September 2008 DM Sales 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 September 2008.

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

John Jackson Miller at The Comics Chronicles has his own set of numbers up for September 2008.

* Chart
* Analysis
* special article on Marvel's unit share

The headline news here would appear to be two-fold. First, it looks like there was a surge in all categories, which stands in bold relief after several month of measurable declines. Second, Marvel continues to dominate, led by Secret Invasion and its spin-offs even as that summer event enters the jackets-at-night and shopping-for-school-supplies phase of its publishing schedule. John Jackson Miller suggests that Marvel is not only dominating top of charts but unit share overall, with more titles in the top 300 since he started compiling figures in the mid-1990s. DC was certainly not helped by having a skip month for its Final Crisis core title headliner and not having anything from the nicely-selling Batman RIP series of comics. Watchmen continues to crush in terms of trades, and is joined this month by a new iteration of Kingdom Come. Over 3500 of the first issue of the new Love and Rockets book-formatted series sold through comics shops, which makes it the best-selling comics in that sub-division.

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