market share

The Wall Street Journal published Diamond Comic Distributors' list of the top-selling comics publishers for 2014 Friday morning, and for the most part, it's all the usual suspects. Marvel was No. 1 with more than a third of the market share, in both dollars and units. DC was reasonably close behind. Image, IDW, Dark Horse, Dynamite and Boom Studios took the next spots. Then comes number eight. Eaglemoss Publications. Wait. What? Who?

The new numbers from Diamond Comic Distributors are out for February 2012, and they paint an interesting portrait of the current state of superhero comics sales at the Big Two. Just like the last two months, Marvel Comics took the top spot for market share in both dollars and units -- i...

The Diamond Comics Distributors numbers are out for comic book sales in November 2011, and while DC Comics maintained the lead they earned with their massive new 52 relaunch in September, that lead has now diminished significantly. DC dropped 18% in dollar share and 22% in unit share from last month, a high point where DC had seen a huge boost from the New 52 and lead Marvel Comics in unit share n

Diamond Comic Distributor's May 2011 sales figures hit this morning, and DC's week-long reboot news cycle is probably working in their favor here, since they got their butt kicked. How bad? They lost market share. In the first month of Flashpoint...