ICv2.com: February ‘08 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, 2008.

* Overview
* Analysis
* Top 300 Comic Books
* Top 100 Graphic Novels

The big news is that sales dipped slightly in February from the same period in 2007, which paired with a similar year to year dip charted in November and week gains in December and January make up enough of a trend for it to be worth noting. I think they have the likely culprit -- there are no chart-topping event mini-series goosing sales -- although I'd probably see the resulting dip as a weakness of that strategy instead of a sign pointing towards a remedy for a down month or two. A market primed to deliver big hits and only big hits isn't always the healthiest market.

DC was able to place its latest All Star Batman and Robin issues in a top 10 with which they're largely unfamiliar these days, as both its Justice League of America and its Countdown titles sustain but don't really add momentum to their general slides. At the top of the trades chart is a collection of Boys, while multiple publishers make an appearance in the top 10, which shows once again how much more fluid that chart is than its comic book cousin.
 
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