February Market Shares

Based on Actual Sales for Comics, Magazines, & GNs Invoiced in February 2006

Publisher Comics, Magazines, & GNs | Dollar Share | Unit Share
MARVEL COMICS 39.56% 45.30%
DC COMICS 32.67% 34.30%
DARK HORSE COMICS 4.61% 3.30%
IMAGE COMICS 3.36% 2.85%
TOKYOPOP 2.86% 1.12%
IDW PUBLISHING 2.02% 1.91%
VIZ LLC 1.97% 0.92%
WIZARD ENTERTAINMENT 1.58% 1.06%
DYNAMIC FORCES 1.23% 1.59%
DEVILS DUE PUBLISHING 1.10% 1.21%


FEBRUARY TOP SELLERS
Based on Actual Sales of Products Invoiced in February 2006

TOP 300 COMICS

QtyRank | RetailRank | Index | In Stock | Item Code | Description | Price | Pub
1 1 211.68 ** DEC052037/NOV058151/7-8 ASTONISHING X-MEN
#13 $2.99 MAR
2 6 182.84 ** DEC052024 NEW AVENGERS #16 $2.50 MAR
3 2 166.28 ** DEC050269 JUSTICE #4 (Of 12) $3.50 DC
4 5 157.62 ** SEP058103/OCT050235 SUPERGIRL #4*
$2.99 DC
5 7 146.52 ** DEC051974 ULTIMATE WOLVERINE VS HULK #2
(Of 6) $2.99 MAR
6 12 136.07 DEC051977 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #529 $2.50 MAR
7 8 134.32 ** OCT058211/NOV050262 GREEN LANTERN #8*
$2.99 DC
8 10 130.26 ** DEC050256/DEC058015 GREEN LANTERN #9*
$2.99 DC
9 3 128.30 NOV050248 SUPERGIRL #5 $3.99 DC
10 13 118.95 DEC052046 UNCANNY X-MEN #469 $2.50 MAR
11 14 118.37 DEC052049 X-MEN #182 $2.50 MAR
12 15 115.06 ** DEC052050 X-MEN #183 $2.50 MAR
13 11 114.18 ** DEC051971 ULTIMATE EXTINCTION #2 (Of 5) $2.99 MAR
14 9 112.37 ** DEC052056 X-MEN DEADLY GENESIS #4 (Of
6) $3.50 MAR
15 16 111.88 ** DEC050263 JLA #125 $2.50 DC
16 17 109.41 ** DEC051975 ULTIMATE X-MEN #67 $2.50 MAR
17 18 108.73 DEC051992 WOLVERINE #39 $2.50 MAR
18 19 107.56 ** DEC051973 ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #90 $2.50 MAR
19 22 104.04 ** NOV050285 TEEN TITANS #32 $2.50 DC
20 23 102.22 ** DEC051972 ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #27 $2.50 MAR
21 26 100.00 ** DEC050224 BATMAN #650 $2.50 DC
22 4 98.34 DEC050245 RANN THANAGAR WAR INFINITE CRISIS
SP $4.99 DC
23 27 96.29 DEC050236 SUPERMAN #226 $2.50 DC
24 20 88.87 DEC051976 SENSATIONAL SPIDER-MAN #23 $2.99 MAR
25 21 88.10 ** DEC052052 X-MEN 198 #2 (Of 5) $2.99 MAR
26 24 84.80 ** DEC052036 YOUNG AVENGERS #10 (RES) $2.99 MAR
27 25 83.98 ** DEC051986/JUL058045 GHOST RIDER #6 (Of 6)* $2.99 MAR
28 34 81.62 ** DEC050266 JSA #82 $2.50 DC
29 28 79.85 ** DEC051984-5 DAREDEVIL #82* $2.99 MAR
30 29 78.60 DEC052044 SON O/M #3 (Of 6) $2.99 MAR
31 39 77.84 ** DEC050238 ACTION COMICS #836 $2.50 DC
32 32 72.70 NOV052000 X-FACTOR #3 $2.99 MAR
33 33 71.29 DEC052054 X-MEN END MEN & X-MEN #2 (Of 6) $2.99 MAR
34 48 68.75 ** DEC050282 WONDER WOMAN #226 $2.50 DC
35 35 67.83 ** DEC052041 NEW EXCALIBUR #4 $2.99 MAR
36 36 67.08 ** NOV051960 FANTASTIC FOUR #534 $2.99 MAR
37 37 66.28 DEC051996 CAPTAIN AMERICA #14 $2.99 MAR
38 38 65.24 DEC051997 CAPTAIN AMERICA #15 $2.99 MAR
39 52 65.12 ** DEC050273 OUTSIDERS #33 $2.50 DC
40 40 64.90 ** DEC052000 FANTASTIC FOUR #535 $2.99 MAR
41 41 62.40 ** DEC052042 NEW X-MEN #23 $2.99 MAR
42 42 61.95 DEC052020 MARVEL ZOMBIES #3 (Of 5) $2.99 MAR
43 43 61.03 DEC052032 SPIDER-WOMAN ORIGIN #3 (Of 5) $2.99 MAR
44 58 59.68 ** DEC050267 JSA CLASSIFIED #8 $2.50 DC
45 44 59.37 ** DEC052040 GENERATION M #4 (Of 5) $2.99 MAR
46 45 59.08 NOV051979 SENTRY #5 (Of 8) $2.99 MAR
47 46 59.03 DEC052007 INCREDIBLE HULK #92 $2.99 MAR
48 61 58.85 ** DEC050268 JSA CLASSIFIED #9 $2.50 DC
49 47 58.39 ** AUG052845 RED SONJA #5 $2.99 DE
50 49 57.21 ** DEC050264 JLA CLASSIFIED #17 $2.99 DC
51 50 56.03 DEC052030 SENTRY #6 (Of 8) $2.99 MAR
52 51 55.77 ** DEC052053 X-MEN APOCALYPSE DRACULA #1 (Of 4) $2.99 MAR
53 53 53.92 ** DEC053049 TRANSFORMERS INFILTRATION #2 $2.99 IDW
54 68 53.41 DEC050234 NIGHTWING #117 $2.50 DC
55 69 53.29 ** DEC050225 DETECTIVE COMICS #816 $2.50 DC
56 54 52.72 ** SEP052863 RED SONJA #6 $2.99 DE
57 55 51.61 ** DEC052057 PUNISHER #30 (MR) $2.99 MAR
58 56 51.24 ** DEC053053 TRANSFORMERS BEAST WARS (IDW) #1 (Of 4)* $2.99 IDW
59 57 50.97 ** OCT052018 SUPREME POWER HYPERION #4 (Of 5)
(MR) $2.99 MAR
60 59 49.66 DEC052038 EXILES #77 $2.99 MAR



