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Geppi and at
In April, Geppi responded to the uncertainty, noting that while there had been " a reduction in staff at Gemstone ," such moves did " not the end of Gemstone Publishing.
Geppi describes his International Galleries as being " at the heart of many significant opportunities to preserve, promote and present historical comic character collectibles ," an endeavor that led to his establishing Geppi's Entertainment Museum.
Geppi made this agreement with Steve Harvey, who at the time was President of Harvey Publications, Inc., as well as President of Sad Sack, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Harvey Publications, Inc.
The suit was settled in late 2002 ; at the time of the settlement, the New York Supreme Court had dismissed Harvey's claims against Geppi.
* G ' Day with Geppi Cucciari, evening comedy show, airing at 7: 20 pm every weekday ;

Geppi and new
Geppi named his new company ' Diamond ' " after the imprint Marvel Comics used on non-returnable comics ," and although the " publisher discontinued the symbol " months later, the name remained.
Geppi included Cochran's publications — and Cochran himself — under his new imprint, Gemstone Publishing.

Geppi and for
By 1981 / 82 Geppi had four comics retail locations and was already " doing a little informal distributing ... for smaller retailers.
" Geppi found himself " one of the biggest accounts " for New Media / Irjax, and when the distributor " relocated to Florida, he asked Geppi to service more accounts for a bigger discount.
" One of the " last loyal customers " when New Media began having fiscal difficulties, Geppi made a deal: " he owner was going into retail ," so Geppi agreed to provide New Media / Irjax with " free books for a period of time in return for his account list ," buying parts of the company, and founding Diamond Comic Distribution.
Geppi had been a sub-distributor for Hal Shuster's Irjax in the late 1970s.
In 1995, Geppi " opened Diamond International Galleries ," a showplace for comics and collectibles, part of Geppi's attempts to " see ... collectibles attain serious respect.
In the summer of 1984, Steve Geppi ( owner of Diamond Comic Distributors and Geppi's Comic World ) paid $ 50, 000 for, among other properties, Harvey's entire archive of original art from the Harvey comic Sad Sack.
In 1993, Angelos led a group of investors which included Tom Clancy and Steve Geppi that purchased Baltimore Orioles for $ 173 million from Eli Jacobs.

Geppi and Overstreet
Geppi is president and publisher of Gemstone Publishing Inc., through which he publishes Russ Cochran's EC Comics reprints, Disney comics and Blue Book price guide The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide.
In 1994, Geppi bought Overstreet Publishing, taking up the publishing reins of official-Blue Book priceguide The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, and other related publications, bringing them under the Gemstone imprint.
" In 2005, Geppi added the " Denver, Pennsylvania-based Morphy Auctions " to his growing stable of parts of the collectibles market, which already included publishing the main comics price guide: The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide.

Geppi and no
The settlement agreement allowed Geppi to keep the art, with no money changing hands.

Geppi and been
Plant had, since 1970, been selling underground comics ( a field which Geppi and fellow distributor Buddy Saunders had tended to steer clear of ).

Geppi and EC
Cochran, like Geppi, was a particular fan of Carl Barks ' Disney comics, and had previously-published EC reprints in association with Disney-reprinter Gladstone Publishing.

Geppi and ...
Many fans " with little experience " started rival distribution companies only to " find they were in over their heads ," allowing Geppi to " out the smart ones or pick ... up the pieces after the stupid ones went out of business ," according to Herr.
In early 1997, when Marvel's Heroes World endeavor failed, Diamond also forged an exclusive deal with the House of Ideas — giving the company its own section of comics catalog Previews ( not least because the DC / Dark Horse / Image deal gave contractual prominence to those companies ) — making " Geppi ... the sole king of comics industry distribution in the summer of 1996.

Geppi and continue
In what Mile High Comics ' Chuck Rozanski describes as an " incredibly risky and gutsy move ," Geppi took over New Media / Irjax's " office and warehouse space " and, recalled Rozanski, had to " sort out the good customers from the bad overnight " negotiating with creditors to continue Shuster's distribution business as Diamond Comic Distribution.

