Article Archive

Marvel has been ramping up the number of titles it double (or triple) ships in a month. While that helps sales in the short run, is it perhaps doing more damage to the long-term health of the mid-list and potential growth among new readers?

The catastrophe underway in Japan reminds us of how powerfully effective we can all be when united toward a common goal. We focus our attention on some of the comic and geek-related ways you can help the relief efforts.

Amazing Fantasy #15 fetches $1.1 million and ushers in a new era for Silver Age collectibles. Who would pay that much for a comic, and how much web fluid could Peter Parker buy with the proceeds?

Even though there are new titles and new #1 issues released with regularity, how often do new characters or teams stick around for the long haul? Can new characters thrive in today’s ultra-competitive direct market?

Stack Week forges ahead and Jason explains why he chose long ago to accept that which he cannot change. GO BIG OR GO HOME!

Brian Hibbs analyzes comic book sales in the mass retail market (via BookScan data), and we cull through the findings to come up with some of our own observations.

Diamond and iVerse are teaming up with local retailers to provide buyers access to digital comics on the day of release. Sounds great, until you realize it ignores all the core realities of the digital transition.

This week we delve into a potpourri of comic book related business events. A few different things that we felt were worth your attention but didn’t necessarily require the deep dive of a full column.

Changes are afoot with Wizard World, and amidst the closure of the magazine and plans to add more conventions, was the news that Wizard has now become a publicly-traded company. If you’re wondering how that happened, we chronicle the events for you thanks to public documents provided to the SEC.

Diamond let us peek behind the curtain and get a glimpse at how the non-premier publishers did in 2010. The numbers are at the same time interesting, frustrating and illuminating.