Comics Clamber Back from the Brink

Comics Clamber Back from the Brink (in inglese): articolo di BusinessWeek sulla ripresa creativa ed economica dei fumetti. "Comic-book sales across the U.S. reached their all-time high of $850 million in 1993 before beginning a terrifying slide. By 1996, Marvel had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and by 1998 industry revenues had fallen to $375 million. U.S. sales of comics hit bottom in 2000, at just $250 million, the lowest total since Superman arrived on Earth from Krypton. (..) In this year's second quarter, Marvel recorded a 57.8% increase in revenue, to $70.9 million (..) 2002 could be back at around $300 million, where we were in 1997."