Jim Brown of Midwest Comics and Collectibles feels that the store traffic generated by hot Marvels is great, but he redirects it to other products.

Marvel has announced final details of its May Insert program, which will encompass every comic the publisher will release that month to sample the additional readers that are expected to pick up comics as a result of the Spider-Man movie.

Jemas will write six issues of a comic that will be known as The Marvel while Peter David will continue to write Captain Marvel , a low circulation title whose life will be extended to compete against The Marvel .

Ilan Strasser of Fat Moose Comics and Games wrote in to say that he doesn't like Marvel's recently announced plan to bump prices on three of its lower-selling titles.

Pan-Universal Galactic Worldwide, the new publisher founded by industry veterans John Barber and John Nee, will make the licensed products available via Diamond Comic Distributors and Lunar Distribution.

The Secret Life of Pets 2 debuted with $48 million, a massive 54% drop from the opening of the first film in the franchise, but it was enough to top the weekend box office with ease, as Fox's last X-Men movie Dark Phoenix made sure that the studio’s once proud X-Men franchise would go out with a whimper rather than bang.

Marvel President Dan Buckley was the keynote speaker at the recent ComicsPRO Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, and provided us with this transcript.