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Retailers to Throw Halloween Parties
The best ones are tying in to Avatar's new on-going zombie series, Night of the Living Dead: Aftermath, since the first issue launches on Halloween! For example, Collector's Corner in Baltimore, Maryland, is hosting an event starting at 5pm which will include a costume contest, free comics and toys giveaways, a zombie SFX artist giving free[...]
Which Retailer Will Win?
With the launch of Night of the Living Dead: Aftermath #1 debuting this Wednesday (Halloween), Avatar Press wants to reward the top three retailers who have the best events on Halloween! Will it be you? Retailers are encouraged to contact Rick Verbanas, Director of Marketing, at Avatar Press, (rickverbanas@avatarpress.net) so he can help you promote your store's party and to register[...]
The Comic Book Retailer VISA Gift Card Scam
Several comic book retailers have reported lately being hit by a "Visa gift card scam" Here's one account from a retailer who wishes to remain anonymous. We recently were the victims of credit card fraud.  What happened was someone came into the store on a Sat when we were very busy and picked out several high[...]
Comics On Sale December 26th – The List
On December the 26th, there will be no Diamond Comic Distributor delivery to comic stores around the wold. However, the week before retailers will get a special batch of comics to put aside, only to be sold from that date. And now we know which ones… From Dark Horse,  the El Cid hardcover and the Star Wars Omnibus:[...]
Nicholas Yutko Of Dreamscape Comics Passes
This past Sunday, Nicholas Yutko, the owner of Dreamscape Comics in Bethelehem, Pennsylvania passed away, aged 51 An aimiable and much loved comic book retailer, he will be much missed by family and friends We used to chat about comics, comics news, comics rumours and so much more, and I will miss that too. There is a[...]
Those Marvel Retailer Variant Cover Incentives In Full
Okay, maybe a single one.  Instead it's a compilation of all the deals that retailers can get in November, as long as they order large amounts of the comics in question In some previous cases it's to help prop up the final issue numbers of a comics before their relaunch, in these it's to increase[...]
NYCC Retailer Breakfast
Is your retailer going to New York Comic Con? They may come back with more than a case of bed bugs. Retailers who attend certain Diamond Comic Distributors meetings will return with a bunch of goodies, often of the limited variety. They will include a Dark Horse Horror Exclusive Lithograph, an NYCC Aquaman #12: Robot Chicken variant,[...]
The Lucille Cover To Walking Dead #100
This is the rarest of the variant covers to The Walking Dead #100. Courtesy of Wonderworld Comics of Detriot. The bloodied Lucille bat, in red, on a black
Was This The Biggest Comics Story Of Comic Con?
The announcement at the Diamond Retailer lunch that comic book stores can received practically free POS systems with a very generous subsidy, both software and hardware from RMS/ComicSuite, that mean they can monitor their stock, manage pull lists, anticipate demand, improve ordering and reordering activity and provide a better store for their customers. Three decades ago,[...]
The Diamond Retailer Olympic Results!
We told you about Diamond's Best Practice Awards, handed out at the Chicago Retailer Summit last week But it wasn't the only competition retailers could enter on those days It was also the first Retailer Olympics. Here are the categories… and the winners The judges were Outside Sales Managers Tim Kartman, Eric Hitchcock, and Dave Hawksworth. ComiCare[...]
Best Practice Award Winners For Comic Stores Announced In Chicago
At the Diamond Retailer Summit at Chicago, retailers met to judge the winners of the inaugural Best Practice Awards, given to retailers for the following categories And here are the winners, with links to the stores in question! Best Window Display – Level Up Entertainment in Mays Landing, NJ Best Counter Display – Heroes and Villains in[...]
Diamond Chicago Retailer Summit: One On One With The Publishers
Comic book retailer Jesse James reports from C2E2 for Bleeding Cool. This year I decided to go to the Diamond Distributors Retailer Summit in Chicago  As most of you know I have spent my last 25 years in meetings for Corporate America. I'm not very fond of sitting in a meeting and find my self wondering off[...]
