DC Entertainment's Batman #19 was April's best-selling comic book to the direct market. Image Comics' The Walking Dead Volume 1: Days Gone Bye returned to the top of the graphic novels chart in April. Marvel Comics was the month's top publisher.

The winners of the Diamond Retail Best Practices Awards (BPAs) were announced during the dinner portion of Diamond's Retailer Summit in Chicago on April 25.

A bank robbery committed by Bruce Wayne poses a mystery that Batman must solve in Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's Batman #19 from DC Comics, the best-selling comic book to retailers in April.

Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead Volume 1: Days Gone Bye, the first volume of the best-selling Image Comics zombie series and the basis for a top-rated television series from AMC, returned to the top of the graphic novels sales charts in April.

Free Comic Book Day 2013 hits on Saturday, May 4, but you can start prepping for the annual event now by ordering FCBD 2013 Promotional Items like Posters, Buttons, Shelf Talkers, Lanyards, and more!