Best Selling Comic Books – 2010s vs. 1960s

John Jackson Miller is THE statistics man as far as circulation numbers for comic books go.

Here’s a look at the Decade in Review, a year-by-year glance back at the trends shaping comics shop orders. It’s mostly been a decade of growth, with downturns in 2010-11 and 2017-18.

John has a recap of the numbers for comic books during the 2010s decade.

Above are the best selling (“floppy”) comic books of the past ten years.
Below are the best selling comics books of each year of 50 years before.

Notice a couple costumed heroes make the covers in both decades fifty years apart.

Here is John Jackson Miller’s look at 1960s circulation figures.