Diamond Select Toys plans to increase its output considerably in 2006.

Marvel Comics has announced that Brian Michael Bendis will be a Guest of Honor at the New York Comic-Con.

Comic store sales of the top comic titles were overwhelmingly down on a piece basis in December, with 21 of the 23 continuing series in the top 25 showing issue-over-issue sales declines.

These are estimates of the sales by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during December 2005.

Diamond Comic Distributors sold an estimated 207,564 copies of DC's Infinite Crisis #2 to comic stores in November, only a 17% drop from the first issue.

These are estimates of the sales by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during November 2005.

These are estimates of the sales by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during October 2005.

The Teshkeel Media Group has signed an agreement with Marvel Entertainment, Inc. to bring Arabic-language Marvel comics to the Middle East region.

During a conference call discussing the post- House of M / Decimation event, Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada made no bones about the fact that he was happy that the result of this major Marvel event would be a drastic reduction in the number of mutants in the Marvel Universe.

Gabriel Hagmann of DreamStrands Comics in Seattle, Washington saw the column by Steve Bennett and numerous Talk Back comments on it, and notes the many books that already fit the criteria that those critical of darker content are seeking.