Website Supports Weekly Comic
May 8, 2006
DC Comics has launched the 52thecomic.com Website in support of the weekly comic book series, 52 .
Nomination S.R.L.
May 8, 2006
Warner Bros. has awarded a worldwide license to the Italian company, Nomination s.r.l. to produce jewelry items based on Batman and Superman .
For 6-9 & 8-12
May 8, 2006
Tokyopop has announced two new publishing initiatives aimed at young readers.
Of 6-Inch Action Figures
May 8, 2006
Shocker Toys has announced Indie Spotlight , a new line of Indie Comics action figures.
Simultaneous Worldwide Launch
May 8, 2006
Rackham will launch AT-43, its new science fiction CMG, late this year.
'I Was a Little Worried...'
May 7, 2006
Lee Hester of Lee's Comics in Mountain View and San Mateo, California sends in our first Free Comic Book Day Report of 2006, and sounds like it went great!
First Look Payment Went to Bank
May 7, 2006
Ventura Distribution executed a General Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors.
'Proliferation of Mediocre Comics'
May 7, 2006
Jim Crocker of Modern Myths in Northampton, Massachusetts saw the column by Steve Bennett on competition for market share between the Big Two comic publishers by varying the number of titles, and has this to say.
But Still Wins Easily
May 7, 2006
Paramount's Mission: Impossible III earned a somewhat disappointing $48 million during its debut weekend and had almost exactly the same per screen average as Dan Clowes & Terry Zwigoff's Art School Confidential (though M:I3 earned its average on 4,042 more screens than did ASC, which opened in just 12 theaters in LA and New York).
With More 3.75' Figures
May 7, 2006
Hasbro is expanding its Titanium Series of die-cast vehicles and figures with highly-detailed 3.75' die-cast figures.
Producer Taka Ichise
May 7, 2006
Twentieth Century Fox has signed a three-year first look deal with Japanese horror film producer Taka Ichise.
Five Volumes Out in September
May 7, 2006
Phaidon Press is readying five collections of cartoons by the French artist Jean-Jacques Sempe.
