Exclusive: December's Top 100 Best-Selling Comics

Ozymandias and Rorschach seek the two smartest people of the DC Universe — Bruce Wayne and Lex Luthor — in their search for Dr. Manhattan in Geoff Johns and Gary Frank's Doomsday Clock #2 from DC Entertainment, the best-selling comic book of December 2017.

DC Entertainment had six of December's top ten best-selling comic books. In addition to Doomsday Clock #2, Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's Dark Nights: Metal #4 ranked #2; Tom King and Clay Mann's Batman #36, part one of the “Superfriends” story arc, ranked #4; King and Mann's Batman #37 ranked #5; Sean Murphy's Batman: White Knight #3 ranked #6; and Hawkman Found #1, a tie-in to Dark Nights: Metal, ranked #10.

Marvel Comics had four titles in the top ten: Matthew Rosenberg and Leinil Yu's Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey #1 ranked #3; Dan Slott, Mike Costa, and Ryan Stegman's Amazing Spider-Man/Venom: Venom Inc. Alpha #1 ranked #7; Chip Zdarky and Jim Cheung's Marvel Two-In-One #1, reteaming the Fantastic Four's the Human Torch and The Thing, ranked #8; and Slott and Stegman's Amazing Spider-Man #792 ranked #10.

Among the premier publishers, Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead #174 was Image Comics' top book in December at #12. Mike Mignola and Adam Hughes' Christmas-themed Hellboy: Krampusnacht #1 was Dark Horse Comics' top book at #96. Finally, IDW Publishing's top book for the month was Star Wars Adventures #5 at #128.

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

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For retailers, Diamond offers the Top 300 Comics and Top 300 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.