Buddy Saunders of Lone Star Comics in Arlington, Texas saw the column by Steven Bennett on the contents of comics and Allen N. Swords' response and concurs with Bennett's view that the dark themes of comics limit sales.

DC has announced that it will provide one free copy of a special retailer variant of All Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder #1 to attending retail organizations a the Diamond/Alliance Retailer Summits in Baltimore and Fort Wayne.

Allen N. Swords, an English lecturer at Clemson University Department of English in Clemson, South Carolina saw Steve Bennett's column on the contents of comics and the relationship with sales, and decided he 'wanted to spend a few moments taking umbrage to the recent column from Steve Bennett.'

This week Bennett tackles what's between the covers, with a look at how content may be affecting comic sales.

Cult director Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm underperformed at the box office this weekend, landing in second place.

In Part 4, we talk about whether Marvel would ever license its comics, whether comic-based movies are a bubble, how Marvel is approaching the female young adult market, and the challenges and opportunities for the coming year.

DC Comics, which has already published some 40 million Bionicles custom comic books, is now planning to include new Bionicles adventures as backup stories in a number of its kids' titles.

Warner Home Video has announced the October 18th release of two DVD editions of Batman Begins .

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

July sales of comics and graphic novels to comic stores were up 6% in dollars over the year-ago period.