Friday, September 20, 2019

Amazon Top 50 - September 20, 2019

Strange Planet
Here are the Top 50 Comics & Graphic Novels on Amazon Friday morning. See About the Amazon Top 50 Lists for more information on how this list is compiled.  (Note: All Kindle Unlimited, FreeTime Unlimited, comiXology Unlimited, & Prime Reading books are removed from the chart.) 

1 (-). Strange Planet *
2 (N). House of X #5 (Kindle)
3 (+35). The Umbrella Academy Volume 3: Hotel Oblivion
4 (-2). I'm NOT just a Scribble...
5 (-2). Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
6 (-). They Called Us Enemy
7 (+1). Big Nate: Hug It Out!
8 (+3). Marvel Encyclopedia, New Edition
9 (N). Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins II #3 (Kindle)
10 (N). The Way of the Househusband, Vol. 1
11 (-1). Uzumaki (3-in-1, Deluxe Edition)
12 (R). False Knees: An Illustrated Guide to Animal Behavior *
13 (+3). Noise
14 (-9). The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel
15 (-). Lucifer Vol. 1: The Infernal Comedy (Kindle)
16 (-9). Batman: Damned
17 (+3). My Hero Academia, Vol. 20
18 (+3). The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse *
19 (+30). House of X/Powers of X *
20 (+14). The Complete Calvin and Hobbes (paperback)
21 (-3). My Hero Academia, Vol. 1
22 (-9). The Odd 1s Out
23 (R). The Complete Far Side
24 (+21). My Hero Academia, Vol. 21 *
25 (-8). Justice League Vol. 1: The Totality (Kindle)
26 (N). Spider-Man #1 (Kindle)
27 (+8). My Hero Academia, Vol. 2
28 (N). Rusty Brown *
29 (-1). American Born Chinese
30 (-8). The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited!
31 (N). Stranger Things: The Other Side
32 (-2). Superman Vol. 1: The Unity Saga: Phantom Earth (Kindle)
33 (-8). Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
34 (-7). Teen Titans: Raven
35 (-6). The Complete Maus
36 (R). Bedtime for Batman
37 (+3). The Walking Dead Volume 32: Rest in Peace
38 (-24). Big Nate: Hug It Out! (Kindle)
39 (-27). The Batman Who Laughs
40 (N). Hilo Book 6: All the Pieces Fit *
41 (-4). Awkward
42 (R). Batman: The Killing Joke, Deluxe Edition
43 (-10). Harley Quinn Vol. 1: Harley Vs. Apokolips (Kindle)
44 (N). Made in Abyss Vol. 7
45 (-14). The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 4 *
46 (R). My Hero Academia, Vol. 3
47 (-15). Tomie: Complete Deluxe Edition
48 (-12). Berserk Deluxe Edition Volume 2
49 (R). My Hero Academia, Vol. 19
50 (-11). Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History


Items with asterisks (*) are pre-order items.
Items with dollar signs ($) were part of a deeply discounted Kindle sale this week
N = New listing appearing on list for first time 
R = Item returning to the list after having been off for 1 or more weeks

Commentary: 

  • The pre-order for Strange Planet remains on top of the Amazon comics chart this week. "But wait a minute," I hear you say: "isn't Raina Telgemeier's Guts the #1 best-selling book on Amazon right now? How come it isn't on the chart at all?!?" That's due to Amazon's strange practice of segregating most (though not all) of the kids graphic novels away from the regular comics chart and onto the Children's Comics & Graphic Novels best sellers chart. It's a practice they began suddenly several years ago and it drastically changed the nature of the regular Amazon comics best sellers chart. So if you're every wondering where the real best-selling comics are, they're with the cool kids on the children's GN chart.
  • The top debut this week is the Kindle edition of House of X #5, which is joined in the top ten by the debut of Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins II #3 and further down the chart by Spider-Man #1.
  • Debuting in print this week are the first volume of the manga series The Way of the Househusband; the latest volume of the manga Made in Abyss; a collected edition of Stranger Things: The Other Side; and pre-orders for the upcoming new volume of Judd Winick's Hilo and Chris Ware's Rusty Brown.

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