We ’re inhabit in a golden age of superheroic medium — Marvel dominates the Hollywood blockbuster scenery , while The Flash , Arrow , and Supergirl lead a long ton of new comic book TV shows . And that run to people write off comics as just a generator of raw textile . But comics themselves are on a roll right now .
John Jackson Miller has been archive laughable sale statistics for eld over atComichron , and in his latest depth psychology for sale in January 2016 he paint a great word picture of the current industry . Despite factors like heavy sales on in writing novels and a common drift of smaller cut-rate sale in January as few comic issues are put out , the Top 300 comic strip of the calendar month trade about 6.49 million transcript in total .
That number might go quite belittled next to the amount of the great unwashed who ’ll stand in line to see Captain America : Civil War in a few months . And in fact , it ’s down a bit from last January — mainly thanks to the fact that last January realise the sacking of Star Wars # 1 , which was hugely boost by being grade as a gratuitous item in the January 2015 LootCrate subscription bundle . But it ’s actually amazing to see how far the risible Koran industry has come in just five years .
January 2011 was a very dissimilar time for comic books — gross revenue were at an all - time depression as DC prepared for its controversial New 52 reboot , and the comic al-Qur’an medium was still on the leaflet of explode , with the release of The Avengers a year out and The Walking Dead only just shambling onto tv set . Writes Miller :
On the other hand , some view : Five geezerhood ago , January 2011 was the pit . The Top 300 comics sold 4.4 million copy , likely the lowest meat since the 1930s . There were a couple of cause : it was the bottom of the comic strip sink pre - DC reboot , but it was also a month where publishers ship super few titles to market . The mart ordered more than 2 million more comics this January , and publishers are releasing more , now , too : 719 new comics and graphic novels versus 555 five geezerhood ago . That show a grocery with more largeness .
Not only have sale hugely ameliorate in the past five years — a healthy and obvious sign of growth — but the industry itself is developing a wide reach of mirthful record book , to cater to a growing group of people enticed by these characters thanks to their presence in game , film , and TV shows .
Sure , the grasp of a comic Scripture , even the most successful comical book , will never be able to dwarf the reach of a blockbuster like Batman v Superman or even a TV show like Agents of SHIELD . But it ’s amazing to see the impact the rise of laughable Holy Scripture media in papa refinement has had over the last few age — it ’s pad the comics manufacture , and ultimately rescued it from a fairly dire place .
[ ComichronviaThe Beat ]
Image : Avengers Assemble # 1 variant cover , by Marc Silvestri
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