Diamond has posted the April Previews Order Form on its Website and retailers have noticed that there are no Marvel comics listed at $2.25.

How successful has the Shrek franchise been for Dreamworks? The answer can be seen in the studio's hiring of screenwriter Tim Sullivan to write the script for Shrek 4 even before Shrek 3 goes into pre-production.

The top 13 best-selling comics were all Marvels in January, with the top title from any other publisher selling less than 70,000 copies.

Greg Roch of Comic Readers in Regina, Saskatchewan saw the news that Upper Deck is changing its shipping policy on new Yu-Gi-Oh! releases and suggests other companies follow suit.

John Riley of Grasshopper's Comics in Williston Park, New York saw the comments by Ilan Strasser of Fat Moose Comics on the number of Marvel trade paperback titles that are out of print and agrees, but also sees another problem with the Marvel trade paperback line.

Marvel has granted licenses to four major book publishers for mass market books based on Marvel characters, with initial products slated for release in Q1 2005.

New Avengers #1 was the best-selling comic in December, topping 240,000 copies sold to comic shops by Diamond.

With sales down on an individual basis on a lot of comic titles and weak graphic novel sales, the market struggled to a 2% increase in dollars for November 2003 vs. November 2004.

Sales were soft for most of the top comic titles this month, with five out of the top ten and 16 out of the top 25 dropping in sales. But the top seven piece books were all higher than the current base $2.25 price.

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during November 2004.