Comic book direct market sales went up 9.33% in November. THRIVING COMICS, Yo.

I’m not some sort of analyst. Of any kind. So I don’t know what to make of the fact that comics’ direct market sales went up almost 9.5% in November. Other than a “Hee-yay!, comic books as an industry are doing better!” I mean, they very well could not be. I don’t know. So presented without any actual thought is the following information.

Retail news and analysis website ICv2 breaks down November’s comics sales to the direct market and finds year-to-date sales up 9.33 percent over last year, with an 11.09 percent increase in comics and 5.55 percent in graphic novels. Batman #25 topped the comics chart with more than 125,000 copies, followed at No. 2 by Harley Quinn #0 with about 114,000.  In the graphic novel category, the latest volume of The Walking Dead led with about 25,000 copies sold in November. ICv2 also lists the top 300 comics and graphic novels for November. [ICv2]

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Look at the Bat-Family. Dominating as fuck on the charts.