Year-to-date sales are down 10.12%, overall, with comic sales down 9.93% and graphic novel sales down 10.55%..
Market shares were fairly consistent with where they’ve been except for a big month for Image, which had an 11.46% share of sales to comic stores in October.
October 2017 Comic Store Market Share
36.38% Marvel Comics
30.58% DC Entertainment
11.46% Image Comics
4.33% IDW Publishing
2.82% Dark Horse Comics
1.99% Dynamite Entertainment
1.96% BOOM! Studios
1.08% Oni Press
1.02% Titan Comics
0.68% Archie Comics
DC had the best-selling comic in October, and seven of the top ten.
Top 10 Comics – October 2017
- Dark Nights: Metal #3
- The Mighty Thor #700
- Amazing Spider-Man #789
- Batman #32
- Batman #33
- The Despicable Deadpool #287
- Batman: The Drowned #1
- Batman: The Dawnbreaker #1
- Batman: The Merciless #1
- Batman: White Knight #1
The Walking Dead is back on TV with a new season, and on top of the graphic novel chart for October.
To 10 Graphic Novels – October 2017
- The Walking Dead: Here’s Negan
- Batman/The Flash: The Button Deluxe Ed.
- Seven to Eternity Vol. 2
- Rat Queens Vol. 4
- Super Sons Vol. 1
- I Hate Fairyland Vol. 3
- Redneck Vol. 1
- Star Wars: The Screaming Citadel
- Batman: Detective Comics Vol. 3
- Low Vol. 4
For our estimates of actual sales by Diamond U.S. from comic specialty stores on comic books shipped during October, see "Top 300 Comics Actual--October 2017."
For our estimates of actual sales by Diamond U.S. from comic specialty stores on graphic novels shipped during October, see "Top 300 Graphic Novels Actual--October 2017."
For our estimates of actual sales by Diamond U.S. from comic specialty stores on comic books shipped during September, see "Top 300 Comics Actual--September 2017"
For our estimates of actual sales by Diamond U.S. from comic specialty stores on graphic novels shipped during September, see "Top 300 Graphic Novels Actual--September 2017."
For links to all previous Top 300 Comic and Top 300 Graphic Novel articles, see "ICv2 Top 300 Comics and Top 300 GNs Index."