Exclusive: October's Top 100 Comics

BOOM! Studios' Big Trouble in Little China/Escape from New York #1, a crossover between two classic John Carpenter films starring Kurt Russell, was October's best-selling comic book.

Marvel Comics had four titles in the top ten unit rankings including Mark Waid and Humberto Ramos' Champions #1 at #2; Robbie Thompson, Javier Rodriguez, and Alvaro Lopez's Doctor Strange and the Sorcerers Supreme #1 at #3; Brian Michael Bendis and David Marquez's Civil War II #6 at #7; and Kieron Gillen and Salvador Larocca's Darth Vader #25, the concluding issue of the series, at #8.

Led by Frank Miller, Brian Azzarello, Andy Kubert, and Klaus Janson's Dark Knight III: The Master Race #6 at #4, DC Entertainment had four titles in the top ten including Batman #8 at #5, Batman #9 at #6, and Scott Snyder and John Romita, Jr.'s All-Star Batman #3 at #9.

Rounding out the top ten, Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard's The Walking Dead #159 from Image Comics ranked #10 for the month.

Among the premier publishers, Dark Horse Comics' Serenity: No Power in the 'Verse #1 was their top book at #73, and IDW Publishing's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Universe #2 was their top book at #130.

TOP 100 COMIC BOOKS
Based on Total Unit Sales of Products Invoiced in October 2016

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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.