Exclusive: June's Top 100 Best-Selling Comics

Peter Parker returns to being the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man in Chip Zdarsky, Adam Kubert, and Jordie Bellaire's Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man #1 from Marvel Comics, the best-selling comic book of June.

Marvel Comics had five titles among the top ten. In addition to Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man, Charles Soule, Giuseppe Camuncoli, and Cam Smith's Star Wars: Darth Vader #1 ranked #3; Matthew Rosenberg, Roland Boschi, and Adam Gorham's Edge of Venomverse #1 ranked #7; Nick Spencer, Leinil Francis Yu, Rod Reis, and Joshua Cassara's Secret Empire #4 ranked #8; and Spencer, Andrea Sorrentino, Ries, and Cassara's Secret Empire #5 ranked #9.

DC Entertainment had four titles in the top ten: Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, Jim Lee, Andy Kubert, and John Romita, Jr.'s Dark Days: The Forge, the prelude issue to DC Entertainment's summer event Dark Nights: Metal, ranked #2, Tom King and David Finch's Batman #24, in which Bruce Wayne proposed marriage to Selina Kyle, ranked #4; Frank Miller, Brian Azzarello, Andy Kubert, and Klaus Janson's Dark Knight III: The Master Race #9 ranked #5; and Tom King and Mikel Janin's Batman #25, the first chapter of "The War of Jokes and Riddles," ranked #9.

Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard's The Walking Dead #168 from Image Comics rounded out the top ten at #10.

Also from the premier publishers, Neil Gaiman's American Gods: Shadows #4 was Dark Horse Comics' top book for the month at #98, and IDW Publishing's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #80 was their top book for June at #173.

TOP 100 COMIC BOOKS
Based on Total Unit Sales of Products Invoiced in June 2017

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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.