Marvel Enterprises has offered to exchange all of its outstanding convertible preferred shares, which require 8% annual dividend payments, for common shares at a 1.39/1 ratio.

Total comic and graphic novel order dollars dropped 11% in October compared to the year-ago period, reflecting a strong October last year. Orders were down less than 1% vs. October 2000.

After a short recess, Gaiman decided to keep his copyright interest in characters he created for Todd McFarlane's Spawn comic--Medieval Spawn, and Cagliostro--rather than seeking breach of contract damages from McFarlane.

A Paid Advertisement. Diamond Select has teamed with the inmates of the Art Asylum to bring fans 'The Death of Captain Marvel,' the first in a new 1/6th scale line of hyper-detailed, high-quality statues, in scale with previous Marvel full-sized statues.

Neil Gaiman and Todd McFarlane battled in court today, in a dispute that McFarlane's attorney called in his opening statement a case about 'two realities, Neil's reality and Todd's reality.'

USA Today , the country's largest circulation daily newspaper, published a story on Marvel's new Captain America series, The Truth , on the front page of its Life section in last weekend's edition.

Mark Amoroso of Blackthorn Gamecenter in Dickson, Tennessee saw our article on Toys R Us adding Wizkids' Marvel HeroClix to its mix nationwide and sent us his opinions on it.

Based on a successful trial in various markets across the U.S., Toys R' Us has decided to sell WizKids' Marvel HeroClix: Infinity Challenge CMG in its stores nationwide.

Don Bunning of Hobby Horse in Decatur, Illinois was prompted by a link in our article on a recent Jemas/Quesada interview to note that great orders only mean great sales when the books ship.

In an interview published on the Comic Book Resources Website last Friday, Marvel COO Bill Jemas released a set of dollar order numbers for August 2001 and August 2000 for the top five comic publishers, saying they were 'directly from Diamond.'