Black Panther Still Rules Them All

NPD BookScan Top 20 'Superhero' Graphic Novels – March 2018 (2/26/18 - 4/1/18) Rank Title Author Publisher 1 BLACK PANTHER BOOK 1: A NATION UNDER OUR FEET TA-NEHISI COATES MARVEL COMICS 2 INFINITY GAUNTLET JIM STARLIN MARVEL COMICS 3 GREEN LANTERN: EARTH ONE VOL. 1 HC GABRIEL HARDMAN DC COMICS 4 BLACK PANTHER BOOK 2: A NATION UNDER OUR FEET TA-NEHISI COATES MARVEL COMICS 5 BLACK PANTHER BOOK 3: A NATION UNDER OUR FEET TA-NEHISI COATES MARVEL COMICS 6 OVERWATCH: ANTHOLOGY VOL. 1 HC MATT BURNS DARK HORSE BOOKS 7 WATCHMEN ALAN MOORE DC COMICS 8 STAR WARS: JEDI OF THE REPUBLIC - MACE WINDU MATT OWENS MARVEL COMICS 9 BLACK PANTHER: WORLD OF WAKANDA TA-NEHISI COATES MARVEL COMICS 10 MARVEL'S BLACK PANTHER: THE ART OF THE MOVIE HC ELENI ROUSSOS MARVEL COMICS 11 BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE DLX ED HC ALAN MOORE DC COMICS 12 BLACK PANTHER BOOK 4: AVENGERS OF THE NEW WORLD BK 1 TA-NEHISI COATES MARVEL COMICS 13 INFINITY WAR JIM STARLIN MARVEL COMICS 14 BLACK PANTHER: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION BOOK 1 CHRISTOPHER PRIEST MARVEL COMICS 15 V FOR VENDETTA ALAN MOORE VERTIGO 16 STAR WARS: DARTH VADER: DARK LORD OF THE SITH VOL. 1 CHARLES SOULE MARVEL COMICS 17 BLACK PANTHER VOL. 1 TA-NEHISI COATES MARVEL COMICS 18 SUPER SONS VOL. 2 PETER J. TOMASI DC COMICS 19 JUSTICE LEAGUE: THEIR GREATEST TRIUMPHS GEOFF JOHNS DC COMICS 20 BATMAN/THE FLASH: THE BUTTON DLX. ED. HC KING / WILLIAMSON DC COMICS Source: The NPD Group/BookScan

We broke out the Top 20 Manga, Top 20 Superhero Graphic Novels, and Top 20 Author Graphic Novels in the book channel for March 2018 based on information provided by NPD BookScan covering the period February 26 to April 1, 2018.For the second month in a row, Black Panther graphic novels dominate the March superheroes chart, taking up seven of the 20 slots. Six are by Ta-Nehisi Coates, but one of Christopher Priest’s volumes makes an appearance as well. Marvel wins in terms of share of the Top 20 with 11 titles on the chart, and DC Comics/Vertigo cleans up with 8; the remaining title, the Overwatch Anthology from Dark Horse Comics, is a video game tie-in book.

VIZ Media dominates the manga chart, with 18 out of 20 titles, but what’s less obvious is the way those series break out. Seven of the top 20 books are Shonen Jump series: My Hero Academia, Boruto, Dragon Ball, Bleach. Six more volumes are game or anime tie-ins: Legend of Zelda, Splatoon, RWBY. Of the remaining books, four (two volumes each of One-Punch Man and Tokyo Ghoul) run in Japanese anthology magazine Young Jump, and the Seven Seas title Monster Musume is directed toward the same demographic: all are seinen manga. The two that remain are the horror one-shot Shiver, by Junji Ito, and the sole shojo manga on the list, Cardcaptor Sakura.

