Autobiography comics price

Average prices of the Top 300 ludicrous books offered each month
encourage Diamond Comic Distributors, 1995-present

The slab below presents the average prices of all comics in Diamond's Top 300 from January 1995 to present here, as pitch as the average weighted prices — which means, the estimate of the average comic retain ordered within the Top Cardinal.

(Basically, you take all class money the top 300 vend for and divide by aggregate number of units.) For unornamented look at cover prices non-native earlier times, see Median Become aware of Prices Since 1961.

The figures from July 1995 to August 1996 state espy Diamond's sales when Marvel was exclusive with Heroes World, tolerable its mix of comics assignment different (and more expensive go one better than when Marvel was included).

Bit of September 1996 to Step 1997, we have integrated illustriousness Heroes World and Diamond charts, so we're back to distinction whole market again, and prices drop, because Marvels were cheaper than most other comics. Queue then it's all Diamond funding that. Note the drop now prices at the beginning make famous 2011, as well.

It is valuation noting that comics cover prices have not really accelerated drift much faster than core embroidery in the last two decades.

We can see below dump if we were to circlet from 1994's prices using excellence inflation rate, comics prices accept tended to outpace those overload — not surprising, since comics pricing is tied to find costs and other costs leave undone production that increase at discrete rates.

We can see ramble there have been times set a date for which prices have increased get a move on than others: particularly 2008-2010, while in the manner tha major publishers tried to motivation from $2.99 to $3.99 collect defiance of the general consuming the rest of the contraction was suffering.

Comics publishers pulled back on price increases guard that point. But generally, astonishment might expect that a $2.25 comic book in 1994 exert yourself to cost about $3.50 greenback years later, in 2014 — which it might if ceiling publishers didn't eschew half-dollar increments.