Marvel Reveals More Details of Their Tech for Retailers Project
We asked Marvel a few questions about their plans to use GeoTargeted digital advertising to drive customer into comic shops and here's what we...
Valiant Cranks Up Giveaways and Retailer Contests for X-0 Manowar’s Return
X-O Manowar was the flagship title for Valiant's launch and as they're bringing it back, they're bringing a fairly deep promotional package with it....
Gigantic Hasbro Decepticon Transformer Revealed and more on The Beat’s (Sort of) Weekly Funko...
After this weekend’s 2017 Toy Fair, ours and many other website have been a flutter with toy news. With such heavy internet traffic, there...
ComicsPRO: Boom!’s Filip Sablik announces new full returnability program
As we've told you before, the annual ComicsPRO meeting is going on right now, hence the steady flow of news. Boom! Studios president of publishing and...
ComicsPRO: Comics sales up 0.3% in 2o16, industry could Make Mine Marvel again
Comics sales barely went up last year, as Diamond reported an overall 0.3% rise in comics and GNs in 2016. The figures were part of...
ComicsPro meeting is happening now, future of industry to be decided
The annual ComicsPRo meeting is taking place in Memphis as I write this, a gathering of comics retailers and ann the most important vendors and...
Heroes Aren’t Hard to Find Moving to New, Bigger Store
https://twitter.com/heroesonline/status/830097383493160960
Heroes Aren't Hard to Find, Charlotte NC's iconic and groundbreaking comics shop, is moving to a new location in "NoDa." As I am not...
The Retailer’s View // Do Retailers Dream of Lenticular Sheep?
It’s the beginning of a new month, which means retailers have just sent another batch of initial orders off to Diamond to butcher, and...
The Retailer’s View // The Flood
Welcome to the end of the world as we know it. Walk with me into the maw of the abyss, dear friends. It’s time to talk comics retail in 2017.
More on DCs digital and print pricing
DC's sudden announcement of digital codes as a bonus in comics priced at $3.99 seems to be a clear dig at Marvel's dropping this...
Diamond: March Trilogy Still Available
Just a quick note: Diamond has an advisory up that the slipcased March trilogy edition is still available from them, although it's sold out...
Retailing update: the danger of pull lists, “Team Comics My Ass” and best seller...
Yesterday this tweet from Spirit of Retailing award winner Packrat Comics was going around:
https://twitter.com/Packrat_Comics/status/818961318694809600
with a cosign from Atlas comics
https://twitter.com/AtlasComics/status/819004717065977856
"Pull lists" are really a symptom...
