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PRO: June 2025 Circana BookScan - Top 20 Author, Manga, and Superhero Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
Author Sales Jump, While Superheroes and Manga Stay Flat
July 21, 2025

Year over year sales of the Top 20 Superhero and Manga titles were flat, while Author sales jumped sharply – but there's a reason for that.

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PRO: June 2025 Circana BookScan - Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
Sales Tick Slightly Upward
July 17, 2025
After an anemic beginning to the year, sales of the Top 20 are up for the second month in a row – but only by a bit.
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PRO: Comic Stores Up Across the Board in Spring 2025
New Comics, Graphic Novels, Back issues
July 16, 2025
Most retailers we interviewed reported sales increases in new comics, graphic novels, and back issues.
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PRO: In-Depth – Comics and Graphic Novel Sales Up in 2024
Via Growth in Comic Stores
July 11, 2025
Sales of comics and graphic novels were up in 2024, almost entirely driven by sales growth in comic stores, according to a new estimate by ICv2.
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PRO: Channel Check – POP MART
Michigan Ave., Chicago, July 5, 2025
July 11, 2025
We visited the POP MART store on a high-visibility stretch of Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois on July 5, 2025.
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PRO: Top 100 Graphic Novels - June 2025
Sales Rankings Based on Comic Store POS Data
July 9, 2025
These are unit and dollar sales rankings based on sales tracked at point-of-sale by the ComicHub system at stores selling American graphic novels (and manga) around the world.
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PRO: Top 200 Comics - June 2025
Sales Rankings Based on Comic Store POS Data
July 8, 2025
These are unit and dollar sales rankings based on sales tracked at point-of-sale by the ComicHub system at stores selling American comics around the world.
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PRO: RPGs Settling In
After Blowout 2024
July 8, 2025
The tabletop RPG business settled in at a new level in Spring 2025, after a blowout 2024 capped by the release of the two core volumes for Dungeons & Dragons 2024.
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PRO: Tariffs Overshadow Growing Miniatures Business
As Market Digests New Lines, Changes
July 7, 2025
Coupled with the tariff disruptions were more prosaic changes around the introductions of new lines and changing preferences.
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PRO: Board Games in Turmoil, Card Games Ascendant
As Tariffs, Market Changes Upend Industry
July 3, 2025
Tariffs are imposing an existential threat to board games, as card games mostly elude them and benefit from changes in consumer tastes toward simpler, more casual games.
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PRO: Retailers Navigating Supply, Flippers
In Red-Hot TCG Market
July 2, 2025
The biggest problems TCG retailers faced in Spring 2025 was not demand, which was red-hot, but supply and the distorting effects of flippers.
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PRO: Spring Game Sales Surged
As Uncertainty Mounted
July 1, 2025
Hobby game store sales were surging this spring when record tariffs were announced in early April, adding to mounting uncertainty about the economy and the games business.
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