Stats Week: Amazon Top 50 for 2010

Here are the top 50 comics from the weekly Amazon Top 50 posts of 2010:

1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth
3. Scott Pilgrim, vol. 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
4. Scott Pilgrim, vol. 2: Scott Pilgrim Versus The World
5. Scott Pilgrim, vol. 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour
6. Scott Pilgrim, vol. 3: Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness
7. Kick-Ass
8. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
9. The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1
10. The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
11. Watchmen
12. Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1
13. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
14. The Walking Dead, vol. 11: Fear the Hunters
15. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
16. Scott Pilgrim, vol. 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together
17. The Walking Dead, vol. 12
18. Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, vol. 6: Retreat
19. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
20. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
21. Troublemaker Book 1: Alex Barnaby Series 3
22. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw
23. The Walking Dead Book 5
24. Batman: The Killing Joke
25. V for Vendetta
26. Odd Is On Our Side
27. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules
28. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
29. Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
30. Diary of a Wimpy Kid Box of Books
31. Serenity: The Shepherd's Tale
32. Dork Diaries 2: Tales from a Not-So-Popular Party Girl
33. Blackest Night
34. Dark Tower: The Fall of Gilead
35. The Adventures of Ook and Gluk, Kung-Fu Cavemen from the Future
36. Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, vol. 7: Twilight
37. Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
38. Batman: Year One
39. The Walking Dead, vol. 13
40. Green Lantern: Blackest Night
41. Superman: Earth One
42. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
43. The Walking Dead Book 6
44. Dilbert: 2011 Day-to-Day Calendar
45. Instructions
46. Scott Pilgrim, vol. 5: Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe
47. Fables Vol. 13: The Great Fables Crossover
48. 40: A Doonesbury Retrospective
49. Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life
50. Big Nate: From the Top

Methodology: I took my weekly (compiled on Friday) lists of Amazon Top 50 Comics & Graphic Novels, and for each week assigned a comic a numerical score equal to 51 minus its ranking; e.g. the #1 book got 50 points, the #2 book got 49 points, the #3 book got 48 points, etc., all the way down to the #50 book getting 1 point. I poured everything into a spreadsheet, and voila. There were a total of 345 different comics that made the Top 50 for at least one week during 2010. You can download a spreadsheet with all of the data here.

Several comics mysteriously dropped out of the Amazon Comics & Graphic Novels Comics & Graphic Novels Bestsellers lists at different points during the year, notably certain volumes of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Scott Pilgrim, due to Amazon for some reason re-classifying them to not be comics. What to do? I could have tried to use overall sales ranking to try to intuit their comics chart ranking for those I knew about, but that would only work if I knew it was missing from the chart, which couldn't possibly be the case for everything. In the end in the interest of fairness I decided to take everything at face value and only give it a ranking for the week if it appeared on the comics chart.

I'll be back either tomorrow or this weekend with more analysis and a bunch of (hopefully interesting) charts.