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Post by johnnypt on Apr 29, 2020 11:04:36 GMT -5
Last one before the hiatus:
62 Savage Avengers (2019) 11-27,811 (-469 -1.66%)
84 Conan the Barbarian (2019) 14-20,983 (-12,593 -37.51%)
91 Cimmerian Queen of Black Coast (2019) 1-18,475
101 Dark Agnes (2020) 2-16,942 (-6,689 -28.31%)
116 Conan: Battle For the Serpent Crown (2020) 2-15,416 (-16,807 -52.16%)
138 Cimmerian Queen of Black Coast (2019) 2-12,446 (-6,029 -32.63%)
321 Conan the Barbarian (2019) 1 Reorder-3,323
Hard to tell what's normal attrition and what's related to what's going on, probably more former that latter.
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15 Conan The Barbarian v2: Life And Death Of Conan Book Two 1815
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2020 17:25:27 GMT -5
I guess it is difficult to tell but it is not looking good for the Conan books at Marvel.
The orders for the Ablaze translations look promising.
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Post by ascalante on May 1, 2020 19:54:20 GMT -5
I wonder if all comic sales numbers are down (not just Conan) due to coronavirus, lockdowns, quarantine, unemployed, etc. ?
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Post by johnnypt on May 2, 2020 7:59:36 GMT -5
They had an article on that on one of the site, the answer is yes. Will there even be a point releasing an April or May sales chart when they didn’t ship anything?
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Post by terryallenuk on May 2, 2020 12:46:42 GMT -5
The month of March saw the commercial impact of the COVID-19 outbreak beginning in North America. By midmonth, spring conventions had been called off and many businesses were either having to close or cut hours to slow the spread. Retailers ordered $37.03 million in comics, graphic novels, and magazines from Diamond during the month, almost exactly what they bought in February; that total was 15% lower than March 2019, which was fueled by Detective Comics #1000, the second best-selling comic book of the decade. www.comichron.com/monthlycomicssales/2020/2020-03.html
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Post by ascalante on May 7, 2020 19:52:01 GMT -5
Thanks johnnypt and terryallenuk. The 37% drop for CtB is a brutal number, but I think (hope) it was exacerbated by being released on 3/18 when coronavirus was a big fear in the NYC area. Savage Avengers only had a 1% drop, and although it is a stronger title, it was released on 3/4 before coronavirus was overly pervasive in North American media.
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Post by johnnypt on Oct 17, 2020 15:21:11 GMT -5
Believe it or not, they did come out with a sales chart last month for August, just with no totals. It was a 'relative' one, this title sold better than that one by a certain amount. Not really of much use for anyone who doesn't know the actual numbers. Or as Diamond put it:
For decades, Diamond has released index numbers showing the relative sales of comic titles relative to the benchmark title Batman, which ICv2 has used, along with publisher sales info, to calculate Diamond sales to comic stores for each title. Diamond has not included those indexes for August, so this is simply a rank order of sales, without quantity information.
For what it's worth. the Conan Original Marvel Years Epic made the top 100.
This may change for September, we'll know either late this month or early next. Over at icv2, their subscriber pro section is touting actual numbers for some charts.
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Post by johnnypt on Oct 26, 2020 14:01:03 GMT -5
OK the September chart from Diamond is out. Since they don't give numbers and now don't list DC books (for individual issues) because they didn't distribute them, it's not really much of a gauge of anything much. They used to use Batman as a benchmark title that always sold X amount and other titles can be measured off that. Now that they're not distributing Batman, what do they use?
We had one Conan related book:
89 CIMMERIAN PEOPLE OF BLACK CIRCLE #1 (MR)
For trades they do list DC books though not sure how much longer:
Rank $ 31 1 CONAN BARBARIAN ORIG MARVEL YRS OMNIBUS HC VOL 04 $125.00
So in terms of numbers, it was 31st for the month, but in total $ sold, it was #1. The Cimmerian's $ number was 88, not much different than it's "total sales" number.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2020 2:22:42 GMT -5
OK the September chart from Diamond is out. Since they don't give numbers and now don't list DC books (for individual issues) because they didn't distribute them, it's not really much of a gauge of anything much. They used to use Batman as a benchmark title that always sold X amount and other titles can be measured off that. Now that they're not distributing Batman, what do they use? We had one Conan related book: 89 CIMMERIAN PEOPLE OF BLACK CIRCLE #1 (MR) For trades they do list DC books though not sure how much longer: Rank $ 31 1 CONAN BARBARIAN ORIG MARVEL YRS OMNIBUS HC VOL 04 $125.00 So in terms of numbers, it was 31st for the month, but in total $ sold, it was #1. The Cimmerian's $ number was 88, not much different than it's "total sales" number. Great news, thanks Johnnypt. I guess we should expect an announcement for the 1st volume of King Conan: Original Marvel Years Omnibus within the next couple of months. Hopefully the good sales for the omnibus editions continue beyond the Roy Thomas run.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2020 2:46:42 GMT -5
Looks like August was also a pretty good month with the Conan Vol.1 restock/reprint in 3rd place and the Solomon Kane Omnibus 2nd in dollars.
