Marvel has raised its guidance for 2004, and is now predicting $415-$435 million in sales, around $100 million more than it was predicting a few weeks ago.

With a domestic box office take of $338 million, Finding Nemo is quite likely to be 2003's box office champion, but in just two weeks the film will have earned more on video than it did in the theaters.

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during October 2003.

John Robinson of Graham Crackers Comics saw the comment from Steve Bennett of Dark Star Books on the death of the pamphlet format for comics, and strongly disagrees.

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

An article in Publishers Weekly this week stirred up a major controversy in the comic book press, when it revealed that Marvel was planning to release full color, manga-size trade paperbacks of Sentinel , Mystique , and Runaways with price points of $7.99 or $8.99.

DC Comics took the #1 spot for comic book sales in September by smashing the 200,000 barrier to smithereens with the final issue of the Jim Lee/Jeph Loeb Batman 'Hush' storyline, which sold an amazing 233,775 copies.

Marvel Enterprises, Inc. has announced the settlement of a lawsuit brought by former Marvel Comics creator Joe Simon, who sued Marvel in 1999 in order to regain possession of the Captain America character, which he and Jack Kirby created.

Mike Kunkel's Astonish Comics ( Herobear ) has joined forces with Scott Sava's Blue Dream Studios.

Marvel announced that 200,000 copies of JLA/Avengers #1 were produced for shipment to the direct market.