Nation's Largest Retailer Gets Hard-to-Find First Issues
November 6, 2001
ICv2 has learned this week that Marvel has reprinted Ultimate X-Men #1 and Ultimate Spider-man #1 for Walmart -- the nation's largest retailer.
By Catch 23 Entertainment
November 6, 2001
Movie rights to Just a Pilgrim , the Black Bull comic by Garth Ennis, have been acquired by Catch 23 Entertainment. The first comic series debuted in March 2001, and has now been collected into a trade paperback.
Shrek Video Shreds Monsters, Inc.
November 5, 2001
The Shrek video and DVD release pulled in around $110 million retail dollars in its first three days of release, according to Universal Home Video.
Caused by Discount E-Commerce from CrossGen 'Mall'
November 5, 2001
In response to criticism of the new e-commerce area on its website, CrossGen has made changes to its site and created a new program for brick and mortar retailers that stock its books.
Sanctioned Tournaments and Leagues for Stores
November 4, 2001
WizKids has announced a new organized play system for its hit Mage Knight collectible miniatures game (CMG).
To Print
November 4, 2001
Flying Buffalo Games has announced that after receiving new cards from the printer, Nuclear War, Nuclear Escalation , and Nuclear Proliferation will be back in print -- probably in early December.
Early D&D Contributor Plans Modules
November 4, 2001
Troll Lord Games has announced that early D&D contributor Rob Kuntz has agreed to do a series of d20 modules to be released in 2002.
Who Gets the Growth?
November 3, 2001
Marvel and DC are pulling out all the stops for December in a contest to see which publisher will gain the most customers from an expected wave of new consumers surging into comic stores that month.
Now Two Volumes
November 5, 2001
DC is joining September 11 , the previously announced comic benefit project organized by Dark Horse and Chaos.
From Game Publishing to Distribution
November 1, 2001
Tim Avers has left his position as Marketing Director at White Wolf Publishing and taken a new position at Gameboard Distributors, a Knoxville, Tennessee-based game distributor.
Marvel Keeps G.I. Joe
November 1, 2001
Titan Books has announced that it has the North American rights to reprint Transformers comics through 2002 in addition to its U.K. rights.
Continues Story Begun in Anime
October 31, 2001
Viz is preparing to publish The Big O manga series, which is written and drawn by Hitoshi Ariga ( Rockman ).
