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Comics and graphic novel sales to comic stores were up a thin 0.36% over the year-ago period in June, according to information released by Diamond Comic Distributors, with comics up 3.56% and graphic novels continuing a soft spell with a 7.11% decline.

For the first half of 2019, comics and graphic novel sales were down 0.49% vs. the first half of 2018, with a 0.21% increase in comic sales unable to offset the 2.25% decline in graphic novel sales.

Higher cover prices were clearly masking worse news for both the month and first half, based on unit sale changes reported by Diamond Comic Distributors. Comics and graphic novel unit sales were down 5.27% in June, with comics down 4.63% and graphic novels down 13.13%. For the first half of the year, comics and graphic novel unit sales were down 5.19%, with graphic novels down 7.19% and comics down 5.03%.

Marvel Comics had a massive share lead over #2 publisher DC Comics, behind a title count for Marvel that is now twice as large as DC’s (147 to 71). Marvel’s share lead was over 16% based on dollars, and over 22% based on units.

Marvel Comics published more than twice the number of new comic book and graphic novels in June 2019 than DC, whose publishing volume more closely resembled Image Comics and IDW Publishing than its historic rival - but those numbers come with a caveat, according to figures released by Diamond Comic Distributors Friday morning.

Marvel's Black Cat #1, the debut of the character's first ongoing series by Jed MacKay and Travel Foreman was the month's bestselling by dollars and units, the first of four titles the publisher had in the Top 10 by dollars and five by units.
DC had five titles in the Top 10 by dollars and four by units, including Tom Taylor, Trevor Hairsine, and Stefano Guadiano's DCeased #2, ranked second by dollars and Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo's Batman: Damned #3 by units. Image's The Walking Dead #192, the now-surprise penultimate issue of Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard's series, was the eighth bestselling title of the month in dollars and tenth by units.

DC's Superman: Year One by Frank Miller and John Romita Jr. did not place on June's unit's Top but the $7.99 volume placed 3rd on the dollar chart. Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans' Die Volume 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker from Image was June's best-selling graphic novel by units. DC's Blackest Night Omnibus: 10th-Anniversary Edition was #1 by dollars.

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