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And that, right there, is what the New 52 has done…. PUBLISHER MARKET SHARES – MAY 2012 RETAIL MARKET SHARE PUBLISHER SHARE MARVEL COMICS 35.32% DC COMICS 32.73% IMAGE COMICS 7.19% IDW PUBLISHING 4.80% DARK HORSE COMICS 4.75% DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT 2.55% BOOM! STUDIOS 1.60% EAGLEMOSS PUBLICATIONS 1.08% VIZ MEDIA 0.86% ZENESCOPE ENTERTAINMENT INC 0.85% OTHER NON-TOP 10 8.27% UNIT MARKET SHARE PUBLISHER SHARE MARVEL COMICS 38.64% DC COMICS 36.72% IMAGE COMICS 6.70% IDW PUBLISHING 4.04% DARK HORSE COMICS 3.48% DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT 2.63% BOOM! STUDIOS 1.60% ZENESCOPE ENTERTAINMENT INC 0.73% ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS 0.71% AVATAR PRESS INC 0.64% OTHER NON-TOP 10 4.13% COMPARATIVE SALES STATISTICS   DOLLARS UNITS MAY 2012 VS[...]

As always, it's very much a man's world. NOTES: To learn more about this statistics project and its methodology click here, and to see the previous stats click here. You can visit Tim at Straitened Circumstances and follow him on Twitter @timhanley01. Gendercrunching January 2012 January wasn't particularly great for either publisher, with both DC and Marvel just barely[...]

And from others that DC, by extending their returnability terms, continues to create a false market, pointing to acres of comics being returned on their less popular titles, as yet unaccounted for by the statistics. But everyone seems to be playing the statistics game right now Diamond Comic Distributors report monthly figures for the industry, showing[...]

Here’s the numbercrunching headlines, based on Marvel Comics solicitation information for June, for their Marvel character comics, including Marvel

Also of course, it's just one month's worth of data so far. Still, it's a beginning for developing some statistics In searching around for data from other creative professions to attempt to give this some context, I found this San Diego State University study on the movie and tv industries which concluded that: In 2009,[...]

And Jean Grey. 2002 – Amazing Spider-Man 165,765 2003 – Amazing Spider-Man 142,569 2004 – Amazing Spider-Man 160,579 2005 – Amazing Spider-Man 150,833 2008 – Amazing Spider-Man 125,019 2009 – Amazing Spider-Man 94,006 2010 – Amazing Spider-Man 85,445 2002 – Spider-Girl 54,148 2003 – Spider-Girl 26,461 2004 – Spider-Girl 24,322 2005 – Spider-Girl 23,907 2007 – Amazing Spider-Girl 46,234 2006 – Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man 100,317 2004 –[...]