As mentioned Dark Tower: The Long Road Home was the bestselling comic book of the month, followed by four other Marvel titles making up the Top 5, broken up only by Dark Horse's seemingly still-growing Buffy the Vampire Slayer #12. DC's first charter - Justice League of America #19 followed in the #7 slot.

DC took the top 2 spots on March's graphic novel chart, with the new Batman: The Killing Joke Special Edition Hardcover coming in at #1, nearly doubling the unit sales of the #2 charter, Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall Softcover, a notewothy feat considering the sales the 20+ year-old story has racked up in is various incarnations and reprints over the last two decades.

As to Marvel Share, Marvel held serve and is up a break over last month. They accounted for 43.53% of Unit sales in March, as compared to 32.45% for DC, and 38.70% in Dollar share, compared to 29.98% for DC.

And while only slightly, many of the smaller publishers, like Dark Horse, Image, and IDW showed slight Market Share increases over February, although that pattern will be interesting to follow when both Marvel and DC's big summer events get going at the same time.

Look for more in-depth analysis of the monthly sales charts right here very soon...

[Below are the full Market Share report and the Top 100 comic book and graphic novel charts.]