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Due to publishing, shipping, distribution, production and general life-related delays created by the current global situation, as well as the firings and furloughs at Diamond Comic Distributors, Previews will be skipping publication of the new Previews catalogue What would have been the 380th volume, the May edition for comic books shipping in July, will no[...]

Marvel Comics returns to comic book stores on May 27th and it's on a Wednesday as well. No Empyre until well into June though.

Along with this shirt, he posts on Facebook, When Boom's Ross Richie Tried to Prove Diamond's Bill Schanes Wrong Image from Boom. Who is William Schanes? He was the Head of Purchasing at Diamond Distributors He's retired now TL,DNR: He controlled everything we offered comic shops Bill was tough He was unafraid to refuse a product or[...]

A decade ago, things changed, and Diamond started to make sure comic books were delivered to stores on on the Tuesday or earlier, with Wednesday as the street date Bob Wayne, anglophile then-DC Comics VP of Sales also arranged for British comic book stores to get the comics on the Tuesday, so they could sell[...]

Diamond CEO and owner Steve Geppi has been appearing on the Comic Book News with Dan Shahin YouTube channel with a number of prominent comic book retailers With much of the comics industry visiting to watch and chip in questions, as to the state of the comic book industry, its history and what should be[...]

Back on April 11th, Bleeding Cool reported that Diamond Comic Distributors would be returning to distributing to comic book stores in mid-to-late May A week later, Diamond Comic Distributors confirmed that news. Today, ahead of Diamond CEO and owner Steve Geppi appearing on a live stream talking with comic book retailers, Diamond has more details[...]

We were wondering where the Diamond Comic Distributors March 2020 marketshare statistics might have got to Well, it has been a peculiar month Rather than the usual Friday/Monday release, we are getting the marketshare and top tens today followed by the full stats tomorrow So here we go, Spider-Woman and all. As it stands comic book[...]

Tonight, the Comic Book News with Dan Shahin YouTube channel will host Diamond Comic Distributor CEO and owner Steve Geppi, talking about distributing comic books in this time of shutdown Including what happened with DC Comics and the launch of new distributors UCS and Lunar, and what has been going down during the shutdown The[...]

Yesterday saw very different FOC orders for DC Comics from Diamond Comic Distributors, Lunar Distribution and UCS Comic Distributors Bleeding Cool has reported on the first deliveries received by Lunar Distribution-aligned stores – and the packaging was very impressive, even if what was received wasn't entirely what was expected These comic books go on store[...]

At this point it seems Diamond will be back in business by the time Lunar gets to us My guess is, Canada is just not a priority Maybe Bleeding Cool could do some research and find out if its just BC or all of Canada, but it seems to me we've been left out. Another US retailer[...]

And tonight, Lunar, UCS and Diamond Comic Distributors all have warring Final Order Cut-Off or FOC items with a deadline of tonight. Thank FOC It's Monday for DC Comics, UCS, Lunar and Diamond Art from UCS. We mentioned that Diamond was asking those retailers who still wanted to order their DC Comics through Diamond that all their[...]

But where did they come from, given that DC Comics's printers, Transcontinental Printing of Canada closed down and the print runs are being held at Diamond Comic Distributors' warehouses, also closed down Well now, here is Daphne Byrne #2, as received today. DC Comics Arrive In Stores – In Bubble Wrap Art from retailer source. Here is[...]

You're a class act, my friend. As everyone knows by now, DC announced they would distribute without Diamond What's not being discussed (or I haven't seen) is ONE tiny thing DC is exclusive to Diamond That is unless something changed since the Great Heroes World Stupidity of 94 when they signed that deal I'm not privy[...]

Diamond Comic Distributors is still in shutdown until mid-May over concern for their employees, as they undergo cleaning and implementing new policies But DC has brought on two new distributors formed by two of the bigger comic book stores to get their comic books out earlier First DC said that all DC orders through Diamond[...]

