World War Hulk #3 crawled back to the top of the charts in August after losing to Thor #1 last month, posting a number only slightly below sales on #2. Over 5200 copies of World War Hulk #1 and over 7700 copies of World War Hulk #2 were also sold in August. Thor held up well in August, with over 108,000 copies sold of #3 (featuring 2 covers; 50/50 ratio) and nearly 29,000 copies of #2.
The #2 position was taken by Justice League #12 (featuring 2 covers; 50/50 ratio), which concluded Brad Meltzer's run on the title, sold better than the previous issue. Marvel's Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born was down a bit on the final issue, but still a solid #3.
Countdown sales were up substantially in August, in a generally down month at the top of the charts.
Marvel had nine of the top ten books, with DC taking 10 of the top 25 (five of those were Countdown issues).
151,523 World War Hulk #3 (Of 5)*
131,420 Justice League O/America #12*
124,609 Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born #7 (Of 7)*
117,906 New Avengers #33
117,321 Astonishing X-Men #22
108,609 Thor #2
106,485 Amazing Spider-Man #543
104,322 Incredible Hulk #109 WWH
88,114 New Avengers Illuminati #4 (Of 5)
88,068 Uncanny X-Men #489
88,021 Countdown 39
87,606 Justice Society O/America #8*
87,260 Countdown 38
86,536 Avengers Initiative #5 CWI
86,521 X-Men #202
86,405 Countdown 37
85,536 Countdown 36
84,350 Countdown 35
83,781 Captain America #29 CWI
78,578 Batman #667
78,393 World War Hulk: X-Men #3 (Of 3) WWH
77,916 Green Lantern #22
76,962 Batman #668
76,523 Ultimate Spider-Man #112
73,368 Wolverine #56
We are estimating actual sales by Diamond U.S. (primarily to North American comic stores), using Diamond's published sales indexes and publisher sales data to estimate a sales number for Batman (the anchor title Diamond uses in its calculations), and using that number and the indexes to estimate Diamond's sales on the remaining titles. We can check the accuracy of our numbers by comparing the Batman number that we calculate using multiple data points; our numbers for Batman are within 1/10 of 1% of each other, ensuring a high degree of accuracy.
For an analysis of the dollar trends in August, see 'Tough Comps Bring August Down.'
For our estimates of actual orders to Diamond U.S. from comic specialty stores on comic books scheduled to ship during August, see 'Top 300 Comics Actual--August 2007.'
For our estimates of actual orders to Diamond U.S. from comic specialty stores on graphic novels scheduled to ship during August, see 'Top 100 Graphic Novels Actual--August 2007.'
For our estimates of actual orders to Diamond U.S. from comic specialty stores on comic books scheduled to ship during July, see 'Top 300 Comics Actual--July 2007.'
For our estimates of actual orders to Diamond U.S. from comic specialty stores on graphic novels scheduled to ship during July, see 'Top 100 Graphic Novels Actual--July 2007.'
For our index to our reports on the top comic and graphic novel preorders for January 2000 through August 2007, see 'ICv2's Top 300 Comics and Top 100 GNs Index.'
