Beginning this month, we're beginning a new phase in our reporting on top comic and graphic novel sales. Diamond Comic Distributors, the largest distributor of comics in the U.S., has changed its sales reporting methodology...

Comics and superheroes made quite a splash in the media last week and we're not even counting the articles about the new X-Men movie that opens this coming weekend.

One key area of dispute is based on the distinction between movie-related Spider-Man merchandise and 'classic' Spider-Man merchandise.

Judge Alexander Williams III ruled in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday that all aspects of Marvel's lawsuit against Sony over Spider-Man merchandising will be made public.

Roughly one year ago, California retailer Brian Hibbs filed a class action lawsuit against Marvel. We asked Hibbs for his feelings about the current status of this slow-moving suit.

Stu Zicherman and Raven Metzner have signed on to write the screenplay for the Elektra film starring Jennifer Garner, who has approved the story they outlined. Fox executives are planning to begin shooting in the summer of 2004 during Garner's hiatus from the Alias TV series.

Marvel's press conference today was to announce two additional Epic series, both by journalists previously unpublished as comic writers.

Marvel's efforts to gain attention for its products with hot-button editorial material recently succeeded in an unlikely way -- its Captain America comics were reviewed by Michael Medved on National Review Online.

Marvel has announced that it will be expanding its Marvel Must-Have program to include more titles reprinting consecutive issues in a storyline.

Dreamworks has optioned a comic book-derived film. Band of Brothers writer Bruce McKenna is writing The Hands of Shang Chi.