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The Top Nine Best-Selling Comics Of 2024 In Comic Book Stores

Absolute Batman #1 leads the Top Nine Best-Selling Comics of 2024 in comic book stores, followed by Ultimate Spider-Man #1



Article Summary

  • Absolute Batman #1 tops the 2024 comic retail sales chart, beating Ultimate Spider-Man #1.
  • DC's Absolute series leads with four spots, Marvel's Ultimate series grabs three on the bestseller list.
  • Marvel's X-Men and Uncanny X-Men also make the cut, highlighting strong competition.
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 absent due to retailer-exclusive variant sales skewing results.

Absolute Batman #1 First Printing was the best-selling comic book in comic book stores in 2024, according to the Bleeding Cool Annual Bestseller List, followed by Ultimate Spider-Man #1 First Printing. DC's Absolute books get four places in the top nine, while Marvel gets three Ultimate titles. The other two are Marvel's X-Men #1 and Uncanny X-Men #1. Missing is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1, despite selling more than all the others, as that was skewed to specific stores that ordered a huge amount of retailer-exclusive variants – including one store ordering over 60 exclusive variants to sell on WhatNot. Also, it is worth knowing that Ultimate Spider-Man has been through seven printings, and Absolute Batman has had four… but only the first printings make it onto the chart. Last year's chart was almost entirely the Batman and Amazing Spider-Man ongoing comics… and not a single issue of either made it onto this chart. That won't be the case next year. And why nine instead of ten? That was a quirk of getting the top ten data from ComicHub this year, as a non-eligible item was in the chart and couldn't be removed…

The Nine Best-Selling Comics Of 2024 In Comic Book Stores

 

No. Title Publisher Writer Artist Price Ratio
1 Absolute Batman #1 DC Scott Snyder Nick Dragotta 4.99 100
2 Ultimate Spider-Man #1 Marvel Jonathan Hickman Marco Checchetto 5.99 77.2
3 Absolute Superman #1 DC Jason Aaron Rafa Sandoval 4.99 66.5
4 Absolute Batman #2 DC Scott Snyder Nick Dragotta 4.99 61.6
5 Absolute Wonder Woman #1 DC Kelly Thompson Hayden Sherman 4.99 57.1
6 X-Men #1 Marvel Jed Mackay Ryan Stegman 5.99 50.1
7 Ultimate Spider-Man #2 Marvel Jonathan Hickman Marco Checchetto 4.99 48.6
8 Uncanny X-Men #1 Marvel Gail Simone David Marquez 5.99 45.7
9 Ultimate Spider-Man #3 Marvel Jonathan Hickman Marco Checchetto 4.99 45.3

This is the Top Nine Bleeding Cool Bestseller List.  The chart is compiled from actual sales data from up 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 run a bunch of them below. Bleeding Cool Bestseller List gives the best-selling reported comic the 100.0 number, and you can see how each title performed as a percentage of that sale. These numbers are based on sales in-store, not orders.

