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At their presentation at the Diamond Retailer Breakfast at New York Comic Con, Diamond unveiled some impressive stats about their process improvements that have resulted in less shortages for retailers To wit, Plattsburgh shortage numbers are down 34% since Diamond's Illuminating Pick to Light technology went live in April, and Olive Branch shortage numbers are[...]

Knowing all that she does. And with Tony Stark not even the real Tony Stark anymore and, as we have seen in House Of X #1, Damage Control taking advantage of Tiny Stark's 'death' to get all his stuff in the very near future, could it be that Arno will insist he is the rightful heir of all[...]

And in today's Captain Marvel #10… Revealed… Captain Marvel #1 from earlier in the year is selling at cover price or less… Thanks to Richard Epstein and Sofia Annunziata, reporting for Bleeding Cool from the NYCC Diamond Retailer Breakfast Catch up with more of our Retailer Breakfast coverage today with this handy-dandy tag. Update: Bleeding Cool are naughty boys and girls and must[...]

Live from the Diamond Retailer Breakfast at New York Comic Con comes the Marvel Comics presentation Along with the news that Marvel Comics will be announcing five new series beginning in January 2020/ What they are – we don't know I mean, The Masked Raider from Al Ewing, probably Maybe something Iron Man 2020-ish. Each will[...]

During the DC Comics presentation at the New York Comic Con Diamond Retailer Breakfast, we had a good run through the Hill House Comics line – and T-shirts – from Joe Hill, as part of DC's Black Label imprint To be honest, it was a rather poor show from DC Comics, who just had the[...]

The comic with the sharpest edge in horror returns for another swing of the axe! In Shops: Dec 18, 2019 SRP: $3.99 Thanks to Richard Epstein and Sofia Annunziata, reporting for Bleeding Cool from the NYCC Diamond Retailer Breakfast Catch up with more of our Retailer Breakfast coverage today with this handy-dandy tag. We mentioned that Joe Hill[...]

Show of hands: Did anybody expect that Spawn would end up as one of the biggest selling comic books of 2019? While sales have quietly been on the rise for the better part of the last two years, it certainly seemed like… well, a long-shot is perhaps an understatement, but Spawn #300 is set to[...]

Roger Fletcher, VP of Sales and Marketing at Diamond Comic Distributors, and who has been with Diamond for 31 years, has left the company Starting in 1988 as a Manager of Diamond's Denver warehouse, he moved to Baltimore in 1990 and was promoted to VP of Sales and Marketing soon thereafter. In a letter to employees,[...]

From next Wednesday's front and back covers of the Previews catalogue, for comic books shipping in December and beyond. Dynamite celebrates fifty years of

At the Diamond Retailer Lunch at San Diego Comic-Con, Diamond gave the latest update on thier PreviewsWorld Pullbox service, which will offer stores the ability to allow their customers to place orders and manage their pull lists online through the Previewsworld website, for those orders to be shipped to local retailers Stores set the terms[...]

Diamond gave their presentation at the Diamond Retailer Lunch at SDCC on Friday, kicking things off with a look at how things are going in Diamond's distribution centers, including progress made in reducing issues thanks to their new Illuminating Pick to Light technology as well as upcoming improvements in shipping boxes to reduce damage.But first… Christmas[...]

April 2019 marketshare, released by Diamond a couple of weeks after the March marketshare, saw Marvel Comics take over 50% of the marketshare for sales numbers for that month May still sees Marvel in the marketshare lead, but the gap is narrowed, even as Marvel continues to publish many more titles than DC Comics. In March,[...]

We knew that 2000 AD publisher Rebellion had bought the rights to the classic Trigan Empire comic book by Mike Butterworth and Don Lawrence, along with the rest of the IPC Publishing rights. And now, announced at the Diamond Retail Summit in Las Vegas last night, Rebellion is to republish and recollect the Trigan Empire stories. The[...]

Jonathan Hickman was available for a little video at the Marvel Comics presentation, part of the Diamond Retail Summit being held in Las Vegas today And he had plenty to say about the upcoming House Of X and Powers Of X mini-series, which you can hear below… With this little slide to hammer things home. Bigger than[...]

It's a busy show at the Diamond Retailer Summit in Las Vega you've been hearing about and following all weekend long on Bleeding Cool Donny Cates was too busy popping the question at Megacon but he was able to send a message to retailers in Vegas about the upcoming Absolute Carnage event from Marvel for[...]

