Diamond Announces the Top 500 Selling Comics of 2010

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Diamond Distribution has just release their charts of the Top 500 selling comics of 2010. Earlier today they also released stats on the Top 500 TPBs/GNs of 2010 (see here).

I’m not going to go into any long and boring analysis of the stats, because frankly, I’m pretty sure you’ll all just skip straight down to the charts - anyway, the numbers don’t really contain any real surprises, with DC and Marvel predictably ruling the roost. I’d say that you should be ashamed of yourselves, but I probably bought about 75% of these comics, so I’m just as guilty of being a big two whore!

From the press release:

Top 500 Comics: 2010

One of comics’ greatest legends, that of the Avengers, was reborn in the wake of Norman Osborn’s siege of Asgard by the all-star creative team of writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist John Romita, Jr., giving Marvel Comics the best-selling comic book in 2010 with Avengers #1.

In total, Marvel Comics had five of the top ten best-selling comics for the year. Victor Gischler’s X-Men #1, pitting the X-Men against a worldwide vampire threat, ranked #2. Siege #1, the first chapter of the company’s winter crossover event that laid the groundwork for the Avengers relaunch, ranked #4. New Avengers #1, from Bendis and artist Stuart Immonen, ranked #6, and Siege #2 ranked #9.

DC Comics took the other five spots in the top ten comics for 2010, led by the final chapter of Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis’ crossover epic, Blackest Night #8, at #3. Blackest Night #7 ranked #5. A biweekly series, Brightest Day, spun out of the events of Blackest Night, and the first two issues — issue #0 and #1 — ranked #7 and #8 for the year respectively. Finally, Grant Morrison revealed the fate of Batman after the events of Final Crisis in Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne #1, which ranked #10 for the year.

Among other Premier Publishers, Dark Horse Comics’ top-selling comic in 2010 was Buffy, the Vampire Slayer #32, based on Joss Whedon’s fan-favorite vampire television series, which ranked #304 in sales for the year. IDW Publishing’s True Blood #1, based on HBO’s hit vampire series, ranked #299. Image Comics’ top-selling coming in 2010 was Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead #75, an anniversary issue of the series that was adapted to television by The Shawshank Redemption director Frank Darabont.

TOP 500 COMIC BOOKS
Based on Total Unit Sales of Products Invoiced in Calendar Year 2010

QTY
RANK
DOLLAR
RANK
INDEX ITEM CODE DESCRIPTION PRICE VENDOR
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2 5 228.69 MAY100629-M X-MEN #1 $3.99 MAR
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5 4 215.63 DEC090133-M BLACKEST NIGHT #7 $3.99 DC
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For retailers, Diamond offers the monthly 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 include the monthly market shares and all top product charts – are compiled by Diamond Comic Distributors from a universe of over 3,500 accounts, comprised of comic book specialty shops and other merchant stores and buyers. The shops are primarily located in North America, with a percentage of sales also to international stores and buyers located throughout the world. The account base includes not only brick-and-mortar comic book specialty shops, but also Internet stores, chain stores, and other specialty stores.

Unit and dollars sales are calculated based upon orders invoiced and shipped to Diamond accounts during any given month, which comprises initial pre-orders, advance reorders, and reorders, minus any copies that are received back from a title marked as returnable.

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.

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  4. Diamond Distribution’s Top 20 Publishers, Top 300 Comics, and Top 300 TPBs & GNs for March 2010
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