US comic book and graphic novel marketObjects launched into Earth orbit per year
American comic-book sales and orbital launches per year, both climbing fast. The space-themed graphic novel and the actual rocket, on the same upward path through the same eight years. The fiction and the spacecraft, both more numerous.
US comic and graphic-novel revenue grew from about 1 billion dollars in 2015 to over 2 billion by 2022 as Marvel and DC graphic-novel runs, manga's mainstream breakthrough, and bookstore-channel expansion lifted the category. Orbital launches grew from about 90 in 2015 to over 220 by 2023 as SpaceX's reusable Falcon 9 cadence drove the launch rate to historic levels. Two completely unrelated growth stories sharing a window because the same eight years rewarded both a print-and-digital reading category and an orbital-deployment industry.
Two unrelated industries with very different orbits both compounded. The shelf and the launch pad, both up.
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