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Naruto’s Back on Top

In Bookstores in February

Published: 03/04/2010 01:33am

The release of the latest volume of Naruto, Volume 47, brought the #1 manga property back to the top of the charts in February, its customary spot when a new volume ships.  Vampire Knight, the biggest manga title since Naruto, was #2.

 

Among newer properties, Tokyopop’s Alice in the Country of Hearts, the only new property in the Top 20 Graphic Novels, debuted at #8.  Yen’s Black Butler moved up from #7 in its debut month to #4 in February, an unusual sign of strength, indicating good word of mouth.

 

BookScan Top 20 Graphic Novels in February 2010

Rank

Title

Author

Publisher

1

NARUTO VOL. 47

MASASHI KISHIMOTO

VIZ MEDIA

2

VAMPIRE KNIGHT VOL. 8

MATSURI HINO

VIZ MEDIA

3

BLACK BIRD VOL. 3

KANOKO SAKURAKOJI

VIZ MEDIA

4

BLACK BUTLER VOL. 1

YANA TOBOSO

YEN PRESS

5

FABLES VOL. 13: THE GREAT FABLES CROSSOVER

BILL WILLINGHAM

VERTIGO

6

DARK TOWER: FALL OF GILEAD HC

ROBIN FURTH

MARVEL COMICS

7

THE WALKING DEAD VOL. 11: FEAR THE HUNTERS

ROBERT KIRKMAN

IMAGE COMICS

8

ALICE IN THE COUNTRY OF HEARTS VOL. 1

QUINROSE

TOKYOPOP

9

THE BOOK OF GENESIS ILLUS. BY R. CRUMB HC

ROBERT CRUMB

W. W. NORTON

10

YU-GI-OH! GX VOL. 4

NAOYUKI KAGEYAMA

VIZ MEDIA

11

FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST VOL. 22

ARAKAWA HIROMU

VIZ MEDIA

12

YU-GI-OH! R VOL. 3

AKIRA ITO

VIZ MEDIA

13

NEGIMA!  VOL. 25

KEN AKAMATSU

DEL REY

14

D.GRAY-MAN VOL. 16

KATSURA HOSHINO

VIZ MEDIA

15

WATCHMEN TP

ALAN MOORE

DC COMICS

16

THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE: RECORDED ATTACKS

MAX BROOKS

THREE RIVERS

17

MAXIMUM RIDE: THE MANGA VOL. 2

JAMES PATTERSON

YEN PRESS

18

ONE PIECE VOL. 29

EIICHIRO ODA

VIZ MEDIA

19

ONE PIECE VOL. 30

EIICHIRO ODA

VIZ MEDIA

20

ONE PIECE VOL. 31

EIICHIRO ODA

VIZ MEDIA

 

The speed-up of One Piece releases appears to be losing some steam.  The three volumes released in February came in at #18-#20; the top volume of One Piece on the chart in January held #8.

 

Viz had ten titles of the Top 20 in February; two titles each were from Yen Press and DC; and Marvel, Image, Del Rey, W.W. Norton, Image, and Tokyopop each had one.

 

The rankings, provided by Nielsen BookScan, track the bestselling U.S. adult graphic novels in major book chains, mass merchants, online retailers, and some independent retailers using POS data from February 1st to February 28th.  Titles racked in the Kids or YA sections do not appear in this list.

 

For charts from other months, see the "BookScan Top 20 GNs Index".

 
 
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