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 section | 6,153,231 | +1.20% | +4.40% | +70.70% |
| Cyberspace Comics listings | 138,613 | +0.60% | +3.65% | +35.92% |
| Cyberspace Comics “market share” of comic listings on eBay | 2.25% | -0.76% | -0.76% | -20.40% |
| Number of eBay comic listings that are | 257,366 | +3.65% | +2.61% | +47.40% |
| Percentage of eBay comic listings up for auction | 4.18% | +2.52% | -1.82% | -13.58% |
| Number of listings sold in eBay’s comics section (90 days) | 1,411,019 | -2.50% | +0.72% | +42.62% |
| Number of listings sold in eBay’s comics section divided by current listings | 22.93% | -3.65% | -3.53% | -16.46% |
 Total number of listings in eBay’s “comics” section My current eBay feedback (unique): 89,236 |
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one month change | one year change | five year change | |
| Listings on Atomic Avenue | 1,717,797 | +3.59% | +3.78% | +27.52% |
| Listings in the Cyberspace Comics Store on Atomic Avenue | 124,012 | +2.14% | +3.04% | +26.18% |
| Cyberspace Comics “market share” of comic listings on AtomicAvenue | 7.22% | -1.38% | -0.70% | -1.11% |
| Cyberspace Comics estimated “market share” of AtomicAvenue orders | 1.96% | +10.73% | -59.92% | -86.77% |
| Number of unique issues on Atomic Avenue | 246,345 | +4.97% | +3.58% | +4.99% |
| Cyberspace Comics “market share” of unique issues on AtomicAvenue | 50.34% | -2.70% | -0.51% | +20.17% |
 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 | 236,375 | +0.11% | +7.54% | +75.16% |
| Number of items for sale on ComicCollectorLive | 1,375,385 | -0.02% | -2.80% | -14.75% |
| Number of items sold on ComicCollectorLive | 2,723,718 | +0.46% | +5.57% | +26.65% |
| Number of stores open on ComicCollectorLive | 46 | -2.13% | -25.81% | -48.89% |
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one month change | one year change | five year change | |
| Number of listings in HipComic’s Comic Books section | 975,784 | -6.42% | +88.49% | +407.08% |
| Number of those listings that are in the Cyberspace Comics HipComic store: | 38,403 | -68.74% | -71.17% | -61.94% |
| Cyberspace Comics “market share” of comic listings on HipComic | 3.94% | -66.59% | -84.70% | -92.50% |
eBay‘s number of listings continue to remain above 6 million!
Atomic Avenue: Our percentage of the total number of orders has dropped off sharply since we began implementing a high-dollar minimum order. This has helped prevent “hot” issues from selling out to speculators without purchases of more common stock.
Comic Collector Live: The number of stores has dropped by nearly 50% in the past five years.
HipComic‘s number of listings have had strong growth in the past year. Unfortunately, syncing problems are persistent on that marketplace. This is explains why our number of listings dropped off by nearly 100,000 this month. Hopefully they’ll be able to address those problems soon.