Top 100 Comics: July 2015

The surviving heroes of the Marvel Universe engage Doom and his minions in battle in Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribic's Secret Wars #4 from Marvel Comics, the best-selling comic book of July.

In total, Marvel Comics had eight of the month's top ten best-selling comics, including Charles Soule and Alex Maleev's Star Wars: Lando #1 at #2; Soule, Leinil Francis Yu, and Gerry Alanguilan's Civil War #1 at #3; Jason Aaron and Simone Bianchi's Star Wars #7 at #4; Kieron Gillen and Salvador Larroca's Darth Vader #7 at #6; Dan Slott and Adam Kubert's Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows #2 at #8; Fabian Nicieza and Gerardo Sandoval's Age of Apocalypse #1 at #9; and Brian Michael Bendis and Mike Deodato's Guardians of Knowhere #1 at #10.

Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo continue their impressive run on their current adventures of the Dark Knight, with DC Entertainment's Batman #42 coming in at #5.

Rounding out the top ten, Mark Waid and Fiona Staples' Archie #1, a modern reboot of the venerable comics character from Archie Comics, ranked #7 for the month.

Among the premier publishers, Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead #144 was Image Comics' top book for the month at #13.

IDW Publishing's Star Trek/Green Lantern: The Spectrum War #1, a crossover between the new Star Trek movies and DC Entertainment's sci-fi franchise by Mike Johnson and Angel Hernandez, was their top book in July at #21.

Finally, Chuck Palahniuk and Cameron Stewart's Fight Club 2 #3 was Dark Horse Comics' top book at #48.

TOP 100 COMIC BOOKS
Based on Total Unit Sales of Products Invoiced in July 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 month, as Batman did not ship, Convergence #8 from DC Entertainment was used as the control index.) 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.