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Marvel Comics titles are exclusively distributed to comic shops via Penguin Random House Though Diamond Comic Distributors work as a middle-man for some, still, and still exclusively distribute Marvel to the UK with Diamond UK Those who use Diamond usually pay more, but gain a little simplicity and maybe a few economies of scale along[...]

While the series made superstars of its young cast, Schneiderhan found herself learning and growing under their wing before helping to expand one of their newest and most popular characters in rocker and gamer Eddie Munson, played by Joseph Quinn in the series. Cr: Penguin Random House Introduced in season four, Eddie was head of the Hellfire[...]

Critical Role: Bells Hells–What Doesn't Break has been announced by Random House Worlds, set for release in late July 2024.

And I follow Dad out of the van and through the trees along the side of the road. Cr: Penguin Random House For more, including notes from Quinn, you can check out the remainder of the excerpt here Published by Penguin Random House, Stranger Things: Flight of Icarus is now available. There's no question that television has[...]

Three years ago, Bleeding Cool reported that Penguin Random House had bought fellow book publisher Simon & Schuster from ViacomCBS for $2.175 billion The exclusive distributor of Marvel Comics, Dark Horse, and IDW buying up the exclusive distributor of Boom Studios, Oni Press and Rebellion to US bookstores And they would have gotten away with[...]

Readers now can learn more about his backstory story in Caitlin Schneiderhan's upcoming prequel novel Stranger Things: Flight of Icarus from Penguin Random House It will have to do since we won't know anything about season five of Stranger Things for some time as Hollywood and SAG-AFTRA are burning the midnight oil to get season[...]

The hot gossip of comics retailer forums, WhatsApp groups, Telegram parties and the like in recent days has concerned a Penguin Random House Publisher Services data leak of around 800 comic book stores on the East Coast of the USA, noting what wholesale orders they had made for comic books from Penguin Random House last[...]

Penguin Random House and Del Rey UK have announced that they will launch Inklore, a new worldwide comic book imprint focused on publishing manga, manhua, manhwa, webcomics adaptations, and "light novels". The US will see Keith Clayton, VP and Deputy Publisher at Random House Worlds and former Justice League /Vault Comics editor Rebecca "Tay" Taylor as[...]

Penguin Random House has been the exclusive direct market distributor of Marvel Comics for a couple of years now It started off awfully, possibly with the worst comic book distribution history of any company ever in its first month, but since then has done a much better job of it They are also now exclusive[...]

Diamond shutting down saw them forced to break their exclusive contracts with Marvel and DC Comics, which saw those publishers set up other distribution solutions. Today, at ComicsPRO, for the first time, those four remaining major distributors will be in the same room and will be talking to retailers, Diamond, Penguin Random House, Lunar Distributors and[...]

Through both Penguin Random House and Lunar Distribution, DC Comics is restarting their graphic novel display programme ahead of the release of The Flash movie in June. Flash Graphic Novel Displays through Penguin Random House DC Comics Instore Flash Graphic Novel Displays Through Lunar & PRH With The Flash in theaters on June 16, we are thrilled to announce that The Flash standee displays from[...]

We had a chance to chat with Jim Zub and Stacy King, two of the three people behind the latest book (along with Andrew Wheeler), as we chat about how this one came about and the content within! Credit: Penguin Random House/10 Speed Press BC: Hey gang! How have you both been since we last spoke? JZ: Like everyone,[...]

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool shared the news that Dark Horse Comics was dropping exclusive distribution to comic stores from Diamond Comic Distributors to Penguin Random House Publisher Services, as well as Diamond owner Steve Geppi's response which was, basically, "we'll miss the one percent that was Dark Horse." A number of comic book store owners and[...]

Bleeding Cool just ran the news that Dark Horse Comics was joining Marvel Comics and IDW Publishing, in going exclusive with Penguin Random House Publsihing Services for the direct market of comic book shops and bookstores, to begin in June 2023. Steve Geppi, founder of Diamond Comic Distributors and CEO of Geppi Family Enterprises, to whom[...]

