Exclusive: November's Top 100 Best-Selling Comics

While Ozymandias and Rorschach search for Dr. Manhattan, Superman experiences a nightmare of his parents' death in Geoff Johns and Gary Frank's Doomsday Clock #1 from DC Entertainment, the best-selling comic book of November 2017.

DC Entertainment had eight titles in the top ten. In addition to the regular edition of Doomsday Clock #1 atop the charts, the lenticular cover edition ranked #2; followed by Dark Nights: Metal tie-ins The Batman Who Laughs #1 at #3 and Batman Lost #1 at #4; Tom King and Joëlle Jones' Batman #35 at #5; Batman #34 at #6; Metal tie-in Batman: The Devastator #1 at #7; and King, Lee Weeks, and Michael Lark's Batman Annual #2 at #9.

Marvel Comics had two titles in the top ten — Mark Waid and Chris Samnee's Captain America #695 at #8 and Kieron Gillen and Salvador Larroca's Star Wars #38, reunited the acclaimed team behind Marvel's Star Wars: Darth Vader, at #10.

Among the premier publishers, Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead #173 was Image Comics' top book at #14, Dark Horse Comics' Neil Gaiman's American Gods: Shadows #9 was their top book at #119, and IDW Publishing's Star Wars Adventures #4 was their top book at #135.

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