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ComicsPRO, the trade organization for store-front comic retailers, has announced that Local Comic Shop Day is permanently moving from the Winter Holiday Season to the last Saturday in September Additionally, the focus of the 2024 event, held on September 28th this year, will be rebranding and strengthening industry partnerships in lieu of offering variant covers. Local[...]

Local Comic Shop Day is sponsored by ComicsPRO, the Trade Organization for comic book stores, and encourages comic book stores and publishers to run a special Local Comic Shop Day every year, with exclusive items and variant covers available only at bricks and mortar comic book stores And this year, it's Wednesday, the 22nd of[...]

Local Comic Shop Day is sponsored by ComicsPRO, the Trade Organization for comic book stores, and encourages comic book stores and publishers to run a special Local Comic Shop Day every year, with exclusive items and variant covers available only at bricks and mortar comic book stores. Here's a few details and covers have been released[...]

Wednesday, November 23rd is Local Comic Shop Day 2022 Where participating bricks and mortar comic book stores get to order premium versions of premium titles and maybe premium prices… and adding a few with every press release Here is every LCSD 2022 title so far announced, starting with four new ones – and then the[...]

Wednesday, November 23rd is Local Comic Shop Day 2022 Where participating bricks and mortar comic book stores get to order premium versions of premium titles and maybe premium prices… and adding a few with every press release Here is every LCSD 2022 title so far announced. LCSD 2022 KROMA #1 (OF 4) IMAGE COMICS (W/A/CA) Lorenzo De Felici Imprisoned[...]

Wednesday, November 24th is Local Comic Shop Day Where participating bricks and mortar comic book stores get to order premium versions of premium titles and maybe premium prices… and adding a few with every press release DC Comics have announced theirs as three cardboard stock covers of Detective Comics #1045 as well as DC Vs[...]

Wednesday, November 24th is Local Comic Shop Day Where participating bricks and mortar comic book stores get to order premium versions of premium titles and maybe premium prices… and adding a few with every press release Here is every LCSD 2021 title so far announced. A limited, deluxe foil, full art edition of RADIO APOCALYPSE #1,[...]

LCSD Watch: Alongside Joy Operations #1 from Dark Horse, Chuck D Presents Apocalypse 91 Revolution Never Sleeps from Z2 Comics, and the Metallica Special Edition from 10 Ton Press, Boom Studios are adding three items to the upcoming Local Comic Shop Day 2021, featuring limited edition and high-end premium variants of collectible comic books. That will[...]

Local Comic Shop Day is an event organised by ComicsPRO to focus on bricks'n'mortar comic shops, offering them collectable comic book items not intended to be made available through online-only outlets Marco Davanzo, Executive Director of ComicsPRO states that "to get comic fans into their local shop for the holidays To celebrate the local comic[...]

Marco Davanzo, Executive Director of ComicsPRO – the organization that runs Local Comic Shop Day – says the goal of this year's event is still the same, "To get comic fans into their local shop for the holidays To celebrate the local comic shop" But Local Comic Shop Day 2020 has a new look First[...]

  As we informed you over the weekend, in partnership with ComicsPRO, publishers have started announcing their offerings for Local Comic Shop Day 2020 Boom Studios has come in aggressively with five full foil variant covers which are all FOCing today – and one in particular caught our attention While the other four covers are all[...]

All the Local Comic Shop Day variants so far Marco Davanzo, Executive Director of ComicsPRO – the organization that runs Local Comic Shop Day – says the goal is still the same, "To get comic fans into their local shop for the holidays To celebrate the local comic shop" But Local Comic Shop Day 2020[...]

Today is Local Comic Shop Day, when local comic shops (bricks and mortar only) get special deliveries of special items with variant covers, exclusive formats or early releases of certain items See what is waiting for you in your local comic shop – if they are participating, that is Here are a few doing even[...]

Today is Local Comic Shop Day, so get out to your local comic shop and see what special goodies they have in store… The 10 most-read stories yesterday Leah Moore Tells Us All How Comics Broke Alan Moore Wizards Issues "Apology" Re: Forsaken Novel – "Magic: The Gathering" Tom King's Final Batman #85 Now Contains Tynion and March Prelude[...]

DC Comics is providing a limited edition hardcover collection of DCeased series that has been burning up the charts this year, for Local Comic Shop Day in November. However, they have told retailers that due to an error by Diamond Comic Distributors, all orders under the original JUL199163 code, that went to FOC last week, have[...]

