This fall the Chicago Review Press will publish Jordan Raphael and Tom Spurgeon's Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book , an unauthorized biography.

Marvel President Bill Jemas dramatically reversed course and announced that he was ready to reprint Trouble #1 if the book sells out.

Gail Burt of Metropolis Comics in Downey, California saw the recent comments on ordering strategies from Rich Biedrzycki of Dreamland and L. Bowman of the Gamers Den and does do the happy dance when a comic sells out.

Columbia Pictures has acquired the rights to one of Marvel Comic's leading black superheroes, Luke Cage .

Our analysis of sales to comic stores by Diamond Comic Distributors during April has dollars up nearly 5% over March and more titles up than down, with Batman sales by Diamond topping 150,000 copies.

These are estimates of the sales by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during April 2003.

The Matrix Reloaded earned an estimated four-day total of $135.8 million, sending it past Spider-Man's $125.9 million for the all-time best four-day cumulative box office receipts.

Wizard Entertainment announced that the Wizard Zero issue that goes on sale on July 30 will include exclusive comic stories featuring Batman and Ultimate Spider-Man.

Topping this year's three Marvel movies ( Daredevil, X2 , and Hulk ), in 2004 five movies based on Marvel properties will be released.

There is no doubt that X2: X-Men United will blitz the box office this weekend, it's just a matter of by what multiple it will top the sum of all the other movies in theaters during the first weekend in May.