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Exclusive: August's Top 100 Best-Selling Graphic Novels

Dark Horse Comics' The Legend of Korra Volume 3Continuing Nickelodeon's animated series The Legend of Korra, Dark Horse Comics' The Legend of Korra Volume 3: Turf Wars Part 3 was August's best-selling graphic novel.

DC Entertainment had two titles in the top ten, led by Shea Fontana, Marcelo DiChiara, and Agnes Grabowski's DC Super Hero Girls: Out of the Bottle at #2. The Flash Volume 1: Lightning Strikes Twice, the first volume of Rebirth's Flash adventures, returned to the top ranks at #7.

Image Comics had five titles in the top ten. Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta's Each of West Volume 8 ranked #3. Other titles include Rat Queens Volume 8: Colossal Magic Nothing at #5, Kill or Be Killed Volume 4 at #8, Skottie Young's I Hate Fairyland Volume 4 at #9, and Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky's Sex Criminals Volume 5: Five-Fingered Discount at #10.

Marvel Comics had two titles among the top ten, led by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze's Black Panther Book 1: A Nation Under Our Feet at #4, followed by Spider-Man/Deadpool Volume 1: Isn't It Bromantic? at #5.

TOP 100 GRAPHIC NOVELS
Based on Total Unit Sales of Products Invoiced in August 2018

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For retailers, Diamond offers the Top 500 Comics and Top 500 Graphic Novels sales charts on the Diamond Tools page of the Diamond Retailer Services website to provide more information about the industry's top selling publications.

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.

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