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September 14, 2022

Cyberspace Comics Market Report #144 September 2022

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , — cyberspace steve @ 10:00 am

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.

one month change one year change five year change
Listings in eBay’s Comic Books, Manga & Memorabilia section 4,676,513 +6.37% -19.97% +23.96%
Cyberspace Comics listings 148,523 +0.98% +13.50% +39.85%
Cyberspace Comics “market share” of comic listings on eBay 3.18% -5.20% +41.78% +12.62%
Number of eBay comic listings that are auctions 297,681 +3.84% +16.29% +120.61%
Percentage of eBay comic listings up for auction 6.37% -2.37% +45.33% +77.81%
Number of listings sold in eBay’s comics section (90 days) 1,319,835 +4.50% -12.05% +128.95%
Number of listings sold in eBay’s comics section divided by current listings 28.22% -1.77% +9.90% +84.70%


Total number of listings in eBay’s “comics” section

My current eBay feedback (unique): 96,993
My current eBay feedback (total): 229,850
My positive eBay feedback score: 100%

one month change one year change five year change
Listings on Atomic Avenue 2,753,450 +50.28% +63.44% +83.89%
Listings in the Cyberspace Comics Store on Atomic Avenue 129,367 +0.80% +9.98% +27.25%
Cyberspace Comics “market share” of comic listings on AtomicAvenue 4.70% -32.98% -32.78% -30.80%
Number of unique issues on Atomic Avenue 257,026 +0.57% +5.95% +3.33%
Cyberspace Comics “market share” of unique issues on AtomicAvenue 50.33% +0.22% +3.80% +23.15%


Total number of comics listed on Atomic Avenue
one month change one year change five year change
Number of members on ComicCollectorLive 239,820 +0.14% +2.28% +61.84%
Number of items for sale on ComicCollectorLive 1,302,925 -3.81% -4.87% -15.88%
Number of items sold on ComicCollectorLive 2,799,105 +0.24% +3.97% +24.75%
Number of stores open on ComicCollectorLive 48 +2.13% -2.04% -34.25%
one month change one year change five year change
Number of listings in HipComic’s Comic Books section 1,230,882 +7.26% +129.05% +432.17%
Number of those listings that are in the Cyberspace Comics HipComic store 138,646 +1.32% +5.39% +31.93%
Cyberspace Comics “market share” of comic listings on HipComic 11.26% -5.50% -53.99% -75.21%

 
 

eBay‘s reported number of listings is now removing suppressed listings and I’m now unable to find a way to add those back in to their total so from now on we’re going to go with their reported number. I know they are suppressing listings from this number because a prominent comic dealer (NK) had their reported figure drop substantially. They are known for listing multiple copies of the same book in a lot of different grades. A search in their store for Action 687 returns four results but, there is a small notation in their eBay store that they actually have 48 results for that search. I do not see a way to display all 48 results, though. Naturally, with a different method of calculating their number of listings now being used, our numbers are going to show some major swings over previous dates. Eventually, this will normalize.

Atomic Avenue: The number of listings on this marketplace increased by 50% of the past month. That’s an incredible increase – almost impossibly so. To make things even more odd, the number of unique available issues only increased by 0.57%. It’ll be interesting, next month, to see how many total listings they have.

Comic Collector Live: The number of stores has dropped by over 33.33% in the past five years.

HipComic‘s number of listings have increased by over 100% in the past year.






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