Comics: We’re getting healthier, it seems:

Sales of comics and graphic novels in comic stores were up 18.16% for the first half of 2012 compared to the first half of 2011, according to numbers released by Diamond Comic Distributors today.  June helped that total, but actually pulled the average down a little, with total comics and graphic novel sales in June 2012 up 10.74% compared to June 2011.

It’s tempting to put everything onto the rising tide from the New 52 launch, but there’s got to be more at play here, right…? Is this the effect of seeing more high profile Image books drawing readers from The Big Two, of AVX drawing in lapsed or new readers (perhaps assisted by that Avengers movie that kinda did well), or something else altogether? After all, we’re now at January 2008 sales levels, apparently…

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