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NPD BookScan Top 20 Manga Graphic Novels – July 2018 (7/1/18 - 7/29/18) Rank Title Author Publisher 1 ONE-PUNCH MAN VOL. 14 ONE VIZ MEDIA 2 DRAGON BALL SUPER VOL. 3 AKIRA TORIYAMA VIZ MEDIA 3 MY HERO ACADEMIA: VIGILANTES VOL. 1 HIDEYUKI FURUHASHI VIZ MEDIA 4 MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 1 KOHEI HORIKOSHI VIZ MEDIA 5 MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 13 KOHEI HORIKOSHI VIZ MEDIA 6 ATTACK ON TITAN VOL. 25 HAJIME ISAYAMA KODANSHA COMICS 7 MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 2 KOHEI HORIKOSHI VIZ MEDIA 8 MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 12 KOHEI HORIKOSHI VIZ MEDIA 9 MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 3 KOHEI HORIKOSHI VIZ MEDIA 10 MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 4 KOHEI HORIKOSHI VIZ MEDIA 11 BERSERK VOL. 39 KENTARO MIURA DARK HORSE MANGA 12 TOKYO GHOUL: RE VOL. 5 SUI ISHIDA VIZ MEDIA 13 MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 11 KOHEI HORIKOSHI VIZ MEDIA 14 TOKYO GHOUL VOL. 1 SUI ISHIDA VIZ MEDIA 15 RWBY: OFFICIAL MANGA ANTHOLOGY VOL. 1 VARIOUS VIZ MEDIA 16 MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 5 KOHEI HORIKOSHI VIZ MEDIA 17 BLEACH VOL. 73 KUBO TITE VIZ MEDIA 18 MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 6 KOHEI HORIKOSHI VIZ MEDIA 19 MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 10 KOHEI HORIKOSHI VIZ MEDIA 20 SPLATOON VOL. 1 SANKICHI HINODEYA VIZ MEDIA Source: The NPD Group/BookScan

Freshness matters. That's the conclusion to be drawn from the chart of the top 20 best-selling manga of July 2018, based on NPD BookScan data for July (7/1/2018 – 7/29/18) provided to ICv2. Six of the top 20 were July releases, including volume 39 of Berserk and volume 73 of Bleach, two long-running series that don't hit the charts much any more. Volume 25 of Attack on Titan, another July release, brings that series back to the top 20 as well.The top three manga on the chart are the other three July releases. My Hero Academia: Vigilantes is a spinoff of My Hero Academia that is set in the same world but starring different characters (see " Review: ‘My Hero Academia: Vigilantes’ Vol. 1 TP (Manga) "). The latest volumes of One-Punch Man and Dragon Ball Super took the top two spots. What's missing from this chart, compared to previous months, is Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, which hasn't had a new volume out since March.

On the Superhero chart, DC has the edge with 11 titles (including two from their Vertigo imprint), compared to seven from Marvel. The other two are from Dark Horse. The Hellboy omnibus is a July release, while that Overwatch anthology, which came out in October 2017, has charted every month since January. Like a balloon running out of helium, it is slowly sinking, but it's still there.

