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December 2019 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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Led by Doomsday Clock #12 and the House of X/Powers of X hardcover, comics shop orders of comic books and graphic novels from Diamond Comic Distributors in December closed 2019 out strongly, up 9% year-over-year. The final total for the year $529.66 million, was up 3%.



The final quarter of the year had orders totaling $139.76 million, the highest figure for any quarter in the year. The last time the fourth quarter led the year was 2015. The quarter was up 10% year-over-year, the largest such increase since the second quarter of 2015, when Secret Wars launched.



House of X/Powers of X led graphic novels in units and dollars — and Watchmen received a major boost from its HBO show, launching it into first place among graphic novels for the year. (Click to see 2019 sales overall.)



DC again had a number of cardstock cover variants that had different cover prices than its usual comics, and Diamond followed its standard practice of dividing those variants into separate entries. We've added functionality to merge those issues into single entries — as well as a few titles from other publishers that had their sales bifurcated. Tom King's final issue of the Caped Crusader's series, Batman #85, landed in fifth place once its regular and cardstock cover orders were combined. Batman #84 would have placed sixth.



Our table below defaults to Diamond's unit rankings, as always, and includes entries for both the cardstock and regular editions. But you can click the arrow above the "Fused" column to sort the table and see what the chart would look like with the entries in question merged. (In that case, the component entries for the fused titles sort all the way to the bottom — which is where the fused entries sit when "Unit" is chosen.) Dollar rankings are not applicable ("n.a." in the table) to the fused entries, because we don't know where they would have ranked — but fusing the units is simple addition.



Calendar comparison note: In four of the cross-time comparison years — 1999, 2004, 2009, and 2014 — December had one more New Comic Book Day than December 2019 did, so those comparisons put 2019's month at a disadvantage. 2018 had the same number of New Comic Book Days, so all the year-ago comparisons are even.



Read more in our preliminary post for the month. You can also click to skip to the Top Graphic Novels for the month. And you can see the reorders that were placed during the month on our pages for reorders and advance reorders for the year.



—John Jackson Miller

This list includes all items on Diamond's Top 500 charts, plus any post-#500 items from its Top Independent Publisher charts. If you don't see a book, Diamond released no data for it.

The "Fused" column ranks comics as if Card Stock and regular issues appeared in a single entry.

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 listings for each item on eBay. You can also find the books at your comics shop.

December 2019 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 500 charts, plus any post-#500 items from its Top Independent and Manga 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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House of X/Powers of X contributed a major seller to the last month of the year, with sales topping $600,000.



