The 30 Best-Selling Comic Series of all Time

[Days of Future Piff]

30. Casper the Friendly Ghost by Seymour Reit and Joe Oriolo
29. Astro Boy by Osamu Tezuka
28. Amar Chitra Katha by Amar Chitra Katha Pvt. Ltd.
27. Slam Dunk by Takehiko Inoue
26. Bleach by Tite Kubo
25. Avengers by Marvel
24. Oishinbo by Tetsu Kariya and Akria Hanasaki
23. Garfield by Jim Davis
22. The Phantom by Lee Falk
21. Spawn by Todd McFarlane
20. Diabolik by Angela and Luciana Giussani
19. KochiKame by Osamu Akimoto
18. Case Closed by Gosho Aoyama
17. Spike and Suzy by Willy Vandersteen
16. The Adventures of Tintin by Herge
15. Golgo 13 by Takao Saito
14. Captain America by Marvel
13. Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto
12. Dragon Ball by Akira Toriyama
11. X-men by Marvel
10. Lucky Luke by Morris, Rene Goscinny
09. Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz
08. Asterix by Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo, and Jean-Yves Ferri
07. Spider-man by Marvel
06. One Piece by Eiichiro GOATda
05. Batman by Bob Kane and Bill Finger
04. Superman by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster
03. Classics Illustrated by Elliot Publishing Co., Gilberton Company, and Frawley Corporation
02. The Beano by DC Thomson
01. Micky Maus (Mickey Mouse) by Egmont Ehapa

Source: The 30 Best-Selling Comic Book Series of All Time | Best Life

This list was made in 2018, idk if anything has significantly changed since then.

Note: X-men vol. 2 #1 (by Chris Claremont and Jim Lee) is the best selling single-issue of any comic, having sold over 8 million copies.

 

[Cadillac]

as expected, if you go off series made by a single author One piece would be NO.1

 

[Green negs and spam]

What is a somic?

 

[Days of Future Piff]

as expected, if you go off series made by a single author One piece would be NO.1

Facts. America is sleeping hard on One Piece. It's the GOAT shonen adventure manga.

What is a somic?

If you're asking about Asterix, it's apparently a French comic set in 50 BC about a villager who protects his village from the Romans (under Julius Caesar's rule).
It's been running for decades and has been translated into over 100 ( ) languages.

This list also further confirms what real ones already knew. Spider-man and X-men are the true crown jewels of Marvel, even though the movies want y'all to believe differently.
I'm a little shocked that Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and Fantastic Four didn't make the list though

 

[Mr. Negative]

@Days of Future Piff no, breh "what is a somic" as in the thread title

 

[LordDeathwatch]

One Piece is & will always be ass. Just another piece of overrated garbage but there are many cases of garbage selling mind boggling numbers.

 

[AquaCityBoy]

The fact that One Piece has outsold Spider-Man is .

 

[Cadillac]

Facts. America is sleeping hard on One Piece. It's the GOAT shonen adventure manga.

Its pretty popular its just not DBZ/Naruto popular here
IMO OP was never going to blow up in the era it came up in even if you took 4kids out of the equation.
When OP came, anime/manga in America were wanted in certain types to be distanced from western shows. In aesthethic, theme tone, tropes, nonepisodic etc.

OP is different and unique where its like the Kingdom Hearts(never played a game just comparing concepts) of Manga/anime and it mixes western, eastern, Disney, shounen, etc aesthetics, and tropes. Plus its a series about Magical Pirates instead of Magical Ninjas(Naruto) and Magical martial artist(DBZ). Which people during that time wanted more of the latter than former

Plus OP has elements of being episodic, espescially in the first saga. So mix together the western cartoonish/Disney elements of wackiness in the show + the episodicness + other elements = popular but not as big as DBZ/Naruto in America. Im no anime/manga wiz, not even a fan. But I recall what series were popular and what made people in US, not pick up OP: it was either "to cartoony", "to wacky", "its about pirates, no thanks" etc But the series has grown in popularity in the US since then.

 

[Tryna Makit]

Maybe its because he was the 1st one.....But shouts out to Superman for finally beating Spidey and Bats on some kinda list lol
Thats my GOAT superhero

 

[Days of Future Piff]

The fact that One Piece has outsold Spider-Man is .

...and Dragon Ball, X-men, Naruto, Bleach, Avengers etc.

 

[Days of Future Piff]

Superman- 600 million copies sold
Batman- 485 million copies sold
One Piece- 470 million copies sold
Spider-man- 385 million copies sold
Asterix- 370 million copies sold
Peanuts- 300 million copies sold
Lucky Luke - 300 million copies sold
Dragon Ball - 250-300 million copies sold
Golgo 13- 280 million
X-men - 270 million copies sold
Naruto - 250 million copies sold
Case Closed/Detective Conan - 230 million copies sold

Spoiler

That's going off Wikipedia though, so my numbers could be a bit off

 

[Counter Racist Male]

15. Golgo 13 by Takao Saito

 

[Days of Future Piff]

Found an updated list. Golgo 13 is a lot bigger than I thought