DC Comics has promoted two executives to more exalted positions with similar duties.

Geoff Johns, one of the top writers in comic books today, has signed a three-year extension of his exclusive contract with DC.

DC Comics has announced that it will collect all of the Alan Moore DC Universe stories into a single volume, DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore , for release in January.

DC Direct is introducing a new product line, blind box-packaged m icro trading figures .

Retailers attending the recently concluded Diamond Retailer Summit in Baltimore have told ICv2 that they are extremely pleased with the changes in ordering policies announced by DC Comics at the Summit.

DC Comics has finalized its relief plans for comic book retailers whose stores were affected by Hurricane Katrina.

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.

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.

In Part 3 of our interview with Paul Levitz, we talk about the toy business, DC's Crisis editorial event, and ask whether the current spate of comics-based movies is a bubble.

In Part 2 of our 2005 interview with Paul Levitz, we discuss the ongoing restructuring of DC's sales and marketing staff, and ask whether graphic novels will ever pass periodicals.