Columnist Jim McLauchlin tracks his desire for a single comic through the direct distribution system to find why it wasn’t in the store when he wanted it, and what can be done about it.

In Business 3x3, a business retailer or executive will share their experience with three things they’ve done right, three things they’ve done wrong, and what else they’ve learned along the way.

Thorne looks at the growing problem of counterfeit merchandise in the specialty game industry.

This week’s home entertainment offerings include the first Marvel Studios-produced Spider-Man movie, a fitting final tribute to Adam West’s Batman , the most successful R-rated comedy of the summer, the strong first season of the TV series based on Neil Gaiman’s American Gods , and a rare chance to see one of TV’s first great comedians in action.

Blumhouse, which earlier this year scored mega-hits with the micro-budgeted horror films , Split and Get Out , has apparently done it again with Happy Death Day , which cost less than $5 million to produce, but easily took the box office crown with $26.5 million.

This week, Steve Bennett rounds up news from New York Comic Con.

Neil Gaiman, Dave Sim and Carmine Infantino are bit players while Phil Seuling, Chuck Rozanski and ICv2's own Milton Griepp are the protagonists.