Exclusive: March Top 100 Best-Selling Comics

An all-star roster of writers and artists celebrate 80 years of the Dark Knight with the oversized Detective Comics #1000 from DC Comics, the best-selling comic book of March.

In total, DC Comics had seven titles in March's top ten comics. In addition to Detective Comics #1000, Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, and Eduardo Risso's The Batman Who Laughs: The Grim Knight #1 ranked #2; Geoff Johns and Gary Frank's Doomsday Clock #9 ranked #3; Tom King, Lee Weeks, and Jorge Fornes' Batman #67 ranked #4; King and Fornes' Batman #66 ranked #5; King and Clay Mann's Heroes in Crisis #7 ranked #6; and Snyder and Jorge Jimenez's Justice League #20 ranked #10.

Marvel Comics had three titles in the top ten: Nick Spencer, Humberto Ramos, and Victor Olazaba's Amazing Spider-Man #17, the first chapter of the "Hunted" storyline featuring Kraven the Hunter, ranked #7; Spencer, Ramos, and Olazaba's Amazing Spider-Man #18 ranked #8; and Dennis "Hopeless" Hallum and Michele Bandini's Spider-Man: City at War #1, based on the best-selling Spider-Man game for the PlayStation 4, ranked #9.

Among the premier publishers, their top books were Image Comics' The Walking Dead #189 at #30, BOOM! Studios' Buffy the Vampire Slayer #3 at #76, IDW Publishing's Transformers #1 at #90, Dark Horse Comics' The Umbrella Academy: Hotel Oblivion #6 at #131, and Dynamite Entertainment's Red Sonja #2 at #135.

TOP 100 COMIC BOOKS
Based on Total Unit Sales of Products Invoiced in March 2019

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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.