About Diamond. Founded in 1982, Diamond Comic Distributors resides at the Nexus of Comics and Pop-Culture with a multi-channel platform of publishing, marketing and fulfillment services, coupled with an unparalleled global distribution network for its retailers, publishers and vendors. What started as one man’s hobby, with only a single ...
Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc. (often called Diamond Comics, DCD, or casually Diamond) is an American comic book distributor serving retailers in North America and worldwide. They transport comic books and graphic novels from both big and small comic book publishers, or suppliers, to retailers, as well as other popular culture products such as toys, games, and apparel.
Diamond Comics is an Indian comic books publisher and distribution company, headquartered in Delhi. It is the largest comic book distributor and publisher in India. Diamond Comics created several original Indian comic characters like Chacha Chaudhary, Billoo, Pinki and Motu Patlu
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Apr 06, 2020 · Related: Diamond Comics Shuts Down Comic Book Distribution. Diamond Comics’ New Payment Plan. The email shared to social media by Alterna Comics founder Peter Simeti details that Diamond Comics will begin paying publishers and other vendors 25% of what they are owed under their contracts beginning the week of April 6, 2020.
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(often called Diamond Comics, DCD, or casually Diamond) is an American comic book distributor serving retailers in North America and worldwide. They transport comic books and graphic novels from both big and small comic book publishers, or suppliers, to retailers, as well as other popular culture products such as ...
In 1983, Diamond hired an accounting firm, and in 1985 hired "no-nonsense CPA" Chuck Parker "as Diamond's first controller". In 1994, Diamond employee Mark Herr noted that this move was Geppi's "best decision", as Parker "cares nothing about the comics. To him, it's dollars and cents.".
Diamond is the publisher of Previews, a monthly catalog/magazine showcasing upcoming comic books, graphic novels, toys, and other pop-culture merchandise available at comic book specialty shops. The publication is available to both comic shop retailers and consumers.
By this point, Diamond had "27 warehouses in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., employ [ing] between 750 and 900 people;" operated its own trucking line; and controlled 45% of the market, making $222 million in sales. In 1996, Diamond launched the toll-free Comic Shop Locator service.
Geppi had been a sub-distributor for Hal Shuster's Irjax in the late 1970s. In what Mile High Comics ' Chuck Rozanski describes as an "incredibly risky and gutsy move," Geppi took over New Media/Irjax's "office and warehouse space" and, recalled Rozanski, had to "sort out the good customers from the bad overnight" negotiating with creditors to continue Shuster's distribution business as Diamond Comic Distribution. Almost overnight, noted Rozanski, " [h]e went from being a retailer in Baltimore to having warehouses all over the place."
In 1990, Diamond acquired Oregon-based Second Genesis Distribution (whose operations folded in 1991 ). Second Genesis had previously absorbed distributors Sunrise Distributors and Comex. One week after announcing the acquisition of Second Genesis, Diamond announced the acquisition of the Seattle-based sub-distributor Destiny Distribution. Destiny had been started by Phil Pankow in the early 1980s, and was initially supplied by Bud Plant.
Diamond bought Capital City on July 26, 1996, assuming near-control of the comics distribution system.
Geppi "stocked his store with collections he found through the classifieds, traveling the countryside in his beat-up blue Ford van.". One of "the first specialty comic retailers in Maryland," Geppi built his business as the comics industry grew. Geppi recalls.
Ever the entrepreneur, Geppi "asked to be paid in comics [because]... [h]e could sell them off to other kids and make a better buck.". By 1960, Geppi was "doing tax returns for his neighbors," and later also "handled football pools .".
Geppi's "first job was handling the comics for a local store," where the nine-year-old avidly read comics including "his favorite Archie comics " and others.
In 1995 , Geppi "opened Diamond International Galleries," a showplace for comics and collectibles, part of Geppi's attempts to "see... collectibles attain serious respect." Nine years later, Diamond International Galleries purchased "one of the country’s first, and most respected, collectibles auction houses: Hake's Americana & Collectibles." In 2005, Geppi added the " Denver, Pennsylvania -based Morphy Auctions" to his growing stable of parts of the collectibles market, which already included publishing the main comics price guide: The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide.
Already "making more money with the comics than as a mailman," he opened his first Geppi's Comic World comic store "in a hole under a TV repair shop" in Baltimore, and – while personally specialising in "older, collectible comics," – "began carrying new comics, chiefly as a means of attracting regular customers to the store each week." Geppi "stocked his store with collections he found through the classifieds, traveling the countryside in his beat-up blue Ford van." One of "the first specialty comic retailers in Maryland," Geppi built his business as the comics industry grew. Geppi recalls
One of the "last loyal customers" when New Media began having fiscal difficulties, Geppi made a deal: " [t]he owner was going into retail," so Geppi agreed to provide Schuster with "free books for a period of time in return for his account list," buying parts of the company, and founding Diamond Comic Distribution.
Described by Mile High Comics ' Chuck Rozanski as "brilliant," Steve Geppi had been a subdistributor for Hal Schuster in the late 1970s. In what Rozanski describes as an "incredibly risky and gutsy move," Geppi took over New Media/Irjax's "office and warehouse space" and, recalled Rozanski, had to "sort out the good customers from the bad overnight" negotiating with creditors to continue Schuster's distribution business as Diamond Comic Distribution. Almost overnight, noted Rozanski, " [h]e went from being a retailer in Baltimore to having warehouses all over the place." Geppi himself, according to Mike Friedrich "was someone whose work you could trust, who had a good reputation for honesty in the field [as a collector, retailer and distributor]."
DC Comics - A 1987–1990 four-issue miniseries tryout, then 24 issues and one Annual, mostly written by Mike W. Barr. Original adventures, including a reunion with Doc's Mayan sweetheart/wife Monya and John Sunlight, adventures with Doc's grandson "Chip" Savage, and backstory on Doc's parents and youth.
Master of disguise. Doc Savage is a fictional character of the competent man hero type, who first appeared in American pulp magazines during the 1930s and 1940s. Real name Clark Savage Jr., he is a doctor, scientist, adventurer, detective, and polymath who "rights wrongs and punishes evildoers.".
He is a physician, scientist, adventurer, detective, inventor, explorer, researcher, and, as revealed in The Polar Treasure, a musician. Dent described the hero as a mix of Sherlock Holmes ' deductive abilities, Tarzan 's outstanding physical abilities, Craig Kennedy 's scientific education, and Abraham Lincoln 's goodness. He also described Doc Savage as manifesting " Christliness ." Doc's character and world-view is displayed in his oath, which goes as follows:
In interviews, he stated that he harbored no illusions of being a high-quality author of literature; for him, the Doc Savage series was simply a job, a way to earn a living by "churning out reams and reams of sellable crap", never dreaming how his series would catch on.
Doc Savage has appeared in comics and a movie, on radio, and as a character in numerous other works, and continues to inspire authors and artists in the realm of fantastic adventure.
Fictional character in American pulp magazines during the 1930s and 1940s. Doc Savage. Doc Savage Magazine, March 1933, "The Man of Bronze", illustrated by Walter M. Baumhofer. Publication information.
Longtime Marvel Comics editor Stan Lee credited Doc Savage as being the forerunner to modern superheroes.