Today only a surprisingly small percentage of pop culture retailers make much of an effort to sell apparel in their stores, but those that do often enjoy remarkable success. Here's the first in a series of examinations of the methods of retailers who have had great success in selling apparel items.

This is a list of the programming for the 2001 San Diego Comic Book Expo, a trade show for the comic industry.

Jemas explained: 'The short answer is there is no change in policy from our no overprints policy. DC has taken a hard and fast position that they are the house of reorders, and we've sort of taken the house of ideas positioning and we're just going to see how those positions play out in the marketplace.'

The Game Industry Forum and the Comic Book Industry Alliance, two popular Internet discussion forums for the members of their respective trades are sponsoring an effort to create an organization that would include both comic and game retailers.

Diamond Select Toys, a sister company of Diamond Comic Distributors, announced the signing of an agreement with Golden Books to produce merchandise based on the venerable children's book Here Comes Peter Cottontail .

Video Business reports that Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon had the biggest first week this year for a DVD title, pulling in some $30 million retail with over 1.5 million units sold.

We're publishing an e-mail from Robert Boyd of the LPC Group which in addition to giving some information on an ICv2 error last week also gives some insight into the progress Marvel is making with its trade book program .

Company profile for Georgia Music and Sport.

Company profile for Centurion Hobby Distributors, Inc., distributor for gaming products.

Distributor profile for Mad Al Distributors, located out of Anchorage, Alaska and offering various products worldwide.