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Top 300 Comics Actual--August 2008

Sales Estimates for August Based on Diamond Indexes and Publisher Title Data

Published: 09/16/2008, Last Updated: 10/21/2008 12:22am
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These are estimates of the sales by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during August 2008.

 

For an overview and analysis of comic sales in August, see "'Watchmen' Top Dollar Book in August"

 

For an analysis of the dollar trends in August, see "Comics Continue Slide in August."

 

For our estimates of actual sales by Diamond U.S. from comic specialty stores on graphic novels shipped during August, see "Top 100 Graphic Novels Actual--August 2008."


 

 

TOP 300 COMICS -- AUGUST 2008

 

 

 

Rank

Index

Title

Price

Pub

Est.Qty

1

160

SECRET INVASION #5 (Of 8) SI*

$3.99

MAR

 165,958

2

119.59

FINAL CRISIS #3 (Of 7)

$3.99

DC

 123,881

3

102.7

NEW AVENGERS #44 SI

$2.99

MAR

 106,385

4

100

BATMAN #679 RIP*

$2.99

DC

 103,588

5

93.01

HULK #5

$2.99

MAR

   96,347

6

90.98

ASTONISHING X-MEN #26 MD

$2.99

MAR

   94,244

7

90.16

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #568 NWD*

$3.99

MAR

   93,395

8

89.73

MIGHTY AVENGERS #17 SI

$2.99

MAR

   92,950

9

83.28

WOLVERINE #68

$2.99

MAR

   86,268

10

82.44

UNCANNY X-MEN #501 MD

$2.99

MAR

   85,398

11

82.09

CAPTAIN AMERICA #41*

$2.99

MAR

   85,035

12

78.63

JUSTICE LEAGUE O/AMERICA #24

$2.99

DC

   81,451

13

76.56

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #17

$2.99

DAR

   79,307

14

75.25

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #569 NWD

$2.99

MAR

   77,950

15

70.94

JUSTICE SOCIETY O/AMERICA #18*

$2.99

DC

   73,485

16

68.67

DETECTIVE COMICS #847 RIP

$2.99

DC

   71,134

17

66.62

AVENGERS INVADERS #4 (Of 12)

$2.99

MAR

   69,010

18

66.62

X-FORCE #6 DWS

$2.99

MAR

   69,010

19

65.97

ULTIMATE ORIGINS #3 (Of 5)

$2.99

MAR

   68,337

20

65.94

FINAL CRISIS LEGION O/THREE WORLDS #1 (Of 5)

$3.99

DC

   68,306

21

65.77

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #567

$2.99

MAR

   68,130

22

65.69

X-MEN LEGACY #215 MD

$2.99

MAR

   68,047

23

64.74

DC UNIVERSE LAST WILL & TESTAMENT #1

$3.99

DC

   67,063

24

63.24

SECRET INVASION THOR #1 (Of 3) SI

$2.99

MAR

   65,509

25

62.28

SECRET INVASION X-MEN #1 (Of 4) SI

$2.99

MAR

   64,515

26

60.95

FINAL CRISIS SUPERMAN BEYOND #1 (Of 2)

$4.50

DC

   63,137

27

58.29

AVENGERS INITIATIVE #16 SI

$2.99

MAR

   60,381

28

57.72

FANTASTIC FOUR #559

$2.99

MAR

   59,791

29

56.41

FINAL CRISIS REVELATIONS #1 (Of 5)

$3.99

DC

   58,434

30

56.14

INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #4