Marvel announced their second-quarter earnings today,and the news was neither pretty nor unexpected; earnings are down 37 percent when compared to last year thanks to “lower licensing sales”.
Publishing and toys, though, did pretty well:
Publishing segment revenue increased 21 percent to $25.1 million versus $20.9 million in the prior-year period on higher sales of trade paperbacks and hard cover books into the direct and book market channels. Comic book sales into the direct and newsstand channels rose on strong sales associated with Civil War, a special series with tie-ins across many established comic book series.
Toy segment sales leaped more than sixfold to $25.4 million from $3.7 million as toys shifted from being produced by a master toy licensee last year to all toy production done by Marvel this year.
The mothership also breaks it down.
