Gary Cross, an editorialist in the Op-Ed section of Sunday's New York Times , tied licensed toys to the recent toy recalls, suggesting that the business model teaches kids to collect.

ICv2 continues its series of interviews with comic publishers with a talk with Marvel publisher Dan Buckley (who asked VP Sales David Gabriel) to join in. In Part 2 we talk about more of the newer distribution channels for Marvel books, and Marvel's publishing plans to tie into its 2008 movies.

In Part , we talk about the state of the market and the reasons for the success of Civil War in bookstores as well as comic stores.

Tough comparables continue to keep the market for comics and graphic novels in the direct market growing at a more sedate 5% pace, after blistering the charts with double digit growth earlier this year.

World War Hulk #3 crawled back to the top of the charts in August after losing to Thor #1 last month.

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during August 2007.

These are estimates of the sales by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during August 2007.

Mayfair Games will relaunch its flagship Catan game line.

In Part 3, we talk about Wizards' policies on Internet sales, and how it enforces them.

In Part 2, we talk about why pre-release events are held outside of stores, and what impact those events might be having on sales made in brick and mortar stores.

In Part 1, we get an overview of the different kinds of Magic organized play events.

Platinum Studios filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission last week for the sale of shares by some of its current shareholders, and announced its plans to go public.