Marvel unveiled a plethora of announcements at New York Comic Con, including new series, publishing events, and more. Tops on our list of new series was the news that Marvel will launch an ongoing Halo series....

The fifth Marvel direct-to-DVD animated movie will be targeted at a younger audience.

Confessions of a Comic Book Guy is a weekly column by retailer Steve Bennett of Mary Alice Wilson's Dark Star Comics of Yellow Springs , Ohio . This week, Bennett covers a lot of ground, revisiting the question of whether superheroes are 'silly,' looking at the ads in Marvel Adventures, and wondering about Betty becoming a NASCAR driver.

WizKids has announced The Coming of Galactus , a major organized play initiative.

Sales of periodical comics were up 14% in 2006 over 2005 -- a major improvement over the 4% gain from 2004 to 2005.

Brad Meltzer's JLA # 4 and #5 took the top two spots on Diamond Comic Distributors list of the best-selling comics in December.

These are estimates of the sales by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during December 2006.

The fifth issue of Marvel's mega-hit Civil War miniseries was the best-selling comic to comic stores in November, narrowly topping the sales on issue #4.

These are estimates of the sales by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during November 2006.

Marvel announced fairy tale miniseries for both Spider-Man and Avengers in 2007.