Well, When comic books were released "The Sub-Mariner" was the first comic ever to be sold. But, through the years when the first Spiderman Issue was released that had the most sells ever in comic book history. So, In my opinion Spiderman has sold the most.
I believe it's the Harry Potter series. The author of those books (J.K. Rowling) is the world's first milti-billionaire author. Before she wrote the first book in the series in the early 1990's, she had no money, and was flat broke.
The book was rejected by the first 12 publishing companies she submitted it to, but was accepted by the 13th one. I have a feeling the first 12 publishers who rejected her manuscript are really regretting it now.
"Superman" and "Batman" are two of the most popular comic book characters worldwide. The "X-Men" and "Spider-Man" are also highly recognized and beloved by fans worldwide.
The joker (bat man) is the most popular comic book, and movie villains.
Spiderman.
Asterix the Gaul .
Comic books are sold in Iran in bookshops, but there are no specialty shops that I have seen. The most popular comic is Tin Tin.
The most popular book in the world is the Guinness World Records of 2008.
I'm not sure about India but most likely they do have some sort of comic-books such as the character of the venerable Chacha Chaudhary whereas The Adventures of Asterix is a widely popular comic-book in both Belgium and France .
The Bible is the most popular book selling over 6 billion copies worldwide.
The Christain BIBLE
Naruto was a Japanese comic book. Also called Manga the book became really popular and then it became one of the most famous JJapanese franchise ever.
The founders of Comic-Con are Shel Dorf, Ken Krueger, and Richard Alf. They established the first Comic-Con convention in 1970 in San Diego, California, which has since grown into one of the largest and most popular comic book and pop culture conventions in the world.
--- Kona-chan
No , the comic book character is most likely to be found in a comic book whereas a cartoon character will be found within a TV cartoon are as a character in a cartoon comic strip .