'Black Panther' Moves Up

NPD BookScan Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels – February 2018 (1/28/18 - 2/25/18) Rank Title Author Publisher 1 MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 11 KOHEI HORIKOSHI VIZ MEDIA 2 BLACK PANTHER BOOK 1: A NATION UNDER OUR FEET TA-NEHISI COATES MARVEL COMICS 3 SAGA VOL. 8 BRIAN K. VAUGHAN IMAGE COMICS 4 RWBY SHIROW MIWA VIZ MEDIA 5 BRANDON SANDERSON'S WHITE SAND BRANDON SANDERSON DYNAMITE ENT. 6 EVERYONE'S A ALIEBN WHEN UR A ALIEBN TOO: A BOOK HC JOMNY SUN HARPER PERENNIAL 7 THE DIALOGUES: CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE HC CLIFFORD JOHNSON MIT PRESS 8 TOKYO GHOUL: RE VOL. 3 SUI ISHIDA VIZ MEDIA 9 BLACK PANTHER BOOK 2: A NATION UNDER OUR FEET TA-NEHISI COATES MARVEL COMICS 10 ONE PIECE VOL. 85 EIICHIRO ODA VIZ MEDIA 11 DRAGON BALL SUPER VOL. 2 AKIRA TORIYAMA VIZ MEDIA 12 MARCH: BOOK ONE JOHN LEWIS TOP SHELF PROD. 13 SPLATOON VOL. 1 SANKICHI HINODEYA VIZ MEDIA 14 BLACK BUTLER VOL. 25 YANA TOBOSO YEN PRESS 15 BLACK PANTHER BOOK 3: A NATION UNDER OUR FEET TA-NEHISI COATES MARVEL COMICS 16 OVERWATCH: ANTHOLOGY VOL. 1 HC MATT BURNS DARK HORSE BOOKS 17 MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 1 KOHEI HORIKOSHI VIZ MEDIA 18 WATCHMEN ALAN MOORE DC COMICS 19 FUN HOME: A FAMILY TRAGICOMIC ALISON BECHDEL MARINER BOOKS 20 THE END OF THE FUCKING WORLD HC CHARLES FORSMAN FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS Source: The NPD Group/BookScan

Marvel's three Black Panther volumes by Ta-Nehisi Coates moved up on the book channel bestseller charts as the hit movie released (see " ’Black Panther’ Becomes Just the 3rd MCU Film to Three-Peat "), based on NPD BookScan data for February (1/29/2018 - 2/25/2018) provided to ICv2. The three volumes took the #2, #9, and #15 slots for the month.The latest volume of My Hero Academia took the #1 slot, one of seven VIZ Media volumes and eight manga titles overall in the Top 20.The latest hardcover volume of Dynamite Entertainment’s Brandon Sanderson's White Sand (see " Preview: Brandon Sanderson’s ‘White Sand’ ") showed the property’s bookstore roots with a strong showing, debuting at #5.Two interesting titles from months past worked their way into the Top 20 for the first time: The Dialogues: Conversations About the Nature of the Universe, from MIT Press, and The End of the F**king World, from Fantagraphics.Check out the other Top 20 BookScan graphic novel charts for February:For the charts with the actual sales numbers from NPD BookScan, see these articles on the ICv2 Pro site:

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."