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Welcome to the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List Phoenix #1 takes the top, beating out Ultimate X-Men, with a strong performance from Superman #16 with a decent DC performance with four titles, none of them Batman The Deadpool/Wolverine crossover pushed up Hulk sales. No. Title Publisher Writer Artist Price Ratio 1. Phoenix #1 Marvel Stephanie Phillips Alessandro Miracolo 4.99 100 2 Ultimate X-Men #5 Marvel Peach Momoko Peach Momoko 4.99 87.1 3 Superman #16 DC Joshua Williamson Jamal Campbell 4.99 69.2 4 Incredible Hulk #14 Marvel Phillip[...]

Welcome to the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List X-Men #1 tops the charts massively, selling over twice as many copies as Ultimates #2, Amazing Spider-Man #53 and Transformers #10 A strong start for the Ahsoka series, and the surprise Moon Knight #0 But it is notable that they all, including Kid Venom, Avengers and Daredevil,[...]

Welcome to the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List Absolute Power #1 takes the top, even beating out Batman #150, which ties in with Absolute Power Spider-Man Reign 2 had a strong start from Kaare Andrews GI Joe title Scarlett outperforms every other Marvel title including the Blood Hunt books and Space Ghost #3, every other DC[...]

Welcome to the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List Blood Hunt #4 smashes sales with a combined standard/Red Band sale topping the chart And without the usual chart dominators of Batman or Spider-Man, Zatanna makes a surprise chart entry at number 2. No. Title Publisher Writer Artist Price Ratio 1. Blood Hunt #4 Marvel Jed Mackay Pepe Larraz 4.99 100 2 Zatanna Bring Down the House #1 DC Mariko Tamaki Javier Rodríguez 5.99 53.3 3 Ultimate Black Panther #5 Marvel Bryan[...]

Welcome to the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List Ultimate Spider-Man outsells Amazing Spider-Man by 50%, but both top the chart and, with Destro, outsell the industry's traditional bestseller, Batman But something of note, Batman sales do not seem to be going down Just Amazing Spider-Man sales are going up A strong launch for Uncle Scrooge also[...]

Welcome to the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List We have combined the listings for Blood Hunt #3 standard and red band editions since we can, which sees that series beat Transformers when combined Batman Gotham By Gaslight comes in strong for an Elseworlds series, but is DC's only presence on the chart. No. Title Publisher Writer Artist Price Ratio 1. Blood Hunt #3 Marvel Jed Mackay Pepe[...]

Welcome to the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List Which is reflecting some ruction sin the market Usually, DC Comics could rely on Batman to be the bestseller in the week it is published This week, despite having an extra day on sale, it was beaten by Ultimates #1, X-Men #35, Amazing Spider-Man #1 and Scarlett[...]

Welcome to the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List Which this week sees Ultimate Spider-Man #5 selling 50% more than the second spot title, Hellverine #1 and twice as much as Wolverine #50 and Rise Of The Powers Of X #5 No DC Comics titles make it into the top ten, Universal Monsters from Skybound/Image just[...]

Bang on time this week, and being put together at Paddington station on the way to MCM London Comic Con, welcome to the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List which saw Amazing Spider-Man #50 top the chart beating everything by a lot looking at the ratios, even at ten dollars a pop Ghost Spider also launched[...]

Welcome to the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List for last week, which sees Ultimate X-Men #3 top the charts, with Doom and Fall Of X from Marvel to follow DC Comics places a couple of titles, both House Of Brainiac crossovers in the top ten, Image Comics gets both Redcoat and the Larry Hama GI[...]

Welcome to the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List, which, for the first time, has seen Transformers beat Batman for the week, as well as Amazing Spider-Man Only by a percentage point, but still Though, as Batman and Amazing Spider-Man are five-dollar books and Transformers only (only?) four, Batman will have made considerably more money Which[...]

Talking to ICV2, Marvel Publisher Dan Buckley stated, "I think where a lot of frustration comes in the industry is that for many years, as you well know, it was pretty easy to evaluate what the size of the industry was, because everyone distributed through one place and we could look at the numbers and[...]

Welcome to the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List, which sees Ultimate Spider-Man top the charts, selling over twice as many copies in-store as Amazing Spider-Man While last week's stellar performance from DC Comics looks like a blip, as only Detective Comics makes it into the top ten Marvel gets a whole eight titles, with Duke[...]

Welcome to the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List which sees the third Ultimate Black Panther top the charts, just beating out Avemgers Twilight And while the Energon Universe's Cobra Commander and Marvel's Fall Of House Of X follow, the story this week looks like DC Comics roaring back, placing five titles in the top ten,[...]

Welcome to the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List which sees the second Ultimate X-Men from Peach Momoko top the charts again, just beating out Transformers The launch of new Spawn title Rat City makes it into the top ten, while House Of Brainiac boosts Action Comics And I am so glad that people are reading[...]

Two weeks worth of the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List This weekend and… I seem to have lost a week Sorry about that This week Batman #146 tops X-Men #33 but also see four comics from Image Comics smash their way into the top ten, the usual Void Rivals but also all three Ghost Machine[...]

Another week (without Batman or Amazing Spider-Man) sees an Energon Universe title, Cobra Commander #3, top the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List, by Joshua Williamson, Andrea Milana and Annalisa Leoni from Image Comics and Skybound Selling 50% more than Joshua's work on Superman, also on sale this week. Cobra Commander #3 Tops The Bleeding Cool Weekly[...]

