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Star Trek Cracks Top Five BookScan Top 20 Graphic Novels for May 2009 Date: 6/4/2009 |
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Star Trek: Countdown from IDW cracked the top five in the Nielsen BookScan Top 20 Graphic Novel chart for May 2009, moving up from its debut slot at #9 last month. The movie release was early in May, so this will probably be as high as this volume gets. Watchmen remained #1 for the 11th consecutive month. Rank Title Author Pub 1 WATCHMEN TP ALAN MOORE DC 2 NARUTO VOL. 43 MASASHI KISHIMOTO VIZ 3 NARUTO VOL. 44 MASASHI KISHIMOTO VIZ 4 FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST VOL. 18 ARAKAWA HIROMU VIZ 5 STAR TREK: COUNTDOWN ROBERT ORCI IDW 6 NARUTO VOL. 42 MASASHI KISHIMOTO VIZ 7 NEGIMA! VOL. 22 KEN AKAMATSU DEL 8 BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON 8 VOL. 4 JOSS WHEDON DHP 9 DARK TOWER: TREACHERY HC ROBIN FURTH MAR 10 NARUTO VOL. 41 MASASHI KISHIMOTO VIZ 11 POKEMON: GIRATINA & THE SKY WARRIOR! MAKOTO HIJIOKA VIZ 12 NARUTO VOL. 40 MASASHI KISHIMOTO VIZ 13 D.GRAY-MAN VOL. 13 KATSURA HOSHINO VIZ 14 FRUITS BASKET VOL. 22 NATSUKI TAKAYA TKP 15 THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN CENTURY: 1910 BK 1 ALAN MOORE TOP 16 NARUTO VOL. 39 MASASHI KISHIMOTO VIZ 17 NARUTO VOL. 38 MASASHI KISHIMOTO VIZ 18 VAMPIRE KNIGHT VOL. 6 HINO MATSURI VIZ 19 RETURN TO LABYRINTH VOL. 3 JAKE T. FORBES TKP 20 OTOMEN VOL. 2 AYA KANNO VIZ The surge in Naruto releases over, the number of Naruto volumes in the Top 20 dropped to seven from 12 in April and nine in March. Volumes 43 and 44 continued to hold the #2 and #3 ranks. Fullmetal Alchemist Volume 18 came in strong at #4. Negima! Volume 21 crept up the chart to #7 (from #12 in April and #19 in March) in its third month in the Top 20, an unusual phenomenon reserved for only the strongest titles. The latest volume of Dark Horse's Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Season 8) hit the chart at #8. Other new titles on the list included Stephen King?s Dark Tower: Treachery HC from Marvel at #9, Viz?s Giratina & the Sky Warrior at #11, and Top Shelf?s first published volume of Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen at #15. There were seven publishers with titles in the Top 20 in May, an unusually high number. The rankings, provided by Nielsen BookScan, track the bestselling U.S. graphic novels in major book chains, mass merchants, online retailers, and some independent retailers using POS data from May 4th to May 31st. Titles racked in the Kids or YA sections do not appear in this list. For charts from other months, see ?Bookscan Top 20 GNs Index.? |
| Source: ICv2 |
