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Back in 2016, Bleeding Cool reported that Marvel Comics convinced video game retailer GameStop to open a Diamond retailer account in order to order copies of Amazing Spider-Man #1, which were to be used by the store to promote the Amazing Spider-Man 2 video game At the Diamond Retailer Summit at C2E2 this week, the[...]

It looks like Diamond isn't planning to give up its stranglehold on the direct market any time soon Following reports yesterday that website League of Comic Geeks would launch a competing pull list service for retailers, with both a free and $30/month tier, Diamond announced today at the Retailer Summit ahead of C2E2 that their[...]

It's been a day filled with unusual competition for comic book direct market distribution monopoly Diamond today This morning, we reported on League of Comic Geeks' plan to compete with Diamonds upcoming online Pullbox service Now, another challenger has risen to take on Diamond's grip on the lucrative spinner rack market. Back in February, Diamond brought[...]

Diamond, the monopoly that controls comics distribution to the direct market, is set to launch an online pull list service on their PreviewsWorld website this Spring, connecting with local retailers and allowing readers to manage their comic book purchases online Readers can set up a weekly pull list, order additional titles from the catalog, and[...]

Diamond Comic Distributor founder, President, CEO, and sole owner Steve Geppi will give the Keynote Speech during Diamond's 2018 Retailer Summit, on April 6th at the McCormick Convention Center in Chicago, before C2E2. Geppi's address will focus on "The Past, Present and Future of the Comics Industry" and take place at the closing breakfast. "I'm looking forward[...]

Unfortunately, due to several extenuating circumstances, the time has come to close down the retail side of Meltdown, and take the next change head on. As of tomorrow, we will no longer carry new weekly titles.

Publishers pay to print the comics, Diamond pays to distribute them, and retailers pay to receive them You can expect your comic store to have to have paid twenty to twenty-five cents for each issue they give away for free. Add it up, that's quite a bit of cash retailers have to fork out. Retailers have asked[...]

These specific initiatives in Puerto Rico to help the children and families and provide hope include: Early Childhood Centers: Creation of Reading Corners Early Childhood Centers: Psychological Support for traumatic stress after a natural disaster Early Childhood Centers: Re-establishment of non-profit childcare facilities (Furniture, Materials, Equipment, Structure) Community Schools and Health Care Centers In addition, Lion Forge will match $25,000[...]

It looks like there are a record number of nominees for the upcoming Diamond Retailer Best Practices Awards: Spring 2018, with Best Store Layout being an incredibly popular category for comic book retailers Everyone wants to show off what they have. Fellow retailers can vote online or at the Diamond Retailer Summit running from April 4th to[...]

At the Diamond Comics retailer meeting yesterday, Diamond's Chris Powell told retailers that they had all but sold through on the new Comic Book Spinner Rack they'd recently made available to retailers But would be getting a lot more in Oh, and they had a video to show off too. Made in the USA exclusively for[...]

On Friday, Bleeding Cool ran an article about Diamond's new Pull Box system, encouraging comic shop customers to manage their orders digitally Brian, of Manage Comics, wasn't happy He wrote to Bleeding Cool: When I saw your post about the Pull Box app, I was initially sad, now I'm just angry that Diamond is going to[...]

Jamie Madrox, the Multiple Man, is an older X-Man than he often got credited for, created back in 1974 by the late Len Wein for Giant-Size Fantastic

Original article up top, follow-up PR below. With DC Comics leaving the front section of Previews, alongside Marvel, that section for Diamond's Premier publishers was looking a little bare, with just Dark Horse, Image Comics and IDW. Well, finally, after over a decade of trying and pointing out how their marketshare was sometimes higher than Dark Horse, the[...]

He attended ComicsPRO in Portland this weekend when, in front of a crowd of comic book retailers he talked about BOOM! becoming a Premier publisher at Diamond Comic Distributors, moving their listings to the front of Previews and changing their contractual relationship with the distributor as a result He was joined in that endeavour by[...]

Revealed at ComicsPRO, DC Comics laid out the schedule for some of the DC Zoom and DC Kids titles they revealed earlier in the month at the American Libraries Association event. And while some of the months were mentioned, we didn't get the days and dates. And now we have them.

But, at ComicsPRO this week, Diamond launched a brand new system for the direct market with the big boys pulling the levers. Diamond Comic Distributors announced the upcoming release of Pullbox, a cloud-based software application that will allow comic shop customers a better way to preorder titles and products from their local comic book specialty shop. Described as[...]

Lion Forge will publish Gene Ha's Mae in a new series, as well as publishing the first volume, according to a press release sent out by the company. The news was announced at ComicsPRO today prior to the press release.

Comic book writer Donny Cates wasn't at ComicsPRO this week, the meeting of comic book retailers, professionals, distributors and publishers. But he sent

When Marvel Comics went exclusive with Diamond Comic Distributors a couple of decades ago, after the fall of their own bought-in distributor Heroes World, they clashed against the already-established Diamond deal with DC Comics, where DC got the lion share of the front and back pages of the Previews catalogue every month So they started their[...]

Bleeding Cool first reported the rumour that award-winning author Ta-Nehisi Coates would be the new Marvel writer on Captain America back in June last

We must applaud eBay user spurio1234the, a comic book retailer who has listed his ComicsPRO exclusive variant cover swag directly from the show while sitting at one of the presentation tables.

Spinning out of the ComicsPRO presentations in Portland comes the sly bit of news that Amazing Spider-Man #794 is going to a third printing.

It's ranked in Diamond's Top 100 and it's ranked higher than titles like Incredible Hulk, Punisher, Champions, Black Panther, Cable, Ms Marvel, Runaways, and many others It's also been, from this reporter's subjective opinion, a quality book for its entire run. Even so, Tom Taylor has bigger fish to fry in the third core X-Book, X-Men:[...]

Gossip starts to spill out of ComicsPRO, the retailer advocacy group having their annual summit in Portland, right now. I'm doing my best to keep my ears

Just looking at the Marvel May 2018 solicitations that Bleeding Cool broke out earlier today reveals these listings for the Incredible Hulk, the series

There will be no ongoing issue of The Mighty Thor in May 2018 following from April's finale, Mighty Thor #706 by Jason Aaron and Russell Dauterman. AT THE

Retailers attending tomorrow's ComicsPRO summit in Portland will be able to take home a lot of swag. This includes a couple of exclusive variant covers from Boom! Studios, one each per retailer.

Over that period, Image has received Diamond's Gem Award for Best Publisher three years in a row from 2014 to 2016 Stephenson individually has been honored with ComicsPRO's Industry Appreciation Award and was named The Beat's Industry Person of the Year in 2014, as well as being ranked in the Top 10 on Bleeding Cool's[...]

Earlier this year, Bleeding Cool noticed that Barnes and Noble were no longer selling DC Comics on the newsstand. Turns out they had been gone for a few months. But it seems that Diamond Comic Distributors is at least preserving the spirit. By commissioning and making available these US-made pocket comic spinner racks. It'll cost you $299 if you want one[...]

Voodoo Doughnut will be making specially designed Shadowman doughnuts for retailers attending the ComicsPRO 2018 Annual Membership Meeting in Portland, Oregon.