iMarvel Comics weekly market share rose to 29.06%, narrowing the gap with DC as the publisher race tightened.>DC Comics slipped from 40.6% to 37.91%, while Marvel gained ground in direct market comic shop sales.>Image held a strong 17.54%, with IDW, Dark Horse, Titan, BOOM!, Ignition, Dynamite and Oni following.>Prana DM data from 600+ comic shops tracks weekly Marvel and publisher market share from July 21 to 27, 2026.>Marvel closed the marketshare gap slightly from last week, from 27.7% to 29%, as DC dropped from 40.6 to 37.9%. Everyone else just jiggled around as usual. Thanks to Prana Direct Market Solutions, here are the comic book publisher marketshare in the direct market of comic book stores as sold from the 21st to the 27th of July 2026, based on Point Of Sale data from 600+ stores in the Manage Comics and Comic Shop Assistant systems. You can find previous Bestseller Lists right here and the Top 400 for last week, on which this data is based, here. >DC Comics — 37.91% > Marvel — 29.06% >Image — 17.54% >IDW — 5.33% >Dark Horse — 2.38% >Titan Comics — 1.82% >BOOM! Entertainment — 1.74% >Ignition Press — 1.67% >Dynamite — 1.66% >Oni Press — 0.87%>https://bleedingcool.com/comics/marvel-closing-the-gap-comics-publisher-weekly-marketshare-chart/
>DC publishes barely anything this week>still wins
>>154862539The fact that DC still publishes less than Marvel and still has the majority is more on Marvel than it is on DC.
>>154862559This is last week's numbers
Worthless statistic. Tell me what the actual comic book sales per title is.
You're welcome.
is this because of the success of absolute batman?
