With Jay Franco & Sons
May 6, 2004
Marvel has announced that it's consolidating its licenses in the domestics category with Jay Franco & Sons, Inc.
For $3 Million
May 6, 2004
Game producer Genio Group has signed for its first credit facility, with IIG Capital LLC.
For Ten Books, Including Four Yaoi Titles
May 6, 2004
Digital Manga has signed with Diamond Book Distributors for distribution for ten books.
Top Two in Bookstores
May 6, 2004
The Del Rey manga line, which just launched with four titles, has debuted strong, scoring the top two and four out of the top twelve slots on the Nielsen Bookscan graphic novel bestseller list for the week ending May 2nd.
First Issue Sold Out
May 5, 2004
Top Cow has announced that it's sold out of Strykeforce #1.
Life-Size Superhero Environment
May 5, 2004
True Adventures Ltd. has announced that it will produce True Heroes , a new superhero event inspired by Upper Deck's Marvel TCG , at GenCon Indy in August.
In 15 Stadiums
May 5, 2004
Spider-Man 2 Weekends will be held at 15 Major League Baseball stadiums the weekend of June 11-13th.
AniMinis
May 5, 2004
ADV has announced a line of 3' DVDs called AniMinis. Each AniMini will hold a single episode, and will sell for $6.98. The line is kicking off with ten shoujo titles shipping in June.
Again
May 5, 2004
Reality Storm: When Worlds Collide , the RPG crossover between Champions and Silver Age Sentinels, is at the printer and will ship around the end of May.
Needed To Know Earlier
May 5, 2004
Sara Grey of Mira Mesa Comic Gallery in San Diego, California saw our article on some of the upcoming marketing support for Free Comic Book Day and had this comment.
Selling All the Time
May 5, 2004
Alan Elliott of Queen City Bookstore saw the comments of Jim and Crystal Brown of Midwest Comics & Games and Matt Lehman of Comicopia on Hellboy stock-outs and had this response.
On July Releases, FCBD, and Being a Publisher
May 5, 2004
We had a brief conversation with new Image publisher Erik Larsen....
