The Kevin Hart/Brian Cranston-starring dramedy The Upside outpaced expectations, earning $19.6 million and preventing Aquaman from becoming the first DC-based film to top the box office for the first month of its release.

Here's a closer look at the top December 2018 adult graphic novels in the book channel, with category breakdowns.

While there weren't a lot of big sellers at the top of the adult graphic novel charts by genre for December, holiday manga sales definitely got a bounce.

James Wan's Aquaman topped the box office for the third weekend in a row, remaining on track to set a record for DCU films by topping the charts for four straight weekends.

James Wan's Aquaman slipped just 23.5% from its robust debut, earning $51.55 million and easily winning the box office in the final weekend of 2018, a year in which superhero films topped the charts for 16 weekends.

James Wan’s Aquaman, the latest major expansion of the DC Cinematic Universe, earned an estimated $67.4 million over the 3-day weekend, performing almost exactly as analysts had predicted, and appears to be well on its way to reach a $100 million 5-day total on Tuesday.

For the thirteenth time this year a movie based on a Marvel Comics character has topped the weekend box office chart. Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse set a new December record for an animated film with a $35.4 million bow, while Aquaman continued to crush it overseas.

Director Mike Dougherty has unveiled character posters of kaiju friends and foes in Godzilla: King of the Monsters.

The new trailer for Godzilla: King of the Monsters asks which monsters are here to protect us and which are here to threaten us.

These are estimate of the sales on comic books by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during November 2018.