Absolute Batman #1 leads the Top Nine Best-Selling Comics of 2024 in comic book stores, followed by Ultimate Spider-Man #1
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Absolute Batman #1 leads the Top Nine Best-Selling Comics of 2024 in comic book stores, followed by Ultimate Spider-Man #1
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Absolute Batman #1 tops the 2024 comic retail sales chart, beating Ultimate Spider-Man #1.
DC’s Absolute series leads with four spots, Marvel’s Ultimate series grabs three on the bestseller list.
Marvel’s X-Men and Uncanny X-Men also make the cut, highlighting strong competition.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 absent due to retailer-exclusive variant sales skewing results.
Absolute Batman #1 First Printing was the best-selling comic book in comic book stores in 2024, according to the Bleeding Cool Annual Bestseller List, followed by Ultimate Spider-Man #1 First Printing. DC’s Absolute books get four places in the top nine, while Marvel gets three Ultimate titles. The other two are Marvel’s X-Men #1 and Uncanny X-Men #1. Missing is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1, despite selling more than all the others, as that was skewed to specific stores that ordered a huge amount of retailer-exclusive variants – including one store ordering over 60 exclusive variants to sell on WhatNot. Also, it is worth knowing that Ultimate Spider-Man has been through seven printings, and Absolute Batman has had four… but only the first printings make it onto the chart. Last year’s chart was almost entirely the Batman and Amazing Spider-Man ongoing comics… and not a single issue of either made it onto this chart. That won’t be the case next year. And why nine instead of ten? That was a quirk of getting the top ten data from ComicHub this year, as a non-eligible item was in the chart and couldn’t be removed…
No.
Title
Publisher
Writer
Artist
Price
Ratio
1
Absolute Batman #1
DC
Scott Snyder
Nick Dragotta
4.99
100
2
Ultimate Spider-Man #1
Marvel
Jonathan Hickman
Marco Checchetto
5.99
77.2
3
Absolute Superman #1
DC
Jason Aaron
Rafa Sandoval
4.99
66.5
4
Absolute Batman #2
DC
Scott Snyder
Nick Dragotta
4.99
61.6
5
Absolute Wonder Woman #1
DC
Kelly Thompson
Hayden Sherman
4.99
57.1
6
X-Men #1
Marvel
Jed Mackay
Ryan Stegman
5.99
50.1
7
Ultimate Spider-Man #2
Marvel
Jonathan Hickman
Marco Checchetto
4.99
48.6
8
Uncanny X-Men #1
Marvel
Gail Simone
David Marquez
5.99
45.7
9
Ultimate Spider-Man #3
Marvel
Jonathan Hickman
Marco Checchetto
4.99
45.3
This is the Top Nine Bleeding Cool Bestseller List. The chart is compiled from actual sales data from up to 150 comic book stores provided by ComicHub, which provides POS services for comic book retailers worldwide – mostly in North America and the UK. These are typically from what might be called mid-range stores, and we run a bunch of them below. Bleeding Cool Bestseller List gives the best-selling reported comic the 100.0 number, and you can see how each title performed as a percentage of that sale. These numbers are based on sales in-store, not orders.
Participating Bestseller List comic book stores
4 COLOR FANTASIES
A COMIC SHOP
ALTER EGO COMICS
ANYONE COMICS
ARKHAM COMICS & GAMES
ARSENAL COMICS AND GAMES
ARSENAL COMICS AND GAMES VENTURA
ASH AVENUE COMICS
ATOMIC CITY COMICS
AUSTIN BOOKS & COMICS
AW YEAH COMICS – MUNCIE
BEYOND COMICS – FREDERICK
BEYOND COMICS – GAITHERSBURG
BIG BANG COMICS
BIG BANG TOYS COMICS GAMES
BIG PLANET COMICS
BIG PLANET COMICS OF BETHESDA
BLERDS UNDERGROUND
BLUE ASH UP UP & AWAY!
BRAVE NEW WORLDS – OLD CITY PHILADELPHIA
BRAVE NEW WORLDS – WILLOW GROVE
BRONZE AGE BAT CAVE
BSI COMICS
CAB COMICS
CAPE AND COWL COMICS
CAPTAIN BLUE HEN COMICS
CARLS CACTUS COMICS
CHAMPION COMICS AND COFFEE
CHEVIOT UP UP & AWAY!
