Exclusive: July's Top 100 Best-Selling Comics

A new era began for the X-Men and the Marvel Universe in Jonathan Hickman and Pepe Larraz's House of X #1 from Marvel Comics, the best-selling comic book of July 2019.

In total, Marvel Comics had five titles in July's top ten best-selling comics. In addition to House of X #1, Hickman and R.B. Silva's Powers of X #1 ranked #2; Nick Spencer, Zeb Wells, Ryna Ottley, Humberto Ramos, and Dan Hipp's Amazing Spider-Man #25 ranked #3; Jed MacKay, Clay McLeod Chapman, Travel Foreman, and Alberto Alburquerque's Black Cat #2 ranked #8; and Al Ewing and Joe Bennett's Immortal Hulk #20 ranked #9.

Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead #193, the final issue of the long-running Image Comics zombie series, ranked #4.

DC had four titles in the top ten: Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's Batman: The Last Knight on Earth #2 at #5, Sean Murphy's Batman: Curse of the White Knight #1 at #6, Snyder and Jock's The Batman Who Laughs #7 at #7, and Tom King and Mikel Janin's Batman #74 ranked #10.

Among the premier publishers, Dynamite Entertainment's Vampirella #1 from Christopher Preist and Ergun Gunduz was their top book in July at #11; Dark Horse Comics' Black Hammer/Justice League #1, a crossover with DC by Jeff Lemire and Michael Walsh, ranked #64; IDW Publishing's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #96 was their top book at #99; and BOOM! Studios' Buffy the Vampire Slayer #6 ranked #108.

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