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Marvel have the Color Your Own trademarked line of black-and-white colouring-in comics. IDW is launching a Locke & Key colouring-in book. The comic

In photographic evidence from the Baltimore Diamond Retailer Summit... Action Lab Entertainment have launched their own ratings system for their

It's been announced repeatedly since 2012, before going on hiatus, and then being rejigged for publication with new artists. But now, honest-to-goodness,

By Chris Thompson The Orbital Comics World Tour begins here! Along the aerial pathway that leads to San Diego, adventure is to be had at every turn, and

Last year, they took a massive risk with the launches of Afterlife with Archie and Sabrina horror-themed comics, and asked us as retailers to be there along for the ride with them And with them we were It was a homerun concept, executed perfectly by the creative teams, and a high quality product that both[...]

Marvel Tells Retailers What Is Happening After Secret Wars 9. Joss Whedon Says That Avengers Spider-Man Post Credits Scene Is A Fake 10. Liberal Guilt Over The Avengers Name And Who Is The New Iron Man? 11. Is This How Agents Of SHIELD Ties To Avengers Age Of Ultron? 12. Bleeding Cool Unboxes The First Marvel Collector Corps Box 13. The Avengers: Age Of Ultron[...]

Diamond Comic Distributors gave an assembled throng of comic book retailers  bunch of encouraging statistics at their C2E2 breakfast meeting yesterday morning. You can see all the publisher reports we ran here, but here's some of the resulting statistics. Sales for the first quarter of 2015 are up 8.28% over those in the same period last year, with[...]

A shot of 'Doomed' from yesterday's retailers meetings at Burbank Revealed at yesterday's DC Comics retailer meeting in Burbank, every one of the forty Convergence comics in May will feature a new eight page insert of an upcoming June mini-relaunch comic book. Not a preview, these will be original stories by the title's creative teams and will[...]

There has been some concern regarding the eventual creep of the $3.99 comic book, with Marvel currently only having one remaining $2.99 Marvel Universe

By Jason Strangis It’s one of the most famous comic book stores in the country, and this year Golden Apple Comics in Los Angeles is celebrating its 35th

Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire! So this is how it goes The Wicked + The Divine's solicitations[...]

At the Diamond Retailer Lunch at San Diego Comic Con, attending retailers were told about a new widget that Diamond was making available, allowing them to use Diamond's resources to place information about upcoming comics, direct on the retailer's website. The widget generates a web page of titles with graphics for the current on-sale week, and[...]

As explained at the Diamond Retailer Lunch yesterday, Diamond are creating new applications for retailers to help create their own in-store signage. One of the factors in the Best Practice Retail Awards that Diamond also gave out was how good a store looks – inside and out Signage is emphasised as a way for retailers to[...]

By Shawn Perry In the small town of Manchester, Connecticut there stands a comic book store with a legacy that cannot be described in any other way than

The winners of the Diamond Comic Distributors Spring 2014 Best Practice Awards are  to be announced at the Las Vegas Diamond Retailer Summit in May. But before then, here are the nominees, to be voted on by fellow retailers (who can win $250 worth of swag for doing so…) Is your comic shop amongst them? Should it be? BEST[...]

Positionally, comics retailers are incredibly placed to exploit the retail space they find themselves in. If only it were that easy though, right? There are enormous challenges ahead, and there is plenty that comics stores can learn from good bookshops – but my argument here is, if comics stores can continue to adapt they are better[...]

America has weather again, it seems. And so, because of a severe winter storm, Diamond Comic Distributor's Home Office in Hunt Valley, Maryland is closed

Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire! You get a massive discount of you order 125% as many copies[...]

A indication of unstoppable desire… And a little addition of Venom seems to have goosed those Superior Spider-Man sales well… and despite the hype, Inhumanity isn't off to the greatest of starts, is it? SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #23 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #9 BATMAN/SUPERMAN #6 INHUMANITY #1 DETECTIVE COMICS #26 GREEN LANTERN #26 AMAZING X-MEN #2 VELVET #2 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #700.1 ACTION COMICS #26 Thanks to the following[...]

The preview book will be in shops on the 18th of December but is available digitally now. They are doing a Google Hangout with creators and editors. And they are making available a series of promotional trailers for in-store screenings. Axel Alonso wanted to stress that this is not the same Marvel Now! that just ended… which they[...]

Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire! Jupiter's Legacy #4 claims to top spot this week for advance reorders[...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2-PYpL9dHQ You go once a week. You meet with like minded believers. You receive a sermon from the man in charge about what

DC place seven in the top ten with the top four to themselves… the non-Infinitied Guardians Of The Galaxy places, alongside the Battle Of The Atom Wolverine & The X-Men, and the new Saga makes a welcome appearance too. Batman #23.4 Bane #1 Batman Superman #3.1 Doomsday #1 Detective Comics #23.4 Man Bat #1 Justice League #23.4 Secret Society[...]

Next week, Marvel launches Inhumanity by Matt Fraction and Oliver Coipel. Avatar Press launches Garth Ennis's new book about dogs in the apocalypse, Red

Wishing Well Comics of Las Vegas posted on their Facebook page; So, we are sad to announce that we are going to be closing our doors at the end of the

Retailers have been caught on the back foot on the continual success of DC's big crossover event, Forever Evil, without suffering the sales dropoff that retailers seemed to expect, necessitating they increase orders rather dramatically. That's followed sharply by recent Image launches, Black Science and Pretty Deadly, though both are made returnable if retailers order enough[...]

Get ready for comic stores too rock to the ground under the weight of sales tomorrow. Welcome to Massive Wednesday. Why so massive?  Won't everyone be

Part One and Part Two here... Larry's Comics in Lowell, MA. Golden Apple of Los Angeles, California... with some Batfolk in residence; P Dot's Comics

Part One here… retailers, customers, publisher feel free to let us know any more plans… Comics Conspiracy of Sunnyvale, California, is doing its first Black Friday sale in years. Elite Comics of Overland Park, Kansas, is having a Pink Friday sale for the day With a special Edition pink Elite Skull t-shirt and 50-80% off selected trades[...]

Things From Another World is having a huge sale at their four stores and at TFAW.com. It's going on now, but will increase iun discount until Black