Participating Bestseller List comic book stores

  • 4 COLOR FANTASIES
  • A COMIC SHOP
  • ALTER EGO COMICS
  • ANYONE COMICS
  • ARKHAM COMICS & GAMES
  • ARSENAL COMICS AND GAMES
  • ARSENAL COMICS AND GAMES VENTURA
  • ASH AVENUE COMICS
  • ATOMIC CITY COMICS
  • AUSTIN BOOKS & COMICS
  • AW YEAH COMICS – MUNCIE
  • BEYOND COMICS – FREDERICK
  • BEYOND COMICS – GAITHERSBURG
  • BIG BANG COMICS
  • BIG BANG TOYS COMICS GAMES
  • BIG PLANET COMICS
  • BIG PLANET COMICS OF BETHESDA
  • BLERDS UNDERGROUND
  • BLUE ASH UP UP & AWAY!
  • BRAVE NEW WORLDS – OLD CITY PHILADELPHIA
  • BRAVE NEW WORLDS – WILLOW GROVE
  • BRONZE AGE BAT CAVE
  • BSI COMICS
  • CAB COMICS
  • CAPE AND COWL COMICS
  • CAPTAIN BLUE HEN COMICS
  • CARLS CACTUS COMICS
  • CHAMPION COMICS AND COFFEE
  • CHEVIOT UP UP & AWAY!
  • CLOBBERIN' COMICS
  • CLOBBERIN' COMICS – SHEPHERDSVILLE
  • COLLECTED COMICS & GAMES: FORT WORTH
  • COLLECTED COMICS & GAMES: HALTOM CITY
  • COLLECTED COMICS & GAMES: IRVING
  • COMIC BOOK WORLD FLORENCE
  • COMIC BOOK WORLD LOUISVILLE
  • COMIC EMPORIUM
  • COMIC QUEST
  • COMIC REALMS
  • COMICKAZE COMICS
  • COMICS ADVENTURE
  • COMICS CONSPIRACY
  • COMICS HEAVEN AB
  • COMIX CAFE
  • COMIX CONNECTION – MECHANICSBURG
  • COMIX CONNECTION – YORK
  • COSMIC COMICS
  • COSMIC MONKEY COMICS
  • COY'S COMICS
  • CRUSH COMICS
  • CURRENT COMICS MONTEREY
  • CURRENT COMICS SALINAS
  • DICE & COMICS CAFE
  • DNA COMICS & GAMES
  • DOUBLE MIDNIGHT COMICS CONCORD
  • DOUBLE MIDNIGHT COMICS MANCHESTER
  • DOWNTOWN COMICS ANNEX
  • DOWNTOWN COMICS IN AVON
  • DOWNTOWN COMICS IN CASTLETON
  • DOWNTOWN COMICS ON MARKET STREET
  • DR. VOLT'S COMICS
  • DRAGON'S LAIR COMICS & FANTASY – COLUMBUS
  • DREAMDAZE COMICS FUN & GAMES
  • ENDGAME COMICS AND COLLECTABLES
  • EPIC COMICS
  • E-TOWN COMICS
  • EVERYONE COMICS X COLLECTIBLES
  • FANTOM COMICS
  • FOURCORNERS COMICS & GAMES
  • FUNNY BUSINESS
  • FUNNYBOOKS COMICS & STUFF
  • GALACTIC GREG'S
  • GEEK GEEK NERD NERD
  • GREEN BRAIN COMICS
  • GRYPHON GAMES AND COMICS
  • GULF COAST COSMOS COMICS
  • GUTTER POP COMICS
  • HELLO COMICS
  • HELLO COMICS DOWNTOWN
  • HEROES & VILLAINS
  • HEROES' BEACON COMICS & GAMES
  • HEROES FOR SALE
  • HORIZON COMICS AND COLLECTIBLES
  • HOUSE OF HEROES COMICS
  • INVISIBLE JET COMICS
  • ISOTOPE
  • JPM COMICS & GAMES
  • K & J COMICS AND GAMES
  • KEY ELEMENTS COMICS
  • KINGPIN BOOKS – COMICS EXCLUSIVE WEBSITE
  • KINGSTON NEXUS
  • LEGACY COMICS AND CARDS INC
  • LEMONJUICE MCGEE'S COMIC CAVALCADE
  • MANSFIELD COMICS AND MANGA
  • MAXIMUM COMICS (CENTENNIAL HILLS)
  • MAXIMUM COMICS (SOUTHWEST)
  • MEMORY LANE COMICS
  • MIDGARD COMICS, GAMES, AND MORE
  • MISSION: COMICS AND ART
  • NEW DIMENSION COMICS – BUTLER
  • NEW DIMENSION COMICS – CRANBERRY TWP
  • NEW DIMENSION COMICS – ELLWOOD CITY
  • NEW DIMENSION COMICS – OHIO VALLEY
  • NEW DIMENSION COMICS – PITTSBURGH MILLS
  • NEW DIMENSION COMICS – WATERFRONT
  • NOSTALGIA, INK
  • OILTOWN COMICS
  • PAPER ASYLUM
  • PERFECT STORM COMICS AND GAMES
  • PERFECT STORM WEST
  • PHANTOM OF THE ATTIC
  • PITTSBURGH COMICS
  • POP COMICS & CULTURE EMPORIUM
  • PULP COMICS AND GAMES
  • RAD RAPTOR COMICS
  • ROBOT ZERO COMICS
  • SADDLE CITY COMICS
  • SAMURAI COMICS CHANDLER
  • SAMURAI COMICS GLENDALE
  • SAMURAI COMICS MESA
  • SAMURAI COMICS PHOENIX
  • SOCAL GAMES AND COMICS
  • SSALEFISH COMICS – CONCORD
  • SSALEFISH COMICS – GREENSBORO
  • SSALEFISH COMICS – WINSTON-SALEM
  • STARGAZER COMICS
  • STRANGE ADVENTURES – ARIZONA
  • SUPER-FLY COMICS & GAMES
  • SUPERSCRIPT COMICS AND GAMES
  • SURPRISE COMICS
  • THE COLLECTIVE
  • THE COMIC BOOK CLUBHOUSE
  • THE COMIC BOOK SHOP! OF WILMINGTON, DE
  • THE COMIC DUDE SHOP
  • THE DANGER ROOM
  • THE DRAGONS LAIR
  • THE NERD STORE – UTAH
  • THE NERD STORE OREM
  • THE SECRET LAIR COMICS
  • ULTIMATE COMICS RALEIGH
  • WADE'S COMIC MADNESS
  • WONDERLAND COMICS
  • ZEPPELIN COMICS
  • ZEPPELIN COMICS – NAPA

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from The Union Club on Greek Street, shops at Gosh, Piranha and FP. Father of two daughters. Political cartoonist.
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