Exclusive: November's Top 100 Best-Selling Comics

Batman leads a team to Santa Prisca to confront Bane in Tom King and Mikal Janin's Batman #10 from DC Entertainment, the best-selling comic book of November.

DC Entertainment had four titles among the top ten; in addition to the top-selling Batman #10, Batman #11 ranked #2, Scott Snyder and John Romita, Jr.’s All-Star Batman #4 ranked #4, and Batman Annual #1 ranked #7.

Marvel Comics had five titles in the top ten unit rankings including Brian Michael Bendis and David Marquez's Civil War II #7 at #3; Bendis and Stefano Caselli's Invincible Iron Man #1 at #5; Gerry Conway and Ryan Stegman's Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows #1 at #6; Mike Costa and Gerardo Sandoval's Venom #1 at #8; and Inhumans Vs. X-Men #0 at #10.

Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead #160 from Image Comics rounded out the top ten at #9.

Among the premier publishers, Batman/TMNT Adventures #1 was IDW Publishing's top book at #14 for the month, and Dark Horse Comics' Serenity: No Power in the 'Verse #2 was their best-selling book at #113.

TOP 100 COMIC BOOKS
Based on Total Unit Sales of Products Invoiced in November 2016

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How does Diamond calculate the charts? It all starts at the comic book shop.

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.