Fangs, by Sarah Andersen, came out on September 1, but like many other "author" best-sellers, it started as a webcomic. Andersen is well known for her lighthearted Sarah’s Scribbles, which runs on three comics sites, Tapas, Webtoon, and Go Comics, and is sold in collected editions as well. Fangs also was a webcomic on Tapas, but it’s a supernatural romance between a vampire and a werewolf. The print edition is a fancy-looking hardcover and includes some comics that weren’t published online.
The other non-manga books on the top 20 are also author graphic novels, but they have been around for a while: Book One of March; Nathan Pyle’s Strange Planet and Stranger Planet, which like Fangs are based on a webcomic; and the first two volumes of Gerard Way’s Umbrella Academy, which is the basis for a Netflix series.
There are 14 manga titles on this month’s top 20, and only five of them are My Hero Academia; the new volume was published on October 6, after a four-month hiatus. Junji Ito’s newest book, Venus in the Blind Spot, makes the chart for the second month in a row. And readers picked up the new volumes of Dragon Ball Super, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, and Spy x Family, but they were also getting first volumes of three older series: The Promised Neverland, Tokyo Ghoul, and Toilet-Bound Hanako-Kun.
There were no superhero titles in the September top 20.
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NPD BookScan Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels – September 2020 (8/30/20 - 10/3/20) |
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Rank |
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
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1 |
FANGS HC |
SARAH ANDERSEN |
ANDREWS & MCMEEL |
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2 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 1 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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3 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 2 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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4 |
MARCH: BOOK ONE |
JOHN LEWIS |
TOP SHELF PROD. |
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5 |
DRAGON BALL SUPER VOL. 10 |
AKIRA TORIYAMA |
VIZ MEDIA |
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6 |
DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA VOL. 16 |
KOYOHARU GOTOUGE |
VIZ MEDIA |
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7 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 24 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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8 |
DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA VOL. 1 |
KOYOHARU GOTOUGE |
VIZ MEDIA |
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9 |
THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY VOL. 1: APOCALYPSE SUITE |
GERARD WAY |
DARK HORSE COMICS |
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10 |
STRANGE PLANET HC |
NATHAN W. PYLE |
MORROW GIFT |
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11 |
VENUS IN THE BLIND SPOT |
JUNJI ITO |
VIZ MEDIA |
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12 |
SPY X FAMILY VOL. 2 |
TATSUYA ENDO |
VIZ MEDIA |
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13 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 3 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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14 |
THE PROMISED NEVERLAND VOL. 1 |
KAIU SHIRAI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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15 |
TOKYO GHOUL VOL. 1 |
SUI ISHIDA |
VIZ MEDIA |
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16 |
STRANGER PLANET HC |
NATHAN W. PYLE |
MORROW GIFT |
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17 |
TOILET-BOUND HANAKO-KUN VOL. 1 |
AIDAIRO |
YEN PRESS |
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18 |
THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY VOL. 2: DALLAS |
GERARD WAY |
DARK HORSE COMICS |
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19 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 4 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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20 |
DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA VOL. 2 |
KOYOHARU GOTOUGE |
VIZ MEDIA |
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Source: The NPD Group/BookScan |
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For the charts with the actual sales numbers from NPD BookScan, see these articles on the ICv2 Pro site:
September 2020 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Author, Manga, and Superhero Graphic Novels
September 2020 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels
For the charts with the actual sales numbers from NPD BookScan, see these articles on the ICv2 Pro site:
September 2020 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
September 2020 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Author, Manga, and Superhero Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
September 2020 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
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."