Top 100 Best-Selling Graphic Novels: April 2015

Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead Volume 23 from Image Comics was April's best-selling graphic novel.

In total, Image Comics had four products in the top ten including Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples' Saga Volume 4 at #5, Mark Millar and Frank Quitely's Jupiter's Legacy Volume 1 at #6, and Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead Volume 1: Days Gone Bye at #9.

Warren Ellis and Jerome Opena's Avegers: Rage of Ultron, an original graphic novel, was Marvel Comics' best-selling graphic novel for April at #2.

DC Comics had four titles in the top ten, led by Bill Willingham's Fables Volume 21: Happily Ever After at #3. Also in the top ten were Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's Batman Volume 5: Zero Year: Dark City at #4, Amanda Connor and Jimmy Palmiotti's Harley Quinn Volume 1: Hot in the City at #7, and Batman Volume 6: The Graveyard Shift at #8.

Rounding out the top ten, BOOM! Studios' Lumberjanes Volume 1 ranked #10.

Among the premier publishers, two 1980s franchises join forces in IDW Publishing's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Ghostbusters, their best-selling graphic novel in April at #48. Finally, Paul Tobin and Juan Ferreyra's Prometheus: Fire and Stone, the sequel to Ridley Scott's film Prometheus, was Dark Horse Comics' top graphic novel for April at #55.

TOP 100 GRAPHIC NOVELS
Based on Total Unit Sales of Products Invoiced in April 2015

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Data for Diamond’s sales charts — which includes the monthly market shares and all top product charts — are compiled by Diamond Comic Distributors from sales made to thousands of comic book specialty shops located in North America and around the world.  Additional sales made to online merchants and other specialty stores may be included as well.

Unit and dollar market shares are calculated based upon orders for comic books, graphic novels, and magazines invoiced and shipped to Diamond customers during any given month, which comprises pre-orders, advance reorders, and reorders, minus any copies that are received back from a title marked as returnable. Please note that comics marked with an asterisk (*) have had their reported quantities reduced due to retailer returnability, and thus may rank lower on the charts than their actual sales would reflect.

About the Diamond Sales Index: The Sales Index of selected monthly Best Seller Charts is presented as a comparative tool for retailers and publishers. It presents Diamond’s monthly sales for individual titles in relation to Diamond’s total sales for the issue of DC Comics' monthly Batman comic book. (Batman is used as the control title – with a value of 100 – because sales of Batman usually remain relatively stable.) This allows for easy comparison to other titles and helps retailers gauge their orders for all other titles. This formula is only a guide, other factors may impact a titles’ ability to sell in certain locations and clientele.