Transformers #6 returns to the top of the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List, by Daniel Warren Johnson and Mike Spicer from Image Comics and Skybound There were also strong performances from Ultimate Black Panther which also sees the second printing of the first issue enter the charts It takes Action Comics for the one title[...]

The launch of an Ultimate title may be the only thing that can knock Batman off the top of the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List, and this week, that was Ultimate X-Men #1 by Peach Momoko and Zack Davisson There were also strong performances from the Spectacular Spider-Men launch, while the return of Teenage Mutant[...]

Amazing Spider-Man #44 concluding the Gang War tops the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List this week, as it usually does when there isn't a Batman main book that week Avengers Twilight continues to outperform and Duke keeps Image's Energon Universe front and centre Just the one DC book in the top ten and it's the[...]

Ultimate Spider-Man #2 outsold Batman #144 in comic book stores this week, in the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List I don't think an issue of Spider-Man has outsold the regular Batman monthly title in the week of sale since I have been doing these charts And to do it by 40 points is exceptional The[...]

Batman #143, as is traditional, tops the Bleeding Cool Bestseller List this week, and probably will for next two week as the comic goes weekly for a bit But Transformers #5 is only five points behind Notably Ultimate Spider-Man #1 is still selling and enters the top ten again ahead of the second issue next[...]

Batman #142, as is traditional, tops the Bleeding Cool Bestseller List this week, and probably will for the next two weeks as the comic goes weekly for a bit Ultimate Black Panther might have had a chance at topping it, but it seems that many copies just weren't available to sell Dynamite smashes into the[...]

With no big launches this week, it's Wolverine #42 that tops the Bleeding Cool Bestseller List this week, kicking off Sabretooth War Marvel dominates the charts, but Image Comics has a very strong presence this week with three titlescharting to DC Comics' two. No. Title Publisher Writer Artist Price Ratio 1. Wolverine #42 Marvel Ben Percy Cory Smith 4.99 100 2 Avengers: Twilight #2 Marvel Chip Zdarsky Daniel Acuña 4.99 98.6 3 Incredible Hulk #8 Marvel Phillip Kennedy Johnson Nic Klein 3.99 94.7 4 Duke[...]

Two in a row for Image Comics as Ghost Machine #1 tops the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List, pushing past Thor, G.O.D.S., Magneto and Detective Comics Got to say, there's a lot of love for dark red and blue on the covers. Ghost Machine #1 Tops The Bleesing Cool Weekly Bestsellers List No. Title Publisher Writer Artist Price Ratio 1. Ghost Machine #1 Image Geoff Johns, Brad[...]

Cobra Commander #1 by Joshua Williamson,  Andrea Milana and Annalisa Leoni from Skybound/Image Comics heads right to the top of the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List, pushing past Amazing Spider-Man, X-Men, Avengers and the Justice League.   No. Title Publisher Writer Artist Price Ratio 1 Cobra Commander #1 Image Joshua Williamson Andrea Milana, Annalisa Leoni 4.99 100 2 Amazing Spider-Man #42 Marvel Zeb Wells John Romita Jr. 4.99 98.7 3 X-Men #30 Marvel Gerry Duggan Phil Noto 3.99 88.6 4 Avengers: Twilight #1 Marvel Chip Zdarsky Daniel Acuña 4.99 82.9 5 Justice League[...]

It's the first Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List for 2024 Ultimate Spider-Man #1 topped the lists with a massive ratio over Transformers #4 which came second and more than twice the sales of Rise Of The Powers Of X #1. No. Title Publisher Writer Artist Price Ratio 1 Ultimate Spider-Man #1 Marvel Jonathan Hickman Marco Checchetto 5.99 100 2 Transformers #4 Cover A Daniel .. Image Daniel Warren Johnson Daniel Warren Johnson, Mike Spicer 3.99 62.6 3 Rise[...]

It's the first Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List for 2024 With Batman, as is natural, taking the top spot for the week, and possibly the year With Amazing Spider-Man a mere 15 points behind. No. Title Publisher Writer Artist Price Ratio 1 Batman #141 DC Chip Zdarsky Jorge Jiménez 4.99 100 2 Amazing Spider-Man #41 Marvel Zeb Wells John Romita Jr. 4.99 85.1 3 Fall of the House of X #1 Marvel Gerry Duggan Lucas Werneck 5.99 70.9 4 Vengeance of the Moon Knight #1 Marvel Jed[...]

It's the final Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List for 2023 With the Predator Vs Wolverine finale topping the chart, the launch of GI Joe's Duke, with Immortal X-Men and Detective Comics close behind… No. Title Publisher Writer Artist Price Ratio 1 Predator Vs Wolverine #4 Marvel Ben Percy Ken Lashley 5.99 100 2 Duke #1 Image Joshua Williamson Jordie Bellaire, Tom Reilly 4.99 93.2 3 Immortal X-Men #18 Marvel Kieron Gillen Lucas Werneck 3.99 81.8 4 Detective Comics #1080 DC Ram V., Dan Watters Jason Shawn Alexander 4.99 71.8 5 Miles Morales:[...]

Bleeding Cool Bestseller List gives the best-selling reported comic of the year 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 They also do not include digital sales, sales in bookstores, sales at book fairs, or sales through[...]