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Geppi and included
" 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.
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 Cochran's
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.

Geppi and publications
In 1994, Geppi purchased Baltimore magazine, " a 50, 000 circulation monthly and one of the nation's oldest regional publications.
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.

Geppi and
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 Cochran
In 1993, Geppi bought Russ Cochran Publishing.
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 himself
" 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.
Most notably, in 1988, Geppi bought up early mail-order distributor Bud Plant Inc., who had himself bought out Charles Abar Distribution in 1982.

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 hinted at " new developments " for the Overstreet Price Guide in 2010, and stated that while " no final decision has been made regarding The EC Archives or our comic books featuring Disney's standard characters ... it seems certain that both lines will continue in some form.

Geppi and Gemstone
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 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.
By 1981 / 82 Geppi had four comics retail locations and was already " doing a little informal distributing ... for smaller retailers.
" 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 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.
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 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 1995, Geppi founded Diamond International Galleries, which acquired Hake's Americana & Collectibles auction house ( 2004 ), and in 2005, Pennsylvania-based Morphy Auctions.

included and Cochran's
Todd Cochran's career continued to see many radical musical shifts in direction as he wrote, produced, performed keyboards, guitar and / or synthesizer programming for a widely diverse number of artists including Aretha Franklin, Teena Marie, Maynard Ferguson, Juan Carlos Quintero, Stewart Copeland, Peter Gabriel and Grover Washington Jr in genres that included funk, new age, jazz disco and combinations thereof.
Buchanan's American stage appearances included: André Charlot's Revues, Charles B. Cochran's Wake Up and Dream, Pardon My English, Between the Devil, Harvey ( 1948 ).
Their single issues included their postmodern cover versions of songs such as Eddie Cochran's " Summertime Blues " and " Money ".

included and publications
His publications included a focus on alcoholism, crime, degeneration and hysteria.
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This means that there is no cover price and issues are given away, for example in street dispensers, airline in-flight magazines or included with other products or publications.
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