Congratulations, Robert Kirkman:
Image Comics’ The Walking Dead #100 was the bestselling comic book published in 2012 based on total unit sales to comic book specialty shops, according to Diamond Comic Distributors, the world’s largest distributor of comics, graphic novels, and pop-culture merchandise.
Diamond’s 2012 year-end rundown also reveals that Marvel was the top publisher of the year in both dollar and unit share, a fact that’s underlined by looking at the top 10 most-ordered books of 2012: Walking Dead #100 aside, it’s all Marvel titles (Including, in an unexpected moment, Avengers #1 making it in at the tenth spot. I didn’t expect that book to have done that well, but I find myself surprisingly glad that it did).
