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Marvel Comics has announced that they will no longer be distributing comic books to comic stores in North America via Diamond Comic Distributors Instead, they will be exclusively distributed by Penguin Random House Publisher Services (PRHPS), a division of Penguin Random House This will be an exclusive worldwide multi-year sales and distribution agreement for Marvel's[...]

Bleeding Cool has a first look at next week's Diamond Previews catalogue for comic books shipping from June 2021 and beyond The front cover features the new series Jupiter's Legacy: Requiem by Mark Millar and Tommy Lee Edwards, as Jupiter's Legacy debuts on Netflix. The back cover features Boba Fett from Charles Soule and Steve McNiven's[...]

Lunar is the distribution company set up by DCBS with DC Comics, to provide an alternative distribution source a year ago, when Diamond Comic Distributors temporarily closed due to the pandemic and shutdown. Scout Comics To Be Distributed By Lunar Distribution When Diamond started up again, DC left Diamond for Lunar and another comic store-turned-distributor UCS Comic[...]

Diamond Books is the bookstore distribution sister company to Diamond Comic Distributors It distributes graphic novels to bookstores, on and offline, including Amazon Image Comics is its biggest client, after Marvel went to Hachette and DC went to Penguin Random House However, in recent months, there's a pattern of a number of smaller comic book[...]

Weather and pandemic have seen many delays, especially from Diamond Comic Distributors, but if all goes to plan, there are a LOT of big books coming out next week. First is Infinite Frontier #0, the big DC Comics book that will relaunch their superhero line with new creators, fresh takes and a new purpose Written by[...]

Both Diamond Comic Distributors and Lunar Distribution have faced delays to comic book stores and we now have the latest. Last week, Bleeding Cool reported that "Diamond Comic Distributor's Olive Branch Distribution Center is operating with a very limited staff and will be unable to process direct ship reorders today" and that "replenishment orders for this[...]

Right now, even as Diamond Comic Distributors closes one warehouse in New Memphis, it is reporting weather-related delays out of its Olive Branch distribution centre, the very one intended to replace New Memphis. Diamond tells retailers that "transportation partners including UPS, FedEx and our LTL carriers have informed Diamond there will be no pick-ups or deliveries[...]

Comic book publishers were told yesterday and comic book retailers will be told at the ComicsPRO retailer summit today that Diamond Comic Distributors is closing their New Memphis, Tennessee warehouse and distribution centre, with all functions transferring to their Olive Branch, Mississippi distribution centre It is understood that this is a direct result of DC[...]

But with more and more variant covers, the process of returning comics has become harder and harder, with even the cost that Diamond Comic Distributors charges for making a comic returnable, not covering the process. Now Diamond's Purchasing Department, in coordination with publishers, is making changes to programmes that feature returnable and variant cover incentives[...]

Diamond UK Comics Distributors have informed stores that the snowstorms in the USA have prevented new comic books shopping this week, the latest in a number of delays caused by shutdowns But they hope to be able to provide stores with everything missing the following week However, anything that they received previously to the delay,[...]

I get the feelimng that we'll be talking about BRZRKR, Keanu Reeves’ comic creator debut with co-writer Matt Kindt and artist Ron Garney, quite a bit as

As we previously informed you, Boom Studios still had another trick up their sleeve to promote BRZRKR, Keanu Reeves’ comic creator debut with co-writer

The February edition of Diamond Comic Distributors' monthly Previews catalogue arrives in comic shops on Wednesday, the 27th of January with comic books, graphic novels, toys, and other pop culture merchandise scheduled to go on sale beginning April 2021. Covers Of Next Week's Previews The Previews front cover features Marvel Comics' Guardians of the Galaxy #13 from[...]

Josh Geppi has been named Chief Creative Officer of Geppi Family Enterprises, the company best known as the owner of Diamond Comic Distributors and Alliance Games. Josh Geppi is adding this role to his role of President, Diamond International Galleries which buys and sells pop culture collectables and operates DIGAuction, an online auction house for comic[...]

We are continuing to receive trucks from Diamond with back stock and all inventory is slated to be transferred to us by mid-February. Lunar Distribution logo While DC Comics sent the more effusive missive; Happy New Year! We hope you all have managed to stay healthy during the holiday season Several months ago, DC announced that Lunar Distribution[...]