NPD BookScan Top 20 'Superhero' Graphic Novels – July 2018 (7/1/18 - 7/29/18) Rank Title Author Publisher 1 INFINITY GAUNTLET JIM STARLIN MARVEL COMICS 2 DARK NIGHTS: METAL: DLX. ED. HC SCOTT SNYDER DC COMICS 3 DARK NIGHTS: METAL: DARK KNIGHTS RISING HC PETER TOMASI DC COMICS 4 DARK NIGHTS: METAL: THE RESISTANCE JOSHUA WILLIAMSON DC COMICS 5 BLACK PANTHER BOOK 1: A NATION UNDER OUR FEET TA-NEHISI COATES MARVEL COMICS 6 BATMAN: YEAR ONE FRANK MILLER DC COMICS 7 WATCHMEN ALAN MOORE DC COMICS 8 MS. MARVEL VOL. 1 G. WILLOW WILSON MARVEL COMICS 9 INFINITY WAR JIM STARLIN MARVEL COMICS 10 DARK DAYS: THE ROAD TO METAL HC SCOTT SNYDER DC COMICS 11 HELLBOY OMNIBUS VOL. 2 MIKE MIGNOLA DARK HORSE BOOKS 12 STAR WARS: DOCTOR APHRA VOL. 3 SIMON SPURRIER MARVEL COMICS 13 V FOR VENDETTA ALAN MOORE VERTIGO 14 DEADPOOL KILLS THE MARVEL UNIVERSE CULLEN BUNN MARVEL COMICS 15 TEEN TITANS GO!: THEIR GREATEST JIJINKS VARIOUS DC COMICS 16 BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE DLX. ED. HC ALAN MOORE DC COMICS 17 BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT: MASTER RACE HC FRANK MILLER DC COMICS 18 THANOS: THANOS WINS DONNY CATES MARVEL COMICS 19 THE SANDMAN VOL. 1 NEIL GAIMAN VERTIGO 20 OVERWATCH: ANTHOLOGY VOL. 1 HC VARIOUS DARK HORSE BOOKS Source: The NPD Group/BookScan

The Author category is sort of a catchall, and that's particularly true this month: We lead off with two editions of The Adventure Zone, followed by Book One of March, a Neil Gaiman title, a book by an Instagram celebrity, a couple of volumes of Saga, and Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina, the first graphic novel to make the longlist for the Man Booker prize. If there is a pattern to this, it's that people like to read lots of different stuff, although it's worth noting that half the titles are from Image Comics.

NPD BookScan Top 20 Author Graphic Novels – July 2018 (7/1/18 - 7/29/18) Rank Title Author Publisher 1 THE ADVENTURE ZONE: HERE THERE BE GERBLINS CLINT MCELROY FIRST SECOND BOOKS 2 THE ADVENTURE ZONE: HERE THERE BE GERBLINS (B&N EXC. ED.) CLINT MCELROY FIRST SECOND BOOKS 3 MARCH: BOOK ONE JOHN LEWIS TOP SHELF PRODUCTIONS 4 NEIL GAIMAN'S A STUDY IN EMERALD HC NEIL GAIMAN DARK HORSE BOOKS 5 AM I THERE YET?: THE LOOP-DE-LOOP, ZIGZAGGING JOURNEY TO ADULTHOOD HC MARI ANDREW CLARKSON POTTER PUBLISHERS 6 SAGA VOL. 1 BRIAN K. VAUGHAN IMAGE COMICS 7 SAGA VOL. 8 BRIAN K. VAUGHAN IMAGE COMICS 8 SABRINA HC NICK DRNASO DRAWN & QUARTERLY 9 MONSTRESS VOL. 1 LIU MARJORIE IMAGE COMICS 10 AMERICAN GODS VOL. 1: SHADOW HC NEIL GAIMAN DARK HORSE BOOKS 11 FUN HOME: A FAMILY TRAGICOMIC ALISON BECHDEL MARINER BOOKS 12 PAPER GIRLS VOL. 1 BRIAN K. VAUGHAN IMAGE COMICS 13 THE WALKING DEAD VOL. 29 ROBERT KIRKMAN IMAGE COMICS 14 SKIN & EARTH HC LIGHTS DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT 15 SOUTHERN BASTARDS VOL. 4 JASON AARON IMAGE COMICS 16 SAGA BOOK ONE HC BRIAN K. VAUGHAN IMAGE COMICS 17 EVERYONE'S A ALIEBN WHEN UR A ALIEBN TOO: A BOOK HC JOMNY SUN HARPER PERENNIAL 18 SAGA VOL. 7 BRIAN K. VAUGHAN IMAGE COMICS 19 SNOTGIRL VOL. 2 O'MALLEY BRYAN LEE IMAGE COMICS 20 PAPER GIRLS VOL. 4 BRIAN K. VAUGHAN IMAGE COMICS Source: The NPD Group/BookScan

For charts of July graphic novel sales from NPD BookScan:

July 2018 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels

July 2018 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:

July 2018 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels with Actual Sales

July 2018 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels with Actual Sales

July 2018 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Superhero, Manga, Author 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.e 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."