The Comic Book Retailer Olympics At Chicago
Thankfully most of it will be happening in the East of London and I'll be out in the far South West but I know I'll get inconvenienced several times. I'd much rather attend the Retailer Olympics, being organised at Diamond's upcoming Chicago summit, held directly before and in the same location as C2E2. We reported this event[...]
Retailer Summit Comics From Marvel And Dark Horse
We already reported on some of the swag retailers who attend the Chicago Diamond Summit before C2E2 will be getting Well here are three more to make the trip sweeter. Avengers Vs X-Men #2 and Hulk #50 DCD Summit editions, limited to 3000 copies And a Boba Fett Is Dead #1 DCD Summit Edition, limited to[...]
Image Expo: Retailing The New Generation of Comics
We know that fans have so many choices on how to spend their entertainment dollars, and it's important that, as retailers, we expose them to the things that we believe will become their next favorite thing. Sunday at the IMAGE COMIC EXPO, I'll be sharing a panel with two major inspirations in the field of comics[...]
Diamond Announces The Retailer Olympics
I know, I know, feel my pain. Well, at the Chicago retailer summit before C2E2 this year, comic store retailers from around the country will be encoraged to compete in the Retailer Olympics, with disciplines including timed comic storage box assembling, timed checking in of a Diamond shipment, accomplished comic store displays and more. I'm hoping for[...]
Dynamite Comics Pro Variants Available This Weekend
And publishers will be giving away free swag to retailers that attend This includes Dynamite, with special Comics Pro variant issues of three of their comics, one published, two not yet, and extra copies of the rarer Warriors Of Mars #1 cover. Who can be the first to get them on eBay? If you're going to[...]
Diamond Adjusts Kick Ass 2 #5 Orders To Match Those Of #4
Bleeding Cool previously ran the story of how Diamond and Marvel managed to miss Kick Ass #5 from its November retailer order form, adding it as a "retro-solicitation" in its December Previews, for November, but coming up as an "order again" issue by mistake. As a result a number of retailers ordered no copies or very[...]
The Dough Boy Who Collected Spider-Man #666
This is the complete cover collection of Amazing Spider-Man #666 including all the different retailer-specific covers from around the world, displayed by comic book collector Dough Boy… who tells of his ordeal. There were some retailers who would refuse to communicate with non-local consumers, some retailers who would not mail under any circumstance, and[...]
Free Retailer Swag At New York Comic Con
There are many reasons for retailers to attend the New York Comic Con Retailer Breakfast on the morning of the start of the show. For a start, there's breakfast. Then there are presentations from the major comic book and comic-related publishers and manufacturers The chance to ask questions, to network, to pick up tips. Oh and to big[...]
ComiXology Release Terms Of Use For Comic Store Websites
ComiXology have released the terms and conditions for creating comiXology websites for comic book stores, allowing store's customers to buy digital comics through their store's website, timed to coincide as DC Comics goes day-and-date digital. It's rather close to deadline, so it's possible retailers may miss one or two clauses before signing. The good news, retailers get[...]
Another Amazing Spider-Man 666 Retailer Cover
We've shown you the Phoenix Comics retailer variant cover from Amazing Spider-Man #666, in which comic stores have been able to buy 500-and-up print runs with their own store on the front. Well now here's one from Comics & More in Madison Heights, MI.  Indeed, this is one of the two covers that Dan Slott noted[...]
The First DC Comics Retailer Roadshow – And A Return for THUNDER Agents
The first DC Retailer Roadshow took place yesterday at Warner Bros in Burbank, as around twenty teams of retailers were ushered through security checks into the belly of the beast. Executive big guns Bob Wayne, Jim Lee, Dan DiDio, Diane Nelson, Hank Kanalz and John Rood were in attendance with Rood moderating He did not attempt[...]
Amazing Spider-Man 666 Retailer Covers Revealed
Bleeding Cool has already run pieces on the IDW Godzilla and Avatar/Boundless War Goddess mass retailer variant covers, but now Marvel has entered the fray with Amazing Spider-Man #666 If a retailer orders 150% of their usual Amazing Spider-Man numbers, and they can order 500 or more additional covers with their choice of personalised cover[...]