Missed It: December ‘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 December 2008.

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

John Jackson Miller at The Comics Chronicles has his own set of numbers up for December, which you can find in their year-end article.

I suppose the main story here would be the conclusion of Secret Invasion and its general, by-usual-measure success: strong sales overall, minimal drop-off issue to issue. The other things that leap out at me are DC's halfway-decent showing in the top 25 (although part of that is putting a lot of Batman books out that month), that Final Crisis has really found its bottom, which will probably be enough to make it #1 in January, DC's strong performance on the graphic novel's chart. I find it interesting that while there aren't that many books selling over 100,000, there are routinely 4000-6000 more sales on books further down the charts compared to those same positions five years ago. I'm not sure whether to take that as a lack of special enthusiasm for more top tales or greater enthusiasm for a wider variety of titles.

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