Year-to-date sales to comic stores are down 10.00%, with graphic novel sales down 11.83% and comic sales down 9.20%.
Marvel had a fairly typical 7.76% market share lead over #2 DC Comics, with Image Comics dropping below 10%.
September 2017 Comic Store Market Share
37.97% Marvel Comics
30.21% DC Entertainment
9.55% Image Comics
5.30% IDW Publishing
2.44% Dark Horse Comics
1.99% BOOM! Studios
1.94% Dynamite Entertainment
1.40% VIZ Media
1.16% Titan Comics
1.10% Oni Press
Marvel Legacy #1, the first issue of the new initiative that Marvel hopes will begin a sales turnaround (see "Launch Party for 'Marvel Legacy' #1"), was the top book in September.
Top 10 Comics – September 2017
- Marvel Legacy #1 (Marvel Comics)
- Dark Nights: Metal #2 (DC Comics)
- Venomverse #1 (Marvel Comics)
- Batman #30 (DC Comics)
- Batman #31 (DC Comics)
- Harley Quinn 25th-Anniversary Special #1 (DC Comics)
- The Walking Dead #171 (Image Comics)
- Batman: The Red Death #1 (DC Comics)
- Batman: The Murder Machine #1 (DC Comics)
- Action Comics #987 Lenticular Editio (DC Comics)
Top 10 Graphic Novels – September 2017
- The Walking Dead Vol. 28 (Image Comics)
- Batman: The Dark Knight III: Master Race HC (DC Comics)
- Star Wars: Darth Maul (Marvel Comics)
- East of West Vol. 7 (Image Comics)
- DC Superhero Girls Vol. 4 (DC Comics)
- Sex Criminals Vol. 4 (Image Comics)
- All-Star Batman Vol. 1 (DC Comics)
- Royal City Vol. 1 (Image Comics)
- Harley Quinn Vol. 3 (DC Comics)
- Wolverine: Old Man Logan Vol. 5 (Marvel Comics)
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 our estimates of actual sales by Diamond U.S. from comic specialty stores on comic books shipped during August see "Top 300 Comics Actual--August 2017."
For our estimates of actual sales by Diamond U.S. from comic specialty stores on graphic novels shipped during August, see "Top 300 Graphic Novels Actual--August 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."