It used to be that if you wanted to get a kid a Marvel comic that was acceptable for him to read, here was how you did it: You went and bought any Marvel comic that was on the rack. Now, you have to look for the Marvel Age title. Oh well, it’s a start.…

New ‘Kid’ Line Only Newsstand Marvels at $2.25 The newsstand price for all Marvel comics will be $2.99 but direct market prices will be cheaper. The only newsstand Marvels selling for $2.25 will be a new book called Marvel Age featuring many Marvel Universe characters and aimed at a young readers audience.

Joshua Doom has been arrested. That’s got to be embarrassing for Dr. Doom. They probably paged him at work and told everyone over the intercom that his son was driving drunk…then that “OooOOOOOOOOooooh!” followed by hooting and laughter all over the office as Doom runs to the phone. Having to get ragged on by Kingpin…

My Epic Journey was the behind the scenes report of a Newsarama columnist’s pitch to Epic comics and its road to publication. Now, in part 26, the writer discusses the end of Epic and the death knell for his book, Phantom Jack. The story will now be packaged in a quarterly anthology with little hope…

Instead of launching the new Epic books, which were already pushed back from their original launch date, Marvel’s Epic titles will now be scaled back and released as a quarterly anthology. Worse, our buddy Marc Campbell’s “Northwood Saga” is not discussed as one of the anthologized books.

Well, nice to know that not every comic book company is having hard financial times. ICv2 News – Marvel’s Profits Soar This part caught my eye: Because of its strong financial performance Marvel will have to deal with a high tax bracket starting in Q4 of 2003, which will have a dampening effect on profits.…

Comics Continuum has DC Comics, Marvel Comics and Image Comics for January.

The X-Men vs. Mutant X lawsuit, which was settled earlier, has led to a new lawsuit. For those late to the whole controversy, ICv2 does a good job of summarizing it. When 20th Century Fox licensed X-Men for its movies, they were riled that they thought they had the only X-Men property in other media…

Man-Thing To Get Theatrical Exposure Wow. The movie about Man-Thing, the swamp monster with the goofy nose, will appear in theaters on August 27/2004, and not go directly to video as previously thought. If they do a sequel, I hope they call it “Giant-Sized Man-Thing.” For those of you who don’t get that…Marvel’s extra large…

Our recent call for a few volunteers to post on Monitor Duty yielded some good results…but the one thing we are seriously missing is a Marvel fan who stays on top of Marvel news as much as I stay on top of DC and CrossGen.