From: [c--ve--s] at [menudo.uh.edu] (Chris M. Cavers)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.info
Subject: More newspaper stuff
Date: 8 Oct 93 08:34:00 GMT


Here's some more news that I've tracked down.

Chris


Warfield's Business Record
Feburary 19, 1993
Section 1 page 13
Title: Collector's Cravings for Comic Superheroes Poition Geppi as He-Man of
	his Industry

1992 retail sales of comics was about $600 million.

Steven A. Geppi is the founder and president of Diamond Comic Distributers.
Diamond is located in Baltimore.
Diamond is 10 years old.

Diamond had about $140 million is sales in 1992.
He claims that Diamond is the world's largest comics distributer.

They expect to ship 200 million comic books in 1993.
They have 24 wharehouses in the US, Canada and the UK.
They employ 'over 500' people and have 'always turned a profit.'


Cincinnati Post
December 11, 1992
Buisiness section

'There is an estimated 6,000 comics venders scattered around the country...'

Comic book sales were $125 million in 1986 and were $475 million for 1991.

Oregon Business
December 1992
Section 1 page 56
Title: A comic Approach: In 1980, When Mike Richardson Opened Pegasus, His
Comics Shop in Bend, He Figured He'd Use the Back Room to Write a Children's
Book

This article is about Dark Horse comics.
Dark Horse Presents #1 sold about 50,000 copies.
Boris the Bear #1 sold about 80,000 copies.


San Diego Business Journal
October 26, 1992
Section 1 page 8
Title: Lewis A. Little & Mary Ellen Corbett: Profile

These two people run a newspaper syndicate of comic strips.

`A newspaper pays anywhere from $7 to $200 a week for a comic feature,
with the syndicate and the artist typically splitting the revenue 50/50.'


Denver Business Journal
April 19, 1992
Title: Mile High's New Stores Draw on Mail-Order Success

This gives a short history of Mile High comics. 
No big news.

Crains New York Business
April 6, 1992
Section 1 page 1 (front page)
Upstarts Aim to be Comic Book Heroes

Mentions some stuff about  Jim Shooter and Valient.

Marvel's monthly circulation is about 13.5 million books.

Newstands and other comic sellers that can return books have profit
margins in the 20 percent range.

'...First, Now, and Comico were all forced into bankruptcy after being hit
by returns after trying to expand into more mass market outlets.`



Patriot Ledger
March 14, 1992
Business section
Title:Funny Business: Local Comic Dealers Turn Obsession into Profit

This is about New England Comics and Tick.