CLOBBERIN’ COMICS
CLOBBERIN’ COMICS – SHEPHERDSVILLE
COLLECTED COMICS & GAMES: FORT WORTH
COLLECTED COMICS & GAMES: HALTOM CITY
COLLECTED COMICS & GAMES: IRVING
COMIC BOOK WORLD FLORENCE
COMIC BOOK WORLD LOUISVILLE
COMIC EMPORIUM
COMIC QUEST
COMIC REALMS
COMICKAZE COMICS
COMICS ADVENTURE
COMICS CONSPIRACY
COMICS HEAVEN AB
COMIX CAFE
COMIX CONNECTION – MECHANICSBURG
COMIX CONNECTION – YORK
COSMIC COMICS
COSMIC MONKEY COMICS
COY’S COMICS
CRUSH COMICS
CURRENT COMICS MONTEREY
CURRENT COMICS SALINAS
DICE & COMICS CAFE
DNA COMICS & GAMES
DOUBLE MIDNIGHT COMICS CONCORD
DOUBLE MIDNIGHT COMICS MANCHESTER
DOWNTOWN COMICS ANNEX
DOWNTOWN COMICS IN AVON
DOWNTOWN COMICS IN CASTLETON
DOWNTOWN COMICS ON MARKET STREET
DR. VOLT’S COMICS
DRAGON’S LAIR COMICS & FANTASY – COLUMBUS
DREAMDAZE COMICS FUN & GAMES
ENDGAME COMICS AND COLLECTABLES
EPIC COMICS
E-TOWN COMICS
EVERYONE COMICS X COLLECTIBLES
FANTOM COMICS
FOURCORNERS COMICS & GAMES
FUNNY BUSINESS
FUNNYBOOKS COMICS & STUFF
GALACTIC GREG’S
GEEK GEEK NERD NERD
GREEN BRAIN COMICS
GRYPHON GAMES AND COMICS
GULF COAST COSMOS COMICS
GUTTER POP COMICS
HELLO COMICS
HELLO COMICS DOWNTOWN
HEROES & VILLAINS
HEROES’ BEACON COMICS & GAMES
HEROES FOR SALE
HORIZON COMICS AND COLLECTIBLES
HOUSE OF HEROES COMICS
INVISIBLE JET COMICS
ISOTOPE
JPM COMICS & GAMES
K & J COMICS AND GAMES
KEY ELEMENTS COMICS
KINGPIN BOOKS – COMICS EXCLUSIVE WEBSITE
KINGSTON NEXUS
LEGACY COMICS AND CARDS INC
LEMONJUICE MCGEE’S COMIC CAVALCADE
MANSFIELD COMICS AND MANGA
MAXIMUM COMICS (CENTENNIAL HILLS)
MAXIMUM COMICS (SOUTHWEST)
MEMORY LANE COMICS
MIDGARD COMICS, GAMES, AND MORE
MISSION: COMICS AND ART
NEW DIMENSION COMICS – BUTLER
NEW DIMENSION COMICS – CRANBERRY TWP
NEW DIMENSION COMICS – ELLWOOD CITY
NEW DIMENSION COMICS – OHIO VALLEY
NEW DIMENSION COMICS – PITTSBURGH MILLS
NEW DIMENSION COMICS – WATERFRONT
NOSTALGIA, INK
OILTOWN COMICS
PAPER ASYLUM
PERFECT STORM COMICS AND GAMES
PERFECT STORM WEST
PHANTOM OF THE ATTIC
PITTSBURGH COMICS
POP COMICS & CULTURE EMPORIUM
PULP COMICS AND GAMES
RAD RAPTOR COMICS
ROBOT ZERO COMICS
SADDLE CITY COMICS
SAMURAI COMICS CHANDLER
SAMURAI COMICS GLENDALE
SAMURAI COMICS MESA
SAMURAI COMICS PHOENIX
SOCAL GAMES AND COMICS
SSALEFISH COMICS – CONCORD
SSALEFISH COMICS – GREENSBORO
SSALEFISH COMICS – WINSTON-SALEM
STARGAZER COMICS
STRANGE ADVENTURES – ARIZONA
SUPER-FLY COMICS & GAMES
SUPERSCRIPT COMICS AND GAMES
SURPRISE COMICS
THE COLLECTIVE
THE COMIC BOOK CLUBHOUSE
THE COMIC BOOK SHOP! OF WILMINGTON, DE
THE COMIC DUDE SHOP
THE DANGER ROOM
THE DRAGONS LAIR
THE NERD STORE – UTAH
THE NERD STORE OREM
THE SECRET LAIR COMICS
ULTIMATE COMICS RALEIGH
WADE’S COMIC MADNESS
WONDERLAND COMICS
ZEPPELIN COMICS
ZEPPELIN COMICS – NAPA
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