ICv2.com: Comics Drive April Sales

A boost in comics periodicals driven by new titles and DC's Infinite Crisis mini-series helped offset a Springtime dip in graphic novel sales at direct market comics and hobby stores, the business and news analysis ICv2.com reports. We're big fans of the ICv2.com suite of articles, which as usual include

Summary article
Analysis
List of Comics
List of Graphic Novels/Trades

although as usual, I'm having a hard time telling which is the summary and which is the analysis article (I switched them here), so you should probably read them both if you're interested.

I like to play around with the ICv2.com numbers in my head, like noting how many comics reach certain sales plateaus:

Month/Year -- 150K, 125K, 100K, 90K, 80K, 70K, 60K, 50K, 25K, 10K, 5K

April 2006 -- 2, 2, 7, 7, 10, 19, 23, 32, 80, 158, 208
March 2006 -- 1, 1, 5, 6, 7, 19, 29, 38, 97, 183, 239
April 2005 -- 1, 1, 7, 7, 13, 18, 25, 30, 84, 144, 198
April 2004 -- 1, 3, 6, 12, 15, 18, 24, 33, 95, 161, 209
April 2003 -- 1, 1, 3, 8, 10, 10, 14, 24, 86, 179, 226
April 2002 -- 0, 0, 3, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 82, 157, 185

This means very little, and nothing that can't be explained by some quirk of the month in question, but I liked making it, anyway.

 
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