Diamond Comic Distributors' tally of comics shipped during June showed declines in nineteen of the top 25 comics. Only four comics out of the top 25 showed gains and they were all Marvels.

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during June 2003.

A couple of high profile comic series have completely sold out their most recent offerings prompting Image to schedule a second edition of G.I. Joe Vs. Transformers #1 and Marvel to collect the sold-out issues #34 and #35 of the Ultimate X-Men into a Marvel Must Have reprint.

The power of the #1 issue was on display in the list of the Top 300 comics shipped in May.

Marvel has announced that it will be expanding its Marvel Must-Have program to include more titles reprinting consecutive issues in a storyline.

Marvel has announced that its next quickie reprint, Marvel Must-Have: Ultimate Venom , will reprint four consecutive issues of Ultimate Spider-Man , #33-#36.

In its third consecutive daily press conference today, Marvel announced its new 'tsunami' titles, which consists of a first wave of six new ongoing series, with more to follow later in the year.

The subject of Marvel's news conference on Wednesday was a major crossover in the Ultimate line, the Ultimate War miniseries written by Mark Millar and drawn by Chris Bachalo.

Diamond Select showed off a growing collection of licensed products and cool Japanese imports at its showroom at the New York Toy Fair this year.

The Radiant Light Dragon will be the last dragon figure that Wiz Kids will release until the second half of 2002,