Geppi and .
The company was formed by Diamond Comic Distributors President and Chief Executive Officer Stephen A. Geppi.
In 1982, Baltimore-based comics retailer Steve Geppi founded Diamond Comic Distributors.
Most notably, in 1988, Geppi bought up early mail-order distributor Bud Plant Inc., who had himself bought out Charles Abar Distribution in 1982.
In 1987, Geppi responded to " a graphic childbirth scene in Miracleman # 9 by Alan Moore.
" Geppi recalls compromising, and accepting " that as a distributor, I owed the retailers the product they wanted.
In 1994, Geppi purchased Baltimore magazine, " a 50, 000 circulation monthly and one of the nation's oldest regional publications.
In 1993, Geppi bought Russ Cochran Publishing.
In 1995, Geppi founded Diamond International Galleries, which acquired Hake's Americana & Collectibles auction house ( 2004 ), and in 2005, Pennsylvania-based Morphy Auctions.

hinted and at
Another, more interesting explanation, is hinted at by Watson when he observes on several occasions that Holmes would have made a magnificent criminal.
The fact that secrets of the Dreadnought, and thereby of the American undersea fleet, were involved in the spy case had been hinted at earlier.
We have already hinted at the fashion in which Christianity contributed to education and so to intellectual life.
This education, history, and background are hinted at in the Margaret Rutherford films ( see below ), in which Miss Marple mentions her awards at marksmanship, fencing and equestrianism ( although these hints are played for comedic value ).
" Gladstone also hinted at the strength of his own faith, and the role it played in his public life, when he addressed Disraeli's most personal and private appeal:
The popularly reported European discovery of the okapi in 1901, earlier hinted at but unseen by Henry Morton Stanley in his travelogue of exploring the Congo, later became the emblem for the now defunct International Society of Cryptozoology.
That move was hinted at in their 1976 Top Ten hits " Sweet Love " and " Just to Be Close to You.
This allowed Barks to indulge his penchant for elaborate backgrounds that hinted at his thwarted ambitions of doing realistic stories in the vein of Hal Foster's Prince Valiant.
Depictions of the large crop hinted at a relationship with pigeons, in which this feature is more developed than other birds.
The novel provides motivation and backstory to Snake and Hauk — both disillusioned war veterans — deepening their relationship that was only hinted at it in the film.
Her personal dilemma becomes entangled with darkly hinted suspicions and prejudices raised by the crimes at the college, which appear to have been committed by a sexually frustrated female don.
In order to have boltholes or decoys in case of attack, the Time Lords have created nine separate planet Gallifreys ( it even hinted that the original Gallifrey may at some point be reduced to ruins ) and special looms to constantly produce new soldiers.
This took on a dark tone with the creation of what is today often called the Cthulhu Mythos, a pantheon of alien extra-dimensional deities and horrors which predate humanity, and which are hinted at in aeon-old myths and legends.
In fact one modern scholar has wondered if Herodotus left his home in Asiatic Greece, migrating westwards to Athens and beyond, because his own countrymen had ridiculed his work, a circumstance possibly hinted at in an epitaph said to have been dedicated to Herodotus at Thuria ( one of his three supposed resting places ):
Nikita Khrushchev wrote that Stalin hinted him to incite anti-Semitism in the Ukraine, telling him that " the good workers at the factory should be given clubs so they can beat the hell out of those Jews.
In 1749, Rousseau was paying daily visits to Diderot, who had been thrown into the fortress of Vincennes under a lettre de cachet for opinions in his " Lettre sur les aveugles ," that hinted at materialism, a belief in atoms, and natural selection.
:: The point is, that scientists not only read Astounding-Analog, they were fans of the writers and understood all the Ideas, even the obscure Ideas that were merely hinted at.
The route that Dąbrowski and his legions hoped to follow upon leaving Italy is hinted at by the words " we'll cross the Vistula, we'll cross the Warta ", two major rivers flowing through the parts of Poland that were in Austrian and Prussian hands at the time.
It fills in many gaps left in the biblical narrative regarding events and personalities that are only hinted at.
Gulacy was a film buff, and modeled many characters after film stars: Juliette on Marlene Dietrich, James Larner on Marlon Brando, Clive Reston ( often broadly hinted at as being the son of James Bond as well as the grand nephew of Sherlock Holmes ) occasionally looking like Basil Rathbone and Sean Connery, and a minor character Ward Sarsfield ( after the real-life name of Sax Rohmer ) who looked like David Niven.
Researchers speculate that this is the reason why investigation through the weak force, the strong force, and the electromagnetic force have not hinted at the possibility of extra dimensions.
In February 2009, after becoming cricket's highest wicket-taker in both forms of the game Muttiah Muralitharan hinted that he might retire at the conclusion of the 2011 World Cup.

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