Wizardworld.com, the Internet offshoot of the Wizard magazine publishing empire has been sold to 800America.com.

The first DVD featuring Batman: The Animated Series will bow in April 2002, and the collection will include the first five episodes of the series.

According to Marvel's most recent quarterly financials, Marvel's publishing inventory reached $1.2 million at cost as of September 30. This is over four times its inventory at the end of 2000.

Marvel and DC are pulling out all the stops for December in a contest to see which publisher will gain the most customers from an expected wave of new consumers surging into comic stores that month.

Viz is preparing to publish The Big O manga series, which is written and drawn by Hitoshi Ariga ( Rockman ).

A mixture of new and old products make up our Top 10 Cool lists for September, 2001, both in the sense of new and retro properties and creative material, and in the sense of products new to the list and those that have previously appeared.

Here are a few of the tidbits from presentations of major comic publishers at the Diamond/Alliance Retailer Summit held in Las Vegas last week.

Dark Horse released sales figures for its best-selling manga collections in its presentation at the Diamond/Alliance Retailer Summit in Las Vegas.

CrossGeneration Comics has announced that it's signed an exclusive long-term development deal with Branded Entertainment for the development and production of movie and TV projects based on any and all of CrossGen's properties.

The biggest surprises at the top of the lists in August are the #1 toys product -- Clive Barker's Tortured Souls from Mcfarlane -- and the #1 anime -- the El Hazard OVA DVD box set.