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...five monthly treatments, at $250 to $550 apiece. For Biederman, who was originally treated by Weiss three years ago, this is a maintenance visit that she makes once or twice a year to keep her fibroblasts producing collagen. She has also had IPL treatments to get rid of spider veins and age spots, but she has never considered a full surgical face-lift. "That's overkill," she says. "I would also rather spend money doing this than $150 on eye cream that doesn't work." After her treatment, Biederman, 47, will drive 20 minutes to Owings Mills, Md., where...
Weiss is booked three months in advance--and a quarter of his patients are men. Baltimore financial manager Adam Fein, 44, was not looking for cosmetic surgery when he wandered in with a wart on his foot. But six treatments later, his acne scars and spider veins are 90% gone. "Hey, if it's there and it works," says Fein, "why not take advantage...
...Hollywood is profiting from the comic book industry - the forthcoming $139 million Spider-Man is expected to vie with Star Wars 2 as the summer hit - the comics business sorely needs the movies. Marvel, owners of famous properties including Spider-Man and The X-Men, even filed for bankruptcy (it has since recovered) in 1996. Before The X-Men movie, says Marvel's editor-in-chief Joe Quesada, the entire industry was in freefall, losing 7% to 10% of its readers every month...
...says Quesada, "Spider-Man was all but dead. Recently Spidey has been the cover-boy of the industry revival, with 60% sales growth in the last year. We now have five Marvel titles healthily selling over 100,000 a month from specialist shops across America." The trend is set to continue; Marvel's sales figures for February 2002 were 40% up from the year before...
...film: "We missed the boat editorially. The movie was streamlined, whereas the comics were incredibly convoluted, with spin-off titles that splintered the characters. That was alienating and put us in a bad position to capitalize on the movie." Marvel has since relaunched both The X-Men and Spider-Man, bringing the stories in line with the films' simplified structure. Quesada has also hired Hollywood talent: for example, Kevin Smith, screenwriter of the 1994 cult hit comedy Clerks, was recruited to bring the blind vigilante Daredevil back from cancellation. It is now a top-five-selling title and positioned...