2014-04-07

Elsewhere: Diamond March 2014 Charts

Diamond has released their full March 2014 numbers, and the sales estimates derived from them are showing up at the usual places.

John Jackson Miller has the most comprehensive list over at Comichron, including the full Top 400 Comics and Top 300 Graphic Novels, plus a few lower items pulled from the charts of the smaller publishers. He also has some commentary here.

ICV2 has the Graphic Novel Top 300 and the Comics Top 300 and commentary (link to come).

John Mayo has the charts and some commentary at CBR (links to come).

Still mostly quiet, with no big debuts on the comic side, and the power of Marvel's relaunches really waning. April should be more interesting, with AMAZING SPIDER-MAN already announced as being a big seller, and a few launches like DC's weekly book BATMAN ETERNAL.

Over on the books side, Marvel had another backlist flood, this time softcover Marvel Masterworks editions (35 backlist entries, sometimes selling more last month than they did in their initial month of release) and other older paperbacks. That meant the Top 300 only had 141 new entries and 159 backlist entries (the average is about 170 new, 130 backlist). Hopefully we'll get a normal month without such a deforming event soon, but this might just be the new normal, especially if DC decides to liquidate some stock. For new releases it was a pretty good month, with new volumes of SAGA and WALKING DEAD both shipping over 20,000 copies, and sure to be regulars on the charts for quite a while and several other books doing well enough to be the top book most months.

More on some interesting bits from the chart later this week.

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