Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead reached a milestone issue in July's The Walking Dead #100, the best-selling comic book in July. DC Entertainment's Batman: Earth One from Geoff Johns and Gary Franks was the month's top graphic novel. DC Entertainment was the month's top publisher overall.

The latest issue of Marvel Comics' summer event, Avengers Vs. X-Men #6, was June's best-selling comic book. Image Comics' The Walking Dead Volume 16: A Larger World was the month's top graphic novel. Marvel Comics was the top publisher in dollar share, while DC Entertainment was the month's top publisher in unit share.

The Avengers and the X-Men continued their pursuit of Hope while the Phoenix Force neared Earth in Avengers Vs. X-Men #4, the best-selling comic book to comics retailers in June 2012.

Rick Grimes and his band of survivors continued their desperate search for safety and civilization in the wake of the zombie apocalypse in Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead Volume 16: A Larger World from Image Comics, the best-selling graphic novel in June.

Geoff Johns and Gary Franks reimagined the history of Bruce Wayne and his early days as Gotham City's crusading hero in the original hardcover graphic novel Batman: Earth One, the best-selling graphic novel to retailers in July.