Top 100 Non-Premier Comic Books: August 2021

Ed Piskor's Red Room #3, published by Fantagraphics, was August's best-selling non-premier comic book.

AWA Studios had two titles in the top ten, led by Not All Robots #1 at #2.

Maria Llovet's Porcelain #1 from Ablaze ranked #3 and was one of the two books from the publisher in the top ten.

Titan Comics also had two titles in the top ten; Horizon Zero Dawn: Liberation #1, based on the acclaimed video game, ranked #4.

Also in the top ten were books from Aftershock Comics and Vault Comics.

TOP 100 NON-PREMIER COMIC BOOKS
Based on Total Unit Sales of Products Invoiced in August 2021

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Item codes followed by -M indicate multiple covers and skus at the standard SRP.

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 Marvel Comics' monthly Amazing Spider-Man comic book. (Amazing Spider-Man is used as the control title — with a value of 100 — because sales of Amazing Spider-Man 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.