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As we reported last night, the story of Platinum Studios, the bizarre IP company founded by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg on his peripheral involvement in having published the MEN IN BLACK comic book, has gotten seriously bizarre, with shareholders and acting president Chris Beall banding together to attempt to oust Rosenberg from the company after a series of what they claim are flagrantly fraudulent money shifting and credit card embezzlement—all from the coffers of the publicly traded company. While we don't know the whole story, we can piece together some of it.

We'll have a more retailed report on this in the morning, but the short version is that shareholders in Platinum Studios—one of whom...

Paul Pope's long long delayed magnum opus is finally coming out this fall. EW has the cover and the scoop: First: The book. Battling Boy...

Brian Michael Bendis took to the Marvel Conference Phone this week, to listen in awe to the sonorous sounds of the comics press. Talking about his imminent relaunch of Guardians of the Galaxy with Steve McNiven, he was joined on the call by editor Steve Wacker, who alternately sighed and yelped “NO” every time the writer revealed a little too much about the upcoming stories.

Despite the malware warnings, The Beat has not been compromised. Thanks to everyone for all the emails and tweets! It's all part of a...

It was a must-go sight unseen but now that it's been seen, we're dialing up Porter Air for tickets. This year's Toronto Comic Arts...

Every couple of years, Scholastic, the biggest played in the kids book arena, releases a study on how kids read called The Kids and Family Reading Report. Jim Milliot sums up this year's findings, which largely centered on kids and ebooks:

Lots of shakeups emerged in yesterday's DC April solicitations, which you can read about here and here. The swift replacement of Robert Venditti on Constantine and Jim Zub on Birds of Prey got the most comment. How swift? As recently as last week , Zub was doing interviews to promote his run and then...it wasn't happening. Zub, widely known as a thorough professional, was very gracious about it on his blog

DC's DJANGO UNCHAINED mini series has gotten a lot of press and sales—the first issue was a sell-out, but in all the hoopla we'd always noticed that while it was billed as an adaptation of Quentin Tarantino's screenplay, with art by R.M. Guera and an actual writer was never named. (MOvie scripts don't just adapt themselves.) Well, it turns out, in a publicity blitz last week that now Oscar-nominated producer and long time comics scripter Reginald Hudlin did the actual adapting. The comic is based on the original screenplay and includes many scenes that were cut from the final film, as he told Comics Alliance.

Aside from being Dennis Hopeless week once more, this week saw every company release a massively publicized, 'important' comic. From Dark Horse's new Star...

As announced earlier today, Image publisher Eric Stephenson was decisively voted The Beat's Comics Industry Person of the Year by comics professionals. Stephenson graciously agreed to be interviewed on the big impact Image had on the industry in the past year and what's next for the publisher.

After a surprising victory in 2008, Siegel attorney Marc Toberoff decided to press for the rights to more Superman material. Instead, he lost everything that...