{"id":5596,"date":"2009-10-15T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T21:18:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-28T03:06:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T03:06:40","slug":"top-comics-for-september-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/15\/top-comics-for-september-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Top comics for September 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 312px;\" src=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/200908BlackestNight3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392926833454206082\" border=\"0\" \/>Just back from <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Baltimore Comicon<\/span> and the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Diamond Retailer Summit<\/span>, where it was great to talk about the industry with a lot of very smart people \u2014 including the folks that have generated the sales charts studied here for years. And the beat goes on \u2014 with the rollout of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/2009\/2009-09.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Top 10 lists and market shares for September 2009.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the charts behind the link show, it was basically a static month at the very top of the list: <span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">Blackest Night <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">#3<\/span> was the top seller, the series repeating in the top spot. The order of the next three was also identical to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/2009\/2009-08.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">August 2009<\/span><\/a>, with the September issues of <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Captain America: Reborn, Batman and Robin,<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Green Lantern<\/span> reprising their rankings from the month before. The $4.99 <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Wolverine Giant-Size<\/span> issue was the top debut, at fifth place.<\/p>\n<p>The trade paperback list was led by the fifth <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Buffy Season Eight<\/span> trade. The seventh <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">DMZ<\/span> trade ranked in third place; I had a nice conversation with series creator <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Brian Wood<\/span> at Baltimore, who has raised many good points online about the things that the Diamond charts don&#8217;t capture. As I&#8217;ve mentioned here many times before, the fine print&#8217;s here on the site for a reason \u2014 and it&#8217;s always good to remember <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.comichron.com\/2009\/03\/diamond-charts-primer-what-they-are-and.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">what the charts are and what they aren&#8217;t.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The detailed figures and my estimates should be along soon. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just back from Baltimore Comicon and the Diamond Retailer Summit, where it was great to talk about the industry with a lot of very smart people \u2014 including the folks that have generated the sales charts studied here for years. And the beat goes on \u2014 with the rollout of Top 10 lists and market &#8230; <a title=\"Top comics for September 2009\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/15\/top-comics-for-september-2009\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Top comics for September 2009\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104,17],"class_list":["post-5596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2009-sales","tag-diamond-monthly-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5596","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=5596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5598,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5596\/revisions\/5598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}