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Absolute Wonder Woman Tops Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List

Absolute Wonder Woman Tops Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List, with a surprise entry for a New History Of The DC Universe for Milestone

Published Sat, 28 Feb 2026 05:57:09 -0600

by Rich Johnston

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Absolute Wonder Woman #17 leads the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List with strong retailer sales.
Marvel and DC split the top ten evenly, with major launches for The Punisher and Death Spiral events.
Surprise entry: New History of the DC Universe spotlights Milestone's integration into the main DC line.
Sales data compiled from 120-150 ComicHub retailers represents actual in-store transactions worldwide.

Absolute Wonder Woman #17 tops the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List this week, closely followed by Absolute Martian Manhunter, which sold 75% of Absolute Wonder Woman in reporting stores. There were strong launches for The Punisher and the Death Spiral events, but the biggest surprise entry was the New History Of The DC Universe bonus issue focusing on the Milestone Universe, and explaining a) why the characters disappeared, b) integrating them more with the DC Universe, and c) elaborating on why that deal was originally struck with ~~DC's President Paul Levitz~~ the US President Lex Luthor. Of the top ten, DC Comics takes five, Marvel takes five.

Top Ten Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List

No	Title	Publisher	Writer	Artist	Price	Ratio
1	Absolute Wonder Woman #17	DC	Kelly Thompson	Hayden Sherman	4.99	100
2	Absolute Martian Manhunter #9	DC	Deniz Camp	Javier Rodríguez	4.99	74.1
3	Punisher #1	Marvel	Ben Percy	Jose Luis Soares	5.99	66.3
4	Amazing Spider-Man/Venom Death Spiral #1	Marvel	Charles Soule	Jesus Saiz	5.99	53.3
5	Iron Man #2	Marvel	Joshua Williamson	Carmen Carnero	4.99	47.1
6	Ultimates #21	Marvel	Deniz Camp	Pere Perez	4.99	43.5
7	Justice League Unlimited #16	DC	Mark Waid	Dan Mora	3.99	38.6
8	Superman #35	DC	Joshua Williamson	Eber Ferreira, Eddy Barrows	4.99	38.2
9	Infernal Hulk #4	Marvel	Phillip Kennedy Johnson	Nic Klein	3.99	35.7
10	The New History of the DC Universe: The Dakota Incident #1	DC	Joseph P. Illidge, Stephanie Williams, Morgan Hampton, Nikolas Draper-Ivey	Carlo Pagulayan, Edwin Galmon, Valentine De Landro, Fico Ossi	5.99	33.1

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 Friday, the "Wednesday Warriors". The chart is compiled from actual sales data from 120 to 150 comic book stores provided by ComicHub, which provides 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: