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Posted in: Comics | Tagged: 2014, amazing spider-man, Comics, entertainment, loot crate, rocket raccoon, walking dead
Amazing Spider-Man #1 Beats LootCrate In Best Selling Comics Of 2014
Amazing Spider-Man #1 was only given away in Nerd Block (40-50,000 subscribers) while Rocket Raccoon and Walking Dead were in Loot Crate (250-300,000 subscribers) but it managed to get more elsewhere to pip them both to the top of Best Selling Comic Book of 2014 – in the comic book direct market via Diamond Comic Distributors that is, knocking Walking Dead off the perch of 2013.. Marvel dominates the top ten for comics, with only Image's Walking Dead breaking their perfect score for the year, with Death Of Wolverine taking four places to itself. But for trade papebacks, Marvel place none in the top ten, with nine for Image, made up of Walking Dead, Saga and Sex Criminals and one for DC with Batman.
Marvel beat DC Comics for marketshare, Marvel increasing their financal marketshare year on year from 33.50% to 34.38% in terms of dollars but in actual number of comics sold, fell from 36.97% to 36.78%. While DC Comics dropped from 30.33% to 28.86% in terms of dollars but in actual number of comics sold, fell from 33.35%% to 32.47%.
So where did the marketshare go? Well, Image Comics saw their retail marketshare rise from 8.00% to 9.23% and their unit marketshare rise from 8.49% to 10.41%, that's practically a fifth rise in sales from year to year. IDW and Dark Horse have also fallen slightly, but much of their sales is now occuring outside the comics direct market.
The only comic publishers apart from Image on the list to see a rise in both dollars and comics sold marketshare are Boom, with dollars rising from 1.99% to 2.23% and sales rising from 1.92% to 2.41%. And Bleeding Cool's publisher Avatar Press, with dollars rising from 0.89% to 2.16% and sales rising from 0.74% to 0.83%.
TOP COMIC BOOK PUBLISHERS
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TOP 10 COMIC BOOKS
| RANK | DESCRIPTION | PRICE | VENDOR | |
| 1 | AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1 | $5.99 | MARVEL COMICS | |
| 2 | WALKING DEAD #132 (MR) | $2.99 | IMAGE COMICS | |
| 3 | ROCKET RACCOON #1 | $3.99 | MARVEL COMICS | |
| 4 | DEATH OF WOLVERINE #1 | $4.99 | MARVEL COMICS | |
| 5 | DEATH OF WOLVERINE #4 | $4.99 | MARVEL COMICS | |
| 6 | THOR #1 | $3.99 | MARVEL COMICS | |
| 7 | ORIGINAL SIN #1 | $4.99 | MARVEL COMICS | |
| 8 | DEATH OF WOLVERINE #2 | $4.99 | MARVEL COMICS | |
| 9 | DEATH OF WOLVERINE #3 | $4.99 | MARVEL COMICS | |
| 10 | SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #31 | $5.99 | MARVEL COMICS |
TOP 10 GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS
| RANK | DESCRIPTION | PRICE | VENDOR | |
| 1 | SAGA TP VOL 03 (MR) | $14.99 | IMAGE COMICS | |
| 2 | SAGA TP VOL 01 (MR) | $9.99 | IMAGE COMICS | |
| 3 | WALKING DEAD TP VOL 20 ALL OUT WAR PT 1 (MR) | $14.99 | IMAGE COMICS | |
| 4 | SAGA TP VOL 02 (MR) | $14.99 | IMAGE COMICS | |
| 5 | WALKING DEAD TP VOL 01 DAYS GONE BYE | $14.99 | IMAGE COMICS | |
| 6 | WALKING DEAD TP VOL 21 ALL OUT WAR PT 2 (MR) | $14.99 | IMAGE COMICS | |
| 7 | SEX CRIMINALS TP VOL 01 (MR) | $9.99 | IMAGE COMICS | |
| 8 | WALKING DEAD TP VOL 22 A NEW BEGINNING (MR) | $14.99 | IMAGE COMICS | |
| 9 | BATMAN TP VOL 01 THE COURT OF OWLS | $16.99 | DC ENTERTAINMENT | |
| 10 | SAGA TP VOL 04 (MR) | $14.99 | IMAGE COMICS |
NEW TITLES SHIPPED
| PUBLISHER | COMICS SHIPPED | GRAPHIC NOVELS SHIPPED | MAGAZINES SHIPPED | TOTAL SHIPPED |
| DC COMICS | 1107 | 340 | 6 | 1453 |
| MARVEL COMICS | 953 | 387 | 3 | 1343 |
| IMAGE COMICS | 717 | 151 | 0 | 868 |
| IDW PUBLISHING | 515 | 257 | 0 | 772 |
| DARK HORSE COMICS | 432 | 260 | 0 | 692 |
| BOOM ENTERTAINMENT | 354 | 82 | 0 | 436 |
| DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT | 367 | 57 | 0 | 424 |
| RANDOM HOUSE | 14 | 203 | 0 | 217 |
| AVATAR PRESS INC | 130 | 29 | 7 | 166 |
| EAGLEMOSS | 0 | 0 | 150 | 150 |
Dollar Market Share – 2014
Unit Market Share– 2014
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