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    Mon, 23 Jul 2007

    Top 20 bestselling graphic novels for June 2007


    Better late than never, here's the top 20 GNs for June here at Hijinx. This month includes our first foray into convention sales, which effected sales more than even I expected. Some books, like The Boys might have sold much, much better, but reorders have been unavailable from the publisher Dynamite Entertainment. This was also the debut of Jason Shiga's Bookhunter at a very respectable #7, but it's rocketing up the July chart as we speak!

    1. FABLES VOL. 9: SONS OF EMPIRE TP

    2. HULK PLANET HULK HC

    3. CLONE WARS ADVENTURES, VOL. 2

    4. MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN VOL 6 BLACK COSTUME DIGEST TP

    5. 52 VOL 1 TP

    6. STAR WARS CLONE WARS ADVENTURES VOL 8 TP

    7. BOOKHUNTER

    8. DOCTOR STRANGE OATH TP

    9. BATMAN: HUSH, VOL. 1

    10. WALKING DEAD VOL 1 DAY GONE BYE TP

    11. CIVIL WAR MARVEL UNIVERSE TP

    12. CLONE WARS ADVENTURES, VOL. 1

    13. ULTIMATES 2 VOL 2 TP

    14. CLONE WARS ADVENTURES, VOL. 3

    15. ASTONISHING X-MEN VOL 3 TORN TP

    16. ASTONISHING X-MEN VOL. 1: GIFTED

    17. BOYS VOL 1 TP

    18. SPIDER-MAN BIRTH OF VENOM TP

    19. CIVIL WAR TP

    20. ANNIHILATION BOOK 3 HC

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    Hijinx on list of top independent bookstores in Silicon Valley


    Please take a moment to check out our listing on this list of the top independent bookstores in Silicon Valley. Yes it's another online service you need an account to vote on, but if you already have an Amazon account it's pretty darn easy to sign up in under 30 seconds. But once you're signed up you can vote to raise our position on the list.

    Number 1 right now is our neighbor Hicklebee's Children's Books a ranking they richly deserve. I think our rating could be better than #15, but that's up to folks like you!

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    Top 20 selling comics the for the week of July 18, 2007


    I've decided that this list would be more useful if I only list the top 20 comics each week. If you'd like more data, you can email me and let me know.

    Once again my favorite comic of the week was also our top-selling comic. I'm not sure why I care that Thunderbolt Ross think's he can kick the Hulk's butt when the rest of the Marvel U can't, but for some reason I do. This book reads big and dumb, just like it should. Lots of fighting and easily devined motivation for the main characters.

    1. WORLD WAR HULK #2
    2. CAPTAIN AMERICA #28
    3. COUNTDOWN #51
    4. JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #11
    5. ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #111
    6. AVENGERS INITIATIVE #4
    7. WORLD WAR HULK X-MEN #2
    8. SUPERMAN BATMAN #38
    9. ALL FLASH #1
    10. WORLD WAR HULK FRONT LINE #2
    11. WOLVERINE ORIGINS #15
    12. GHOST RIDER #13
    13. WOLVERINE ORIGINS ANNUAL #1
    14. THUNDERBOLTS DESPERATE MEASURES #0
    15. BRAVE AND THE BOLD #5
    16. FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN #22
    17. NEW X-MEN #40
    18. ANNIHILATION CONQUEST QUASAR #1
    19. THE ORDER #1
    20. ACTION COMICS #852

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    Top selling comics the for the week of July 11, 2007


    Since I had to write list-generating software for our Entertainment Weekly list, I might as well put it to use here. I'll be listing our top selling comics list every week and a top 10 GN list once a month.

    This week's #1 seller was also my favorite comic of the week. I like where Bendis is taking the Marvel Universe, and I've always thought that Skrulls were cool and underused. Stephen Colbert's comic would have come in higher had I not sold out so quickly. Luckily, a lot more are on their way in very soon!

    1. NEW AVENGERS #32
    2. COUNTDOWN #51
    3. JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #7
    4. GREEN LANTERN #21
    5. OMEGA FLIGHT #4
    6. X-FACTOR #21
    7. NOVA #4
    8. ULTIMATE X-MEN #84
    9. SUB-MARINER #2
    10. PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL #9
    11. SUPERMAN #664
    12. ANNIHILATION CONQUEST WRAITH #1
    13. WORLD WAR HULK GAMMA CORPS #1
    14. EXILES #96
    15. GREEN ARROW YEAR ONE #1
    16. NEW EXCALIBUR #21
    17. BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL #7
    18. SPAWN #169
    19. FABLES #63
    20. MARTHA WASHINGTON DIES (ONE SHOT) #0

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