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Comic Store In Your Future has 2025 begin like a dumpster fire , after Diamond Comic Distributors went failure
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2025 had only just jump when Diamond Comic Distributors announce it had file Chapter 11 bankruptcy for protection . I was surprised it select that long ; I thought that after Penguin became the main vendor for Marvel Comics , Diamond would denote that they were finished . Penguin became the direct market distributor for Marvel in 2021 , with Diamond still able to order Marvel for memory through Penguin . Of course , Diamond not sell them flat would mean less profits made for all . Image Comics then left Diamond for Lunar in 2023 , doing the same matter that Marvel had ; Diamond could still get Image Comics title , just not directly , unlike DC , who left Diamond for Lunar exclusively back in 2020 . I reckon the game was over for Diamond .
It is a singular turn of outcome ; Diamond was the only American mirthful distributer for 25 year and now is hope to bounce back through bankruptcy protective covering . By no means do I want Diamond to cease being a occupation . As a mirthful store proprietor , I need as many comic vendors as possible . If Penguin does not have a copy of a Marvel claim , then I want to be able to see if I can put it through Diamond . If Diamond is no longer around , I am unable to do that .
Another big surprisal : we could not get any backing boards in for comics , and it take over a month . I even tried to enjoin some from Diamond , though I support off with all of the exit Diamond was have . When I reckon , Diamond did not have any backboard available either . The backboard ordering is now worse than it was during Covid . We give away costless bags and add-in for each unexampled comic purchase and have not been able to for quite a while now . No backboards also created another issue : We could no longer bag and board unsold comics off the wall and put them in the back - issue bin . I have stacks of comics waiting to go into the back - issue bin .
Pokemon has become in high-pitched demand in stores , more in demand than Magic the assemblage card . Of of course , my vendor are sell out of Pokemon , so I have people follow in wanting Pokemon products . Pokemon is the Cartesian product that cycled from almost drained in demand to red hot over the class here at Rodman Comics . One of my vendors told me that the most late Pokemon solidifying was the most apportion Pokemon lay ever . Make something hard to get , and then , of row , people need it even more . Telling people multiple times day by day that we do not have what they require is never fun .
emphasis ? Oh yes , 2025 was the yr of late comic payload , not being able to get in amusing supply , and not being capable to sell client what they want . We have to keep desire and see what happens next . It has been a great twelvemonth for stressingcomic store ownersso far .
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