Diamond Comic Distributors confirmed our original scoop that they would be returning to distribute comic books in mid-late May, suggesting Sunday, May 17th should be the date comic book stores would start to receive the comic books delayed since April 1st Then DC Comics announced that they would also be returning to distribution sooner than[...]

In every Diamond Previews catalogue, a number of items from all of the Premiere comics publishers , DC, Dark Horse, IDW, Inage, Dynamite and Boom – are labelled with the GEM logo, while other titles including those from Marvel have a Spotlight These are intended for each publisher to choose heir most notable offerings of[...]

DC Comics has informed Lunar Distribution, the comic book distributor formed by DCBS, that there may be some delays coming. Lunar has told its

While Diamond Comic Distributors intends to distribute those very self comics around two weeks later It could be quite the car crash Anyway, Alan Gill has made his stores position quite clear, He writes on Facebook. Ultimate Comics will not be stocking DC comics until the stay at home order is lifted and our Distributor Diamond[...]

Their raison d'etre is to distribute DC Comics titles in the wake of Diamond Comic Distributors still being shutdown to new comic books for the next month The first week of shipping books is meant to be this week/weekend, planned to be on sale on Tuesday, April 28th It's a limited selection intended to stress[...]

Art from DC Comics. Because next week, the first of the new DC Comics titles that should have shipped on April 1st, will be coming to participating comic book stores courtesy of new distributors UCS Comic Distributors and Lunar Distribution.  Except that these are the same comic books that Diamond will be distributing in Mid May[...]

Diamond Comics UK has been holding the final week of American comic books that were sent across the Atlantic before the shutdown in their Warrington offices Which mean that while US and Canadian stores got the launch of Hellions and the Road To Empyre, the British shores didn't Bleeding Cool reported that Diamond UK would[...]

Buddy Saunders headlines his piece "DC's planned limited release of titles beginning April 28th leaves too many comic stores out in the cold" and writes, regarding the current decision of DC Comics to leave Diamond Comic Distributors, currently shut down, for two new distributors. Buddy Saunders of Lone Star and MyComicShop.com 'Staying The Course With Diamond'[...]

Thankfully in our time of need, William Schanes, formerly VP Purchasing of Diamond Comic Distributors, has complied It seems that it was the 'VP' in Bill's title that stuck in Ike's craw when they met at Marvel's offices back in 1998 William posted to Facebook; Donald Trump shakes hands with Marvel Chair Ike Perlmutter at a[...]

We have the full FOC details from UCS Comic Distributors, for DC Comics from the end of this month through and when the dates are due.

Almost a month ago Diamond closed its doors to new comics as part of the current global situation and made redundancies They told publishers that they would cease payment for product received while simultaneously demanded due payments from retailers, The direct market of comic book stores came to a grinding halt Bleeding Cool got the[...]

William Schanes was the teenage founder of Pacific Comics, the comic store that became a chain, a creator-owned publisher and a comic book distributor before it was bought up by Diamond Comic Distributors in the eighties We recently recapped their distribution history as Eric Stephenson, publisher of their modern-day publishing equivalent Image Comics, has registered[...]

The move has seen DC Comics leave Diamond Comic Distributors, who are in shut down to receiving new comics for at least another month Instead two new distributors have set up, UCS run by New York comic store Midtown Comics, and Lunar run by online Indiana store DCBS Lunar has not responded to press inquiries[...]

Image from Fatman Beyond podcast. But Jim Lee also talked about DC Comics distribution, something that retailer Brian Hibbs has been directly calling him out on, over the decision to use comic stores to subdistribute across the US and Canada from the end of this month, rather than the shut down Diamond Comic Distributors First Kevin[...]

We also noted that these included a number of titles that were supposedly being held by Diamond Comic Distributors warehouses. Did DC Comics get the comics back from Diamond? Or did they print a new run with their new printers? We may only be able to tell once they are published and we can check the[...]

Yesterday we had a month's worth of news drop simultaneously, with Diamond and DC making major distribution announcements. Welcome all, to the daily Lying In The Gutters a long-running run around the day before and the day ahead You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Yesterday, Everything Changed – The Daily LITG 18th[...]