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{{Infobox company
| name  =   Diamond Comic Distributors
| logo  =  [[File:Diamond Comic Distributors.png|200px|The logo of Diamond Comic Distributors.]]
| type  = [[Private company|Private]]
| foundation   =  1982
| location_city    =   [[Hunt Valley, Maryland|Hunt Valley]], Maryland
| location_country = US
| key_people   = {{Plainlist|
(contracted; show full)r their products. It is additionally available for sale to customers to facilitate pre-orders from "pull and hold" or subscription customers who frequent comic shops on a regular basis. Comics publishers vie for space within the publication's pages, with Dark Horse, DC Comics, Image Comics, and [[IDW Publishing]] taking precedence as "Premier" publishers. Marvel Comics has its own mini-catalog of ''Marvel Previews'' available separately, for contractual reasons.
 Diamond Comic Distributers also celebrates [[Free Comic Book Day]], taking place on the first Saturday of May, is an annual promotional effort by the North American comic book industry to help bring new readers into independent comic book stores. Retailer Joe Field of Flying Colors Comics in Concord, California brainstormed the event in his "Big Picture" column in the August 2001 issue of Comics & Games Retailer magazine. Free Comic Book Day started in 2002 and is coordinated by the industry's single large distributor, Diamond Comic Distributors. 

Geppi is also owner of [[Gemstone Publishing|Gemstone Publishing Inc.]], through which he publishes ''[[The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide]]''.<ref name="GEM"/> Gemstone has also published [[Russ Cochran (publisher)|Russ Cochran]]'s [[EC Comics]] reprints, [[Disney comics]] and [[Blue Book]]{{disambiguation needed|date=December 2013}} price guide in the past as well.

=== ''Baltimore'' ===
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[[Category:Comics industry]]
[[Category:Book distributors]]
[[Category:Baltimore County, Maryland]]
[[Category:Publishing companies established in 1982]]
[[Category:1982 establishments in Maryland]]
[[Category:Privately held companies based in Maryland]]