Analysts: February ‘09 DM Estimates

The comics business news and analysis site ICv2.com offers their usual array of lists, estimates and analysis regarding the performance of comic books and graphic novels in the Direct Market of comic and hobby shops, this time for February 2009.

* Overview
* Analysis
* Top 300 Comic Books
* Top 300 Graphic Novels

John Jackson Miller at The Comics Chronicles is in the process of getting up his his own set of numbers up for February 2009, which you can find on his page devoted to that month.

The big news story of the month -- we're out of major crossover events right now -- would have to be the dominating performance of the Amazing Spider-Man issue with President Obama in it: Amazing Spider-Man #583. Outlets who cover that kind of thing more closely than I do have already done a lot of freaking out about the fact that it has led the comic book portion of Direct Market sales, and they probably should. I wrote elsewhere that if nothing else, that many comics moved over a two-month period should give us an idea of what the market could bear if it were functioning at full blast on a number of titles. Ironically, that seems further away than usual: one thing that occurs to me is that the sales level on individual comic book titles slip under 50,000 far sooner than they did even a year ago. The #25 comic is selling approximately 10,000 copies less than the comic book in that position last year. Also, that's a lot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic books -- I'd love to know where it ranks in non-mainstream comic book sales in the DM era.

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