Alliance Game
Distributors, Inc.
Alliance
offers the largest selection of
Hobby Games products of any distributor in
the US -a full line distributor with an
extensive selection of Role-playing Games,
Collectible Card Games, Miniature Games,
Anime, Board Games, Brushes, Paints, Dice,
and Hobby Accessories. With over 30
dedicated sales reps whose singular goal is
to help your store succeed, and a completely
integrated preorder, ordering and warehouse
system with direct access to live inventory
and backfill capability at their disposal,
you can be assured that your order will be
handled with precision and care to detail.
Alliance also publishes
Game Trade Magazine, the gaming
industry's leading consumer preorder guide.
Each issue is filled with adventures,
fiction, and product previews from industry
icons, and features the Alliance Preorder
Guide – an informative catalog offering
advance solicitations, complete with
descriptions and images, for items releasing
in the next few months.
GTM provides the perfect opportunity for
stores to learn about upcoming products, and
to inform their customers of future product
before the store's orders are due.
Diamond Book
Distributors
In 2002,
Diamond Comic Distributors - the world’s
largest distributor of English-language
comic books - spun off its book trade
efforts into a new division: Diamond Book
Distributors (DBD). DBD is dedicated to
serving the needs of the book trade, with a
team of seasoned professionals in sales and
marketing, as well as the Diamond Comic
Distributors reputation and infrastructure
to bring its plans to fruition. DBD sells to
a variety of sources, including Barnes &
Noble, Ingram, Baker & Taylor, WaldenBooks,
Amazon.com, Borders, and more, offering a
vast array of high-quality graphic novels,
gaming products, and trading cards from some
of the top publishers and creators in the
business.
Diamond
International Galleries
Since its opening in 1995,
Diamond International Galleries has
regularly been at the heart of many
significant opportunities to preserve,
promote and present historical comic
character collectibles, and enjoys its
position as the preeminent display house of
such items.
Alongside original classic comic books,
movie posters, premiums and other toys,
original works by such artists as Carl
Barks, Gustav Tengren, Alex Ross, Murphy
Anderson, Joe Shuster, Joe Simon and Charles
Schulz, among others, are on display
Whether assisting in such projects as
DC’s Archive series, or hosting industry and
other events, the Gallery staff is highly
active and influential in numerous areas of
collecting. Gallery personnel have served as
reference sources for the mainstream media,
and they have also contributed significantly
to an increased awareness of comic character
collectibles by writing articles, and
contributing information and advice to a
wide array of periodicals and price guides
from different publishers.
Since its inception, Diamond
International Galleries has also booked
numerous record sales of individual
collectibles.
Diamond Select
Toys & Collectibles
Founded in 1999,
Diamond Select Toys and Collectibles,
LLC creates unique and exciting collectibles
for children and adults alike. The company
holds licenses for a variety of top-rated
pop culture properties, including characters
from Marvel Comics, Battle of the Planets,
Edward Scissorhands, and many more.
Diamond Top Line
Diamond Top Line is Diamond Comic
Distributors' sports card division,
dedicated to servicing specialty stores that
carry sports cards, supplies and
memorabilia, either as a primary source of
income or as a sideline. Top Line offers a
wealth of services and features, including
instant allocation confirmation when
ordering directly through a Top Line
representative, weekly sales calls from Top
Line’s dedicated team of sports card
professionals, as well as the weekly Top
Line Pre-Order Summary Email.
Boasting state-of-the-art distribution
centers in Los Angeles and New York, Top
Line ships product to its customers every
day, helping retailers get the hottest new
releases in the timeliest manner possible.
Top Line also keeps recently released
trading cards and popular supply items on
hand for immediate order, enabling stores to
replenish their stock at a moment’s notice.
Diamond UK
As Diamond Comic Distributors’ British
counterpart, the London, England-based
Diamond UK works closely with overseas
comics retailers to bring the hottest comic
books and related merchandise to fans
throughout the United Kingdom and Europe.
E. Gerber
Products, LLC
E.
Gerber Products, LLC was started by
Ernst Gerber in 1977 after he developed the
first and only edge sealing Mylar® process,
a process that was then patented. The
company's patented equipment has been sold
worldwide and is used by organizations such
as the Library of Congress and the Comic
Conservation Company. Other firsts for E.
