January by the numbers

ICv2 has released its direct-market sales figures for January. The good news, year-to-date sales of comics and graphic novels are up for January 2005. The bad news, sales for 16 of the top 25 comics fell in January vs. the previous month. Only four titles, all from Marvel Comics, had month-to-month gains. See also: the top 300 comics in sales and the top 100 graphic novels.