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These infographics cover popular culture, including comic book history, music sales and charts, franchises, film and television, and games of every kind, with separate sections for film and TV and for games. Every page credits the artist or publisher, lists everything shown on the graphic and corrects anything the original gets wrong. Start with 13 types of dragons, named and described, every Spider-Man symbol from 1962 to 2019, the best selling albums of all time, James Bond movies and actors in order or the best selling board games of all time.

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FUN.com graphic titled The Best-Selling Board Games of All Time, Ranked, drawn as a winding board game track listing 20 games from chess, checkers and Monopoly to Connect 4, Blokus and Cranium, with units sold, year introduced and number of players for each
Games

Best Selling Board Games of All Time

By FUN.com

Monopoly is the best selling board game with a known sales total, at an estimated 275 million copies since 1935, followed by Scrabble at about 150 million…

AAA State of Play chart titled A Timeline of 101 Marvel Character Comic Book Debuts, showing flat illustrated Marvel characters in rows by debut year from 1939 to 2017, from the Sub-Mariner and Captain America to Spider-Man, Wolverine, Deadpool and Ironheart, with icons for alignment, species and origin of powers
Entertainment

Marvel Comics Timeline of 101 Character Debuts

By AAA State of Play

Captain America followed in 1941, and after a quiet Atlas period in the 1950s, the Fantastic Four in 1961 began the modern Marvel universe, with Spider-Man,…

What this collection covers

The 34 infographics here fall into four main groups. There are rankings of money and sales, such as franchise revenue, concert tour grosses, vinyl sales and media company profit margins. There are ratings and awards for television and film, including The Simpsons, The Sopranos and Steven Spielberg's Oscar record. There are histories of comic book characters and designs from Marvel, Batman and Nintendo. And there are games, from chess openings and board game sales to console prices, Pokémon types and esports genres. A few cover books, such as famous first lines and literary periods.

Where to start

Highest Grossing Media Franchise Rankings, Pokémon to Barbie, from Voronoi by Visual Capitalist, puts Pokémon first at an estimated $147 billion, of which $103 billion came from merchandise, with Hello Kitty second at $89 billion. For live music, Lemonly's Highest Grossing Tours of All Time, Adjusted for Inflation has Taylor Swift's Eras Tour first at $2.08 billion from 149 shows, followed by Coldplay's Music of the Spheres Tour at $1.15 billion.

For television, Roshaan Khan's Simpsons Ratings by Season and Episode, IMDb Heat Map shows season averages peaking at 8.4 in seasons 5 to 7 and falling to a low of 6.1 in season 30. Steven Spielberg Academy Awards, Every Film's Oscar Record counts 145 Oscar nominations and 33 wins across his 34 feature films. Schindler's List won the most, 7 from 12 nominations, while The Color Purple won none of its 11.

Two charts on games work as a pair. Console Prices Adjusted for Inflation, 43 Launch Prices Charted puts the Neo Geo and the 3DO at about $1,500 or more in adjusted terms. Video Game Price Chart, Game Prices Adjusted for Inflation finds NES games cost the equivalent of $146 in 2024 dollars, and every console on it sits above the $70 price of a new game in 2024.

Graphics on films and television, and on games, also have their own sections, Film and TV and Games.

Questions about entertainment infographics

What is the highest grossing media franchise of all time?

Pokémon is first on the Voronoi by Visual Capitalist ranking, with estimated all time revenue of $147 billion, of which $103 billion came from merchandise. Hello Kitty is second at $89 billion.

What is the best selling album of all time?

On the Best Selling Album of All Time and the Top 50 by EAS chart, Michael Jackson's Thriller leads with 122.84 million EAS. Hotel California by the Eagles is second at 73.2 million.

Which actor played James Bond in the most films?

On the Express chart of all 27 James Bond movies, Roger Moore has the most official films, seven. Sean Connery has six official films plus one unofficial, Never Say Never Again (1983).

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