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Top Selling Comics & Publisher Market Share: November 2014

See what the top books and companies were for November

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The numbers for November are in! Diamond Comic Distributors has compiled the data from November and placed into awesome tables for math nerds, like us, to stare and enjoy. Let's get right down to the numbers.

Last month, Marvel Comics was once again top dog.

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Here's those sweet pie charts of the same data above. It's pretty sexy, if you love pie charts.

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November's top comic book was AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #9: SPIDER-VERSE! Marvel actually took eight out of the top ten slots last month, but that may be because there's two events going on a a whole slew of new series.

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November's top selling trade was THE WALKING DEAD, which was pretty dang awesome, if you ask me.

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Finally, here's the amount of books each publisher shipped out in November.

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How do they calculate this information? It all starts at the comic book shop.

Data for Diamond’s sales charts — which include the monthly market shares and all top product charts — are compiled by Diamond Comic Distributors from a universe of over 3,500 comic book specialty shops located in North America and around the world. The account base includes brick-and-mortar comic book specialty shops, Internet merchants, and other specialty stores.

Unit and dollars sales are calculated based upon orders invoiced and shipped to Diamond accounts during January to December 2013, which comprises initial pre-orders, advance reorders, and reorders, minus any copies that are received back from a title marked as returnable.

What are your thoughts on all these numbers? What's your predictions for this month?