And for some stores, the delivery hasn't arrived yet. Piranha Comics of Bromley and Kingston-Upon-Thames posted a message from distributor Diamond UK, telling us. Hi there everyone if you have a few minutes please read this email from our comic distributor DIAMOND Please read and don't panic buy from the US or grey importers Hold steady and[...]

The Last 52: War Of The Multiverses, Jinny Hex Special and Tales from The Dark Multiverse: Metal at the same time as Death Metal #7 and the first of the Future State comic books. Christmas Credit: Alan Davis and Paul Neary So if you are British – or your comic book store is serviced through Diamond UK across[...]

Comic book retailers who have been ordering their DC Comics titles through UCS Comic Distributors, the distributor set up by Midtown Comics, and being

The message read; What is this? It was added to my Diamond order history this past week by the system Is there another surprise book coming up from one of the publishers? 25 0 OCT208592 SOLID BLOOD #17 3.99 99.75 12/04/20 N 25 ORD INC It looks like this books might we expected in stores on 12/16 I have[...]

Diamond Comic Distributors has informed comic book retailers that, in meetings with our freight carriers, the Operations teams at Diamond and Alliance have been cautioned about potential delays throughout the freight networks in December and early January They tell retailers that "while we are in constant communication with the carriers, please bear in mind that,[...]

Diamond chart time And a special congratulations to former Bleeding Cool columnist Alex De Campi and Erica Henderson, whose graphic novel Dracula Motherf**ker from Image Comics was the best-selling graphic novel in the Diamond direct market in October this year, beating out the collection of Marvel's summer event, Empyre Someone at DC's Black Label should[...]

The haul had been stolen from an industrial unit in Wolverhampton – where they were being stored by an online retailer which trades worldwide – and from an associated distributor's warehouse in Runcorn." We know a distributor based in Runcorn, don't we, children? Diamond UK Who last month reported a major theft, the investigation of which[...]

Next week's Diamond Previews puts a new Blade Runner comic book series from Titan Comics on the front cover, Blade Runner Origins written by K Perkins, Mellow Brown and Mike Johnson, drawn by Fernando Bagnino, and published in February 2020. The Origin Of The First Blade Runner on Next Week's Previews Cover BLADE RUNNER ORIGINS #1 CVR[...]

Diamond Comic Book Distributors has maintained two different comic book bags and board brands of products as a result of previous acquisitions but as the product line of each has become almost identical, they are going to cancel the Comic Defense System branding in favour of the ubiquitous ComiCare brand. Diamond Combines Two Brands, Comic Defense[...]

Lockdown 2, electric boogaloo… Diamond UK made the following announcement to comic book retailers yesterday, confirming that they will still be distributing comic books, even as English comic book stores go to lockdown from Thursday for a month – at least Diamond stated; Following on from the announcements over the weekend I can confirm that the[...]

Vault has now issued the following statement to comic book retailers, making all their comic books returnable, right now – even yesterday's Giga #1, if you so wished. Vault Comics is pleased to announce line-wide single issue returnability for all Diamond retailers, as part of the Vault Bound Retailer Support Initiative Now, under Vault Bound, all[...]

UCS is one of two distributors set up with DC Comics from two of DC's biggest comic book retailer accounts, to replace Diamond Comic Distributors, with whom DC had fallen out within the shadow of the shutdown Set up by Midtown Comics, it was recently revealed that this relationship was coming to an end at[...]

Bleeding Cool broke the news that UCS Comic Distributors would no longer be distributing DC Comics to comic book stores from January 2021 and that as a

We and other comic retailers are petitioning DC to resume distribution through Diamond Comics Distribution Lunar has actually done an excellent job thus far, but our industry will be better served with two distributors for retailers to choose from Competition breeds better service Our DC comics arrived pretty late this week (we just got them[...]

We begin with the top ten comic books sold to comic book stores through Diamond Comic Distributors in September 2020 The top 500 lists follow after the marketshare… no DC Comics of course, as DC left Diamond, but it does allow Image Comics to get a couple into the top ten And Spawn would have[...]