Exclusive: January's Top 100 Best-Selling Comics

Batman teams with Rorschach to solve one mystery while the Comedian confronts Ozymandias and Lex Luthor in Geoff Johns and Gary Frank's Doomsday Clock #3 from DC Entertainment, the best-selling comic book of January 2018.

DC Entertainment had six comics in January's top ten. In addition to Doomsday Clock, Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's Dark Nights: Metal #5 ranked #2; Tom King and Travis Moore's "The Origin of Bruce Wayne" in Batman #38 ranked #3; Tom King and Joëlle Jones' "Superfriends" chapter three in Batman #39 ranked #4; Sean Murphy's Batman: White Knight #4 ranked #7; and Scott Snyder, Tony Patrick, and Cully Hamner's Batman and the Signal #1 ranked #10.

Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard's The Walking Dead #175 from Image Comics, the first chapter of "New World Order," ranked #5.

Marvel Comics had three titles in the top ten: Al Ewing, Mark Waid, Jim Zub, and Pepe Larraz's Avengers#675, the first chapter of the weekly "No Surrender" event, ranked #6; Mike Costa, Dan Slott, Ryan Stegman, and Gerardo Sandoval's Amazing Spider-Man & Venom: Venom Inc. Omega #1 ranked #8; and Ethan Sacks and Marco Checchetto's Old Man Hawkeye #1 ranked #10.

Among the premier publishers, IDW Publishing's top book, Star Wars Adventures: Forces of Destiny: Leia, ranked #135, and Dark Horse Comics' Sherlock Frankenstein and the Legion of Evil #4 was their top book for January at #179.

TOP 100 COMIC BOOKS
Based on Total Unit Sales of Products Invoiced in January 2018

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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.