Diamond Comic Distributors has revealed that Jessica Drew’s return to action with a brand new costume in Marvel’s Spider-Woman #1 was the bestselling comic book of March 2020. Karla Pacheco wrote the issue with artwork by Pere Perez. Marvel Comics was March’s top publisher with a 40.98% dollar share and a 46.76% unit share. DC was second with a 27.34% dollar share and a 27.58% unit share. Image Comics was third for the month. The remaining premier publishers followed, with IDW Publishing placing fourth, BOOM! Studios in fifth, Dark Horse Comics at sixth, and Dynamite Entertainment rounding things out in seventh.
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Spider-Woman #1 was one of seven Marvel Comics in March’s top 10 best-selling comics list. The others were Thor #4 ranked #3, X-Men #8 ranked #4, Wolverine #2 ranked #5, Skottie Young and Humberto Ramos’ Strange Academy #1 ranked #6, X-Men #9 ranked #8, and The Immortal Hulk #33 ranked #9. DC Comics put three titles into the top 10 list: the oversized anniversary issue The Flash #750 ranked #2, Batman #90 ranked #7, and Batman #91 ranked #10.
Among the other premier publishers, Jonathan Hickman and Mike Huddleston’s Decorum #1 was Image Comics’ best-selling book for March at #20, BOOM! Studios’ Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #4 ranked #51, IDW Publishing’s Transformers vs. The Terminator #1 ranked #85, Dynamite Entertainment’s Red Sonja: Age of Chaos #3 ranked #92, and Michael Allred’s X-Ray Robot #1 was Dark Horse Comics top book at #131.
Kieron Gillen and Dan Mora’s Once & Future Volume 1: The King Is Undead, published by BOOM! Studios, was the best-selling graphic novel of March. Also from BOOM! Studios, Something Is Killing the Children Volume 1 ranked #2. Marvel Comics had five collected edition in this top 10 list: Al Ewing and Joe Bennett’s The Immortal Hulk Volume 6 ranked #3, followed by The History of the Marvel Universe Treasury Edition at #5, New Mutants Volume 1 at #6, Jason Aaron and Esad Ribic’s King Thor at #7, and Star Wars Volume 13: Rogues and Rebels at #9.
DC Comics had two titles in the top ten: Amy Wolfram and Agnes Garbowska’s DC Super Hero Girls: Powerless ranked #4 and Marieke Nijkamp and Manuel Preitano’s The Oracle Code ranked #8. Also in the top ten: Oni Press’ Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons II: Painscape ranked #10.
Funko’s POP! Dragon Ball Z: Super Saiyan 2 Vegeta Vinyl Figure was the best-selling toy of March. Also from Funko, the POP! Marvel: Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse: Casual Miles Morales Vinyl Figure ranked #3. Diamond Select Toys had two products in the top ten: the Marvel Select: Spider-Man Figure, based on Sony’s Spider-Man PlayStation 4 video game, ranked #4, and the Disney Select Classic Figures ranked #6. Also in the top ten: DC Collectibles’ Batman vs. Harley Quinn Battle Statue (Second Edition) ranked #10.
Paizo Publishing’s Pathfinder: Gamemastery Guide for the second edition of the Pathfinder role-playing game was March’s best-selling game product, with eight Paizo products among the month’s top 10. Dynamite Entertainment’s Elvira, Mistress of the Dark’s Spectral Switchboard ranked #6 for the month.
Keep reading to see March’s top 10 comics:
1. Spider-Woman #1
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(W) Karla Pacheco (A) Pere Perez (CA) Jung-Geun Yoon
SPIDER-WOMAN IS BACK, AND PULLING NO PUNCHES!
Jessica Drew hasn’t been feeling like herself lately (she’s not a Skrull, we promise). When the angry, irritable, and unwell Spider-Woman takes a simple security gig to help get back on her feet, she finds herself besieged by unknown forces out to destroy everything around her. What’s wrong with Jessica? Just how DID she get this job? And who are these violent lunatics who keep trying to blow her up? WHO CARES? Does Spider-Woman have someone to punch? THAT’S ALL THAT MATTERS.
An explosive new series that pushes Spider-Woman into new heights of action and adventure from the mad minds of Karla Pacheco and Pere Pérez, this is the Spider-Woman book you’ve been waiting for!
