Exclusive: October's Top 100 Best-Selling Comics

With Batman missing, the Justice League battles his evil doppelgangers from the Dark Multiverse in DC Entertainment's Dark Nights: Metal #3 by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, the best-selling comic book of October.

DC Entertainment had seven titles in the top ten. In addition to Dark Nights: Metal #3, Batman #32, the finale of "The War of Jokes and Riddles," ranked #4 and Batman #33 ranked #5. Titles #7 though #9 respectively were Metal tie-in one-shots spotlighting evil versions of Batman from the Dark Multiverse: Batman: The Drowned #1, Batman: The Dawnbreaker #1, and Batman: The Merciless #1. Sean Murphy's Batman: White Knight #1, a tale of a seemingly reformed version of The Joker with Batman as Gotham City's criminal, came in at #10.

Marvel Comics had three titles in the top ten, all Marvel Legacy titles: Jason Aaron and Russell Dauterman's The Mighty Thor #700 at #2, Amazing Spider-Man #789 at #3, and The Despicable Deadpool #287 at #6.

Among the premier publishers, Image Comics' The Walking Dead #172 ranked #22 for the month, IDW Publishing's Star Wars Adventures #3 ranked #104, and Dark Horse Comics' Neil Gaiman's American Gods: Shadows #8 ranked #122.

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