Diamond Comic Distributors has posted a list of 110 Marvel comics on its Website which retailers can return for full credit starting on 9/11/02. Since Diamond as a distributor can't authorize returns without Marvel's OK, the decision to allow returns represents a complete turnaround for Marvel.

Slave Labor Graphics and Diamond Book Distribution have reached an agreement naming Diamond as the exclusive U.S. distributor of SLG's English language graphic novels to the bookstore, library, warehouse club, and mass merchandise markets.

Checker Book Publishing of Centerville, Ohio has announced that it will publish a graphic novel version of Clive Barker's short story collection, Tapping the Vein .

In its first two weeks of release the MechWarrior: Dark Age Collectible Miniatures Game has sold more than 500,000 Booster Packs and 100,000 Starter Sets .

American Gods , by comic scribe Neil Gaiman, was awarded the 2002 Hugo Award for best novel at last weekend's World Science Fiction Convention in San Jose, California.

Marvel's Ultimate line was the strongest presence in the top ten comics ordered by U.S. pop culture stores for September, with four of the top ten.

Estimated quantities for initial orders on comics shipping in September 2002 from pop culture stores ordering from Diamond US.

Cyberosia Publishing announced today that Peter Milligan and Brett Ewins' Johnny Nemo stories, which originally appeared in the trend-setting UK pop culture magazine Deadline in the late 80s/early 90s, will be collected this fall in a trade paperback that will also include the first new Nemo story in over a decade.

The Library of Congress will be including comics in its 9-11 exhibition, 'Witness and Response: September 11 Acquisitions at the Library of Congress,' which will display a selection of the materials related to 9-11 collected by the Library since the attacks.

James Furfferi of Empire Comics in Rochester, New York brings his 30 years of retailing comics to bear in his opinion of the current Marvel path.