Diamond Comic Distributors' tally of comics shipped during June showed declines in nineteen of the top 25 comics. Only four comics out of the top 25 showed gains and they were all Marvels.

At Friday's Marvel Press Conference concerning 1602, Neil Gaiman was asked if the profits from this series would go to Marvels and Miracles LLC., the company Gaiman set up to fund his battle with Todd McFarlane for the rights to Miracleman , as previously announced. .

The power of the #1 issue was on display in the list of the Top 300 comics shipped in May.

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.

Jerry Ringi of Amazing Fantasy in Chesapeake, Virginia, saw our coverage of the early release of Marvels in bookstores and didn't like what he saw.

Les 'Bo' Bowman of The Gamer's Den saw our recent article on Marvel books hitting the bookstore channel before comic stores and had this to say.

Michael Tierney of Collector's Edition and the Comic Book Store of North Little Rock and Little Rock, Arkansas, respectively, saw the news of the new Marvel terms for retailers and retailer Jerry Ringi's comments on them and had this to say.

Batman continued its rise for the fourth consecutive issue, with the Jeph Loeb/Jim Lee creative team powering sell-outs in comic shops.

ICv2 has confirmed that Marvel is planning to raise the cover price of 13 of its titles from $2.25 to $2.99 starting with titles shipping in April.

Sales rankings obtained by ICv2 for one recent week's sales in U.S. bookstores as compiled by a major industry reporting service showed eighteen of the top twenty graphic novel slots and all of the top ten held by manga titles.