Not bad.
2nd in $ (115th in units) Solomon Kane Original Marvel Years Omnibus HC 3rd in $ (186th in units) Conan Barbarian Orig Marvel Yrs Omnibus HC Vol. 1 $125.00 Marvel 15th in $ (83rd in units) Conan Barbarian Orig Marvel Yrs Epic Coll Coming of Conan $34.99 Marvel
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Post by terryallenuk on Oct 29, 2020 16:30:38 GMT -5
Comichron have come out with a combined list with estimated sales of between the two figures. #77 Savage Avengers 12 24,500 29,000 #133 Cimmerian People of Black Circle 1 11,500 14,000 #147 Conan Battle For Serpent Crown 5 10,500 12,000 www.comichron.com/monthlycomicssales/2020/2020-09.html
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Post by terryallenuk on Dec 13, 2020 13:57:08 GMT -5
Estimated October 2020 Comics Sales to Comics Shops low est. high est. 71 Savage Avengers 13 28,500 31,000 97 Conan the Barbarian 15 20,000 22,000 120 Red Sonja 20 15,500 19,000 165 Cimmerian People of Black Circle 2 11,000 12,000 www.comichron.com/monthlycomicssales/2020/2020-10.html
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2020 7:57:30 GMT -5
Thanks Terry.
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Post by terryallenuk on Aug 4, 2021 1:11:20 GMT -5
Finally new sales figures! "While preliminary reports had suggested that June 2021 was the best month for new comics initial orders since the Coronavirus pandemic began, the release of indexed sales charts by Diamond Comic Distributors — the first since March 2020 — brought home how good the month really was. Retailers appear to have ordered more than $40 million in new comic books from Diamond and DC's distributor, Lunar Distribution, a figure that swells to near $60 million with graphic novel shipments. That beats any month in the Diamond Exclusive Era (1997-2020) in nominal dollar terms." 125 Invincible Red Sonja 2 Dynamite 23,571 127 Savage Avengers 21 Marvel 23,503 165 Conan The Barbarian 22 Marvel 16,835 181 Red Sonja 28 Dynamite 13,388 188 Cimmerian Iron Shadows in Moon 3 Ablaze 12,469 201 Sonjaversal 5 Dynamite 11,155 226 Red Sonja 1982 One Shot Dynamite 8,578 308 Red Sonja 1977 1 Dynamite 4,790 www.comichron.com/monthlycomicssales/2021/2021-06.html
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2021 10:24:27 GMT -5
Finally new sales figures! "While preliminary reports had suggested that June 2021 was the best month for new comics initial orders since the Coronavirus pandemic began, the release of indexed sales charts by Diamond Comic Distributors — the first since March 2020 — brought home how good the month really was. Retailers appear to have ordered more than $40 million in new comic books from Diamond and DC's distributor, Lunar Distribution, a figure that swells to near $60 million with graphic novel shipments. That beats any month in the Diamond Exclusive Era (1997-2020) in nominal dollar terms." 125 Invincible Red Sonja 2 Dynamite 23,571 127 Savage Avengers 21 Marvel 23,503 165 Conan The Barbarian 22 Marvel 16,835 181 Red Sonja 28 Dynamite 13,388 188 Cimmerian Iron Shadows in Moon 3 Ablaze 12,469 201 Sonjaversal 5 Dynamite 11,155 226 Red Sonja 1982 One Shot Dynamite 8,578 308 Red Sonja 1977 1 Dynamite 4,790 www.comichron.com/monthlycomicssales/2021/2021-06.htmlThanks Terry. Looks like CtB will eventually get to the same kinda numbers found at the end of the DH series, around 8,000-10,000. It is not looking good, I guess there will be a little improvement for the the 25th/300th issue and possibly for the relaunch or whatever it is gonna be with the return of Jason Aaron. Those numbers are just not good enough. At least the Cimmerian is consistent at around 12,000.
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