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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Comic Cuts: Bestselling British Collections

Back on July 14th and August 16th, I posted a Top 20/10 (all I could manage) for the best-selling British graphic novels (i.e. collections of stories of UK origin rather than British editions of American GNs). Here are the chart positions as of September 17th. Pleased to see my own Against All Odds volume in there.

1. Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01. Rebellion/2000AD (ISBN 1904265790), Dec 2005.
2. Against All Odds: War Picture Library Vol. 2, ed. Steve Holland. Prion (ISBN 978-1853756610), 4 Aug 2008.
3. Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics, ed. Paul Gravett. Robinson (ISBN 978-1845297107), 26 Jun 2008.
4. The Best of 2000AD. Carlton Books (ISBN 978-1853756689), 1 September 2008.
5. The Ballad of Halo Jones. Rebellion/2000AD (ISBN 978-1905437184), Jan 2007.
6. Modesty Blaise: Green Cobra. Titan (ISBN 978-1845764203), 2 Sep 2008.
7. Dan Dare: The Man From Nowhere. Titan (ISBN 978-1845764128), 27 Apr 2007.
8. Dan Dare: Voyage to Venus Part 2. Titan (ISBN 978-1840238419), 24 Sep 2004.
9. Dan Dare: The Red Moon Mystery. Titan (ISBN 978-1840236668), 22 Oct 2004.
10. Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files Vol.10. Rebellion/2000AD (ISBN 978-1905437689), 15 Jun 2008.
11. Dan Dare: Voyage to Venus Part 1. Titan (ISBN 978-1840236446), 23 Apr 2004.
12. Dan Dare: Reign of the Robots. Titan (ISBN 978-1845764142), 25 Apr 2008.
13. Modesty Blaise: Death Trap. Titan (ISBN 978-1845764180), 23 Nov 2007.

Back in August only 10 of the top 100 at Amazon related to British comics; this time round there were 13 titles so it's still a bit of a short list. I should add that Amazon update their charts hourly so there can be dramatic changes over the course of a day.