WizKids monthly Organized Play events have topped 10,000 per month, with over 11,000 held in October alone, which is greater than the number of formal events run by game industry leader Wizards of the Coast.

A Paid Advertisement. In a fantasy vein, but with a romantic comedy twist, is Princess Prince . It's a gender-bending tale of a young prince that's forced by the king to live as a princess to remind the king of his late wife.

Tim Marks of Friendly Frank's Comic Cavern in Kansas City, Missouri saw Timothy Davis' plea for more comics appropriate for young children, and had a suggestion for making the products more desirable for retailers and using the results to recruit new comic readers through charity.

Tim Davis of Alternate Reality in Chicago, Illinois sent us this well-thought-out and impassioned plea for publishers to produce comics that can be sold to young children.

In today's Marvel press conference, Marvel President Bill Jemas told the press that the publisher was fine-tuning its books for mega-merchant Wal-Mart.

Samurai Comics of Phoenix, Arizona incorporated multiple product categories into its display, and used a Shonen Jump poster as the large graphic element. It also tied in its display to in-store events and to a promotion with a local library.

Ground Zero is a two-store multi-category pop culture retailer in Mobile, Alabama that carries comics, games, DVDs, magazines, miniatures, some toys, and some board games.

We talked to Jon Huston of Toy Vault at GenCon to find out what's in the product pipeline for Q4, and the company plans to continue to expand its plush and other non-action figure lines.

Hasbro is announcing that a number of new Stikfas products will be out before the end of the year, including a green military figure in September, a tan figure in November, and a firefighter, a samurai, and a knight on a black stallion in December.

For 2003 Dark Horse has lined up a number of exciting licensed projects that are going to be much more than mere comic book versions of screen stories.