon's Punisher as well. But Rebirth was enough to bring Marvel's dollar share down – which had risen from 37.39% to 42.98%[...]

The new Black Panther #1 takes the top spot in April in comic stores, reportedly selling over 300,000, beating out the launch of Star Wars title Poe

In fact, with Spider-Man, Darth Vader, Deadpool and International Iron Man, the launch of Marvel's Avengers crossover event, usually expected to be closer to the top, only ekes into tenth place. But for all that, not too much has changed between the direct market Diamond comic book marketshare, between February to March Marvel have dropped their[...]

The beginning of the year saw Marvel Comics grab a 44.38% dollar share and a 48.17% unit share of sales in North American comic book stores through

DC Entertainment was the month's number two publisher with a 22.16% dollar share and a 24.02% unit share. The month saw Marvel reversing marketshare gains that DC Comics has made in recent months December saw DC bring the marketshare gap between the two publishers to less than eight points, but January has seen that trend reversed[...]

Of late, DC Comics marketshare has been dropping away, down past the 30% mark and getting perilously close to the 20% mark In December, that turned around somewhat Marvel is still be far the strongest publisher in the direct market, but DC Comics traditionally does a lot better in the Christmas market, able to monetise[...]

That, I think, is a win for Marvel. In September 2015, Marvel took a 32.67% share of revenue and a 38.12% share of number of comics sold. But in October,

Last month, Marvel Comics was June's top publisher with a 40.86% dollar share and a 43.16% unit share, maintaining their over-15 point lead on DC Comics who are on 25.06% dollar share and a 28.03% unit share. This month that lead has been maintained but both publisher's marketshare has slipped with Marvel down to 38.43% and[...]

Previously, Amazing Spider-Man, Walking Dead, Star Wars and Orphan Black all topped the chart in the month they were published. Everything else in the chart was Secret Wars, Convergence or Star Wars, with Marvel getting 7 to DC's 2 and Boom's 1. In March, Marvel had a fifteen point lead in terms of marketshare over DC Comics. In[...]

In March, Marvel had a fifteen point lead in terms of marketshare over DC Comics. In April, the lead is still there but it's much,much smaller. Marvel's share of the comic book market dollars in April was down from previous months, as February's 38.44% rise to March 38.82% was reversed with April's 34.15%. And their sales of individual comics, which had jumped from[...]

And Marvel dominated marketshare in February It was down on January, because they didn't have a Star Wars #1, but still beat out DC Comics who, up until January, had begun to reclaim marketshare from Marvel, month by month It's also worth noting, again, that DC had significantly more titles on sale than Marvel, a total of[...]

If you recall, we ran a piece on Loot Crate's March offerings, speculating that there may be an exclusive copy of the IDW comic book Orphan Black #1 in

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[...]

It’s time for another look at the cold hard statistics of the North American direct market for comic stores, as supplied by Diamond Comic Distributors.