IDW has now passed Viz, Wizard, Dynamic Forces and Devils due in market share (this month). Great going guys!

Tyler G

 

yeah, go IDW!

 

Uh...isn't that down 20+ spots from #1, though?

 

Rankings are fairly meaningless compared to sales numbers and revenue.

 

That's actually not too bad, dropoffs are usually very common after issue 1's. The real test will be if it holds over the next few months.

 

Official February numbers:

53 TRANSFORMERS INFILTRATION #2 35,828 copies
58 TRANSFORMERS BEAST WARS #1 34,047 copies


If Beast Wars is included in the cost of the Transformers license, then one could say that they are raking in dough from 70,000 copies sold for the Transformers. That's quite a bit in todays market.

Worth the investment? I guess that would depend on how much the license actually costs IDW. At 70,000 copies sold at $3.00 a pop, that's a gross sales of around $210,000.

Now I don't know what this might indicate, but DW owed Hasbro for royalty costs in the amount of $494,442.00 when they went bankrupt. Was this for one year? Many years? Did Hasbro charge the same amount to IDW? Was this a percentage of revenues? Again, these figures may mean nothing, but its something to think about.

 

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Of important note, Denyer has astutely pointed out that on the bottom of the ICV2.com ranking list of Diamond's top 300 comics, Diamond UK distribution is not included on the list nor are reorders from comic book stores if they sold out.

And we all know how many UK Transformers fans there are out there.

On Diamond's website:
Diamond UK
As Diamond Comic Distributors’ British counterpart, the London, England-based Diamond UK works closely with overseas comics retailers to bring the hottest comic books and related merchandise to fans throughout the United Kingdom and Europe.


This is great news. All of Europe, not just the UK, are not of this list

 

this is only comic book shops as well. this does not reflect sales in bookstores & newsstands.