NPD BookScan Top 20 Manga Graphic Novels – March 2018 (2/26/18 - 4/1/18) Rank Title Author Publisher 1 THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: TWILIGHT PRINCESS VOL. 3 AKIRA HIMEKAWA VIZ MEDIA 2 ONE-PUNCH MAN VOL. 13 ONE VIZ MEDIA 3 MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 11 KOHEI HORIKOSHI VIZ MEDIA 4 MONSTER MUSUME VOL. 13 OKAYADO SEVEN SEAS 5 TOKYO GHOUL: RE VOL. 3 SUI ISHIDA VIZ MEDIA 6 BORUTO VOL. 3 MASASHI KISHIMOTO VIZ MEDIA 7 SPLATOON VOL. 2 SANKICHI HINODEYA VIZ MEDIA 8 RWBY SHIROW MIWA VIZ MEDIA 9 MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 1 KOHEI HORIKOSHI VIZ MEDIA 10 DRAGON BALL SUPER VOL. 2 AKIRA TORIYAMA VIZ MEDIA 11 CARDCAPTOR SAKURA: CLEAR CARD 2 CLAMP KODANSHA COMICS 12 TOKYO GHOUL VOL. 1 SUI ISHIDA VIZ MEDIA 13 DRAGON BALL SUPER VOL. 1 AKIRA TORIYAMA VIZ MEDIA 14 BLEACH VOL. 72 TITE KUBO VIZ MEDIA 15 THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: TWILIGHT PRINCESS VOL. 2 AKIRA HIMEKAWA VIZ MEDIA 16 SPLATOON VOL. 1 SANKICHI HINODEYA VIZ MEDIA 17 THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: TWILIGHT PRINCESS VOL. 1 AKIRA HIMEKAWA VIZ MEDIA 18 SHIVER: JUNJI ITO SELECTED STORIES JUNJI ITO VIZ MEDIA 19 TOKYO GHOUL: RE VOL. 1 SUI ISHIDA VIZ MEDIA 20 MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 10 KOHEI HORIKOSHI VIZ MEDIA Source: The NPD Group/BookScan

The two top sellers on the author graphic novel chart couldn’t be more different: The latest volume of the long-running The Walking Dead and a lighthearted "guide to growing up," Am I There Yet? The Loop-de-Loop, Zigzagging Journey to Adulthood, by a young woman who posted the cartoons on Instagram. That shows the breadth of the audience in the book channel.

NPD BookScan Top 20 Author Graphic Novels – March 2018 (2/26/18 - 4/1/18) Rank Title Author Publisher 1 THE WALKING DEAD VOL. 29 ROBERT KIRKMAN IMAGE COMICS 2 AM I THERE YET?: THE LOOP-DE-LOOP, ZIGZAGGING JOURNEY TO ADULTHOOD HC MARI ANDREW CLARKSON POTTER 3 MARCH: BOOK ONE JOHN LEWIS TOP SHELF PRODUCTIONS 4 SAGA VOL. 8 BRIAN K. VAUGHAN IMAGE COMICS 5 EVERYONE'S A ALIEBN WHEN UR A ALIEBN TOO: A BOOK HC JOMNY SUN HARPER PERENNIAL 6 AMERICAN GODS VOL. 1: SHADOW HC NEIL GAIMAN DARK HORSE BOOKS 7 FUN HOME: A FAMILY TRAGICOMIC ALISON BECHDEL MARINER BOOKS 8 SAGA VOL. 1 BRIAN K. VAUGHAN IMAGE COMICS 9 THE WALKING DEAD VOL. 28 ROBERT KIRKMAN IMAGE COMICS 10 SAGA VOL. 7 BRIAN K. VAUGHAN IMAGE COMICS 11 PUERTO RICO STRONG: A COMICS ANTHOLOGY SUPPORTING PUERTO RICO DISASTER VITA AYALA LION FORGE 12 BRANDON SANDERSON'S WHITE SAND VOL. 2 HC BRANDON SANDERSON DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT 13 PAPER GIRLS VOL. 1 BRIAN K. VAUGHAN IMAGE COMICS 14 I KILL GIANTS FIFTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION JOE KELLY IMAGE COMICS 15 SAGA VOL. 2 BRIAN K. VAUGHAN IMAGE COMICS 16 MARCH: BOOK TWO JOHN LEWIS TOP SHELF PRODUCTIONS 17 THE WALKING DEAD COMPENDIUM ONE ROBERT KIRKMAN IMAGE COMICS 18 PIERCE BROWN'S RED RISING: SON OF ARES HC PIERCE BROWN DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT 19 BINGO LOVE OGN TEE FRANKLIN IMAGE COMICS 20 MY FAVORITE THING IS MONSTERS EMIL FERRIS FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS Source: The NPD Group/BookScan

For charts of March graphic novel sales from NPD BookScan:

March 2018 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels

March 2018 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels



For the charts with the actual sales numbers from NPD BookScan, see these articles on the ICv2 Pro site:

March 2018 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels with Actual Sales

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

March 2018 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Superhero, Manga, Author Graphic Novels with Actual Numbers



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."