. It’s been long since past time to clear some logjams when it comes to posting reports on the site: in part, what was delaying the posting of charts on hand from the 1980s is I needed parent pages for each year, and that was complicated by the fact that neither Diamond nor Capital released … Read more
March comics sales are out… from 35 years ago! March 1985 charts for Capital City Distribution are now on Comichron, our oldest Direct Market charts yet. Secret Wars II #1 launched as one the biggest sellers to date in comic shops. Find the charts here. The unit sales reported are the actual preorders Capital received. … Read more
Tim Burton‘s Batman movie came out 30 years ago this weekend, so we’ve just posted the June 1989 sales charts for both Diamond Comic Distributors and Capital City Distribution. See what was selling by clicking the links: June 1989: Capital City Sales Charts June 1989: Diamond Sales Charts Capital was the second largest distributor, with … Read more
It’s the first of February, 2017 — a red-letter date in the comics industry as Diamond Comic Distributors, the sales agent for most large comics publishers to comics shops in North America, celebrates its 35th anniversary. Watch below as founder Steve Geppi commemorates the day in a new video. When Steve Geppi began distributing comics and … Read more
I missed the actual date yesterday but on Feb. 1, Diamond Comic Distributors — the sales agent for most large comics publishers to comics shops in North America — celebrated its 30th anniversary. Steve Geppi, today When Steve Geppi began distributing comics and related merchandise to fellow shop owners on Feb. 1, 1982, the comic … Read more
The Direct Market saved Superman’s world. Jim Shooter, former editor in chief at Marvel, has embarked on his blog on a discussion of the history of the distribution business for comics, delving into such fun buts of minutiae as affadavit returns. (See Chuck Rozanski’s piece on the Mile High II collection, a batch of … Read more