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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.
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Geppi and new
Geppi included Cochran's publications — and Cochran himself — under his new imprint, Gemstone Publishing.
" 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 company
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 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 Diamond
In 1982, Baltimore-based comics retailer Steve Geppi founded Diamond Comic Distributors.
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.
In 1995, Geppi founded Diamond International Galleries, which acquired Hake's Americana & Collectibles auction house ( 2004 ), and in 2005, Pennsylvania-based Morphy Auctions.
In 1999, Geppi founded Diamond Select Toys, and in 2006 he founded Geppi's Entertainment Museum in Baltimore.
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.
Geppi and after
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.
Geppi and imprint
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 Comics
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 comics
By 1981 / 82 Geppi had four comics retail locations and was already " doing a little informal distributing ... for smaller retailers.
Plant had, since 1970, been selling underground comics ( a field which Geppi and fellow distributor Buddy Saunders had tended to steer clear of ).
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.
" 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 ,"
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 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.
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.
named and new
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-- The board of regents of Paris Junior College has named Dr. Clarence Charles Clark of Hays, Kan. as the school's new president.
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A wealthy Quaker named Reuben Haines proposed he and educator William Russell start a new school in Pennsylvania.
A new settlement close to Amathus but further inland, Agios Tychonas, is named after the bishop Saint Tychon of Amathus.
An ancient Roman festival, Actia, was named after Actium, in Nicopolis, the new city ( today Preveza, Greece ).
Consequently, Horch named his new company Audi Automobilwerke GmbH in 1910, Audi being the Latinization of Horch.
On January 23, Jacksonville Jaguars defensive coach and former linebackers coach for the 2000 Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens Mike Smith was named the Falcons ' new head coach.
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He produced enough boron to confirm a new element and named the element boracium.
The properties of the resulting substance resembled that of an intermediate of chlorine and iodine ; with those results he tried to prove that the substance was iodine monochloride ( ICl ), but after failing to do so he was sure that he had found a new element and named it muride, derived from the Latin word muria for brine.
On 25 October 2011, Silvio Berlusconi named Ignazio Visco as new governor of the bank, replacing Mario Draghi.
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In 1937, the school moved from the city center to the new Gibraltar Campus, named after the mansion which owned the grounds, where it is now located.
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