Rated T+
In Shops: Mar 18, 2020
SRP: $4.99
2. The Flash #750
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(W) Francis Manapul, Geoff Johns, Scott Lobdell, Marv Wolfman, Brian Buccellato, Joshua Williamson (A) Rafa Sandoval, Jordi Tarragona, Scott Kolins, Stephen Segovia, David Marquez, Brett Booth, Francis Manapul, Riley Rossmo, Norm Rapmund (CA) Howard Porter
Beginning: “The Flash Age”! The story we’ve been building toward since issue #50 comes to a head! While a supercharged Speed Force wreaks havoc on Barry Allen’s life, a new threat appears on the horizon in the form of the deadly Paradox. Destined to destroy the Flash’s legacy, Paradox sends his herald, Godspeed, to trap the Flash family! Plus, in this special anniversary issue: tales from across the generations of super-speedsters by an all-star lineup of writers and artists!
In Shops: Mar 04, 2020
SRP: $7.99
3. Thor #4
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(W) Donny Cates (A) Nic Klein (CA) Olivier Coipel
THOR’S GREATEST ENEMY – AND THE UNIVERSE’S ONLY SAVIOR – REVEALED!
The Black Winter is coming – the end of the entire vast universe – and only one entity can stop it. The only one who has survived it before, Galactus the World-Eater, has come to Midgard…in search of a herald for the end of everything.
Rated T+
In Shops: Mar 11, 2020
SRP: $3.99
4. X-Men #8
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(W) Jonathan Hickman (A) Mahmud Asrar (CA) Leinil Francis Yu
The New Mutants are back from space, and they’ve brought intergalactic trouble with them! The Brood! The Shi’ar! The Starjammers! The Imperial Guard! Rated T+
In Shops: Mar 11, 2020
SRP: $3.99
5. Wolverine #2
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(W) Ben Percy (A/CA) Adam Kubert
THE WORST IS BACK!
Wolverine has never been one to back down from a fight – not even a combined assault from Lady Deathstrike, Sabretooth and Doctor Cornelius – but the Flower Cartel might have enlisted his worst and greatest foe: Logan himself.
Parental Advisory
In Shops: Mar 25, 2020
SRP: $3.99
6. Strange Academy #1
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(W) Skottie Young (A/CA) Humberto Ramos
A SORCERER SCHOOL FOR THE MARVEL UNIVERSE!
The Marvel Universe has mysteriously changed in such an alarming way that Doctor Strange has done what he’s avoided for decades; he’s opened a school for young sorcerers. Young people from around the world with aptitude in magic have been brought together in New Orleans to study the Mystic Arts under Strange, Brother Voodoo, the Ancient One, the Scarlet Witch, Magik, Hellstrom and ALL your favorite Marvel magicians. But with all the new magical threats, is it too late?! Rated T
In Shops: Mar 04, 2020
SRP: $4.99
7. Batman #90
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(W) James TynionIV (A/CA) Jorge Jimenez
The mysterious master criminal known only as the Designer once brought together Gotham City’s greatest criminals to plot the perfect crime, and now his plan has been unleashed upon the city in all its might. Batman will go to any length to uncover the grand design, but Catwoman is the one who holds the greatest secret. If Batman wins against the Designer, he will lose everything.
In Shops: Mar 04, 2020
SRP: $3.99
8. X-Men #9
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(W) Jonathan Hickman (A/CA) Leinil Francis Yu
The New Mutants are back from space, and they’ve brought intergalactic trouble with them! The Brood! The Shi’ar! The Starjammers! The Imperial Guard! Rated T+
In Shops: Mar 25, 2020
SRP: $3.99
9. The Immortal Hulk #33
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(W) Al Ewing (A) Joe Bennett (CA) Alex Ross
• Celebrating 750 ISSUES of the INCREDIBLE H%LKTM! Something is wrong. Something has compromised the simulacrum.
• EXTRA-SIZE HULK-SM&SHING ACTIONTM! Banner is refusing to yield. Something is wrong.
• PL#S! ENTER – THE THOUGHTFUL MAN! Something is wrong. Something is wrong. Something is wrong.
Rated T+
In Shops: Mar 25, 2020
SRP: $5.99
10. Batman #91
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(W) James TynionIV (A/CA) Jorge Jimenez
To save Gotham City, Catwoman will have to commit the greatest heist in the city’s history! But hot on her trail are the Penguin, the Riddler, a horde of assassins, and the master criminal called the Designer! And the most dangerous person standing in her way is the man she’s trying to save: Batman. And what complications will his arise from his new sidekick, Harley Quinn?
In Shops: Mar 18, 2020
SRP: $3.99
