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Absolute Batman #20 Owns Bleeding Cool Top Ten Weekly Bestseller List

Absolute Batman #20 totally owns The Bleeding Cool Top Ten Weekly Bestseller List, selling three times its nearest rival

Published Sat, 16 May 2026 07:57:18 -0500

by Rich Johnston

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Absolute Batman #20 dominates the Bleeding Cool Top Ten Weekly Bestseller List, tripling the sales of its nearest rival.
DC lands three titles in the top ten, while Marvel claims five spots and Image Comics secures two strong entries.
Absolute Martian Manhunter #11 and Barbara Gordon: Breakout #1 trail Batman, rounding out a DC-heavy top three.
The Bleeding Cool Top Ten Weekly Bestseller List is based on Wednesday-to-Saturday sales from 120 to 150 comic shops.

Damaged or not, Absolute Batman #20 sold three times as many copies as Absolute Martian Manhunter #11, four times as many copies as Barbara Gordon: Breakout #1, and around five times as many copies as Ultimate Endgame, Transformers and Spider-Man/Venom Death Spiral… but that gives DC three in the top ten. Image Comics two and Marvel Comics five… Find previous Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller Lists here.

Top Ten Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List

No	Title	Publisher	Writer	Artist	Price	Ratio
1	Absolute Batman #20	DC	Scott Snyder	Nick Dragotta	4.99	100
2	Absolute Martian Manhunter #11	DC	Deniz Camp	Javier Rodríguez	4.99	32.2
3	Barbara Gordon: Breakout #1	DC	Mariko Tamaki	Amancay Nahuelpan	3.99	24.7
4	Ultimate Endgame #4	Marvel	Deniz Camp	Terry Dodson	4.99	23.2
5	Transformers #32	Image	Robert Kirkman	Jason Howard, Mike Spicer	3.99	20.3
6	Death Spiral: Body Count #1	Marvel	Charles Soule	Kev Walker	4.99	20.2
7	Captain America #11	Marvel	Chip Zdarsky	Valerio Schiti	4.99	19.0
8	Spectacular Spider-Man Brand New Day #1	Marvel	Dan Slott	Marcus To	4.99	18.3
9	Uncanny X-Men #28	Marvel	Gail Simone	Luciano Vecchio	4.99	17.6
10	D'Orc #4	Image	Brett Bean	Brett Bean, Jean-Francois Beaulieu	3.99	16.2

This is the Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, as compiled by over a hundred named direct market comic stores from their sales from Wednesday to Saturday, the "Wednesday Warriors". The chart is compiled from actual sales data from 120 to 150 comic book stores provided by ComicHub, out of around 1800-2000 direct market comic book shops, which provide POS services for comic book retailers worldwide, mostly in North America and the UK. These are typically from what might be called mid-range stores, and we list a bunch below. Bleeding Cool Bestseller List gives the best-selling reported comic of the week, the 100.0 number, and you can see how each title performed as a percentage of that sale. These numbers are based on in-store sales, rather than publisher orders. Participating Bestseller List comic book stores include: