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Diamond's May 2008 Sales Charts & Market Share Report

By Michael Doran
posted: 16 June 2008 01:00 pm ET

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Diamond Comics Distributors released their monthly sales charts and Market Share report Monday, this month for comic book titles sold in the Direct Market in May 2008, and despite the debut of DC's Final Crisis by Grant Morrison and JG Jones, Marvel finished the month with the best-selling comic book of the month and a healthy lead in both Market Share categories.

Secret Invasion #2 was the bestselling comic book of May, comfortably edging out the first issue of DC's big summer event, Final Crisis. Also strengthening Marvel's numbers were consecutive Top Ten finishes for the debuts of Avengers/Invaders #1 (#4), Invincible Iron Man #1 (#5), and Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men #1 (#6).

Morrison's second new entry of the month - Batman R.I.P. - performed strongly for DC, with the first two issues of that Batman story arc taking the #'s 7 and 9 positions, respectively.

On the trade paperback side, Dark Horse took the win with the second volume of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8, "No Future for You". Dark Horse also took the third and fourth chart positions, with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull trade paperback and Hellboy Vol. 8: Darkness Calls, helping them continue their recent strong Market Share performances of 6.30% Unit Share and 8.11% Dollar Share.

On that note, Marvel again handily led both categories, with 47.56% Unit Share and 43.28% Dollar Share. Finishing second of course was DC, with 29.95% Unit, and 27.76% Dollar Share.

Look for the full Market Share chart, and Top 100 Comic Book and Graphic Novel charts below, as well as much more detail and analysis of these figures later this week.

 

MAY MARKET SHARES
Based on Actual Sales for Comics, Magazines, & GNs Invoiced in May 2008

Publisher

Comics, Magazines, & GNs Dollar Share

Comics, Magazines, & GNs Unit Share

MARVEL COMICS

43.28%

47.56%

DC COMICS

27.76%

29.95%

DARK HORSE COMICS

8.11%

6.30%

IMAGE COMICS

3.28%

2.75%

IDEA & DESIGN WORKS LLC

2.46%

2.40%

VIZ LLC

1.87%

1.00%

DYNAMIC FORCES

1.84%

2.24%

TOKYOPOP

1.47%

0.64%

WIZARD ENTERTAINMENT

0.98%

0.74%

DEVILS DUE PUBLISHING INC

0.70%

0.60%

RANDOM HOUSE

0.60%

0.23%

EAGLEMOSS PUBLICATIONS LTD

0.39%

0.14%

FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS

0.34%

0.10%

BONGO COMICS

0.32%

0.34%

VIRGIN COMICS LLC

0.31%

0.39%

BOOM ENTERTAINMENT

0.31%

0.30%

GEMSTONE PUBLISHING-MARYLAND

0.29%

0.13%

ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS

0.28%

0.45%

TITAN

0.27%

0.15%

ZENESCOPE ENTERTAINMENT INC

0.26%

0.14%

OTHER NON-TOP 20

4.88%

3.46%


TOP 100 COMIC BOOKS
Based on Actual Unit Sales of Products Invoiced in May 2008

Qty Rank

Retail Rank

Index

Description

Price

Ven

1

1

179.11

SECRET INVASION #2 (Of 8) SI*

$3.99

MAR

2

2

142.18

FINAL CRISIS #1 (Of 7)

$3.99

DC

3

5

107.19

NEW AVENGERS #41 SI

$2.99

MAR

4

6

106.16

AVENGERS INVADERS #1 (Of 12)*

$2.99

MAR

5

7

103.93

INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #1*

$2.99

MAR

6

3

103.58

GIANT SIZE ASTONISHING X-MEN #1*

$4.99

MAR

7

8

103.12

BATMAN #676 RIP*

$2.99

DC

8

9

95.12

MIGHTY AVENGERS #13 SI

$2.99

MAR

9

10

94.36

BATMAN #677 RIP*

$2.99

DC

10

12

93.54

MIGHTY AVENGERS #14 SI

$2.99

MAR

11

14

88.39

JUSTICE LEAGUE O/AMERICA #21

$2.99

DC

12

4

86.03

DARK TOWER LONG ROAD HOME #3 (Of 5)*

$3.99

MAR

13

15

85.51

THOR #9

$2.99

MAR

14

16

80.59

UNCANNY X-MEN #498 DWS

$2.99

MAR

15

17

80.57

BUFFY VAMPIRE SLAYER #14

$2.99

DAR

16

18

78.71

X-FORCE #4 DWS*

$2.99

MAR

17

19

78.36

X-MEN LEGACY #211 DWS*

$2.99

MAR

18

20

77.90

CAPTAIN AMERICA #38

$2.99

MAR

19

21

76.88

JUSTICE SOCIETY O/AMERICA #15*

$2.99

DC

20

22

75.56

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #558

$2.99

MAR

21

24

72.85

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #559

$2.99

MAR

22

25

72.68

X-MEN LEGACY #212 DWS

$2.99

MAR

23

26

72.66

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #560

$2.99

MAR

24

30

69.07

ALL STAR SUPERMAN #11

$2.99

DC

25

31

64.67

GREEN LANTERN #31

$2.99

DC

26

32

61.59

FANTASTIC FOUR #557

$2.99

MAR

27

33

61.31

WOLVERINE #65 DWS

$2.99

MAR

28

34

59.58

SECRET INVASION FANTASTIC FOUR #1 (Of 3) SI*

$2.99

MAR

29

11

56.43

KING SIZE HULK #1

$4.99

MAR

30

36

56.31

TITANS #2

$2.99

DC

31

37

55.78

AVENGERS INITIATIVE #13*

$2.99

MAR

32

23

55.53

X-MEN DIVIDED WE STAND #2 (Of 2)

$3.99

MAR

33

38

54.74

ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #122

$2.99

MAR

34

27

54.13

MARVEL 1985 #1 (Of 6)*

$3.99

MAR

35

39

53.76

CABLE #3 DWS*

$2.99

MAR

36

28

53.63

LOGAN #3 (Of 3)*

$3.99

MAR

37

13

53.33

ACTION COMICS ANNUAL #11*

$4.99

DC

38

40

52.04

INCREDIBLE HERCULES #117 SI

$2.99

MAR

39

29

51.94

WOLVERINE ORIGINS #25*

$3.99

MAR

40

41

51.88

SUPERMAN BATMAN #48

$2.99

DC

41

42

51.47

SERENITY BETTER DAYS #3 (Of 3)

$2.99

DAR

42

43

50.33

YOUNG X-MEN #2 DWS

$2.99

MAR

43

44

48.87

ULTIMATE X-MEN #94

$2.99

MAR

44

45

47.51

DETECTIVE COMICS #844

$2.99

DC

45

47

47.35

X-FACTOR #31 DWS

$2.99

MAR

46

48

46.09

GREEN LANTERN CORPS #24

$2.99

DC

47

50

45.91

ACTION COMICS #865

$2.99

DC

48

51

45.46

TEEN TITANS #59

$2.99

DC

49

52

44.81

SUPERMAN #676

$2.99

DC

50

35

44.60

ANGEL AFTER THE FALL #7

$3.99

IDW

51

55

42.49

CAPTAIN BRITAIN & MI 13 #1 SI*

$2.99

MAR

52

57

40.38

MS MARVEL #27 SI

$2.99