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Last year, we reported that Diamond Comic Distribution had hired Chris Powell from MyComicShop.com as their Executive Director of Business Development. As Diamond have recently gone through some shuffling of senior figures, it seems that is not yet over, and now Powell has been promoted to Vice President Of Retailer Services, and will take over leadership[...]

John Jackson Miller writes; As reported here Friday, January comics sales performed the rare feat of beating December's sales; now, with the release of new data from Diamond Comic Distributors, we can see the numbers behind the headline Click to see Comichron's comics sales estimates for January 2013. As also noted Friday, despite the calendar, January is[...]

First proper issue of Kieron Gillen's Uber, plenty of Crossed, Stitched, Dan The Unharmable, Fashion Beast, Night Of The Living Dead and Lady Death,

Forty-two years after co-founding Pacific and twenty-six years after joining the company, Bill Schanes, Vice President of Purchasing at Diamond Comic Distributors is stepping down from that role, for an advisory position that will last the rest of the year, at least. Replacing him in his position is current Executive Director of Purchasing, John Wurzer[...]

The nominations for the Diamond GEM Awards, voted on by retailers, have been announced You can see last year's nominations and winners here Bleeding Cool Magazine #1 is nominated for Best Magazine Archie and Valiant have squeezed out Zenescope and Oni for Publisher Under 4%, and bizarrely Hit-Girl is described as a "Licensed comic" Not[...]

Next week in comics... the beginning of Answer,  Star Trek's Countdown To Darkness, the last issue of Minutemen, a bit more Chew, the beginning of Uncanny

Superior Spider-Man #2 topped Diamond's Advance Reorder charts last week and it's done it again this week with issue 3, putting on in one week more than the entire order of the second print of Superior Spider-Man #2 (which can only be ordered through advance reorders). Marvel NOW continues to dominate, with DC's Django Unchained being[...]

Kaan Evren Basaran writes; Welcome to out third installment of the Dissecting Previews column where we go through the thousands of items that are solicited in the Diamond Distributors' Previews catalog to highlight a huge bunch of very interesting products that might have escaped your attention when the solicitation information from the big companies were[...]

Here's a look at the charts for 2012 for comics defined as "manga" sold in comic stores and distrubuted in North America by Diamond Comic Distributors. The charts are dominated by Sailor Moon and Naruto, for the top thirteen spots, aside from the third volume of Empowered, the manga nature of which will no doubt be[...]

Here's a look at the charts for 2012 for toys and games sold in comic stores and distrubuted in North America by Diamond Comic Distributors and Alliance Games. Naturally Marvel and DC superhero action figures to the toys list, with video game spin-off figures nudging their way in For once, Walking Dead doesn't get a look[...]

Of the top 500 selling titles of the year, sold by Diamond to comic stores in North America, DC have 260 titles and Marvel have 219 However Marvel take 14 of the top 15 spots (with Walking Dead at number one), while DC dominates from 20 to 40. Image get 16 titles in the top 500,[...]

A couple of weeks ago, Diamond issued an order to retailers to destroy any copies of Adventure Time #11 they received And that a new version would be coming from Boom! soon. I didn't find any shops that got copies, but I understand that the problem was an advertisement inside for Bravest Warriors being considered a[...]

And now we have a date. Boom! Studios will join Diamond's FOC program, which stands for Final Order Cut-Off in which retailers can change their orders up and down closer to the comics' shipping dates, to better reflect demand in their store. The first FOC date will be January 7th, for comics shipping on January 30th. In an[...]

I do hope Santa can work out where they are… hey have been (mostly) good boys and girls. Diamond Comic Distributors are also moving locations later this year, from their offices at 1966 Greenspring Drive, Timonium M, taking up several floors,  up 83 North for three miles to Hunt Valley, which will see the entire company[...]

Comic book retailers get most of their comic books from Diamond Comic Distributors Known for its massive warehouse, modern distribution methods and worker bees, making sure that every shop gets exactly what they ordered… …but not everyone is happy there it seems Found in one such Diamond box supplied to one such retailer. I hope they get[...]

After all, Diamond Comic Distrubutors made it clear on the invoices when the product could be sold. But the week after it might get tricky. The comics to be sold on Wednesday, January 2nd will, rather than arriving on January 1st, will arrive on Friday, 29th of December The store is instructed to hold them until Wednesday. Or[...]

As we thought, some retailers got rather confused with the Diamond one week delay on certain books that retailers received yesterday Forbidden Planet in London had the Dark Horse Eerie hardcover on sale One shop in the Mesa, Arizona was selling Avenging Spider-Man #15.1 but not Amazing Spider-Man #700 (see below). These two examples seem accidental[...]

I've learnt from one retailer, then backed up by the experiences of others, that both tomorrow's comics and the next week's have been delivered together, mixed up, from Diamond Comic Distributors There is indication on the invoice that certain titles are to be kept for the following week, but it's easily missed. Basically, expect all manner[...]

Diamond are giving retailers a nice Christmas surprise if they sign up to the ComicSuite Point Of Sale computerised system for managing stock and ordering new product for their stores. Firstly, they are pointing out that the price goes up on January 1st. But secondly that retailers who order the system get a new PC to work[...]

WALKING ADVENT Every day until Christmas, The Walking Dead iOS game Assault will get another challenge from Roberk Kirkman's Twitter feed at 11am PST,

The initial November comics sales  figures are out. And what's really interesting? My Little Pony #1 isn't in the top ten. Which means that all the rest

Industrial action at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach was tentatively settled earlier this week after an eight-day strike over outsourcing of

Amazing Spider-Man dominates the advance reorder chart this week, tracking the increased orders of comics by retailers through Diamond in the weeks before the comic is published As ever, second prints and certain variants are over represented on this chart, as this is often the only way they can be ordered, but we can see[...]

Recently, Diamond Comic Distributors ran a Hallowe'en Costume Contest through a series of comic book stores, with prizes to be spend in store With a variety of categories including children and adult versions, here are the winners… Sarah from Carbondale, IL and Stella from Sacramento, CA Krista from Toronto, ON and Andres from El Paso, TX   Jeff from[...]

Of late, the advance reorder lists have been filled with second prints, variant covers and high value prestige items, it seems that general, regular

UPDATE: May not just be the UK… You know how we said IDW had printed over 100,000 copies of My Little Pony #1? It seems they may have missed out a few thousand for whatever reason. Diamond Comic Distributors has informed UK stores, a few hours after I started making enquiries, that My Little Pony will only[...]

Last week Bleeding Cool pointed out that DC titles were available through ComiXology on Wednesday at 9am GMT, 4am ET and 1am PT. We thought it may have

Blame Thanksgiving. Blame Canada. Blame the new Jaffa Cake-flavoured doughnuts in Greggs (seriously). But a few DC comics won't be making their way to

JohnJackson Miller writes; • It's the best month overall in the Diamond Exclusive Era (1997-present) by a long stretch Orders topped $47 million; the previous record (set in May) was beaten by probably $2.5 million This puts us at $394 million for the year, meaning "Gravy Day" — when we'll surpass sales for 2011 — will[...]

Next week we see Mind MGMT debut at Dark Horse, IDW launch Chasing The Dead, Marvel launches All New X-Men, X-Men Legacy, Fantastic Four and Thor: God Of