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British Copies Of Walking Dead #111 Go Walkabout

Last week, Brits didn’t get their copies of The Walking Dead #111. It happens sometimes. But they haven’t turned up this week either. UK retailers have been told that the comic has been lost in transit, and both Diamond and …

Ten Grand Launches At No 25 In May’s Top 100 Comics & Graphic Novels Chart

So what can we see? Ten Grand from JMS and Ben Templesmith launched at 25th place, though it was returnable ( and also that its place will have been discounted on the chart).  he Wake #1 only made it to …

Diamond Exclusives For San Diego Comic Con 2013 – Adventure Time To Walking Dead Mini-Mates

So, as HeroesCon is happening in North Carolina, eyes are already turning to San Diego Comic Con. And exactly what exclusive items will be on sale! Such as the Deadpool-In-A-Taco-Truck toy… Here are a few more coming your way… SDCC …

Diamond Comic Distributors Moves From Timonium To Hunt Valley

1966 Greenspring Drive, Suite 300. Timonium, MD 21093. A familiar address for customers of Diamond Comic Distributors. Greenspring. Timonium. Such lovely, light, refreshing words to curl your tongue around. But now we’re going to have to confront, harsher, scarier words, …

Diamond UK Is Manchester Airport’s Biggest Customer

From a presentation by Diamond Comic Distributors UK at the retailer summit at London MCM today, they dropped some heavy numbers on the retailers present. 2012′s sales were 10% up on 2011, to 8 million units imported into the UK. …

Cryptozoic Goes Exclusive With Diamond

I haven’t run this kind of story in ages. A publisher announcing an exclusive distribution deal with Diamond. I remember the days when you’d have one of these every other week. Anyway, board game publisher Cryptozoid, is going exclusive with …

Comics Market Bigger Now Than In Any Time Since The Early Nineties – And It’s Thanks To The Comic Shop

Through a combination of addition, a little guesswork and a few entertaining assumptions, John Jackson Miller has one again given us an esitimate of comic publisher’s revenue in 2012, namely $715 million. Which is about 5% higher than 2011 and, …

Chris Powell Made VP Retailer Services At Diamond Comic Distributors

Last year, we reported that Diamond Comic Distribution had hired Chris Powell from MyComicShop.com as their Executive Director of Business Development. As Diamond have recently gone through some shuffling of senior figures, it seems that is not yet over, and …

How January 2013 Had Twice The Comics Order Value Of January 2003 – John Jackson Miller’s Comichron

John Jackson Miller writes; As reported here Friday, January comics sales performed the rare feat of beating December’s sales; now, with the release of new data from Diamond Comic Distributors, we can see the numbers behind the headline. Click to …

Avatar And Boundless Solicitations For May 2013

First proper issue of Kieron Gillen‘s Uber, plenty of Crossed, Stitched, Dan The Unharmable, Fashion Beast, Night Of The Living Dead and Lady Death, courtesy of Avatar and Boundess in May… currently the only publisher to have new books by …

Bill Schanes To Step Down At Diamond Comic Distributors. Status Of Moustache, Unknown.

Forty-two years after co-founding Pacific and twenty-six years after joining the company, Bill Schanes, Vice President of Purchasing at Diamond Comic Distributors is stepping down from that role, for an advisory position that will last the rest of the year, …

Diamond Announces Nominations For 2012 Gem Awards

The nominations for the Diamond GEM Awards, voted on by retailers, have been announced. You can see last year’s nominations and winners here. Bleeding Cool Magazine #1 is nominated for Best Magazine. Archie and Valiant have squeezed out Zenescope and …

In One Week, In Two Weeks – The Answer

Next week in comics… the beginning of Answer,  Star Trek’s Countdown To Darkness, the last issue of Minutemen, a bit more Chew, the beginning of Uncanny X-Force , Young Avengers and Deadpool Killistrated. And in two weeks… Emily And The …

Superior Spider-Man Dominates Reorders Again, Along With Much Of Marvel NOW. But Django Unchained, New 52 Valentine’s Day, Django Unchained And Adventure Time Make Honourable Appearances

Superior Spider-Man #2 topped Diamond’s Advance Reorder charts last week and it’s done it again this week with issue 3, putting on in one week more than the entire order of the second print of Superior Spider-Man #2 (which can …

Previews Dissected – March 2013

Kaan Evren Basaran writes; Welcome to out third installment of the Dissecting Previews column where we go through the thousands of items that are solicited in the Diamond Distributors’ Previews catalog to highlight a huge bunch of very interesting products …

Top 100 Manga Sales In US Comic Shops In 2012

Here’s a look at the charts for 2012 for comics defined as “manga” sold in comic stores and distrubuted in North America by Diamond Comic Distributors. The charts are dominated by Sailor Moon and Naruto, for the top thirteen spots, …