Comics are three of the top 10 Free ebooks Apps for Apple’s iPad, holding positions #6, #7, and #8.  Marvel’s is #6, the just-launched BOOM! Studios app is #7, and Comics by ComiXology (which also created the apps for Marvel and BOOM!) is #8. 

This is heady territory for comics, among the top free book readers for the iPad.  The BN Reader is #5, and Stanza, also a book app, is #9, bracketing the comic apps.

ICv2 estimated a digital comics market of $500,000 to $1 million retail in 2009 (see “Up to $1 Million in Digital”), but that number if going to be a small fraction of the total sold in 2010, especially now that the iPad offers a reading experience that shows the full page.