And announced at the Diamond Retail Summit in Las Vegas, check out the rest of our coverage with this tag. Esad Ribic is best known in English-speaking comics for his lush painted art on series such as Mighty Thor and Secret Wars for Marvel Comics And also for being one of the nicest, funniest guys[...]

But at the Retailer Diamond Summit in Las Vegas today, it got a little more With the Marvel retailer presentation showing off #1000. Some variant covers. Some internal panels. And then the word about what would come next. Marvel Comics #1001 Of course, it would September maybe? Or another year? Announced at the Diamond Retail Summit in Las Vegas, check[...]

Bleeding Cool reported on how DC Comics was making Superman: Year One by Frank Miller and John Romita Jr and Event Leviathan #1 by Brian Bendis and Alex Maleev returnable by comic stores, with news on the returnability of #2 for both of them to follow. Well, at the Diamond Retail Summit in Las Vegas, DC[...]

DC Comics has been giving their address at the Diamond Retail Summit in Las Vegas And while they didn't have Brian Bendis in the building, he was on hand to talk about Event Leviathan And we have a video of such – as well as a run through a number of DC Comics plans for[...]

At the Diamond Retail Summit, DC Comics has been laying out their event plans for the rest of the year and in 2020… with these presentation slides showing how Batman Who Laughs' final seventh issue will lead right into Batman/Superman and beyond. How DC's Year Of The Villain will continue up to the end of 2019[...]

DC Comics had lots to talk about at the Diamond Retail Summit Presentation in Las Vegas today Year Of The Villain, Batman/Superman, Last Knight On Earth, Batman Day, Swamp Kid, new returnability deals, and address from Brian Bendis about Event Leviathan as well as new plans to promote and push Watchmen in the light of[...]

We look forward to getting mini-reports through the day from the Diamond Retailer Summit being held in Las Vegas Though not everyone is into the Vegas vibe Take the editor-in-chief of Vault Comics, Adrian F Wassel. Well, I have officially landed in Vegas for the first time, for work, and I have never hated a place[...]

Coming out of the bar chatter at the Diamond Retailer Summit as retailers, creators and publishers start chinwagging, especially at last night's DC Comics party Bleeding Cool is told that one upcoming project intended to be a bit of a money spinner, and answer certain retailer concerns, is a Wally West series to follow on[...]

This weekend is the Diamond Retail Summit in Las Vegas It's a private non-media affair, but the stories are starting to percolate their way through to Bleeding Cool And we start with last night's party thrown by Diamond Comic Distributors which had rather an eighties theme Take a look… and yes, it's a bunch of[...]

Look for them to talk large about this at the Diamond Retailer Summit in Las Vegas this weekend. Quality sells? There's a novelty We don't have the new visuals aside from New Agents Of Atlas, but here are a look at some previous week's variant covers, beginning with The War Of The Realms #3.   [...]

Okay, so the Diamond Retail Summit 2019 in Las Vegas kick off tomorrow, where comic book publishers, creators, activist groups and Diamond Comic Distributors all pitch up to talk about the comics industry with comic book retailers from around the world (but mostly North America) So today, and all weekend long, expect a lot of[...]

Can you make it to the Diamond Retailer Summit in Las Vegas? Are you even a comic book retailer? Either way, courtesy of Bleeding Cool, you can fantasise about being one Jetting in, checking in to your hotel, looking at all the enticements that the gambling capital of the world has on offer, the show,[...]

It's going to be an interesting Diamond Retailer Summit this weekend And DC Comics is throwing up a number of announcements in advance – some of which they didn't quite expect yet I hear that meant some early morning phone calls Anyway, this is what they were expecting to announce today – and just have, A[...]

Ahead of this weekend's Diamond Retailer Summit, DC Comics is to reveal covers and details for August's Year Of The Villain crossover titles, with the "Dark Gifts" theme This cross between Marvel's Acts Of Vengeance and Marvel's Fear Itself sees Lex Luthor make good on July's The Offer and sees him upgrade DC villains significantly[...]

He writes: Hello, I will be going to the upcoming Las Vegas Diamond Summit If there are any publishers interested in doing interviews feel free to drop me a line at rodmancomics@aol.com. Now on to our regular program. I remember as a kid going to a comic store in the area and remembering at times the owner[...]