Retailer preorders for King Spawn #1 came in at 497,000, continuing a strong roll-out for the titles in the new universe built around the Todd McFarlane character Spawn.

Rally, a collectibles equity platform, sold a vintage Wata 9.8 copy of the Super Mario Bros. video game for $2 million dollars.

The first issue of Todd McFarlane’s Spawn’s Universe has sold "well over 200K units," according to publisher Image Comics.

Our picks for the manga most likely to succeed also include a new volume of Toilet-Bound Hanako-Kun and an irreverent account of the creation of Gundam.

Geek movie and TV news is flying this week, and we round it up here.

The question for our deeper dive is whether categories other than manga saw robust sales as well.

The actual unit sales are very different for the top 20 Author, Manga, and Superhero graphic novels in the book channel.

The process of transferring DC Direct Market graphic novel inventory to Lunar Distribution has only moved a fraction of the backlist to date, leading to out-of-stocks.

For the first time since August, a superhero graphic novel appears on the list of the top 20 adult graphic novels in the book channel.

These are rankings of unit sales of comics to comic stores by Diamond Comic Distributors in October 2020.