Robert Boyd of LPC, the company that sells Tokyopop titles to bookstores, told ICv2 that Sailor Moon sells better than any of the other graphic novels his company reps by a factor of 'at least' 1.5.

Both Tribune Entertainment and 20th Century Fox claimed victory in Fox's lawsuit against Tribune and Marvel over the Mutant X syndicated TV series.

Marvel is planning to move back into the lucrative CCG arena on its own. The aptly named Marvel Recharge CCG is set to debut in November.

Comic orders from specialty stores were generally down for August, with an 8% dollar drop from July.

Estimated quantities for the top 300 comics ordered by pop culture stores for shipping in August, 2001.

The retailer sales numbers that ICv2 has collected for June continue to display the trends that we have seen over the past six months.

Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada announced that Spider-Man creator Stan Lee will write the comic book adaptation of the Spider-Man movie, which is currently in production and scheduled to be released on May 2, 2002.

There is no doubt that manga's influence on American comics appears to be growing. Witness two stories that appeared on Newsarama this week. Michael Doran broke the story of Marvel's plan for an eight-title Marvel ' Mangaverse ' event planned for January, 2002, while Matt Brady detailed plans at DC Comics to use manga artist Kia Asamiya (Silent Moebius, Dark Angel) for a series of Titans covers.

The CMAA contacted Marvel and the publisher admitted that putting the Code Seal of Approval on Wolverine #165 was 'a mistake' on the company's part. ICv2 has learned that Marvel has not been submitting books to the CMAA recently and other current issues that carry the code (e.g., Tangled Web #3) are also 'mistakes.'

The Fox TV network has ordered a two-hour pilot based on the classic television series Battlestar Galactica, which was originally broadcast by ABC from 1978 through 1980.