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 Comic Books, Manga & Memorabilia section | 4,727,902 | -31.10% | -7.07% | +28.11% |
| Cyberspace Comics listings | 142,962 | -0.22% | +9.5% | +35.95% |
| Cyberspace Comics “market share” of comic listings on eBay | 3.02% | +44.68% | +17.66% | +6.10% |
| Number of eBay comic listings that are auctions | 289,863 | +4.58% | +36.53% | +69.11% |
| Percentage of eBay comic listings up for auction | 6.13% | +51.75% | +47.02% | +32.13% |
| Number of listings sold in eBay’s comics section (90 days) | 1,461,869 | -9.79% | n/a | +30.90% |
| Number of listings sold in eBay’s comics section divided by current listings | 30.92% | +30.91% | +2.18% | |
 Total number of listings in eBay’s “comics” section My current eBay feedback (unique): 93,635 |
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one month change | one year change | five year change | |
| Listings on Atomic Avenue | 1,722,983 | +0.37% | +2.18% | +20.15% |
| Listings in the Cyberspace Comics Store on Atomic Avenue | 127,331 | -0.13% | +8.54% | +26.85% |
| Cyberspace Comics “market share” of comic listings on AtomicAvenue | 7.39% | -0.54% | +6.18% | +5.57% |
| Number of unique issues on Atomic Avenue | 252,752 | +0.24% | +5.79% | +4.38% |
| Cyberspace Comics “market share” of unique issues on AtomicAvenue | 50.38% | -0.38% | +2.60% | +21.54% |
 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 | 238,520 | +0.16% | +4.18% | +70.55% |
| Number of items for sale on ComicCollectorLive | 1,337,770 | -2.09% | -2.33% | -14.18% |
| Number of items sold on ComicCollectorLive | 2,770,283 | +0.30% | +4.53% | +25.28% |
| Number of stores open on ComicCollectorLive | 48 | +0.00% | -14.29% | -42.17% |
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one month change | one year change | five year change | |
| Number of listings in HipComic’s Comic Books section | 1,153,729 | +4.93% | +150.82% | +352.56% |
| Number of those listings that are in the Cyberspace Comics HipComic store | 135,642 | +2.00% | +4.96% | +30.33% |
| Cyberspace Comics “market share” of comic listings on HipComic | 11.76% | -2.76% | -58.16% | -71.20% |
eBay‘s number of listings has tumbled this month. I suspect it may be because they’re not showing suppressed listings or some other type of glitch. This is the number that they’re currently publishing but my intuition is saying this figure is inaccurate.
Atomic Avenue: The number of unique available issues on this platform has surpassed a quarter million. That’s an incredible selection of books! And, we are currently stocking over 50% of those unique books.
Comic Collector Live: The number of stores has dropped by over 40% in the past five years.
HipComic‘s number of listings have had strong growth in the past year. We’re still struggling with their sync problems so we’re short about 10,000 listings this month again.