What is this? Every week I like to pull apart Diamond’s confirmed shipping list for the week, and create a list of all of the creator-owned titles that will be arriving in stores that Wednesday. I then use the magic of Flash and Javascript to pull the details on the books from comiXology.com, and hey [...]

Thanks to the  fine folks over at Robot 6 , I just discovered that Taco Bell and Marvel announced this week that for a limited time , the fast-food chain’s kids’ meals would come with one of four Marvel  comic books: The Avengers, The Fantastic Four, Invincible Iron Man, or X-Men. According to Marvel, each [...]

From the press release: Marvel is pleased to present your first look at the extra-sized Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes #1 (of 4), a comic book companion to upcoming animated television series “The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes!” premiering Wednesday, October 20 at 8:30 p.m., ET/PT on Disney XD. Visionary scribe Chris Yost joins forces with rising-star [...]

From the press release: Marvel is pleased to announce the extra-sized Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes #1 (of 4), based on the all-new animated series premiering this October on Disney XD. Visionary scribe Chris Yost joins forces with rising-star artists Scott Wegener and Patrick Scherberger to assemble the greatest super heroes of all time- Iron Man! [...]

As a follow-up to Diamond Distribution’s Top 20 Publishers, Top 300 Comics, and Top 300 TPBs & GNs for December 2009, I have used the raw data to construct the sales charts for small press titles, published in December 2009. To see the charts for independently published comics for December 2009, please click here. What [...]