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September 2016 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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Sales were off from the blockbuster August — although not by much at all once you consider August's fifth shipping week. Retailers ordered 2.05 million comics per shipping week in August versus 2.04 million comics per week in September. Compare that with the previous September, when retailers ordered 1.41 million comics per shipping week, and you have a month that looked pretty good on the comics side.



Batman #6, the first of the fully nonreturnable Rebirth issues, led the charts with orders of nearly 139,000 copies. That's a hard number, not reduced for returns. Batman #5, the previous month, shipped about 158,000 returnable copies, of which 142,000 were reported in the charts; so retailers ordered nonreturnable copies at about 88% of their returnable levels. That suggests both that were pretty sure about selling most of what they ordered, and that they had already honed in their returnable orders close to demand levels.



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.

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



September 2016 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 novels finished the third quarter off 9%, likely as retailers directed more dollars towards comic books. A new Walking Dead volume topped 20,000 copies in orders.



