On October 15, David Bogart will join the staff at Marvel Comics as a Managing Editor. Maureen McTigue will assume Bogart's position as Editor-in-Chief of Harris Comics.

Marvel Comics is preparing trade paperback collections of the G.I. Joe and Transformers comics that it published in the 1980s, and Dark Horse will reprint the Star Wars comics that Marvel published in the 1970s and 80s.

At Diamond Comic Distributor's Las Vegas Retailer Summit, Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada announced that the publisher was going to reprint the hugely popular Origin #1 before the entire series is collected in a trade paperback

For the first time this month, we've applied our analysis methodology to calculating the initial orders to Diamond U.S. for graphic novels ordered for shipment in October 2001.

MGM has announced that two titles of interest to pop culture retailers will be released on DVD on January 4, 2002 -- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai and Mad Max .

Comic orders were up again in October, kicking off the fourth quarter with the best dollar month this year to date. Total dollars for October were up over 11% compared to September, which was an unusually strong month when compared to normal seasonal trends.

In Part III of this far-ranging interview, the person in charge of DC's business operation talks about its option to buy Diamond, the public dialogue with Marvel, circulation estimates, media tie-ins, the prospect for radical change at DC, and DC's growing toy and statue business.

In Part I of this far-ranging interview, the person in charge of DC's business operation talks about how his background in the business, the organization of DC's top management, the comic market size and trends, the state of DC, and the comics code.

Retailers have been debating the proposed change with some vigor.

The chief topic at today's Marvel news conference was the 'Retailer Rally Presentation' that will be held at the China Club in Times Square on Monday, October 1.