Driven by Star Wars and the "All New All Different" Marvel relaunches, there were an unprecedented (at least in recent memory) 14 titles with direct market sales over 100,000 copies in October, according to information released by Diamond Comic Distributors.  Two titles, Invincible Iron Man and Amazing Spider-Man, topped 200,000, with two more, Spider-Gwen and Secret Wars, over 190,000.

Marvel took 18 of the top 20 slots, with DC’s Batman and Justice League the only exceptions (see “Top 300 Comics – October 2015”).

Star Wars titles took seven of the top 20 slots, with two months still to go before the premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Star Wars was also a force on the graphic novel charts, with two graphic novel titles selling over 10,000 copies in comic stores in October (see “Top 300 Graphic Novels – October 2015”).  The first volume of the core Star Wars title sold over 21,000 copies to comic stores, likely just the beginning of long-term sales for the title.

Bitch Planet Vol. 1 TP from Image Comics did very well, selling nearly 10,000 copies in October.

For an analysis of the dollar trends in October, see "Comics Sales Slide Continued in October."

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 2015."

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 2015."

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 2015."

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 2015."

For an overview and analysis of the best-selling comics and graphic novels in September, see "N/A."  For an analysis of the dollar trends in September, see "Comic Sales Slide in Q3."

​For our index to our reports on the top comic and graphic novel preorders for January 2000 through October 2015, see "ICv2's Top 300 Comics and Top 300 GNs Index."