Exclusive: March's Top 100 Best-Selling Graphic Novels

Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard, and Cliff Rathburn's The Walking Dead Volume 31: The Rotten Core from Image Comics was the best-selling graphic novel of March.

Also in the top ten from Image Comics, Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples' Saga Volume 1 ranked #3, Monstress Volume 1 ranked #4, Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + The Divine Volume 8: The Old Is the New New ranked #5, Seven to Eternity Volume 3 ranked #6, and Saga Volume 9 ranked #9.

DC Comics had four titles in the top ten. Detective Comics: 80 Years of Batman, a deluxe hardcover collecting some of the best Batman stories to appear in the pages of Detective Comics since 1939, ranked #2; Batman Volume 8: The Tyrant Wing, ranked #7; Super Sons: The Polarshield Project, a graphic novel from Ridley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez from DC's new Zoom imprint, ranked #8; and Mera: Tidebreaker, a graphic novel from the new Ink imprint, ranked #10.

TOP 100 GRAPHIC NOVELS
Based on Total Unit Sales of Products Invoiced in March 2019

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For retailers, Diamond offers the Top 500 Comics and Top 500 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.