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.

The announcement of a new Marvel crossover event, Secret Invasion , has piqued both consumer and retailer interest.

The editors of Secret Identities: The Asian Superhero Anthology have appealed for submissions from artists and writers.

Marvel will release two collections of material from the bestselling World War Hulk event this spring.

This week, Bennett talks about the joy of comic strip collections.

A recent article in the Los Angeles Times by Jay Fernandez cleared up some of the confusion over who is writing Marvel Studio's new Hulk film.

The launch issue of Thor , which shipped with three covers during July, topped comic sales to comic stores in July with over 165,000 copies sold.