Diamond Comic Distributors

Diamonds Comic Distributors, Inc. often called Diamond Comics, DCD, or casually Diamond is the largest comic book distributor serving Norh America. They transport comic books from both big and small comic book publishers, or suppliers, to the retailers. Diamond dominates the direct market in the United States, and has exclusive arrangements with most major U.S. comics publishers, including Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics, IDW Publishing, Image Comics, Marvel Comics, and Radical Comics.
Diamond is also the parent company of Diamond Select Toys, Diamond Auctions, Alliance Game Distributors, Baltimore magazine, Diamond Book Distributors, E. Gerber Products, Gemstone Publishing, and Geppi's Entertainment Museum.
Diamond publishes previews a monthly catalog showcasing upcoming comic books, graphic novels, toys and other pop-culture related items available at comic book specialty shops. The publication is available to both comic merchants and consumers.

Diamond Comic Distributors Publishing
Diamond's monthly comics retail catalog has been produced by Diamond for over twenty years for store owners to order products from. It is additionally available for sale to customers to facilitate personal orders. Comics publishers vie for space within the publication's pages, with DC, image, and Dark Horse taking precedence. Marvel Comics has its own separate section of available separately, for contractual reasons. A fifth publishing company, IDW was offered a separate section in 2010 as a premium publisher.
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 over street comic book price guide. Diamond also publishers a weekly e-newsletter dealing with collectibles, called scoop.

Gemstone Publishing
Geppi's publishing ventures in the comics field saw him form Gemstone Publishing Inc. Which was formed in large part from other purchases in 1992 Diamond bought Ernst Gerber Publishing. E. Gerber Products LLC is a Diamond affiliated company started by Gerber in 1977 which sells Mylar bags as well as acid-free boxes and acid-free backing boards for comics collectors to store their collection in. In 1993, Geppi bought Russ Cochran Publishing. Long Term EC Comics fan Cochran auctioned Bill Gaines personal file copies of EC publications, as well as most pages of original EC artwork, before being granted the reprint rights to the EC back catalog itself. Geppi included Cochran's publications, and Cochran himself under his new imprint, Gemstones Publishing.

Diamond Select Toys & Collectibles
Envisioned to create collectibles for children,  DST was founded in 1999 and has since licensed a variety of pop culture properties, including Marvel Comics, Transformers, G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero, Star Wars, Star Trek, Stargate, Ghostbusters, Halo, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Indiana Jones, Battlestar Galactica, 24 and Back to the Future. While they also make action figures in a variety of sizes, as well as banks, busts, statues and prop replicas, many of their licensed properties are released in the form of Minimates, which has helped make Minimates one of the most prolifice and diverse block figure toy lines in the world. In 2007, after years of partnership, Diamond select Toys made a move to acquire select assets of New York based design house Art Asylum the creators of Minimates, and DST has since developed Minimates, and DST has since developed Minimates based on its own concepts, under the brands Minimates M.A.X and Calico Jack's Pirate Raiders.

Diamond International Galleries
In 1995, Geppi  opened Diamond International Galleries a showplace for comics and collectibles, part of Geppi's attempts to see collectibles attain serious respect. Nine years later, Diamond International Galleries purchased one of the country's first and most respected collectibles auction houses, Hake's Americana & Collectibles. 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 guid.
Geppi describe 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. Geepi's galleries showcase much of his private collection, including comics, movie posters, toys, orignal artwork by individuals including Carl Barks, Gustav Tengren, Alex Ross, Murphy Anderson, Joe Shuster, Joe Simon and Charles Schulz.