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Avengers #1 Leads This Week’s Top Twelve Comics Bestseller List
Avengers #1 Leads This Week’s Top Twelve Comics Bestseller List, Twice The Sales Of Absolute Superman #25
Article Summary
- Avengers #1 tops This Week’s Top Twelve Comics Bestseller List, boosted by a blind bag and leading the field.
- Absolute Superman #25 lands at No. 2 with roughly half the sales of Avengers #1, ahead of Batman #15.
- Marvel and DC split This Week’s Top Twelve Comics Bestseller List evenly, claiming six entries each.
- The rankings use Wednesday-to-Friday in-store sales from 120 to 150 ComicHub-powered comic shops.
Avengers#1 is the bestselling comic book series in comic book stores this week, helped along by a blind bag, beating out Absolute Superman#25 twice over as well as Batman #15 and Absolute Catwoman #4. Absolute Batman #25 also returns for tenth place, as Marvel Comics gets six of the top twelve and DC gets six as well.
Top Twelve Bleeding Cool Wednesday-To-Weekend Comic Book Bestseller List
| No | Title | Publisher | Writer | Artist | Price | Ratio |
| 1 | Avengers #1 | Marvel | Chip Zdarsky | Marco Checchetto | 5.99 | 100.0 |
| 2 | Absolute Superman #25 | DC | Jason Aaron | Carmine Di Giandomenico, Juan Ferreyra, Rafa Sandoval | 5.99 | 50.7 |
| 3 | Batman #15 | DC | Matt Fraction | Jorge Jiménez | 4.99 | 46.7 |
| 4 | Absolute Catwoman #4 | DC | Che Grayson, Scott Snyder | Bengal | 4.99 | 44.3 |
| 5 | Infernal Hulk Vs. Spider-Man #1 | Marvel | Phillip Kennedy Johnson | Javier Pina | 4.99 | 26.2 |
| 6 | Demon #2 | DC | James Harren | James Harren | 3.99 | 22.1 |
| 7 | DNX #4 | Marvel | Jed Mackay | Federico Vicentini | 4.99 | 21.5 |
| 8 | Spider-Woman #1 | Marvel | Dan Watters | Andrea Broccardo | 4.99 | 21.2 |
| 9 | Friendly Neighborhood Mary Jane #1 | Marvel | Ashley Allen | Phil Noto | 4.99 | 20.1 |
| 10 | Absolute Batman #25 | DC | Scott Snyder | Nick Dragotta | 5.99 | 19.4 |
| 11 | Uncanny X-Men #38 | Marvel | Gail Simone | Luciano Vecchio | 4.99 | 18.3 |
| 12 | Absolute Green Lantern #20 | DC | Al Ewing | Sid Kotian | 4.99 | 16.7 |
The Top 10 Wednesday-To-Weekend Bestsellers is compiled by over a hundred named direct market comic stores from their sales from Wednesday to Friday, the “Wednesday Warriors”. The chart is compiled from actual sales datafor 120 to 150 comic book stores, provided by ComicHub, out of around 1800-2000 direct market comic book shops that provide POS services for comic book retailers worldwide, mostly in North America and the UK. These are typically what might be called mid-range stores, and we list a bunch below. Bleeding Cool Bestseller List gives the best-selling reported comic of the week, the 100.0 number, and you can see how each title performed as a percentage of that sale. These numbers are based on in-store sales, rather than publisher orders.
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