Steve Bates of Bookery Fantasy in Fairborn, Ohio saw the news that Marvel comics will soon be available in 7-11 stores and offers his thoughts on the increased availability of Marvels.

The steady drumbeat of exclusive signings by the Big Two continued this week as Marvel inked artist Paolo Rivera and writer Dan Slott to exclusive contracts.

Hollywood writer/director Zak Penn has told Sci-Fi Wire that he has been engaged to write the screenplay for the third X-Men film.

Buena Vista will launch a 4-disk DVD with all 26 episodes of the 1990s Fantastic Four Animated Series.

Marvel's Peter Cuneo announced that the publisher had reached a distribution agreement with the 7-Eleven convenience store chain that would more than double the number of current outlets for Marvel comics.

Paramount Pictures has obtained the film rights to Robert Kirkman's Invincible , a comic book series about the coming of age of the son of the world's most powerful superhero.

Stan Lee and Robert Evans will produce a feature film based on Lee's new superhero creation 'Foreverman,' according to the Hollywood Reporter .

Top Cow has announced that it will produce the official City of Heroes comic series, based on the superhero massively multi-player online roleplaying game phenomenon.

Comic sales were weak again in January, with dollars dropping 3% over-all vs. January 2004.

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.