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So Which Publisher Has The Biggest Selling Comic… On Average?

Published Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:00:01 -0600

Marvel may have sold over 300,000 copies of Uncanny Avengers #1. Image may have sold almost 400,000 of Walking Dead #100.

BUt what about the lower selling titles? How do they stack up?

We're going to cheat a little by only including the Top 300 comics reported by Diamond that sold in comic shops in 2013. Which means that some of the smaller companies may get a boost my ignored the comics that didn't sell enough to get in the top 300. But there's one incontroversial point that sticks out.

Because Valiant is considered a "Small Press Publisher" by Diamond, in that it is outside the Top Ten of publishers. Yes, when it comes to saverage sales of books…

Here's a chart. Each measures a publisher, looks at the number of comics placed in the Top 300, their highest and lowest sales, and in the middle in bold, the average sale.

For which, Valiant is third. Only four or five books, it's true. But it is expanding…

October 2012

Marvel	DC	Valiant	Image	Dark Horse	IDW	Boom	Dynamite
80	85	4	29	18	26	6	23
303722	148305	16299	74379	25577	21516	17020	16362
41025	31706	15000	14670	11538	9752	10996	7756
5630	5857	14382	5279	5201	5502	5516	5161

November 2012

Marvel	DC	Valiant	Image	Dark Horse	IDW	Boom	Dynamite
68	82	5	34	25	29	13	25
303722	148305	16299	57546	24606	80128	23656	63932
47373	31833	15965	12641	10056	12556	8830	10022
5630	5857	13156	4366	4341	5270	4546	4526

December 2012

Marvel	DC	Valiant	Image	Dark Horse	IDW	Boom	Dynamite
63	82	5	42	22	30	8	24
200966	151568	16917	57781	28096	39841	30946	16923
43385	32393	14243	11276	12208	10197	12521	7092
4917	4879	12508	4755	4676	4755	4649	4649