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Geppi and publisher
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 and Gemstone
Geppi included Cochran's publications — and Cochran himself — under his new imprint, Gemstone Publishing.
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 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 Publishing
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 Inc
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 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.

Geppi and which
Plant had, since 1970, been selling underground comics ( a field which Geppi and fellow distributor Buddy Saunders had tended to steer clear of ).
In 1995, Geppi founded Diamond International Galleries, which acquired Hake's Americana & Collectibles auction house ( 2004 ), and in 2005, Pennsylvania-based Morphy Auctions.
" 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 EC
" 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 Comics
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 comics
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.
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.
In 1995, Geppi " opened Diamond International Galleries ," a showplace for comics and collectibles, part of Geppi's attempts to " see ... collectibles attain serious respect.

Geppi and Comic
The company was formed by Diamond Comic Distributors President and Chief Executive Officer Stephen A. Geppi.
" 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.
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.

Geppi and .
" 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.
Geppi had been a sub-distributor for Hal Shuster's Irjax in the late 1970s.
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 1994, Geppi purchased Baltimore magazine, " a 50, 000 circulation monthly and one of the nation's oldest regional publications.

is and president
According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.
Mr. Sulzberger's successor as publisher is Mr. Orvil E. Dryfoos, who is president of the New York Times Co., and who has been with the Times since 1942.
A busy president, conversant with a problem and its ramifications and beset by pressures to meet deadlines, tends naturally to assume that others must be as familiar with a problem as he is.
The critical task for every president and his academic administrative staff is to assure that the college or university continually rebuilds and regenerates itself so that its performance will match changing social demands.
No one can be as effective as the president in inspiring older men to welcome imaginative new teachers whose philosophy or approach to their specialties is quite different.
On those rare occasions when a faculty member on tenure is not meeting the standards of the institution, the president must also bear the ultimate burden of decision and action.
A president is frequently besieged to serve in non-academic civic and governmental capacities, to make speeches to lay groups, and to make numerous ceremonial appearances on and off campus.
This two-part bridge is best described by Rev. Timothy Dwight, president of Yale College, in his `` Travels In New-England And New-York '', published in New Haven in 1821.
Its president is Otis M. Waters, partner in the law firm of Timen & Waters, 540-K Chrysler Bldg., New York City.
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The monthly cost of ADC to more than 100,000 recipients in the county is 4.4 million dollars, said C. Virgil Martin, president of Carson Pirie Scott & Co., committee chairman.
Sunday he had added, `` We can love Eisenhower the man, even if we considered him a mediocre president but there is nothing left of the Republican Party without his leadership ''.
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Mrs. Greenfield is president of the Westfield Women's Republican Club and is a Westfield county committeewoman.
Douglas M. Pratt, president of the PTC, who attended the meeting, said the transit company is reviewing the work on the El.
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Her husband, who is the son of Alton John Mason of Shreveport, La., and the late Mrs. Henry Cater Parmer, was president of Alpha Tau Omega and a member of Delta Sigma Pi at Lamar Tech, and did graduate work at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, on a Rotary Fellowship.
The Thrift Shop, with Mrs. Bernhard S. Blumenthal as president, is one of the city's most successful fund-raisers for the Federation of Jewish Agencies.
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Tim Larson, a junior at Wilson High School and president of Spice-Nice, is the young executive who guided his firm to the top-ranking position over the 4,500 other Junior Achievement companies in the United States and Canada.
The new president is 37-year-old Dr. James McN. Hester, currently dean of the NYU Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

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