At the kickoff of the 2002 holiday season, we talked to distributors that sell to pop culture stores in four major categories -- toys, games, anime, and comics/graphic novels.

Bev Kranz of Collectors Ink in Chico, California saw our article on the GAMA Board's decision not to enforce the ban on Internet discounters, the responses, most recently from GAMA President Rick Loomis and WizKids EVP Martin Stever and had a contribution on dealing with potential legal issues.

Our report on the GAMA board's decision not to enforce the membership's resolution to ban Internet discounters from the floor of Origins has generated considerable response. Now it's come full circle, as WizKids Executive Vice President Martin Stever, who introduced the resolution in the first place, weighs in expressing his frustration with the situation.

Retailers reporting their top dollar products to ICv2 based on October sales listed products with retail prices varying by over a factor of 100, showing that it's not necessarily a high price (or a low one) that produces big dollar volume.

WizKids has released sales figures on its DC HeroClix: Hypertime game, which was released September 18.

Gabriel Vega of the Name of the Game of Camarillo, California had a strong response to the announcement by GAMA president Rick Loomis that the GAMA Board of Directors had decided not to enforce the ban on Internet discounters on the Origins floor that was passed by the membership last year.

In a recent letter from President Rick Loomis to the GAMA membership, GAMA announced that it will not be enforcing its ban on Internet discounters on the exhibit floor of Origins in 2003.

Canadian game publisher Guardians of Order has announced a new 30mm pewter superhero miniature line that will debut in 2003.

Evergreen properties were atop all five product categories of our Top 10 Cool lists for September. Batman was #1 in both comics and toys,...

After negotiations broke down again in the acrimonious labor dispute between longshoremen and shippers in western U.S. ports, President Bush initiated the Taft-Hartley process Monday, which will allow him to declare an 80-day cooling off period.