retailer Archives

The best ones are tying in to Avatar's new on-going zombie series, Night of the Living Dead: Aftermath, since the first issue launches on Halloween! For example, Collector's Corner in Baltimore, Maryland, is hosting an event starting at 5pm which will include a costume contest, free comics and toys giveaways, a zombie SFX artist giving free[...]

With the launch of Night of the Living Dead: Aftermath #1 debuting this Wednesday (Halloween), Avatar Press wants to reward the top three retailers who have the best events on Halloween! Will it be you? Retailers are encouraged to contact Rick Verbanas, Director of Marketing, at Avatar Press, (rickverbanas@avatarpress.net) so he can help you promote your store's party and to register[...]

Several comic book retailers have reported lately being hit by a "Visa gift card scam" Here's one account from a retailer who wishes to remain anonymous. We recently were the victims of credit card fraud.  What happened was someone came into the store on a Sat when we were very busy and picked out several high[...]

On December the 26th, there will be no Diamond Comic Distributor delivery to comic stores around the wold. However, the week before retailers will get a special batch of comics to put aside, only to be sold from that date. And now we know which ones… From Dark Horse,  the El Cid hardcover and the Star Wars Omnibus:[...]

This past Sunday, Nicholas Yutko, the owner of Dreamscape Comics in Bethelehem, Pennsylvania passed away, aged 51 An aimiable and much loved comic book retailer, he will be much missed by family and friends We used to chat about comics, comics news, comics rumours and so much more, and I will miss that too. There is a[...]

Okay, maybe a single one.  Instead it's a compilation of all the deals that retailers can get in November, as long as they order large amounts of the comics in question In some previous cases it's to help prop up the final issue numbers of a comics before their relaunch, in these it's to increase[...]

Is your retailer going to New York Comic Con? They may come back with more than a case of bed bugs. Retailers who attend certain Diamond Comic Distributors meetings will return with a bunch of goodies, often of the limited variety. They will include a Dark Horse Horror Exclusive Lithograph, an NYCC Aquaman #12: Robot Chicken variant,[...]

This is the rarest of the variant covers to The Walking Dead #100. Courtesy of Wonderworld Comics of Detriot. The bloodied Lucille bat, in red, on a black

An "appreciation" cover, sent to retailers who ordered Walking Dead #100 and, it seems, signed by someone Possibly Robert Kirkman or Charlie Adlard or both. Their last Retailer Appreciation cover for issue 75 was sent, one copy to everyone, and an extra copy for every fifty copies that shop had ordered This however may be just[...]

The announcement at the Diamond Retailer lunch that comic book stores can received practically free POS systems with a very generous subsidy, both software and hardware from RMS/ComicSuite, that mean they can monitor their stock, manage pull lists, anticipate demand, improve ordering and reordering activity and provide a better store for their customers. Three decades ago,[...]

We told you about Diamond's Best Practice Awards, handed out at the Chicago Retailer Summit last week But it wasn't the only competition retailers could enter on those days It was also the first Retailer Olympics. Here are the categories… and the winners The judges were Outside Sales Managers Tim Kartman, Eric Hitchcock, and Dave Hawksworth. ComiCare[...]

At the Diamond Retailer Summit at Chicago, retailers met to judge the winners of the inaugural Best Practice Awards, given to retailers for the following categories And here are the winners, with links to the stores in question! Best Window Display – Level Up Entertainment in Mays Landing, NJ Best Counter Display – Heroes and Villains in[...]

Comic book retailer Jesse James reports from C2E2 for Bleeding Cool. This year I decided to go to the Diamond Distributors Retailer Summit in Chicago  As most of you know I have spent my last 25 years in meetings for Corporate America. I'm not very fond of sitting in a meeting and find my self wondering off[...]

  It's been a while coming certainly. But Punk Rock Jesus #1 by Sean Murphy is solicited by DC Vertigo for July. And while much attention at the show

Thankfully most of it will be happening in the East of London and I'll be out in the far South West but I know I'll get inconvenienced several times. I'd much rather attend the Retailer Olympics, being organised at Diamond's upcoming Chicago summit, held directly before and in the same location as C2E2. We reported this event[...]

