Exclusive: September's Top 100 Best-Selling Comics

Todd McFarlane's Spawn #300 celebrated its milestone issue with contributions from McFarlane, Greg Capullo, Scott Snyder, J. Scott Campbell, Jason Alexander, and others, vaulting the Image Comics title to the top of the sales charts as September's best-selling comic book.

Marvel Comics had six titles in the top ten: J.J. Abrams, Henry Abrams, and Sara Pichelli's Spider-Man #1 ranked #2; House of X #5 ranked #3; Powers of X #4 ranked #5; Powers of X #4 ranked #5; House of X #4 ranked #6; and Absolute Carnage #3 ranked #8.

DC Comics had three titles in the top top: Geoff Johns and Gary Frank's Doomsday Clock #11 ranked #7, DCeased: A Good Day to Die #1 ranked #9, and Harleen #1 ranked #10.

Among the premier publishers, IDW Publishing's top book for September was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #98 at #44; BOOM! Studios' Something Is Killing the Children #1 ranked #57; Dynamite Entertainment's Vampirella/Red Sonja #1 ranked #101; and Dark Horse Comics' Black Hammer/Justice League #3 ranked #114.

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