Nine of the top 25 comics were new Marvel titles in March, helping the company achieve a highly dominant 23 of the top 25 books.

Sales on the top comic titles slid across the board in September, in a normal seasonal decline in sales compared to August.

Ultimate Fantastic Four #1 came in at 173,441 copies sold by Diamond U.S. in December, the best-selling performance by a regular Marvel title since the final issue of Origin nearly two years ago.

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.

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.

Fox's X2: X-Men United opened the summer movie season with a bang, grabbing an estimated $85.85 million during its weekend debut.

Orders on top comic titles were a mixed bag for March, with Batman slipping a bit after climbing for four consecutive months, four Marvel Ultimate books in the top ten all climbing, and other Marvel books mostly down.

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Marvel's Ultimate line was the strongest presence in the top ten comics ordered by U.S. pop culture stores for September, with four of the top ten.

Fox announced today that the sequel to the hugely popular first X-Men film will be released on May 2, 2003, not in the winter of 2002 as had been rumored.