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January 2017 Comic Book Sales to Comics Shops

Estimated Comics Shipped to North American Comics Shops

Based on Reports from Diamond Comic Distributors

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U.S. Avengers #1 topped the charts in a month that saw Marvel offer retailers a free 10% overship on its titles. This is reflected when dollar rankings (which you can sort by below) are compared with what we might expect those rankings to have been by multiplying unit sales by cover price; fully 84 of Marvel's 91 entries in the Top 300 have dollar rankings that are worse than we'd expect to see had all their copies all shipped at their regular discounts.



Another result of the extra copies was that Marvel's unit share was six points higher than its dollar share. Overall, the addition resulted in 7.57 million copies being shipped in the month, the highest figure than for any January since January 1997.



The overship actually appears to work out to more than 10%, favoring comics toward the bottom of the charts. The match was one copy for the first 10 ordered, two for the first 20, and so on — meaning that better-selling titles' matches were closer to 10%, while titles where only a few copies were ordered per store saw a larger ratio of overshipped copies.



Saga #41 had been released in December with a printing error, and so a replacement issue was shipped this month. That's why the issue appears again in the charts, and why the dollar ranking is so low; the replacement copies were sent at no cost.



Read more in our preliminary and final analysis posts for the month. You can also click to skip to the Top Graphic Novels for the month.





This list includes all items on Diamond's Top 300 charts, plus any post-#300 items from its Top 50 Indy and Small Publisher charts. If you don't see a book, Diamond released no data for it.

Items marked with asterisks [*] had their reported orders reduced by 10% due to returnability.

Distributor charts are regional commodity reports, not measures of a work's total reach. Read our FAQ.

The links lead to current auctions for each issue on eBay. You can also find the books at your comics shop.

January 2017 Graphic Novel Sales to Comics Shops

Estimated Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks Shipped to North American Comics Shops Based on Reports from Diamond Comic Distributors

This list includes all items on Diamond's Top 300 charts, plus any post-#300 items from its Top 50 Indy, Manga, and Small Publisher charts. If you don't see a book, Diamond released no data for it.

The links lead to details about each title on Amazon. You can also find the books at your comics shop.

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Graphic novel sales were off considerably in a month in which the number of new releases was down. The first major wave of Rebirth-era graphic novels topped the charts; an additional 5% discount was offered to retailers on those titles, impacting their dollar rankings.



