The Walking Dead #100 Is The Top Selling Comic In The Last 15 Years

by | Jul 18, 2012 | Zombie News

Well it looks like The Walking Dead doesn’t breaking records in the cinematic genre with ratings. The comic that started it all has reached issue 100 and it’s initial order of 383612 sold out instantly which hasn’t been done since 1997. Not only that but all of the reprints with alternative covers also have sold out. Some may say that Robert Kirkman’s work is growing stale but with the huge story they are leading into and recent events in #100 (oh and it’s sales) let’s just say that we’re nowhere near seeing the last of the #1 watched television show and #1 read comic.

From the press release:

Robert Kirkman’s Eisner Award-winning The Walking Dead comic series for Image Comics/Skybound reached its milestone 100th issue and instantly sold out of its 383,612 initial orders on July 11th, the same day it was released, effectively becoming the best-selling comic book in initial orders for any publisher since 1997, when Image Comics/Top Cow’s The Darkness #11 was released. The Walking Dead, created and written by Kirkman with art by Charlie Adlard, featuring 13 variant covers for the 100th issue — all sold out — has been the talk of San Diego Comic-Con with a series of events celebrating its release. Kirkman is a partner in Image Comics, the first person invited to join the comic book industry’s premier publisher of creator-owned comics since its inception twenty years ago.

“This is a remarkable achievement,” said Image Comics Publisher Eric Stephenson. “It’s extremely uncommon, if not flat-out rare, for a comic book to see a sustained increase in sales following its first issue, but The Walking Dead steadily climbed up and up since its launch in 2003, and we couldn’t be more proud of Robert, Charlie and the whole Walking Dead team.”

“The Walking Dead continues to greatly exceed all my expectations in all forms,” said Robert Kirkman. “I am especially excited for what this means for comics as an industry, that this is an independent comic hitting that number.” Kirkman continued, “The future of comics couldn’t be brighter as more and more readers are embracing new ideas in a big way.”