The mechanics of this series of threads during the pandemic are: >publisher market shares from Diamond in the OP text >Top 100's from Comichron in image form (Diamond on the left, DC on the right, fused in the center; asterisks indicate returnables) >ComicHub Top 20's as a single image >all estimates are mere projections (that are inherently unreliable unless the figures come from the publishers themselves) until Diamond resumes releasing order index data >sources for all of the above are cited
Here are the publisher market shares from Diamond: >>RETAIL MARKET SHARE > MARVEL COMICS - 54.14% > IMAGE COMICS - 10.73% > IDW PUBLISHING - 6.39% > BOOM! STUDIOS - 5.19% > DARK HORSE COMICS - 4.01% > DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT - 3.22% > VIZ MEDIA - 2.38% > DC COMICS - 1.46% > VAULT COMICS - 1.23% > RANDOM HOUSE - 0.92% > OTHER NON-TOP 10 - 10.31%
>Okay, here we go: Comichron Direct Market sales projections for October 2020. Still no order index numbers from Diamond, so the analysis again required drawing on a variety of data including publisher-submitted info, our retail order subset, historical trends and more.
>This month's process used something new: projections on what every single individual comics release sold to retailers for on average based on publishers' discount structures and the bonus discounts they offered. The results better constrain the ranges comics sold for.
>As such, we've narrowed the ranges we're listing for Diamond's issues to reflect greater info. (We also widened the ranges for DC, where there's less data.) Comics at the very top have the broadest ranges; there are fewer factors to suggest floors and ceilings for outliers.
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> Lunar would do a service to its retailers in the new year (when it'll be DC's only distributor) by getting some reporting going.
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>The combined business continues to appear healthy; while new release volumes are still recovering, October looks like a "normal" month. The only difference was how long it took to calculate that fact. Normal reporting at Diamond is hopefully not far off.
>These are unit and dollar sales rankings based on sales tracked at point-of-sale by the ComicHub system at stores selling American graphic novels around the world. During the period for which these reports were generated, there were over 100 stores using the ComicHub system. As this is a small, non-random sample of over 3,000 stores selling American comics worldwide, these rankings may not be typical for all stores, but do represent a variety of locations and store emphases.
>This data was collected based on a four-week month, from October 4 to October 31.
They're still with Diamond UK until end of next year
Nicholas Collins
>DC no longer in Diamond >top comics are still Batman I'm confused
Luis Fisher
Nothing can beat the Batman. Not even real life shipping agreements
Jordan Howard
damn, Dracula Motherf*cker sold far better than I expected.
Nolan Diaz
They're combining Diamond data with the data they can get from the other publishers
Bentley Thomas
It sold like a mother fucker
Charles Brown
Batboy and his funny friend dabbin on the competition
William Cruz
That's for just backstock from Diamond warehouses
Aiden Reyes
based Johns, DC should just put this guy at the helm he will singlehandedly save DC or at least bring in more readers, he's better at comics than films
Grayson Smith
he bad man
Cameron White
dumb nigger
Zachary Smith
>crap >crap >okay >crap >crap Business as usual
Sebastian Wilson
three jokers and venom are good, spiderfag
Gavin Brown
No
Brody Kelly
yes faggot
Logan Taylor
You're not making your position appealing by attacking those who disagree with you.
Jason Hernandez
damn it all when did Zig Forums get overrun with puss wagons
Tyler Phillips
I accept your concession.
Zachary Thomas
>tfw johns saved dc before being whisked away >didio ruins dc a second time Johns is barely affiliated with comics and Didio screwed up so badly he got fired.
Jaxson Ramirez
>concession dumb nigger
Nathaniel Williams
It opened alright but three jokers fucked the landing
Gabriel Lewis
Is this why a special one-shot's rumored to be in the works?
Leo Scott
I don’t know the conclusion that Bruce has known who the joker is the whole time is retarded and the reveal that jokers family is real was worse. I don’t see why we have to go back to it
Jordan Richardson
the ending was lackluster but overall I can cope with it for now since I enjoyed the rest of the story
