Missed It: January ‘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 January 2009.

* 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 January 2009, which you can find on the page devoted to that month.

The main story here would almost certainly be the post-holiday double-pump of the DC event series for 2008 Final Crisis barreling into the room with its final two issues, except for the fact that "Obama Is" as in "Obama is the new Wolverine but even better at what he does and what he does is move books." The new president's cover appearance and Marvel's uncanny knack to stir up this kind of publicity pushed the issue of Amazing Spider-Man in which the new comics-fan-in-chief appears to modern record-setting or at least recent-history record-setting levels. Hey, it came out the month of an historic inauguration. I'm sure if Superman were becoming president this month his comic would have sold twice as many copies. Kidding aside, there was an Obama appearance in the Final Crisis issue #2, just not a hyped one, not an overt one, and not a cover-featured one. You could probably spin this into some sort of statement on this traffic all being gimmick-based and how that's depressing, but no one on earth's going to begrudge DM retailers a hit book right now no matter how we get there.

I'm also impressed with how well the DM is doing with Walking Dead trades, doing about half again the business of juiced-up perennial Watchmen for the month.

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