Diamond Select's latest acquisition is a license with Sandy Frank Productions for Battle of the Planets , aka Gatchaman, Eagle Riders , and G-Force . Under this new agreement Diamond Select gets the rights to develop action figures, resin statues, calendars, wall scrolls, building block figures under 3 inches

The retailer sales numbers that ICv2 has collected for June continue to display the trends that we have seen over the past six months.

According to a Bandai spokesperson, Cowboy Bebop will indeed be broadcast on the Cartoon Network.

After remaining silent for months in the face of chiding from Marvel's Bill Jemas, DC Comics spokesman Bob Wayne fired off a flurry of verbal jabs at Marvel.

N2, the innovative company that created the highly successful toys based on The Matrix , has released photos and information on its new series of action figures based on The Tick television series, which will air this fall on the Fox Network.

Max Allen Collins and Richard Piers-Rayner's graphic novel The Road to Perdition never received the attention it deserved in the comic market, but it did raise eyebrows in Hollywood, where this depression-era saga of a hitman's revenge has been developed into a starring vehicle for Tom Hanks.

Tokyopop has announced a major expansion of its manga line, which will double by the end of the year.

The first Buffy CCG release, which will be designed using episodes from the first two seasons of the award winning series, will debut late in 2001.

Humanoids Publishing, the U.S. arm of the French comic publishing giant Les Humanoides Associes, is bringing European-style graphic novels to U.S. bookstores and comic shops.

It would be hard to imagine a stronger group of titles with which to take advantage of the growing acceptance of the comics medium by the U.S. literary mainstream than the Fantagraphics fall list.