We already reported on some of the swag retailers who attend the Chicago Diamond Summit before C2E2 will be getting Well here are three more to make the trip sweeter. Avengers Vs X-Men #2 and Hulk #50 DCD Summit editions, limited to 3000 copies And a Boba Fett Is Dead #1 DCD Summit Edition, limited to[...]

We know that fans have so many choices on how to spend their entertainment dollars, and it's important that, as retailers, we expose them to the things that we believe will become their next favorite thing. Sunday at the IMAGE COMIC EXPO, I'll be sharing a panel with two major inspirations in the field of comics[...]

I know, I know, feel my pain. Well, at the Chicago retailer summit before C2E2 this year, comic store retailers from around the country will be encoraged to compete in the Retailer Olympics, with disciplines including timed comic storage box assembling, timed checking in of a Diamond shipment, accomplished comic store displays and more. I'm hoping for[...]

And publishers will be giving away free swag to retailers that attend This includes Dynamite, with special Comics Pro variant issues of three of their comics, one published, two not yet, and extra copies of the rarer Warriors Of Mars #1 cover. Who can be the first to get them on eBay? If you're going to[...]

  Warp Nine Comics of Clawson, Michigan are getting ahead of everyone by opening today with a sale. Most others can wait until at least tomorrow.

Here are the two customizable retailer covers for Avengers Assemble #1. Retailers who order more copies of the regular version of Avengers Assemble #1 than they did for Fear Itself #7, will be able to order an additional 500 or more copies of this variant, customized to their own store's logo, with an ad on the[...]

Bleeding Cool previously ran the story of how Diamond and Marvel managed to miss Kick Ass #5 from its November retailer order form, adding it as a "retro-solicitation" in its December Previews, for November, but coming up as an "order again" issue by mistake. As a result a number of retailers ordered no copies or very[...]

This is the complete cover collection of Amazing Spider-Man #666 including all the different retailer-specific covers from around the world, displayed by comic book collector Dough Boy… who tells of his ordeal. There were some retailers who would refuse to communicate with non-local consumers, some retailers who would not mail under any circumstance, and[...]

There are many reasons for retailers to attend the New York Comic Con Retailer Breakfast on the morning of the start of the show. For a start, there's breakfast. Then there are presentations from the major comic book and comic-related publishers and manufacturers The chance to ask questions, to network, to pick up tips. Oh and to big[...]

ComiXology have released the terms and conditions for creating comiXology websites for comic book stores, allowing store's customers to buy digital comics through their store's website, timed to coincide as DC Comics goes day-and-date digital. It's rather close to deadline, so it's possible retailers may miss one or two clauses before signing. The good news, retailers get[...]

Readers were asked to contact their local comic book retailers to ask how. But Bleeding Cool is happy to lay it out for everyone. To qualify, a comic shop has to match orders for a previous issue of the comic, then order 2000 copies of the You're Spider-Man variant of Amazing Spider-Man #669 That's a lot of[...]

We've had two, here are seven more. Only one-hundred-and-forty-one to go... first sighting of the Lizard cover as well. Presenting covers from Graham

We've shown you the Phoenix Comics retailer variant cover from Amazing Spider-Man #666, in which comic stores have been able to buy 500-and-up print runs with their own store on the front. Well now here's one from Comics & More in Madison Heights, MI.  Indeed, this is one of the two covers that Dan Slott noted[...]

The first DC Retailer Roadshow took place yesterday at Warner Bros in Burbank, as around twenty teams of retailers were ushered through security checks into the belly of the beast. Executive big guns Bob Wayne, Jim Lee, Dan DiDio, Diane Nelson, Hank Kanalz and John Rood were in attendance with Rood moderating He did not attempt[...]

Bleeding Cool has already run pieces on the IDW Godzilla and Avatar/Boundless War Goddess mass retailer variant covers, but now Marvel has entered the fray with Amazing Spider-Man #666 If a retailer orders 150% of their usual Amazing Spider-Man numbers, and they can order 500 or more additional covers with their choice of personalised cover[...]