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Tokyopop, the company that is largely responsible for a huge boost in the number of U.S. manga offerings during 2002, has just announced four new Korean manga ('manwha' in Korean) titles.

ICv2's popular monthly Top 300 Comics and Top 300 Graphic Novel lists have now been archived for your convenience.

The robust sales patterns that have characterized the Spider-Man-influenced summer of 2002 continued to make their mark on ICv2's Top Ten List for July. Even more than usual, big ticket items tended to dominate the lists this month.

Hasbro has reacted to the tremendous rebirth of interest in the Transformers property by reissuing three original 'Generation 1' (G1) Transformer figures.

Manga Entertainment has confirmed to ICv2 that the versions of the two Evangelion movies that it will release in November will not be edited specially for the U.S. market. AD Vision had cut out some scenes from its Evangelion releases, but Manga maintains that they will be able to present the Japanese versions in their entirety and still keep a '13+' rating.

Mark Wheatley and Marc Hempel are seeking the return of a large trove of art that was stolen years ago and dispersed to buyers before the theft was discovered.