Darin Erickson runs Amazing Comics & Cards, a 4000-square foot pop culture store in a Target-anchored shopping center in Long Beach, California.

Licensed merchandise based on entertainment and characters accounted for over $25 billion in sales in 1999.

In the wake of LPC's announcement that it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, ICv2 was able to contact most of the comic book publishers that LPC represents to the book trade.

The Topps Company has trading cards for three of the top movie projects for 2002, Spider-Man , Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones , and Lord of the Rings: The Two To wers.

Comic and graphic novel orders from pop culture stores jumped sharply in April, posting the best dollar total since January and ending four consecutive months of seasonal declines.

Estimated quantities for initial orders on graphic novels shipping in April 2002 from pop culture stores ordering from Diamond US.

ICv2's second annual look at the merchandising potential of Hollywood movies comes at what could be described as both the 'worst of times' and the 'best of times' for selling tie-in goods.

Dark Horse Comics and laser-mavens Gentle Giant have announced an agreement for Dark Horse to act as the exclusive sales agent for Gentle Giant's consumer products.

The game industry gathers in Las Vegas next week, in a year that looks to have continuing change after a tumultuous, mostly successful 2001.

January is a transition month in the pop culture products business, with the first week or two typically showing strong post-Christmas sales, followed by slowing traffic as the winter doldrums set in. But there was a lot of activity in pop culture stores this January, with especially strong releases in the comic category.