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Stephen A. Geppi (born on January 24 1950) is a famous American comic book publisher, distributor and the former owner of a comic store. He established a chain of comic stores located in Baltimore in the late 1970s, he’s best known for his distribution business. Geppi created Diamond Comic Distributors, the largest direct distributor of comics in 1982. He has been director of the company from 1982 to the current. Diamond Distribution became the successor to pioneering direct market entrepreneur Phil Seuling’s dream of distribution when Geppi was appointed New Media/Irjax’s warehouses in the year 1982. He also purchased the distributor in the early days of Bud Plant in 1988, and the main competitor Capital City in 1996 to establish a near-monopoly over comics distribution, with exclusive agreements with major publishing houses of comics.
After starting his business through buying New Media/Irjax’s warehouses and offices in 1982, Geppi’s distribution company has bought out many other distribution companies since. Most notably, Geppi bought up that of early mail order distributor Bud Plant, who had himself “bought out Charlie Abarr in the early 1980s.” Plant had, since 1970, been selling underground comics (a field which Geppi and fellow-distributor Buddy Saunders) had tended to steer clear of. After making $19m in sales in 1987, Geppi’s Diamond took bought West Coast distributor Plant’s business in 1988 “and went national” thereby assuming control of “40 percent of the direct-sales market.” (Diamond and Capital City had control of at least 70% between them.)
In 1983, Geppi was criticised for taking exception to certain ‘adult’ themed titles and scenes, effectively causing the cancellation of a series called “Void Indigo” for its excessive violence. Later in 1987, Geppi responded to “a graphic childbirth scene in Miracleman #9 (written by Alan Moore), Geppi wrote to retailers that:
