Mark Bergman, age 54, died on Tuesday, October 16, 2001, at his home in Madison, Wisconsin with his wife Ronee and his canine companions, Hershey and Willie Nelson, at his side.

Over the past year, there's been a lot of controversy surrounding Marvel's no-overprint/no reprint policy. Origin has been the Marvel title around which this discussion has swirled most recently.

Over the past few weeks, we've done two major articles on Diamond's poll regarding the release day for new comics that produced some retailer response.

Heroes -- Marvel's tribute/benefit book for September 11th charities -- sold out its first printing at the distributor level on Wednesday, October 17th, the day it was released.

According to press reports, U.S.-Canada border crossings near Champlain, New York were closed for several hours last week due to a bomb threat and a suspicious van involving A.N. Derringer, a major freight forwarder in the area.

Although Score has been selling its highly successful Dragon Ball Z CCG to mass merchants for some time, at the recent Retailer Summit in Las Vegas, ICv2 learned that mass merchant penetration will become much more visible in the upcoming holiday season.

Humanoids Publishing, the U.S. arm of French comic publisher Les Humanoides Associes, has announced that it will be producing an American version of Metal Hurlant , the innovative French magazine on which the American Heavy Metal magazine was based.

Here are a few of the tidbits from presentations of major comic publishers at the Diamond/Alliance Retailer Summit held in Las Vegas last week.

The first presentation at the Diamond/Alliance Retailer Summit in Las Vegas on Monday evening was Image, which led off with publisher Jim Valentino. He didn't seem too happy with the recent tone of comic industry events, at one point urging the listeners to 'stop the fingerpointing, the blaming, and the namecalling.'

Wizard's Stewart Morales gave his Tony Robbins impression at the Diamond/Alliance Retailer Summit in Las Vegas, roaming the crowd with his headset mike touting upcoming and current Image releases.