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Marvel Retailers Despair Over Three Months Of Previews Glitches (UPDATE)

Published Fri, 13 Feb 2015 09:00:48 -0600

Last updated Fri, 13 Feb 2015 16:07:16 -0600

Marvel Comics makes an online service available exclusively to retailers, allowing them advance looks at select upcoming comic books weeks in advance. It allows them to increase orders, looks for sales points to sell titles and generally assuage their confidence over the sales levels they have placed on the comics in question.

However, for the last three months it hasn't been working. The covers go up on the system, but the comics cannot be seen. And complaints have not been answered, as this forum page indicates.

The only inquiries made by retailers to Marvel staffers have indicated that they need to talk to someone called "Erick" – with no further details as to who this individual may be.

Bleeding Cool made enquiries to Marvel without response. But yesterday, as the top post of that forum indicates, there was a small change and some titles suddenly started popping out the five page previews available elsewhere.

Maybe it's just a start? At one point Marvel were hoping 100% of retailers would use this service, but because of a three month failing, it's probably a little lower than that right no.

Bleeding Cool thanks the retailers who forwarded the scans.

UPDATE: Well, that would be Erick Lebron, Publishing: Junior Sales Manager. But note the "Junior" – something to ask the likes of David Gabriel at the next retailer meeting?

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