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No More Comics From GameStop

Comic Book managed to get a quotes from the management of GameStop and ThinkGeek when they slipped out the news that, as a chain, they were no longer going to be stocking a wide range of comic books through Diamond Comic Distributors – or even at all.

The plan for GameStop and ThinkGeek to sell comics from spinner racks instore had been set up and was piloted by James Parker, who formerly ran a similar scheme through Hastings. He did not respond to Bleeding Cool enquiries. At the time he told us,

We have indeed partnered with Diamond to carry a small selection of comics in 40 stores utilizing their new spinner rack.  The comics are mostly from Marvel and DC with a focus on key series and titles.  This is just a small launch to bring comics to some of our collectibles stores as they fit with the current trend of Collectibles that are performing in the market.  Should this prove successful, we may consider rolling out to additional stores in the future but plan to keep it limited to the spinner rack for the foreseeable future.   Of course, you can expect to see some exclusive variants from us in the future.

But talking to Comic Book, GameStop confirmed "while we initially conducted a small comic book test in our ThinkGeek stores, as this time we are not planning on offering comic books inside our stores. The number of SKUs we would have to carry to ensure we offered a wide selection of comic books verses the lack of customer demand at this time simply does not make offering comic books in our stores a good proposition."

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