I started selling comics full-time in 2010 and wanted to track my progress against the online back issue markets. Here’s a look at the current comics aftermarket and my progress in achieving my goal of becoming a prominent back issue dealer.
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one month change | one year change | five year change | |
| Listings in eBay’s comics |
5,663,646 | +2.75% | +4.36% | +80.01% |
| Cyberspace Comics listings |
122,321 | -2.93% | -5.51% | +32.01% |
| Cyberspace Comics “market share” of comic listings on eBay | 2.16% | -5.69% | -9.63% | -26.54% |
| Number of eBay comic listings that are auctions |
230,318 | +1.20% | -5.33% | +65.91% |
| Percentage of eBay comic listings up for auction | 4.07% | -1.53% | -9.23% | -7.79% |
| Number of listings sold in eBay’s comics section (90 days) | 1,113,484 | +86.86% | -29.29% | +4.24% |
| Number of listings sold in eBay’s comics section divided by current listings | 19.66% | +81.87% | -32.23% | -42.09% |
 Total number of listings in eBay’s “comics” section My current eBay feedback (unique): 86,184 |
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one month change | one year change | five year change | |
| Listings on Atomic Avenue | 1,642,527 | -3.52% | +3.70% | +33.04% |
| Listings in the Cyberspace Comics Store on Atomic Avenue | 117,273 | +0.46% | -0.88% | +30.91% |
| Cyberspace Comics “market share” of comic listings on AtomicAvenue | 7.14% | +4.08% | -4.42% | -1.66% |
| Cyberspace Comics estimated “market share” of AtomicAvenue orders | 1.70% | -22.02% | -73.06% | -66.14% |
| Number of unique issues on Atomic Avenue | 231,786 | -3.40% | -0.12% | +2.08% |
| Cyberspace Comics “market share” of unique issues on AtomicAvenue | 50.60% | +4.00% | -0.77% | +28.25% |
 Total number of comics listed on Atomic Avenue |
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one month change | one year change | five year change | |
| Number of members on ComicCollectorLive | 231,853 | +0.66% | +9.75% | +85.43% |
| Number of items for sale on ComicCollectorLive | 1,371,780 | +0.45% | -4.24% | -17.77% |
| Number of items sold on ComicCollectorLive | 2,673,937 | +0.49% | +5.70% | +27.54% |
| Number of stores open on ComicCollectorLive | 53 | +0% | -8.62% | -47.00% |
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one month change | one year change | five year change | |
| Number of listings in HipComic’s Comic Books section | 486,914 | +2.38% | +4.63% | +175.92% |
| Number of those listings that are in the Cyberspace Comics HipComic store: | 123,767 | -1.60% | -4.34% | +35.19% |
| Cyberspace Comics “market share” of comic listings on HipComic | 25.42% | -3.90% | +0.31% | -51.00% |
eBay‘s number of sold listings is back to normal so it’ll look like some major swings have happened (when, in reality, they haven’t).
Atomic Avenue: The number of unique issues available on this marketplace in the past five years has grown by just 2%. This is a consistently stable marketplace.
Comic Collector Live: The number of registered users has increased by nearly 10% in the past year. But the number of open storefronts there has dropped by nearly half in five years.
HipComic continues to prove itself to be a great up-and-coming marketplace for comics. Their number of listings have seen impressive growth over the past five years.