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#69 Comic Sales History With Comichron’s John Jackson Miller

Are comic book sales doing better than ever? Or are they plummeting? Sean explores this question with guest John Jackson Miller, creator of the comics sales history website “Comichron”. John provides some insight on what we can and cannot know about sales, how sales have been doing in the last 20 years, and how new ventures like WhatNot and NFTs are impacting the sales of comics.

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Are comic book sales doing better than ever? Or are they plummeting? Sean explores this question with guest John Jackson Miller, creator of the comics sales history website “Comichron”. John provides some insight on what we can and cannot know about sales, how sales have been doing in the last 20 years, and how new ventures like WhatNot and NFTs are impacting the sales of comics. 

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ABOUT THE GUEST

New York Times bestselling author John Jackson Miller has spent a lifetime immersed in science fiction and comics, both as a fan and as a creator. After working in fanzines, he joined Don and Maggie Thompson at Comics Buyer’s Guide where he also edited Comics & Games Retailer magazine, Scrye magazine, and the Standard Catalog of Comic Books series. Miller moved into professional comics writing in 2003 with Crimson Dynamo for Marvel, which led to a year of writing Iron Man. That led to a long association with Lucasfilm including novels, comics, and games. His Star Wars novels include the Scribe Award-winning Kenobi as well as A New Dawn, Knight Errant, and Lost Tribe of the Sith. He wrote comics for the latter two — and he wrote the entire Knights of the Old Republic comics series (available from Marvel as Legends: The Old Republic). He also wrote the comics adaptation of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Star Trek novels followed, including Picard: Rogue Elements and Discovery – Die Standing (both Scribe Award winners), Discovery – The Enterprise War, the Prey trilogy, and Takedown. For 2023, Miller has written the first novel for the Strange New Worlds series: The High Country releases on Feb. 21 in hardcover, audiobook, and ebook.

He has also written comics and prose for properties including Halo, The Lion King, The Simpsons, Conan, Planet of the Apes, and Mass Effect. His Battlestar Galactica: Counterstrike graphic novel won the 2020 Dragon Award. His next comics project is Skull and Bones: Savage Storm, based on the upcoming Ubisoft game. 

An authority on comic-book circulation history, Miller continues to cover the topic on his Comichron website

ABOUT Comichron

The world’s largest public database of comic book sales figures, Comichron archives what’s known about the number of comic books in circulation for the retailers, collectors, and historians who want to know how many copies are out there. For more information about this website, visit Comichron’s About page.

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A show for the most casual and dedicated fans of comics. Join Sean as he discovers what the world of comics and graphic novels has to offer from one-on-one interviews with industry professionals, round table discussions with passionate fans, and reviews on the latest comics, tv shows, and movies. New episodes every week. The Captioned Life is a part of the Comic Watch family.

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