The first volume, Apocalypse Suite, published in 2008, took the second slot on the chart, and the second volume, Dallas, published in 2009, was the number three seller for the month. Netflix began airing a 10-episode series based on the comics in February (see "Trailer and Release Date for ‘The Umbrella Academy’").
VIZ Media was the biggest publisher, with 11 of the 20 volumes. Like the previous volume, Volume 17 of My Hero Academia topped the chart in its release month, and Volume 1 came in at number 5. Besides assorted volumes of that series, four new volumes of Viz manga made the chart: Volume 4 of RWBY: Official Manga Anthology, which has done quite well; Volume 89 of One Piece; Volume 9 of Tokyo Ghoul: re; and Volume 14 of Black Clover, a shonen series that hasn’t made the BookScan Top 20 before. In our recent interview, VIZ Media Senior Director of Sales and Marketing Kevin Hamric pointed to Black Clover as one of several series, along with Promised Neverland and One-Punch Man, that got a sales boost from anime (see "VIZ Sales Grew, Manga Market Expanded in 2018, Top Opportunities for 2019").
Two non-VIZ manga also made the chart: Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up was in the top 20 for the second month in a row, slipping from number 2 to number 7, and Volume 2 of My Solo Exchange Diary, the sequel to the groundbreaking My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness, made number 19. The first volume charted in June 2018.
The February chart included one graphic novel each from DC and Marvel, and both were new releases: Tom King’s Mister Miracle from DC Comics and Charles Soule’s Star Wars: Darth Vader – Dark Lord of the Sith, Vol. 4. It’s interesting that the writers of both comics are also prose novelists, and it’s also worth noting that this was the rare month that Watchmen did not appear in the top 20.
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NPD BookScan Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels – February 2019 (2/3/19 - 3/2/19) |
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Rank |
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
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1 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 17 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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2 |
THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY VOL. 1: APOCALYPSE SUITE |
GERARD WAY |
DARK HORSE COMICS |
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3 |
THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY VOL. 2: DALLAS |
GERARD WAY |
DARK HORSE COMICS |
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4 |
RWBY: OFFICIAL MANGA ANTHOLOGY VOL. 4 |
VARIOUS |
VIZ MEDIA |
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5 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 1 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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6 |
MISTER MIRACLE |
TOM KING |
DC COMICS |
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7 |
THE LIFE-CHANGING MANGA OF TIDYING UP: A MAGICAL STORY |
MARIE KONDO |
TEN SPEED PRESS |
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8 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 16 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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9 |
STAR WARS: DARTH VADER - DARK LORD OF THE SITH VOL. 4 |
CHARLES SOULE |
MARVEL |
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10 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 2 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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11 |
ONE PIECE VOL. 89 |
EIICHIRO ODA |
VIZ MEDIA |
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12 |
MARCH: BOOK ONE |
JOHN LEWIS |
TOP SHELF PROD. |
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13 |
TOKYO GHOUL: RE VOL. 9 |
SUI ISHIDA |
VIZ MEDIA |
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14 |
DRAGON BALL SUPER VOL. 4 |
AKIRA TORIYAMA |
VIZ MEDIA |
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15 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 3 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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16 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 15 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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17 |
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD: A GRAPHIC NOVEL HC |
HARPER LEE |
HARPER |
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18 |
THE ADVENTURE ZONE: HERE THERE BE GERBLINS |
CLINT MCELROY |
FIRST SECOND BOOKS |
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19 |
MY SOLO EXCHANGE DIARY VOL. 2 |
NAGATA KABI |
SEVEN SEAS |
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20 |
BLACK CLOVER VOL. 14 |
YUKI TABATA |
VIZ MEDIA |
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Source: The NPD Group/BookScan |
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For charts of February graphic novel sales from NPD BookScan:
February 2018 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels
February 2018 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Superheroes, Manga, Author Graphic Novels [COMING]
For the charts with the actual sales numbers from NPD BookScan, see these articles on the ICv2 Pro site:
February 2018 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
February 2018 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
February 2018 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Superheroes, Manga, Author Graphic Novels with Actual Sales [COMING]
NPD BookScan collects weekly point-of-sale data on print books from over 16,000 locations including e-tailers, chains, mass merchandisers, independent bookstores, and more. NPD BookScan covers approximately 85% of the U.S. trade print book market. The ranks on this chart are based on piece sales. Some publishers classify titles that are primarily text, or art books, as graphic novels; we've removed those titles from the ranking above.
For past BookScan Top 20 Graphic Novel lists, see the "BookScan Top 20 GN Index."