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Marvel hasn't really sent out their schedule for Comic-Con, but they do have a dedicated mini-site here where there will be live-blogging and chatting and probably toasted cheese sandwiches. Here's the panel schedule below While there are certain to be kabillions of MArvel Superstars signing away at the booth, he schedule hasn't been released. However Marvel Studios will have a couple of signings on Saturday with stars of upcoming Marvel films -- YOU WILL NEED A TICKET TO MEET THE GUY WHO MADE HENRY V

Another small press perennial -- Batton Lash and Wollf and Byrd are as much a part of Comic-Con as Klingons and Mark Evanier panels! He'll be at the show with a brand new book:

This is the big year for Oni. Like we had to tell you. With Scott Pilgrim the book and movie of the show, they have a virtual extravaganza of wonders planned for you, like The Sixth Gun, Super Pro K.O.!, Mondo Urbano and more more more. Read on!

§ As part of the process of de-crwdoing Comic-Con, organizers have been trying to move more events off site for a while now. Con...

Fans of classic comics art should check out the Flesk booth which will offer new books by and about William Stout, Petar Meseldžija, Harvey Dunn and Al Williamson. More info at their website.

Radical has a full list of signings by such folk as David Hine, Paul Gulacy, Arvid Nelson, and Jimmy Palmiotti. And Wesley Snipes and Sam Worthington, if that's how you roll. You can view the entire singing schedule here. Here's their event list. (More info here.)

Stores across the nation are having midnight events for SCOTT PILGRIM'S FINEST HOUR. Oni has a list but we've reproduced it below. The epicenter...

Globe-trotting gastronome CB Cebulski has just been promoted to SVP at Marvel. Cebulski is a familiar and popular figure at shows around the...

If you are not going to the Big Show or want to get a head start on the activities, here's an interesting-sounding event, Meltdown's...

The NY Times has the scoop on a new Image imprint to be headed up by Robert Kirkman</a>. Skybound will allow Kirkman to take a more hands-on role in mentoring and editing, and offer creators an advance and marketing, in exchange for a percentage -- so it's kind of like an agency AND an imprint.

If you are a long term Beat reader you know that we here at Stately Beat Manor are big fans of the campy yet imaginative John Carter of Mars books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. A John Carter movie is in the works from Pixar, meaning (as we fear) it will be the movie that breaks Pixar's string of making SOME OF THE THE GREATEST MOVIES OF ALL TIME, or maybe....it will be the John Carter movie we've always dreamed of! The first five books in the Mars series -- from A Princess of Mars to Chessmen of Mars -- are actually in the public domain, and so, we have a new Mars series WARLORD OF MARS coming from Dynamite this October.

While the whole Comic-Con thing was gearing up we totally missed this important column by Comix Experience retailer Brian Hibbs who recounts a meeting at the WB offices, where DC's top executive team invited about 20 top retailers and went over the whole DC Digital thing with them. We're going to give an extensive quote because it kinda explains Where Comics Are: