This list is for comic magazines, which are anthology magazines that serialize multiple different unrelated comic series.
Weekly Shōnen Jump is the best-selling comic magazine. Marvel X-Force #1, which also came out in 1991, ranks in second place with around five million copies sold.Ĭover of Weekly Shōnen Jump issue #1 (1968). Some of the numbers reported here may also include sales of trade paperback volumes, which account for a small portion of American comic sales.Īccording to the most recently available data, the best-selling American single-issue comic of all time was X-Men #1, which was published in 1991 and has since sold almost 8.2 million copies. This list also contains periodical publications from other countries that are similarly dedicated to a single character or group of characters. Single-issue floppy comics are the most common publication format for American comics, and account for the vast majority of American superhero comic sales. A floppy comic is comparable to a comic magazine, but is thinner in size and is dedicated to a single character or group of characters (whereas a comic magazine is thicker and serializes multiple different unrelated series). Each floppy comic issue is typically 20-40 pages, and usually consists of a single chapter (as opposed to a larger comic book volume that typically includes multiple chapters). Unlike the paperback book format, floppy comics are thinner periodicals and stapled together. This list is for single-issue floppy comics, also known as the American comic book format. Yōzaburō Kanari, Seimaru Amagi, Fumiya Satō For comic series originally serialized as chapters in comic magazines or manga magazines, their estimated circulation figures in those magazines are given in footnotes. These comic series were originally serialized either as chapters (typically 15-30 pages each) in comic publications (such as comic magazines) or as single-page comic strips in non-comic publications (such as newspapers), before being collected into a larger comic book volume (which compiles either multiple comic chapters or numerous comic strips).
American trade paperbacks and graphic novels are also included in the list. Japanese manga tankōbon volumes and European comic albums account for the vast majority of collected comic book volume sales. The list includes graphic novels printed exclusively in this format, and trade paperback/hardcover books which compile periodical comic chapters/issues into larger collected volumes. This list is for comics printed in a traditional book format ( paperback or hardcover), typically with a similar number of pages as novels.
2 Periodical single-issue floppy comics.
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