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2019 North American Comics Sales Hit Record $1.21 Billion Dollars

2019 North American Comics Sales Hit Record $1.21 Billion Dollars #ComicBooks #PublishersWeekly #DCComics #Marvel #Image #Dynamite #BoomStudios

There have been arguments and rumors that the Comic Industry has been slowly dying or claiming that the “SJWs Are Killing Comic Books” but a new report was published on July 13th over on Publishers Weekly that sales for North American Comic Books have soared up to a whopping $1.21 Billion.

According to a joint estimate made by websites ICv2 and ComicChron showed an estimated 11% increase from

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Sonic the Sales-Hog

I got curious about the claim that Archie’s Sonic sales in the direct market went down without Ken Penders and up when he was on there; hence, Archie Comics put him in there more often. This is supposed to have happened when he was moving to writing Knuckles the Echidna full time. The website Comicchron actually has North American direct market sales figures going back decades so this is a thing we can actually check. So:

July 1997: Sonic #51 (no Penders) sold 7,946 copies, Knuckles #6 sold 5,888

August 1997: Sonic #52 (no Penders) 8,581, Sonic Super Special #2 (Penders) 8,223

September 1997: Sonic #53 (Penders back-up) 8,888, Knuckles #7 6,400

October 1997: Sonic #54 (no Penders) 9,296, Sonic Super Special #3 (reprints w/ Penders) 6,910, Knuckles #8 6,922

November 1997: Sonic #55 (no Penders except on inks) 9,445, Knuckles #9 7,326

December 1997: Sonic #56 (Penders main story) 9,122, Special #4 (no Penders) 7,306, Knuckles #10 6,911 January 1998: Sonic #57 (no Penders) 8,201, Knuckles #11 6,571

Febuary 1998: Sonic #58 (Penders main story) 8,057, Knuckles #12 6,265

March 1998: Sonic #59 (Penders backup) 8,275, Super Special #5 (no Penders) 6,690, Knuckles #13 6,446 - And from #60 on, Penders is doing backups (and sometimes main strips) on Sonic over and over. It's this stretch of issues that has 5 issues of no Penders at all, except on ink job.

What this tells us is that Sonic and Knuckles both stick to a narrow range of sales (Knuckles is smaller but it's the spinoff; note the highest it gets is #9, where Sonic shows up). The lowest selling issue is a non-Penders issue and so's the third lowest, but the second lowest is a Penders main story. The two highest sellers are non-Penders, with the third highest a Penders (which prominently teamed up Sonic & Knuckles but Knuckles does nothing for #58). This is always within the context of a comic that sells 8000 - 9,450 sales a month though. Super Special #2 sells the most there but that was promoted as 'important', the first proper post-Robotnik story; second highest is another 'important' one. Sales do go slightly up from #52 to #53 but this part of an upward trend that peaks at #55 and then it’s back down. So it honestly seems like the creator's names mattered very little to most comic shops. This has sadly been true of many licensed comics - the character or property is the draw, not the creator. While some creators will draw more names to a property than others, Sonic does not seem to have been one of them.

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The comic sales numbers, collected by ComicChron, are a great way to see how well comics are doing as a whole, which companies and types of comics are doing well, and, of course, what comes out on top each month.  We decided to collect together the top selling comics for each month in 2014 to see what came out on top, as well as what the best-selling comic was for the entire year.  We have compiled them into an image gallery with the month, the title, the creators, and the sales numbers.

What we saw generally in 2014 is a return of the popular characters, which could also be backed up by superstar creators since known talent came over to popular characters.  Batman dominated this list, which is interesting since it was really Marvel that dominated the top tens.  This took us through both the end of the Zero Year storyline, which was surprising given the fact that many people didn’t like the re-telling of the origin, and the beginning of Endgame(more understandable).  The relaunch of Spider-Man makes sense for the high sales, which was also the best selling issue of the year.  This is because of the huge number of variant covers, the oversized issue, and the fact that Spider-Man remains the most popular character at Marvel.(possibly in comics in general, besides Batman).  Rocket Racoon’s first issue on the list was actually chosen by Loot Crate, a new thing at this point that provides a random issue to their subscribers.  Seeing Walking Dead #132 on the list was the biggest surprise since an indie book almost never comes out on top, especially one that is so adult oriented.  This is again, because of Loot Crate, which is becoming a big player in choosing the top comic for a given month because of a bulk order.

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January Batman #27 Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo Sold 115,000 Sold 115,000

February Batman #28 Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo Sold 114,089

March Batman #29 Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo Sold 116,926

April The Amazing Spider-Man #1 Dan Slott Sold 532,586

May Original Sin #1 Jason Aaron Sold 147,045

June Batman #32 Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo Sold 130,000

July Rocket Racoon #1 Scottie Young Sold 293,913

August Batman #34 Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo Sold 293,913

September Death of Wolverine #1 Charles Soule Sold 261,975

October Walking Dead #132 Robert Kirkman Sold 326,334

November The Amazing Spider-Man #9 Dan Slott Sold 135,280

December Batman #37 Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo

Top Selling Comics For Each Month in 2014 The comic sales numbers, collected by ComicChron, are a great way to see how well comics are doing as a whole, which companies and types of comics are doing well, and, of course, what comes out on top each month.