retailers Archives

But it's also proved an opportunity for some retailers to react to Marvel over what's been going on of late. Word coming out is muted and restricted But Bleeding Cool has managed to piece a few things together from various sources Now we knew that Marvel Legacy is the new promotion and not-a-relaunch from Marvel Comics[...]

I understand that members of the ComicsPro comic book retailer advocacy group have a group call scheduled with Marvel head honchos editorial, writers and artists this Friday. UPDATE: It was arranged two weeks ago to be about the flow between Secret Empire, Generations and Marvel Legacy #1. Though some retailers I have heard from may have other[...]

From the controversies with artist Berliac to Howard Chaykin and Image Comics on The Divided States of Hysteria, what more could there be in the first week? Popping outside of comics for a moment, clothing store Abercrombie & Fitch came under fire for a Pride Month tweet, which they have since deleted, that read "the pride community is[...]

As you know by now, we have been heavily dissecting, discussing, theorising and pointing at the recent candid discussions at the Marvel Retailer Summit between Marvel's Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing David Gabriel, and a number of retailers who attended the event, as covered in an extensive report from ICv2. This[...]

Yes, it's all of that. Gabriel has since walked back on these comments somewhat, after a massive backlash. Discussed candidly by some of the retailers at the summit, we heard that some were not happy with the false abandonment of the core Marvel heroes and, contrary to what some said about characters "not working," the sticking factor[...]

Bleeding Cool ran a report from ComicsPRO, sourced from several retailers, who talked about an address from Marvel SVP David Gabriel regarding poor industry response of late and where the blame lay – and of negative retailer response in the room We also sourced a response from retailer Dennis Barger who supported Gabriel's statements. Here is[...]

At ComicsPRO, F1rst Comics/Devil's Due teased a new fantasy comic book series for 2017 by Bill Willingham, his first since the end of Fables - but without

there are a few ComicsPRO announcements which didn't make it to Bleeding Cool's 52 Story List… but we're very happy to add them here! DC plans to celebrate Jack "King" Kirby's 100th birthday in 2017 with a series of specials, May will bring the debut of MediSIN, from Action Lab, in which a criminal mastermind recruits a[...]

pic.twitter.com/HxCAnQGKAK — Matthew Price (@nerdage) February 16, 2017 State Of The Industry More Comics And Graphic Novels Sold In Comic Stores In 2016 Than In 2015, ComicsPRO Attendees Told By Diamond ComicsPRO Meeting, The Industry Equivalent Of The Bilderberg Group, Begins Today The Morning After The Night Before At ComicsPRO On Boycotting DC $3.99 Titles And The Lowest Marvel Sales In[...]

We ran the text of the ComicsPRO keynote speech from Ross Richie, publisher and founder of BOOM! Studios earlier today. Well, because we've all been good

We mentioned the other week that Titan Comics were publishing the European adaptation of the Millenium Trilogy starting with The Girl With The Dragon

Titan Comics and Games Workshop have announced a new comic book series, Blood Bowl: More Guts, More Glory, at ComicsPRO, based on the runaway board game

At ComicsPRO in Memphis, Tennesse, they announced the next round of theu=ir SQUARE ONE $1 first issues and $10 TPBsSQUARE ONE $1 first issues in stores

Titan Comics announced at ComicsPRO today they will be publishing Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin's graphic novel, The Death Of Stalin in English, which was

  Brian Wood has written a new comic book, Briggs Land, for Dark Horse, with Mack Chater, Lee Loughridge, Nate Peikos and Tula Lotay. It's out in

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! And it's Rebirth that is getting the majority of attention And if[...]

Expect a swathe of copies of Extraordinary X-Men #1, being sold to retailers for pennies And these following collections being sold to retailers for incredibly low discounts Expect your local store to suddenly get the following in stock, and to be able to offer you a really good deal… and Amazon Marketplace to be full[...]

Bleeding Cool told you that DC Comics stated they would pay all retailers costs, if they advertised their stores using DC Rebirth imagery and pushing the new relaunched titles. Well, that's still true But there is a limit.   DC have clarified to retailers that they are "offering 100% co-op reimbursement on advertising expenditures based on your co-op pool[...]

Marvel are stepping up to support the launch of their new Power Man & Iron Fist series by David Walker and Sanford Greene by matching every retailers orders for issue 2 of the series with what they ordered for issue 1, for free. It's standard practice for comic book retailers to order high for a first[...]

Comic book retailers Patrick Brower of Challengers Comics, Chicago and Jenn Haines of The Dragon in Ontario were elected to the ComicsPRO Board of Directors during the 2016 ComicsPRO Annual Meeting a couple of weekends ago in Portland. Ralph Mathieu of Alternate Reality Comics, Las Vegas, was re-elected to the board and will serve as treasurer. Pete Dolan of Main Street Comics[...]

And Avatar Press are currently funding it on Kickstarter, using it as a way to obtain direct preorders without going through Diamond and the like. But what about retailers? Will it bypass them as well? Not a bit of it Retailers can order copies at a wholesale discount, 20 deluxe hardcover copies at a time for[...]

And now it has been delayed to the very end of March. But that has given Marvel the opportunity to offer retailers something extra for the Star Wars: C3PO #1 special. A retailer exclusive variant edition You know the drill, order 3000 of an exclusive edition, maybe a 1500 black-and-whote version too, pay the artist fee and[...]

And choosing this comic, even with the movie, rather than the preview of the DC SuperHero Girls graphic novel, a Silver title, which participating stores are not required to order. DC also made Suicide Squad #1 their customisable comic, which stores can have their name and details physically attached to the comic for giveaway purposes outside the[...]

With Tommy's life hanging in the balance, the Rangers must get together to save their friend, or risk losing him forever.   With the five covers below – but retailers can only order the Action Figure and Villain variants if they order at least 90% of their orders for #1… Regular cover by Jamal Campbell  1:25 cover by Goni[...]

Diamond Comic Distributors gives out Best Practice Awards to retailers, voted on by their peers, throughout the year under a variety of changing categories. Well, this is what they'll be recognising through 2016….   Spring – Winners announced at C2E2 on March 18 – Nominations open February 1! – Spring Categories Best Community Involvement Best Exterior Signage Best Halloween ComicFest Best Back Issues Section Best[...]

But maybe not all that they ordered. Retailers have been told that of the titles coming through, All New Inhumans #1 (2nd print), Amazing Spider-Man #1.2, Darth Vader #15 (read Star Wars first), Spider-Gwen #1, Spider-Woman #1 (2nd print), Totally Awesome Hulk #1 (2nd print) and Ultimates #3, it seems that they will only get a[...]

And give retailers the confidence to order more of subsequent issues as a result. But Marvel aren't just leaving it there They are also bumping up the numbers on all retailer's orders of Vision #3 to match their orders of Vision #1 – they seem to believe that retailers have dropped numbers a little too much… Marvel[...]

Next year sees the 30th anniversary of the movie Aliens, and the 28th anniversary of Dark Horse publishing Aliens comic books as well as the 30th anniversary of the publisher itself. So you might be expecting some anniversary Aliens projects? That's what Dark Horse suggested to retailers at the Baltimore Summit yesterday. To follow up their line of[...]

DC Comics has been showing off all manner of Dark Knight III related stuff at the Baltimore Diamond Retailer Summit. With copies of Dark Knight III: The Master Race for retailers to peruse, and a mockup of the Complete Dark Knight volume. They also told retailers that the first "mini comic" embedded into the series, exploring[...]

Yesterday, at the Baltimore Diamond Retailer Summit, Marvel Comics committed to publishing the entirety of the Master Of Kung Fu in a series of four