These are estimates of the sales on comic books by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during August 2017.

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during August 2017.

Argentinian director Andres Muschietti’s adaptation of Stephen King’s It debuted with $117.8 million, the third best opening of 2017, setting numerous box office records and boosting the slumping box office up 22% as Spider-Man Homecoming debuted in China and passed Wonder Woman's global total.

August was another tough month in a tough year for comics and graphic novel sales in comic stores.

Millennium Films announced it will produce a new feature based on Jerry Iger and Will Eisner's Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.

This was the first Labor Day weekend in 25 years that didn’t include the debut of a new film in more than 1,000 theaters, and while that lack of competition led to minimal week-to-week drops for the holdovers, it also produced the lowest grossing Labor Day frame since 2000.

Geoff Johns has revealed the first covers in DC's 12-issue Doomsday Clock miniseries.

Hurricane Harvey shut down theaters in much of South Texas, and the much ballyhooed fight between boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. and MMA fighter Conor McGregor helped lower Saturday attendance as Hollywood limped to the end of a disappointing summer season with the top 12 films earning the lowest amount registered since the weeks following the 9/11 attack.

A second Wonder Woman Gravity Feed is being made available to the hobby trade.

There’s only one theatrical release this week, but it’s a big one, James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 , and there are plenty of key TV-related offerings including recent seasons of The Walking Dead, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Supergirl, Lucifer , Ash vs. the Evil Dead , plus for music buffs, an insane punk rock TV talk show co-hosted by Blondie’s Chris Stein.