Exclusive: March's Top 100 Best-Selling Comics

Dan Slott and Stuart Immonen kick off a new storyline with the Green Goblin in Marvel Comics' oversized Amazing Spider-Man #25, March's best-selling comic book.

Marvel Comics had four titles in March's top ten. In addition to Amazing Spider-Man #25, Ed Brisson and Mike Perkins' Iron Fist #1 ranked #5, Mark Guggenheim and Ken Lashley's X-Men Prime #1 ranked #6, and Jason Aaron and Salvador Larroca's Star Wars #29 ranked #7.

DC Entertainment lead the category with five titles in the top ten with Frank Miller, Brian Azzarello, Andy Kubert, and Klaus Janson's Dark Knight III: The Master Race #8 at #2, followed by Tom King and David Finch's Batman #18 at #3, King and Finch's Batman #19 at #4, Scott Snyder and Giuseppe Camuncoli's All-Star Batman #8 at #8, and Bryan Hitch and Fernando Pasarin's Justice League #16 ranked #10.

Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard's The Walking Dead #185 from Image Comics ranked #9.

Among the premier publishers, P. Craig Russell and Scott Hampton's Neil Gaiman's American Gods: Shadows #1, adapting Neil Gaiman's award-winning novel to comics, was Dark Horse Comics' best-selling title in March at #36, and IDW Publishing's Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures #5, a co-production with DC Entertainment, was their best-selling title at #107.

TOP 100 COMIC BOOKS
Based on Total Unit Sales of Products Invoiced in March 2017

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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.