Updated on December 10, 2021
March’s sales figures are in, and the top-selling comic for the second month in a row stars a woman: “Princess Leia” #1. The comic book sales rankings are listed below:
| Rank | Title | Price | Publisher | Estimated Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PRINCESS LEIA #1 | $3.99 | Marvel | 253,655 |
| 2 | STAR WARS #3 | $3.99 | Marvel | 161,226 |
| 3 | GUARDIANS TEAM-UP #1 | $3.99 | Marvel | 155,388 |
| 4 | SPIDER-GWEN #2 | $3.99 | Marvel | 107,070 |
| 5 | PRINCESS LEIA #2 | $3.99 | Marvel | 96,262 |
| 6 | AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #16 | $3.99 | Marvel | 92,289 |
| 7 | HOWARD THE DUCK #1 | $3.99 | Marvel | 85,929 |
| 8 | DARTH VADER #3 | $3.99 | Marvel | 85,156 |
| 9 | BATMAN: ARKHAM KNIGHT #1 | $3.99 | DC | 73,266 |
| 10 | AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #16.1 | $3.99 | Marvel | 73,170 |
Also available are the trade paperback sales rankings:
| Rank | Title | Price | Publisher | Estimated Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NEMO: RIVER OF GHOSTS HC (MR) | $14.95 | IDW | 6,848 |
| 2 | MS. MARVEL VOL. 2: GENERATION WHY TP | $15.99 | Marvel | 5,400 |
| 3 | LOW VOL. 1: THE DELIRIUM OF HOPE TP (MR) | $9.99 | Image | 5,303 |
| 4 | HAWKEYE VS. DEADPOOL TP | $16.99 | Marvel | 4,846 |
| 5 | SAGA VOLUME 4 TP (MR) | $14.99 | Image | 4,492 |
| 6 | DEADPOOL VOLUME 7: AXIS TP | $17.99 | Marvel | 4,475 |
| 7 | DEADPOOL’S THE ART OF WAR TP | $12.99 | Marvel | 4,364 |
| 8 | DEADLY CLASS VOL. 2: KIDS OF THE BLACK HOLE TP (MR) | $14.99 | Image | 4,216 |
| 9 | BIRTHRIGHT VOL. 1: HOMECOMING TP (MR) | $9.99 | Image | 4,053 |
| 10 | BOBS BURGERS VOL. 1 | $17.99 | Dynamite | 3,931 |
“Princess Leia”‘s new series from Marvel’s proven to be popular, as the second issue of her five-issue miniseries comes in at #5. Marvel might want to consider making Leia’s book an ongoing instead of just a miniseries, given these sales figures. “Leia” sold over a quarter million issues just for #1 alone.
Three of the top five selling comics this month starred women, as “Spider-Gwen” came in at #4.
Marvel takes up nine of the top ten comics; the sole DC title is “Batman: Arkham Knight,” a print version of a digital-first book. Apparently, “Batman” #40, due out this month, has been pushed back to April (amidst “Convergence”), thus why DC’s usual top-seller’s a no-show. Meanwhile, “Howard the Duck” came in seventh place. This is the second time within a year that a talking animal-starring comic’s outsold everything from DC…and this time, Loot Crate sales aren’t to “blame.”
For trade paperbacks, “Nemo: River of Dreams” tops the list. “Nemo” is an Alan Moore-written spinoff of “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,” and stars the daughter of Captain Nemo. Coming in second place on the sales charts is the second trade paperback of “Ms. Marvel.” Not a single DC title’s in the top 10—even cynically-kept-in-continuity-solely-for-sales-reasons stuff like “The Killing Joke” has been outsold this month by a trade of the comics version of “Bob’s Burgers.”
Unless I’m mistaken (and feel free to correct me), and since month-by-month figures for the Golden Age/Silver Age aren’t available, this might mark the first time solo female stars have topped the comic sales charts for two months in a row. It also might mark the first time solo female stars topped both the single-issue and trade paperback sales lists in a single month.
(Updated 4/13/15)
