This week’s short-term sales snapshot underscores how DC’s oversized “Absolute” editions continue to command the direct market: Absolute Batman leads the pack by a wide margin, followed by Absolute Green Arrow, while other high-profile launches and a surprising adult-leaning debut make the rest of the Top Ten. The data reflect immediate shopper behaviour from Wednesday through the weekend — an early indicator of what collectors rushed out to buy.
Bleeding Cool is publishing two complementary bestseller snapshots: one that measures last week’s full sales cycle and another that tracks fast-moving mid-week purchases. Both are valuable but capture different buyer patterns — wholesale ordering versus the first wave of collectors and dedicated fans.
Two data feeds power our coverage. The larger dataset, compiled for a broader weekly view, aggregates point-of-sale and order information from several hundred stores and yields a comprehensive market-share picture. The shorter, mid-week sample is drawn from roughly 120–150 comic shops and highlights what sold quickly to the community of early buyers.
From the most recent ComicHub-derived sample (Wednesday through Saturday), DC’s Absolute line dominates the leaderboard. Absolute Batman sits at the top with a clear lead, Absolute Green Arrow occupies second place, and Absolute Flash lags well behind — selling a fraction of Batman’s units. Marvel entries and Image titles appear throughout the list, and Titan’s Gun Honey Doubles Down #1 unexpectedly broke into the Top Ten.
Top Ten Wednesday‑to‑Weekend Comics Bestseller List — 20 June 2026
The table below shows reported in-store sales from participating direct-market shops during the mid-week to weekend window. The last column is a relative index where the top-selling title equals 100.
| Rank | Title | Publisher | Writer | Artist | Price (USD) | Relative Index |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Absolute Batman #21 | DC | Scott Snyder | Nick Dragotta | 4.99 | 100.0 |
| 2 | Absolute Green Arrow #2 | DC | Pornsak Pichetshote | Rafael Albuquerque | 4.99 | 66.2 |
| 3 | Invincible Universe: Battle Beast #10 | Image | Robert Kirkman | Annalisa Leoni, Ryan Ottley | 3.99 | 27.6 |
| 4 | Amazing Spider‑Man #31 | Marvel | Joe Kelly | Patrick Gleason | 4.99 | 25.0 |
| 5 | 616 Day Marvel Mystery Blind Bag (Doom) | Marvel | Ryan Kelly | Francesco Mobili | 14.99 | 24.7 |
| 6 | Absolute Flash #16 | DC | Jeff Lemire | Nick Robles | 4.99 | 23.9 |
| 7 | Lobo #4 | DC | Skottie Young | Jorge Corona | 3.99 | 23.8 |
| 8 | Spider‑Man: Long Way Home #1 | Marvel | Jonathan Hickman | Adam Kubert | 5.99 | 23.1 |
| 9 | Deathstroke The Terminator #4 | DC | Tony Fleecs | Carmine Di Giandomenico | 3.99 | 17.7 |
| 10 | Gun Honey: Doubles Down #1 | Titan | Charles Ardai | Ang Hor Kheng | 4.99 | 17.5 |
Key takeaways from the mid‑week sample:
- Absolute format strength: Oversized or prestige-format DC issues are driving strong sales in this window, with one title serving as the clear weekly benchmark.
- Gap between early-buyers and broader demand: The mid-week index shows how collector-driven purchases can amplify certain launches; titles that perform well here may not mirror full-week market share.
- Unexpected breakout: Titan’s Gun Honey entry suggests an appetite for edgier, adult-targeted material among a subset of buyers — an effect worth watching but framed as an observed correlation, not proof of a long-term shift.
Methodology and scope
This specific list is assembled from transaction records supplied by ComicHub, representing roughly 120–150 participating direct-market stores across North America and the UK. It reflects in-store sales during the Wednesday-to-weekend window and therefore measures what fans and collectors purchased immediately after new-release day rather than total publisher orders.
The broader weekly dataset — compiled separately from a larger pool of roughly 600+ stores — yields a fuller view of market share and is published as a separate “last week” report. Both viewpoints are editorially useful: the smaller sample highlights real-time collector demand; the larger sample better approximates the entire direct market across the full sales week.
Selected participating stores (representative sample)
- Austin Books & Comics
- Big Planet Comics
- Brave New Worlds (Old City, Philadelphia)
- Collective / The Comic Book Clubhouse
- Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy — Columbus
- Epic Comics
- Galactic Greg’s
- Heroes & Villains
- Isotope
- Samurai Comics (Phoenix)
- Strange Adventures — Arizona
- Wade’s Comic Madness
Why this matters now
Early-week sales behavior can foreshadow retailer reorder patterns and inform collectors about which formats and creators are currently resonating. For publishers, the contrast between immediate demand and full-week totals helps refine print runs and marketing priorities. For readers and store owners, these snapshots identify what’s moving fastest on the shelves today.
Bleeding Cool will continue publishing both the mid‑week Top Ten and the broader weekly bestseller compilations under distinct labels so readers can compare short-term collector enthusiasm with full-week market performance.
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