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Despite an extra week in July 2019 compared to July 2018, comics and graphic novel sales to comic stores were up only 6.91%, …
Kelly Sue DeConnick on Captain Marvel, Bitch Planet and More (Behind the Panel) | SYFY WIRE - https://youtu.be/sIdgTGAaBB8
Despite an extra week in July 2019 compared to July 2018, comics and graphic novel sales to comic stores were up only 6.91%, according to information released by Diamond Comic Distributors. And with 31 weeks through the end of July 2019 vs. 30 weeks through the end of July 2018 (or 3% more weeks), sales were up 0.63% year-to-date.
Comic sales were up 4.99% over July 2018, and graphic novel sales were up 12.83%, a reversal of recent trends which have comics out-performing graphic novels. Year-to-date, comic sales are now up 0.97%, while graphic novel sales are down 0.25%.
Part of the reason for comics’ lackluster year-over-year performance may have been the comp month; July 2018 was an exceptionally strong month, with comic sales up 17.37% over sales in July 2017. Conversely, graphic novel sales in July 2018 were very weak, down 9.11% vs. the previous year.
In market share, Marvel Comics maintained its double-digit lead over DC Comics; other Top 10 publishers’ shares were also fairly typical except for Dynamite Entertainment, which leaped ahead of BOOM! Studios to the #6 slot.
The start of Jonathan Hickman's reinvention Marvel X-Men franchise helped comic book sales in July post positive gains over the same month last year, and now Direct Market sales for 2019 are just a fraction over 2018's total through July.
According to figures released by Diamond Comic Distributors Friday morning, Hickman's House of X #1 and Powers of X #1 were the two best-selling comic book titles of July, followed by Amazing Spider-Man #25, three of five Marvel titles in the Top 10 in terms of units shipped.
Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead #193, the surprise final issue of the long-running Image Comics series, ranked #4 in units.
DC had the remaining four titles in the units Top Ten, all Batman titles, including Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's Batman: The Las..
