Quantity Estimates Based on Diamond Indexes and Publisher Title Data
July 24, 2002
Estimated quantities for initial orders on comics shipping in August 2002 from pop culture stores ordering from Diamond US.
How Ingram Works
May 26, 2002
Retailer Tim Davis of Alternate Reality in Chicago, Illinois was prompted by our article on an Ohio retailer now splitting Marvel business between Diamond and Ingram to send us this earlier letter he sent to Comics & Games Retailer on his experience with Ingram.
Marvel Tweaks DC
May 13, 2002
Marvel announced details of its Fantastic Four #60 $.09 issue, coming August 28th, and in keeping with the pricing made sure to contrast its book with DC's 10 Cent Batman at every opportunity.
Due in Stores May 15
April 14, 2002
Stan Lee's Mutants, Monsters, & Marvels , a direct-to-DVD (and VHS) release featuring film director/actor/comic scribe Kevin Smith talking to Lee about his amazing career, is set for release May 14.
Five Extra Pages in Every Book
April 8, 2002
Marvel has announced final details of its May Insert program, which will encompass every comic the publisher will release that month to sample the additional readers that are expected to pick up comics as a result of the Spider-Man movie.
THQ Also Developing 'The Call'
April 8, 2002
Marvel announced a new agreement today with THQ, Inc to create a series of videogames based on the classic Marvel characters Captain America , The Punisher , and Nick Fury .
Mighty Marvel Must Have #1
October 8, 2001
At Diamond Comic Distributor's Las Vegas Retailer Summit, Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada announced that the publisher was going to reprint the hugely popular Origin #1 before the entire series is collected in a trade paperback
Dollars Up 11% in October
October 3, 2001
Comic orders were up again in October, kicking off the fourth quarter with the best dollar month this year to date. Total dollars for October were up over 11% compared to September, which was an unusually strong month when compared to normal seasonal trends.
We Are Never Going To Overprint
September 4, 2001
At today's Marvel Press Conference, President and COO Bill Jemas announced that pre-orders for Marvel's October books were the highest (both in dollar and unit terms) since December of 1996, when the numbers were buoyed by the Onslaught crossover with DC.
FF and Iron Man Games in Pipe
August 29, 2001
Activision has added Fantastic Four and Iron Man to its roster of Marvel properties, which already includes X-Men, Spider-Man and Blade .
