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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[...]

It's the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List! As it does when it's out in a week without a Batman in it, Amazing Spider-Man tops the chart, well ahead of the rest of the pack by over 15 points Hulk is doing pretty well too… No. Title Publisher Writer Artist Price Ratio 1 Amazing Spider-Man #40 Marvel Zeb Wells John Romita Jr. 4.99 100 2 Incredible Hulk #7 Marvel Phillip Kennedy Johnson Nic Klein 3.99 84.9 3 Justice League[...]

It's the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List! Again, Immortal Thor shows itself to be outperforming expectations at the top place, with writer Al Ewing having two in the top three with X-Men Red as well And Rafael Grampa slipping in between with Batman: Gargoyle Of Gotham. No. Title Publisher Writer Artist Price Ratio 1 Immortal Thor #5 Marvel Al Ewing Martin Coccolo 4.99 100 2 Batman Gargoyle of Gotham #2 DC Rafael Grampá Rafael[...]

It's the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List! As is traditional, when a new Batman monthly comic book comes out, it tops the charts… but in a remarkable twist, only just, as the latest Transformers comic from Skybound/Image Comics has risen in sales position significantly to third place, beating out X-Men by almost ten points on[...]

Just as last week's Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List raised Justice League Vs Godzilla Vs King Kong from DC, this week's Predator Vs Wolverine does the same for DC Comics, topping the Gang War event launch from Amazing Spider-Man and the Nightcrawler origin rewrite. No. Title Publisher Writer Artist Price Ratio 1 Predator Vs Wolverine #3 Marvel Ben Percy Ken Lashley 5.99 100 2 Amazing Spider-Man Gang War First Strike Marvel Zeb Wells Joey[...]

Yes, I know, I missed out on the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List last week; major apologies But I have compiled last week's below and will run this week's tomorrow or Saturday Apologies for the delay Amazing Spider-Man tops the list launching out Gang War, but, aptly, Justice League Vs Godzilla Vs King Kong is[...]

Immortal Thor #4 tops the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List well ahead of the competition, with an okay launch for Superior Spider-Man, an impressive launch of Deviant from James Tynion IV and Joshua Hixson, and the relaunch of Larry Hama's GI Joe from Image Comics, with Chris Mooneyham.  Jean Grey continues to outperform for her[...]

Batman beats Spider-Man in the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List but Transformers #2 sneaks in between the two And we also get to notice that Batman sells a good 20% more than Amazing Spider-Man Birds of Prey also continues to outperform what some may have expected as the second-best-selling DC comic book of the week. No. Title Publisher Writer Artist Price Ratio 1 Batman[...]

Ultimate Universe #1 tops the Bestseller charts in the same way, with both the Spider-Boy launch and the new X-Men beating Gotham War's finale The final Deadly Class did very well indeed for a new graphic novel, and the comic Unnatural Order which Vault gave away to retailers, found an audience in actual readers Will[...]

Justice League Vs Godzilla Vs Kong Kong absolutely topped the Bestseller List this week, even though the sound effect covers have been delayed a couple of weeks, followed by another monster book, The Incredible Hulk And while Batman tops the charts on the weeks it is out, Catwoman is only at number 10 which, for[...]

And Wesley Dodds: The Sandman was an unexpected launch hitting the Top Ten this week. This is the Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, completing its first month under the new system And as compiled by over a hundred direct market comic stores from their sales from Tuesday to Friday, what used to be known as[...]

Daniel Warren Johnson's Transformers tops the Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, beats the week's Batman comic by a hefty margin, and the launch of G.O.D.S from Marvel Comics – though that was twice the price of the others Birds Of Prey #2 also maintains a position in the chart, only beaten by other more established Marvel titles. This[...]