Infinite Crisis Has Specific Effect

ICv2.com has their comics sales number and analysis of the Direct Market (comic book shops and related related retailers) up, a suite of stories which we always recommend here.
News Story
Analysis
Top 300 Comic Books
Top 100 Trade Paperbacks

ICv2.com's take seems to be: great sales on DC's fussy cosmic mini-series Infinite Crisis and on stores stocking V For Vendetta trades to meet demand from the recent motion picture; overall sales growth for the month and quarter driven by an increase in periodical sales. That last would be a change from recent trends where graphic novel sales have provided the vast majority of Direct Market growth. At the same time, it's hard not to think as an outside observer that periodical sales have been helped greatly by the appearance of a summer-style blockbuster in the post-holiday slow months -- kind of like George Lucas launching one of those Star Wars sequels in February. Then again, last March is when the Countdown stuff began.

Here, as usual, is my own Largely Useless Chart, or "How Many Comic Books Sold At Least This Much in This Month" -- this is the kind of fun you can have with ICv2.com's numbers if you have a lot of time on your hands.

Year -- 150K, 100K, 90K, 80K, 70K, 60K, 50K, 25K, 10K, 5K
2006 -- 1, 5, 6, 7, 19, 29, 38, 97, 183, 239
2005 -- 2, 7, 9, 20, 25, 27, 32, 83, 168, 217
2004 -- 0, 6, 9, 13, 14, 20, 29, 89, 173, 221
2003 -- 0, 4, 6, 8, 8, 13, 23, 80, 172, 209
2002 -- 0, 2, 5, 6, 9, 11, 13, 67, 149, 186

While proving nothing, it's fun to noodle. Mostly slow trends in growth up and own the chart, with a big shift down from last year in comics selling at the 80k to comics selling at the 70k level, for some weird reason. But probably not the pulling off the bottom effect that some people -- including me! -- have proposed, nor the destruction of the middle class (comics selling 50K-80K).
 
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