Today is, apparently, the last day for retailers to sign up to participate in Local Comic Shop Day on Saturday, November 23rd 2019, selling premium and limited items, courtesy of ComcisPRO We've run a few of them, here's as many as we can find in one…  stores can register at www.comicspro.org/lcsd2019. DC Comics LCSD 2019 LEGION OF[...]

Local Comic Shop Day 2019, on Saturday, November 23rd is the opposite of Free Comic Book Day There's a bunch of stuff available, only to participating stores, of a limited nature, and you pay more than the usual price for what's on offer Bricks and mortar only – no online dealers It can lead to[...]

That's the case with Vault Comics, who will line the cover of their special Local Comic Shop Day edition of These Savage Shores with valuable gold ink, a press release reveals. Vault Comics is thrilled to join Local Comic Shop Day 2019 where they will release a limited, exclusive Gold Edition of These Savage Shores –[...]

Local Comic Shop Day 2019 is the opposite of Free Comic Book Day There's a bunch of stuff available, only to participating stores, of a limited nature, and you pay more than the usual price for what's on offer Bricks and mortar only – no online dealers It can lead to some highly desirable collectables,[...]

Bleeding Cool previously told you that this year's Local Comic Shop Day, held on Saturday November 19th with exclusive covers and collections will include a new collection of Brian K Vaughan and Marcos Martin's Doctor Strange The Oath as a $40 hardcover with new material. LCSD organisers ComicsPRO also informed retailers at San Diego Comic-Con that for the first[...]

Even though DC Comics had a Dark Knight III variant cover available someone decided to make a comic-store-only cover for Sandman Overture an LCSD exclusive (even though it wasn't.) Find this THE SANDMAN: OVERTURE DELUXE EDITION cover exclusively available for Local Comic Shop Day! #LCSD pic.twitter.com/3a5HgKjdeO — DC Vertigo (@vertigo_comics) November 28, 2015 And this is how it's[...]

We looked at Local Comic Shop Day in London earlier but now it's kicking off across America as well… here are a few early starters. @comic_shop_day is today 9a-6p ! You coming? #lcsd #lowell https://t.co/XqvUdIAoBK pic.twitter.com/hLm1Tw4q2e — LarrysComics.net (@LarrysComics) November 28, 2015 2 years ago my first comic came out, today my debut GN hits the shelves @orbitalcomics[...]

Bleeding Cool has pointed out that tomorrow's Black Mask Mystery Box is going to be one of the hottest items for Local Comic Shop Day, alongside All-New Wolverine And we ran a video unboxing the whole thing from a mystery retailer… But how come it hasn't come through Diamond? What happened to the We Can[...]

There are two comic stores participating in the Local Comic Shop Day promotion in the UK. Forbidden Planet (not Forbidden Planet International) with shops in Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Coventry, Croydon, Liverpool, London, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Southampton. And then Orbital Comics in London. There's also Big Bang Comics in Dublin as well. That's it for the British Isles – and Europe as a whole. Given that Local Comic Shop Day is gearing up[...]

For Saturday's comic store promotion Local Comic Shop Day, Black Mask are issuing We Can Never Go Home and Space Raiders hardcovers, exclusive to participating stores. But they are also issuing the Secret LCSD Black Mask Box Set. Bleeding Cool was the first to work out that their comic Young Terrorists was the Avengers of the Black Mas universe,[...]

I'm not exactly sure who it was who paid $300 on eBay for the B&W All-New Wolverine #1 Local Comic Shop Day variant imited to 500 copies, ahead of it going on sale this coming Saturday But someone else bought one for $200 A more recent sale was $40 But it shows you some of[...]

Local Comic Shop Day is a promotion arranged by retailer representative group ComicsPRO, for the day after Black Friday In which participating comic stores have been able to buy exclusive variant versions of all manner of comic books Participation cost stores $50 or $10 for existing ComcisPRO members to signup to the promotion And the[...]

This is one of a number of covers Udon are using to relaunch Street Fighter Unlimited #1 in December, from  Ken Siu-chong and artist Joe Ng as well as Jim

Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire! The presence of the Local Comic Shop Day and the price of its exclusive hardcover editions has pushed the Oni Press books to the top[...]

Z2 are revealing the #1 variant cover today for ComicsPRO's Local Comic Shop Day, by Margaux Saltel You'll find it on November 28th at participating shops. [Welcome to Showside #1 variant cover for Local Comic Book Day by Margaux Saltel] If you haven't encountered it before, Welcome to Showside is "an all-ages title, takes readers on the[...]