TOP TEN SELLING COMICS OF ALL TIME

List of best-selling comics

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This page provides lists of best-selling comics character series to date. This list is not limited to Japanese manga and American comics. The series are listed according to the highest sales estimate of their collected characters as reported in reliable sources.

At least 100 million copies[edit]

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Comic series	Author(s)	Publisher	No. of collected volumes	Serialized	Approximate sales
Micky Maus		Egmont Ehapa			1 billion (1998)[1]
The Beano		DC Thomson			1 billion[2]
Classics Illustrated		Elliot Publishing Co. Gilberton Company, Inc. Frawley Corporation	169		1 billion[3]
Action Comics		DC		1938-Present	600 million[4]
Batman		DC			460 million[4]
One Piece	Eiichiro Oda	Shueisha	86	Weekly Shōnen Jump 1997 – present	416 million[5][6]
Spider-Man		Marvel			360 million[4]
Asterix	René Goscinny Albert Uderzo Jean-Yves Ferri	Dargaud	36	Franco-Belgian comics 1959–2010	352 million[7]
Peanuts	Charles M. Schulz			1950–2000	300 million[8]
Lucky Luke	Morris, René Goscinny				300 million[9]
X-Men		Marvel			270 million[4]
Dragon Ball	Akira Toriyama	Shueisha	42	Weekly Shōnen Jump 1984–1995	240 million[10]
Naruto	Masashi Kishimoto	Shueisha	72	Weekly Shōnen Jump 1999–2014	220 million[11]
Captain America		Marvel			210 million [4]
Golgo 13	Takao Saito	Shogakukan	182	Big Comic 1968 – present	200 million[12]
The Adventures of Tintin	Hergé	Casterman Le Lombard Egmont Group	24		200 million [4]
Spike and Suzy		Standaard Uitgeverij	340 (2017)		200 million [13]
Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo	Osamu Akimoto	Shueisha	200	Weekly Shōnen Jump 1976–2016	156.5 million[14]
Spawn	Todd McFarlane	Image Comics			150 million[15]
Pokémon Adventures	Hidenori Kusaka, Mato and Satoshi Yamamoto	Shogakukan	52	CoroCoro Comic 1997 – present	150 million
Case Closed	Gosho Aoyama	Shogakukan	91	Weekly Shōnen Sunday 1994 – present	150 million[16][17]
The Phantom	Lee Falk	Frew Publications			150 million [4]
Garfield	Jim Davis			1978 – present	135 million[18]
Oishinbo	Tetsu Kariya and Akira Hanasaki	Shogakukan	111	Big Comic Spirits 1983 – present	130 million[19]
Avengers		Marvel			125–135 million[20]
Slam Dunk	Takehiko Inoue	Shueisha	31	Weekly Shōnen Jump 1990 – 1996	120 million[21]
Amar Chitra Katha		Amar Chitra Katha Pvt. Ltd.	449		100 million[22]
Astro Boy	Osamu Tezuka	Kobunsha	23	Shōnen 1952 – 1968	100 million[23]
Casper the Friendly Ghost	Seymour Reit and Joe Oriolo	Harvey Comics		1949 -	100 million[24]
Doraemon	Fujiko Fujio	Shogakukan	45	1969–1996	100 million[25]
Fist of the North Star	Buronson and Tetsuo Hara	Shueisha	27	Weekly Shōnen Jump 1983 – 1988	100 million[26]
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure	Hirohiko Araki	Shueisha	117	1987 – present	100 million[27]
Touch	Mitsuru Adachi	Shogakukan	26	1981 – 1986	100 million[28]