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Comic book industry sales and releases
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The comic book industry continues to see high activity across major publishers, with shifting focus between best-selling titles and new weekly releases. Retail data from early August 2026 expanded the list of top performers to include ‘Amazing Spider-Man #34’ and ‘Fantastic Four #15’. For the week of August 12, 2026, upcoming releases included various variants of ‘Absolute Batman #23’, ‘Action Comics #1101’, and facsimile editions of ‘Adventure Comics #247’ and ‘Amazing Spider-Man #100’. New series launches during mid-August featured DC’s ‘Batman & Robin Year One: Dynamic Duos #1’, a 12-issue series by Mark Waid and Chris Samnee, and Marvel’s ‘Miles Morales: Spider-Man #1’. Other notable debuts included Dark Horse’s ‘The Foundry #1’ by Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson, Dynamite’s ‘Gargoyles #1’, and Image Comics’ ‘Regicide #1’ and ‘Shaolin Cowboy: Staying Alive #2’. By the week of August 26, 2026, the industry highlighted the launch of the Batman crossover event, ‘Batman – Bad Seeds – Sunset #1’, written by Matt Fraction and G. Willow Wilson. This storyline features Pamela Isley as the new mayor of Gotham City. City and involves a conflict with the Bat-Family and Commissioner Vandal Savage. Other releases for this period included ‘Amazing Spider-Man #35’, ‘Black Tower – The Raven Conspiracy #1’, ‘Concrete’, and Archie Comics’ 85th-anniversary celebrations, alongside DC’s ‘Absolute Catwoman’ and ‘Absolute Wonder Woman’ editions. Moving into late September, the week of September 23, 2026, saw a focus on horror, sci-fi, and action genres. Notable horror titles included Marvel’s ‘Infernal Hulk vs. Wolverine’ one-shot, ‘Universal Monsters: Blood of the Wolfman #4’, and ‘Hellraiser Resurrections: Hell’s Council’. Image Comics contributed ‘King Spawn #59’ and ‘Spawn: The Scorched #55’, while other releases included ‘Exquisite Corpses: Rascal Randy #3’, ‘Shaolin Cowboy: Staying A.I. Live #3’, and ‘Mad Science Division: The Cold Open’.
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