Gerber Products, LLC include offering the
first acid-free boxes and acid-free backing
boards to collectors and publishing the
respected Photo Journal Guide to Comics. The
company is known to collectors and
archivists around the world for its high
quality storage and preservation products,
including several varieties of Mylar® bags
and sleeves, custom backing boards, archival
tape, and acid-free storage boxes.
Gemstone
Publishing
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Best known as the home of The Overstreet
Comic Book Price Guide,
Gemstone Publishing was formed by
Diamond Comic Distributors President and
Chief Executive Officer Stephen A. Geppi as
a conduit for his efforts in preserving and
promoting the history of the comics medium.
Most recently, Gemstone and Disney
Publishing Worldwide announced plans to
publish Disney Comic Books featuring many of
the beloved characters that had not appeared
on comics shop shelves for years, including
Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck,
Goofy, and others.
Furthermore, Gemstone separately acquired
Russ Cochran Publisher and Overstreet
Publications, which brought with them The
Complete EC Library and the noted line of
price guides, respectively. As a result,
Gemstone also publishes The Overstreet Comic
Book Grading Guide, The Big Big Overstreet
Comic Book Price Guide, Hake’s Price Guide
to Character Toys, The Overstreet Toy Ring
Price Guide, and The Overstreet Indian
Arrowheads Identification and Price Guide,
and co-published Tales of Terror! - The EC
Companion with Fantagraphics Books.
In addition to these projects, Gemstone
publishes Comic Book Marketplace, a monthly
magazine for comic book collectors. In 2002,
Gemstone added Scoop, a free, weekly
information e-mail newsletter, to its list
of popular publications.
Geppi's
Entertainment Museum
Geppi's Entertainment Museum is an
unprecedented journey through American
history with a focus on pop culture. Toys
and comic characters shaped us as children
through a magical blend of entertainment and
education. Visitors travel from the late
1700s to the present day as they revisit
favorite characters and celebrities
including; Superman, Supergirl, Batman,
Howdy Doody, Betty Boop, Little Richard,
Elvis and many more as they evolved from the
familiar heroes of yesterday to the pop
culture icons of today!
Hake's Americana
& Collectibles
Hake's
Americana & Collectibles is widely known
as the nation's premier pop culture
collectible mail-, Internet-, and phone-bid
auction house. In 1965, while still a
college student, Founder Ted Hake began to
issue carbon copy sales lists consisting of
political pinback buttons. Customer reaction
was beyond all expectations, with many
customers disappointed to learn that an item
of interest had been sold a day or two
before they could place an order. To address
this problem, Hake decided to conduct his
sales in auction format. Over the years,
Hake has authored 15 collectibles price
guides on subjects ranging all the way from
presidential campaign artifacts to
television collectibles. Diamond
International Galleries acquired Hake’s
Americana & Collectibles in March 2004.
Morphy Auctions
Diamond International Galleries acquired
Morphy Auctions, a leading auction house
specializing in collectible Americana, in
2005. Morphy Auctions was launched in early
2004 when Dan Morphy, owner of the Adamstown
Antique Gallery, and longtime dealer Tom
Sage, Jr. joined forces. Their auctions met
with immediate success, specializing in a
widening array of Americana such as tin
toys, advertising signs, western toys and
memorabilia, pressed steel items, cast iron
pieces, mechanical banks, doorstops, clocks,
and other compelling genres.
At their Denver, PA-based Antique Gallery,
items are displayed months prior to the sale
where a no-pressure atmosphere exists with
staffed antique experts. The 10,000 square
foot facility houses over 300 collector
showcases and is located in Lancaster County
just off the Pennsylvania Turnpike, adjacent
to the famed Adamstown strip, also known as
the "Antique Capital of America."
Scoop
Published by Gemstone
Publishing and Diamond International
Galleries, Scoop is a weekly
e-newsletter produced for the benefit of all
who enjoy the hobby of collecting. Every
section of Scoop contains valuable
information including Industry News, Auction
Prices, Catch the Wave (trends), Off The
Presses, Mondo Media, “Did You Know?”, and
more. Best of all, Scoop is available
free of charge! To view the latest edition,
or to sign up, visit Scoop online at
http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com.
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