Exclusive: January's Top 100 Best-Selling Comics

The battle between Batman and his malevolent counterpart from the Dark Multiverse intensifies in Scott Snyder and Jock's The Batman Who Laughs #2, the best-selling comic book of January.

DC Entertainment had five titles in the top ten overall including Tom King and Mitch Gerads' Batman #62 at #6, King and Mikel Janin's Batman #63 at #7, King and Clay Mann's Heroes in Crisis #4 at #8, and King and Mann's Heroes in Crisis #5 at #9.

Marvel Comics also had five titles in the top; Kelly Thompson and Carmen Nunez Carnero's Captain Marvel #1 led off at #2, followed by Donny Cates and Geoff Shaw's Guardians of the Galaxy #1 ranked #3, Jason Aaron and Mahmud Asrar's Conan the Barbarian #1 at #4, Nick Spencer and Chris Bachalo's Amazing Spider-Man #14 at #5, and Tom Taylor and Juann Cabal's Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #1 at #10.

Among the premier publishers, Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead #187 was Image Comics' top book at #30; BOOM! Studios' Buffy the Vampire Slayer #1, a present day reimagining of Joss Whedon's cult television series, was their best-selling book for January at #70; Dark Horse Comics' Stranger Things #4, based on the Netflix television series, ranked #85; Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons #4, the final issue of IDW Publishing's crossover event, ranked #98; and Dynamite Entertainment's Elvira: The Shape of Elvira #1 ranked #174.

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