{"id":5406,"date":"2010-09-10T00:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T00:11:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-01T17:53:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T22:53:24","slug":"brightest-day-issues-top-august-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/10\/brightest-day-issues-top-august-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Brightest Day issues top August 2010 comics charts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/201008BrightestDay7-3.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p><b>Diamond Comic Distributors<\/b> announced that<b> <i>Brightest Day<\/i><\/b> <b>#7<\/b> from DC was the top-selling comic book in North America in August, based on orders from comics shops. And in the second spot? Brightest Day #8 \u2014 marking the first time this year that both issues of the two-a-month limited series have taken the top spots. Click to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/2010\/2010-08.html\"><b>Top 10 Comics and Trade Paperbacks for August 2010<\/b><\/a>, along with market shares.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Scott-Pilgrim-Pilgrims-Finest-Hour\/dp\/1934964387?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=farawaypcom-20&amp;link_code=bil&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ws.amazon.com\/widgets\/q?MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ASIN=1934964387&amp;tag=farawaypcom-20\" alt=\"Scott Pilgrim Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=farawaypcom-20&amp;l=bil&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=1934964387\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>There weren&#8217;t many big debuts this month, with the top-ranking first issue landing in tenth place, <b><i>Green Lantern Emerald Warriors <\/i>#1<\/b>. Likewise, the trade paperback chart was topped by a familiar title: <i><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Scott-Pilgrim-Pilgrims-Finest-Hour\/dp\/1934964387?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=farawaypcom-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scott Pilgrim&#8217;s Finest Hour<\/a><\/b><\/i><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=farawaypcom-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=1934964387\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, repeating its performance from July.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/2009\/2009-08.html\">Last August<\/a><\/b> the charts were topped by <b><i>Blackest Night<\/i> #2<\/b> among other heavy-hitter comics, so the comparatives will be strong \u2014 but it will be a four-week month versus a four-week month, so at least the calendar won&#8217;t be muddying the water this time out.<\/p>\n<p>Diamond&#8217;s full charts are expected soon. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diamond Comic Distributors announced that Brightest Day #7 from DC was the top-selling comic book in North America in August, based on orders from comics shops. And in the second spot? Brightest Day #8 \u2014 marking the first time this year that both issues of the two-a-month limited series have taken the top spots. Click &#8230; <a title=\"Brightest Day issues top August 2010 comics charts\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/10\/brightest-day-issues-top-august-2010\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Brightest Day issues top August 2010 comics charts\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[94,17],"class_list":["post-5406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-sales","tag-diamond-monthly-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5406","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=5406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6591,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5406\/revisions\/6591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}