Dark Horse Comics announced that it is joining Marvel and IDW in going exclusive with Penguin Random House Publisher Services in selling comic books in the direct market to comic book stores and bookstores And that this will be an exclusive worldwide multi-year agreement for the sales and distribution of Dark Horse's newly published and[...]

Penguin Random House is the exclusive distributor of Marvel Comics and IDW Publishing comic books to comic book stores, though they do allow sub-distribution through previous exclusive distributor Diamond Comic Distribution PRH has just issued the following message to comic book stores that next week's titles will be delayed. Hello Retailers, We wanted to let you know[...]

Penguin Random House has put together several charts for distributing comic books and graphic novels over the last three months, including IDW Publishing Unsurprisingly Turtles sales top the charts, with much expected for the upcoming Last Ronin, but it is followed in the charts by Canto and surprise hit Captain Action Transformers are way down[...]

Go Berserk! Penguin Random House has put together a number of charts for distributing comic books and graphic novels over the last three months, including their entire manga selection, comic books translated from Japan or, for some, created in a Japanese style The chart also includes Japanese light novels, translated and published by manga publishers[...]

Penguin Random House has put together a number of charts for distributing comic books and graphic novels over the last three months, including DC Comics And you can see why DC's commitment to Batman Uber Alles holds through the chart, but also notable that the 100 Bullets Omnibus tops the chart, followed by the 52[...]

Penguin Random House has put together several charts for distributing comic books and graphic novels over the last three months, including Marvel Comics Notably, Moon Knight volumes take five of the top ten spots Expect Ms Marvel to do the same next time The Marvel Multiverse RPB Rulebook gets in at number 5, and Thor[...]

Last week, Bleeding Cool followed up on a year ago when Marvel Comics signed an exclusive contract with Penguin Random House, for comic book sales to comic book stores in the direct market We added that Marvel was now to go all-in to the returnable bookstore market with Penguin Random House Marvel Publishing and Penguin[...]

Joan Holub and Rafael Rosado has created - and sold - a new graphic novel series with the imaginative name Fart Boy and an untitled sequel to Phoebe Yeh

Earlier this week, Bleeding Cool reported on Penguin Random House having to apologise for their retailer ordering platform ".Biz" going down on Sunday, right when comic book store Final Order Cut-Off orders were due. We are aware that there was an outage on .Biz from 8:08pm EST January 17th to 7:00am EST January 18th that directly[...]

Diamond Comic Distributors have let retailers know that "due to a systems issue affecting Penguin Random House", the following Marvel Comics titles — originally solicited with an on-sale date of November 24th  will now arrive one week late with comics intended to be sold on the 1st of December." This also means that stores that[...]

This is a look at Rodman Comics of Iowa, Ankeny's delivery of this week's Marvel Comics titles from Penguin Random House Not the damage replacements but the actual weekly Marvel Comics delivery Looking more and more like a Lunar Comics Distribution package and a sign that Penguin Random House have fixed the comic book distribution[...]

Bleeding Cool has been showing you a shower of terrible comic book deliveries from Penguin Random House to comic book stores these past few weeks The shipped comics have often arrived in terrible, unsellable condition, leading Penguin Random House to issue an apology. Photo sent to Bleeding Cool by comic book store, permission granted. However, the damage[...]

Last week, Bleeding Cool looked at the first week of shipping Marvel Comics titles to comic book stores, and it was from all accounts a real disaster. PRH

Bleeding Cool has been covering a number of issues with the first week's shipment of Marvel Comics titles to comic book stores from their new exclusive distributor Penguin Random House, as well as an apology them made to comic stores for what went down One comic book store owner Mark Hajunga of Comics, Cards &[...]

One overseas retailer writes to Bleeding Cool regarding Penguin Random House distribution of Marvel Comics, saying; During the summer I placed an order just to try them out and to get some backlist DC and Kodansha I received my shipment in August and as you can see by the attached images it was in a terrible[...]

Penguin Random House have issued the following statement to comic book retailers who have been ordering Marvel Comics from them "Thank you for reaching out and providing your feedback in regard to damaged product We appreciate your patience as our teams are working through the claims backlog Please be advised that replacement stock is limited[...]