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Publisher Market Shares: October 2017

Marvel Comics was the leading publisher in Retail Dollar Share and Unit Share in October 2017, based on total sales of comics, graphic novels and magazines to comic book specialty stores, according to Diamond Comic Distributors.

PUBLISHER MARKET SHARES
Based on Total Unit Sales of Products Invoiced in October 2017

RETAIL MARKET SHARE
PUBLISHER SHARE
MARVEL COMICS 36.38%
DC ENTERTAINMENT 30.58%
IMAGE COMICS 11.46%
IDW PUBLISHING 4.33%
DARK HORSE COMICS 2.82%
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT 1.99%
BOOM! STUDIOS 1.96%
ONI PRESS INC. 1.08%
TITAN COMICS 1.02%
ARCHIE COMICS 0.68%
VIZ MEIDA 0.67%
VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT LLC 0.65%
AFTERSHOCK COMICS 0.57%
RANDOM HOUSE 0.54%
ACTION LAB ENTERTAINMENT 0.41%
FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS 0.36%
AVATAR PRESS INC 0.31%
LION FORGE 0.30%
ZENESCOPE ENTERTAINMENT INC 0.28%
BENITEZ PRODUCTIONS 0.25%
OTHER NON-TOP 20 3.35%
 
UNIT MARKET SHARE
PUBLISHER SHARE
MARVEL COMICS 38.63%
DC ENTERTAINMENT 35.48%
IMAGE COMICS 9.84%
IDW PUBLISHING 3.31%
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT 1.96%
BOOM! STUDIOS 1.81%
DARK HORSE COMICS 1.74%
TITAN COMICS 0.85%
ONI PRESS INC. 0.76%
VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT LLC 0.73%
AFTERSHOCK COMICS 0.60%
ARCHIE COMICS 0.57%
ACTION LAB ENTERTAINMENT 0.39%
ZENESCOPE ENTERTAINMENT INC 0.25%
VIZ MEIDA 0.24%
LION FORGE 0.24%
BENITEZ PRODUCTIONS 0.19%
AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY PRODUCTIONS 0.18%
AVATAR PRESS INC 0.17%
ALBATROSS FUNNYBOOKS 0.16%
OTHER NON-TOP 20 1.92%

COMPARATIVE SALES STATISTICS
Based on Total Unit Sales of Products Invoiced in October 2017

  DOLLARS UNITS
OCTOBER 2017 VS. SEPTEMBER 2017
COMICS 2.84% -1.10%
GRAPHIC NOVELS 9.60% 0.08%
TOTAL COMICS/GN 4.74% -1.02%
TOYS -3.64% -7.22%
OCTOBER 2017 VS. OCTOBER 2016
COMICS -15.74% -21.05%
GRAPHIC NOVELS 2.37% -8.02%
TOTAL COMICS/GN -11.12% -20.27%
TOYS -16.10% -12.91%
YEAR-TO-DATE 2017 VS. YEAR-TO-DATE 2016
COMICS -9.93% -7.89%
GRAPHIC NOVELS -10.55% -12.76%
TOTAL COMICS/GN -10.12% -8.27%
TOYS -11.82% -17.78%

NEW TITLES SHIPPED
Based on Total Unit Sales of Products Invoiced in October 2017

PUBLISHER COMICS SHIPPED GRAPHIC NOVELS SHIPPED MAGAZINES SHIPPED TOTAL SHIPPED
MARVEL COMICS 81 41 0 122
DC ENTERTAINMENT 79 39 1 119
IMAGE COMICS 67 22 0 89
IDW PUBLISHING 41 36 0 77
BOOM! STUDIOS 29 7 0 36
DARK HORSE COMICS 15 18 0 33
TITAN COMICS 21 8 3 32
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT 24 6 0 30
ONI PRESS 12 4 0 16
ARCHIE COMICS 11 4 0 15
OTHER NON-TOP 10 104 160 24 288
TOTAL 484 345 28 857

 

Dollar Market Shares for October 2017
Dollar Market Share – October 2017
Unit Market Shares for October 2017
Unit Market Share – October 2017

 

How does Diamond calculate the charts? It all starts at the comic book shop.

Data for Diamond’s sales charts — which includes the monthly market shares and all top product charts — are compiled by Diamond Comic Distributors from sales made to thousands of comic book specialty shops located in North America and around the world.  Additional sales made to online merchants and other specialty retailers may be included as well.

Unit and dollar market shares are calculated based upon orders for comic books, graphic novels, and magazines invoiced and shipped to Diamond customers during any given month, which comprises pre-orders, advance reorders, and reorders, minus any copies that are received back from a title marked as returnable. Please note that comics marked with an asterisk (*) have had their reported quantities reduced due to retailer returnability, and thus may rank lower on the charts than their actual sales would reflect.

The New Titles Count Chart includes all titles that were invoiced by Diamond to retailers for the first time during the month and is not the official solicited title count for the month. Variant edition comic books and graphic novels at the same price point count as a single SKU. Variant edition comic books, lenticular covers, digital combo packs, and graphic novels at different price points count as separate SKUs for each edition.

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