{"id":3496,"date":"2020-01-13T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-30T15:40:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T20:40:26","slug":"top-500-comics-graphic-novels-from-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/13\/top-500-comics-graphic-novels-from-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 500 comics, graphic novels from 2019 online; Doomsday Clock #12 led December"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With the release of the 2019 end-of-year comics orders from\u00a0Diamond Comic Distributors<\/a>,<\/b>\u00a0Comichron<\/b>\u00a0has projected estimates for the Top 500 Comics and the Top 500 Graphic Novels sold by the company, which can be found on our page for\u00a02019<\/b><\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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This year’s charts have our sorting and searching features implemented, as now do our previous 28 years of annual Diamond charts,\u00a0going back to\u00a01991<\/b><\/a>. You can find the links to them, along with updated comparatives for how the market as a whole did across that time, by viewing our\u00a0Yearly Comics Sales<\/b><\/a>\u00a0page. 2019 data will be added to that page when more is known.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Detective Comics<\/i>\u00a0#1000<\/a>\u00a0led the list with nearly 575,000 copies sold, an increase of nearly 50,000 copies from its release month in March.<\/div>\n
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We can see from the end-of-year chart that\u00a0Doomsday Clock<\/i>\u00a0#1<\/a><\/b>\u00a0was the top-seller for December, with nearly 118,000 copies sold, and a number of other December items can be seen in the chart.<\/p>\n

The rest of the month’s Top 5 appears to shake out as follows:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

2) X-Men<\/i> #3<\/b><\/div>\n
3) Batman: Last Knight on Earth<\/i> #3<\/span><\/div>\n
4) Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child <\/i>#1<\/span><\/div>\n
5) Venom<\/i> #21<\/span><\/div>\n


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We’ve generated a partial list that shows just the 37 titles from December,<\/a><\/b> and we’ll of course run the\u00a0full Top 500 when Diamond releases the next round of data.<\/div>\n
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Back to 2019: Almost everything in the Top 500 had “multiple order codes” at Diamond, meaning there were variant covers or reprints combined into one entry; sometimes it’s not a simultaneous variant, but rather a reprint with a different cover.<\/div>\n
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We’ll do our annual Top Thousand comparisons and extend the charts next week when the December data is released. But we have at this point finalized our\u00a0Top Comics of the Decade<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>chart for the 2010s, and we’ve added 2019 to\u00a0<\/b>the\u00a0Top Comics of the Century So Far<\/a><\/b>\u00a0chart.<\/div>\n
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The final year of the decade added a large number of new entrants, 33, to the Top 300 for the 2010s. That’s one more than the previous year, and the fourth most all decade.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The decade’s bestsellers break down by year as follows:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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2011: 23<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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2012: 40<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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2013: 27<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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2014: 15<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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2015: 55<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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2016: 44<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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2017: 24<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Detective Comics\u00a0<\/i>#1000<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>was the big one, of course, placing second in both the decade and century behind 2015’s\u00a0Star Wars<\/i>\u00a0#1<\/a><\/b>. The best performance by another comic was\u00a0Spawn<\/i>\u00a0#300<\/a><\/b>, which landed at 34th in the decade and 42nd in the century.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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2019 overall added 17 comics to the 300 bestselling comics of the 21st Century.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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December’s report and estimates are up next, and our Top Thousand chart.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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With the release of the 2019 end-of-year comics orders from\u00a0Diamond Comic Distributors,\u00a0Comichron\u00a0has projected estimates for the Top 500 Comics and the Top 500 Graphic Novels sold by the company, which can be found on our page for\u00a02019. This year’s charts have our sorting and searching features implemented, as now do our previous 28 years of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,21],"class_list":["post-3496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2019-sales","tag-diamond-annual-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6162,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3496\/revisions\/6162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}