The Best-Selling Comics for October is Not From Marvel Nor DC

Diamond Comics has just released its sales figures for October 2016 and guess what? BOOM! Studios have the best-selling comic book.

Both Marvel and DC lost to the Kurt Russell-heavy crossover comic "Big Trouble in Little China/Escape From New York #1" which beat out all challengers, selling an estimated 421,625 copies (according to estimates from Comichron).

As with BOOM's previous #1 seller, "Bravest Warriors: Tales From the Holo John #1," those numbers were heavily inflated by the fact that "Big Trouble in Little China/Escape From New York #1" was included as part of the October 2016 Loot Crate subscription box.

Marvel can at least rest easy knowing that "Champions #1" was "the best-selling comic book of October 2016 in terms of dollars invoiced," according to Diamond's press release. Marvel got a subscription box-related boost of its own, though, as "Doctor Strange and the Sorcerers Supreme #1" managed to claim the third slot, thanks in part to its inclusion in the October 2016 Marvel Collectors Corps box.

The top ten best-selling comics for October 2016 included:

1. Big Trouble in Little China/Escape From New York #1 (BOOM)
2. Champions #1 (Marvel)
3. Doctor Strange and the Sorcerers Supreme #1 (Marvel)
4. The Dark Knight III: The Master Race #6 (DC)
5. Batman #8 (DC)
6. Batman #9 (DC)
7. Civil War II #6 (Marvel)
8. Star Wars: Darth Vader #25 (Marvel)
9. All-Star Batman #3 (DC)
10. The Walking Dead #159 (Image)

The question that should be ask though is what happened to the social experiment of Marvel transforming Captain Marvel into a teenage female suicide bomber, using a disease-riddled Jane Foster as She-Whor, killing off Bruce Banner in favor of a Chinky-eyed Hulk, giving the Captain America mantle to a poor version of Falcon in a star-spangled costume and making everyone's friendly-neighborhood spider into an immigrant across the border? Is anybody even buying them?