July releases include debuts and key appearances of Squad members

David Ayer’s Suicide Squad easily topped the weekend box office with a potent $135.1 million debut, a new August record, the third time this year that a superhero film has set a new monthly box office mark.

These are estimates of the sales on comic books by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during the full year 2017.

These are estimates of the sales on comic books by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during the full year 2017.

These are estimates of the sales on comic books by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during the full year 2018.

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during August 2016.

Suicide Squad , fresh off setting all sorts of August box office records last weekend, followed the lead of Batman v. Superman (-69%), tumbling 67.3% in its sophomore session, though at $43.8 million it still had more than enough box office muscle to hold off all the new entries in this late summer movie season.

The bestselling comics in the comic store channel for 2015.

These are unit and dollar sales rankings based on sales tracked at point-of-sale by the ComicHub system at stores selling American comics around the world.

These are estimates of the sales on comic books by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during January 2017.