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DC ComicsdefeatedMarvel Comicsin March , claiming a higher market share and seven spot in the Direct Market Top 10 , including the numeral - one smudge .
DC owned the first six position in the top 10 , with Detective Comics # 1000 first , and the next five in club beingThe Batman Who Laughs : Grim Knight , Doomsday Clock#9,Batman#67 and 66 , andHeroes in Crisis . Marvel did not seem in the top 10 until number 7 , withAmazing Spider - Man#7 , followed byAmazing Spider - Man#8 , thenSpider - adult male : City at Warat number 9 . DC’sJustice League#20 rounded out the top 10 . The biggest market part in dollars proceed to DC with 36.20 percent , with Marvel 2nd at 34.46 percent .
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Marvel and DC , as the top two comics companionship , routinely merchandise the bit one and two market parcel positions . Case in point : Marvel make headway March in building block sales , with 40.94 per centum of unit ploughshare to DC ’s 34 percentage . The closest challenger in grocery ploughshare wasImage Comicswith 9.63 percentage and Dark Horse with 3.26 percent , according toDiamond Comics Distributors(via : CBR )
The comic record book market is doing well in 2019 than 2018 , as March 2019 ’s sales were $ 5 million higher than March 2018 ’s . Publishers did better in March than the previous month , as well ; laughable Koran sales ( in buck ) were up 26.89 pct from February and lifelike novel sales were up 21.20 percent . Toy gross revenue did not share the wealth , however , as they were down 8.4 percentage in March , accord to the report .
The first title to let out DC ’s chart say-so in March wasThe Walking DeadVol . 31 : The Rotten Core , which topped the graphic novel unit sales chart . TheWalking Deadpublisher Image Comics dominated that chart with six out of the top 10 , include collections fromMonstress , The Wicked and the Divine , Seven to Eternity , and two volumes ofSaga . DC snaffle the remain four : the Batman hardcover , Batman Vol . 9 : The Tyrant Wing , and original computer graphic novelsThe Super Sons : The Polarshield ProjectandMera : Tidebreaker . Dollar - wise , however , The walk Deadonly made it to third place , with theBatman80th day of remembrance hardcover and Marvel’sSavage Sword of Conanbeating it out . Both titles had a higher sales event damage thanTheWalking Dead .
The race for the top spot is difficult to hamper . This calendar month , DChad Batman ’s anniversary as a top selling dot , while Marvel had a unattackable rival in the high - price distributor point ( $ 125 ) collection of rarely - reprintedConanissues . Next month , both company could overturn positions - or it ’s just as likely thatThe Walking Deadcould take a sting out of them both .
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Source : Diamond Comic Distributors , CBR
