These are estimates of the sales by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during May 2007.

Sales of 16 of the top 25 comics fell in January, with only four titles demonstrating gains in the number of units sold.

Sales on comics edged up modestly in February, with improvement both at the top and the bottom of the list of the bestselling titles in comic shops.

Sales of periodical comics in January 2004 dipped slightly across the board, with only three titles registering gains versus December totals while the numbers for 19 titles fell.

Adam Kubert, one of Marvel's top X-Men artists ( Ultimate X-Men ), will auction off his services for a three-hour comic book store signing anywhere in the U.S. on May 3, 2003.

Initial piece orders from comic stores on the top comic titles were weaker in June, with orders dropping on seventeen of the top 25 titles.

ICv2 has learned this week that Marvel has reprinted Ultimate X-Men #1 and Ultimate Spider-man #1 for Walmart -- the nation's largest retailer.

The Topps Company is readying its first Marvel series based on comic art, which features line art by some of today's top pencilers including, Steve Dillon, Randy Green, Humberto Ramos, Pop Mhan, Kevin Lau, and Sean Chen. Has the market recovered from the hangover caused by the Fleer binge?

In its first week of release on VHS and DVD, the X-Men movie garnered an astounding $63.5 million in sales and rentals.

Piskor, whose best known works included X-Men: Grand Design and Hip Hop Family Tree, was 41.