In 1991, Marvel Comics launched a new “adjectiveless” X-Men title; the original 1963 X-Men series had been known as Uncanny X-Men for several years. That new X-Men issue, with its five covers, released into the superheated speculator market of the early 1990s and became the best-selling comic book of all time, with more than 8 million copies sold — or, at least, bought by retailers. (As such, it’s the least scarce issue of all time, to the dismay of any collectors back then.) That second X-Men series ran parallel to Uncanny for years, morphing later into New X-Men.
At this hour, Diamond has released the Top 100 trade paperbacks — dominated by Scott Pilgrim, thanks to the movie and the release of Scott Pilgrim Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour — but just the Top 10 comics so far. Full lists and estimates will be along later.
Comichron founder John Jackson Miller has tracked the comics industry for more than 25 years, including a decade editing the industry’s retail trade magazine; he is the author of several guides to comics, as well as more than a hundred comic books for various franchises.
He is the author of novels including Star Wars: Kenobi, Star Wars: A New Dawn, Star Trek: Discovery – The Enterprise War, and his upcoming release, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The High Country. Read more about them at his fiction site.
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