In Part 4 of our Dan Buckley interview, we talk about the Civil War delays and the challenges and opportunities in 2007.

In Part 3 of our Dan Buckley interview, we discuss Marvel's editing policies for changing content for different audiences, its current Web strategy, and its perspective on legal and illegal comic downloads.

In Part 2 of our Dan Buckley interview, we talk about Marvel's latest efforts to increase its sales to female consumers.

In Part 1 of our Dan Buckley interview, we reviewed the state of the market on a channel by channel basis, and asked how Marvel will handle its publishing program for its big movie year in 2007.

Image Comics has announced the release of a Madman hardcover collection and the launch of a new monthly Madman series.

This week Bennett talks about new comic publishers and what formats might work best for them, shares the story of Superman's appearance on Phil Donahue, and takes his weekly turn past Web comics.

Top Cow and Bandai Entertainment will publish the Wichblade manga series in two different formats in 2007.

The chunky dollars from a number of top-selling hardcovers helped drive graphic novel sales up 38% vs. the previous year in October.

The Civil War family of titles took the top comic slot in October despite the absence of the flagship title.

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during October 2006.