Image Comics provided us with worldwide (including Diamond UK) pre-order numbers for 15 March releases, so we could compare them to the ICv2 estimates for sales from U.S. Diamond locations in March, drawn from our over-all estimates of Diamond U.S. sales to comic stores (see "Top 300 Comics Actual--March 2013"). So the differences between the numbers reflect two things: the pre-order numbers include Diamond UK numbers, and the ICv2 estimates do not; and the ICv2 numbers include reorders, but the pre-orders do not. One other key difference on East of West #1 is that the pre-order numbers include over-ship numbers; the ICv2 numbers include a Diamond reserve for returns.
Typically, we've seen the Diamond UK numbers amount to about 10% of the total Diamond sales in the past, but that percentage can vary wildly depending on the title.
Title | Reorders | Worldwide Preorders |
The Walking Dead #108 | 67,423 | 70,080 |
Saga #11 | 50,023 | 53,985 |
East of West #1 | 49,518 | 60,385 |
Sex #1 | 23,630 | 25,512 |
Fatale #13 | 17,662 | 19,401 |
Revival #8 | 17,082 | 18,066 |
| 17,028 | 18,594 |
Spawn #229 | 16,355 | 17,083 |
Invincible #101 | 15,540 | 16,349 |
Lost Vegas #1 | 15,273 | 15,720 |
Bedlam #5 | 13,701 | 14,925 |
Nowhere Men #4 | 13,168 | 14,439 |
Five Ghosts #1 | 13,163 | 14,621 |
Chew #32 | 12,671 | 13,449 |
Peter Panzerfaust #10 | 10,989 | 11,031 |