In the panel, industry veterans Paul Levitz and Jim Shooter sat down with ICv2 CEO Milton Griepp to discuss "Building the Comic Store Channel."

Retailers and others discuss how comic shops can survive and thrive in a changing market.

The two industry veterans discussed how the Direct Market both transformed comics and saved them.

Live selling platform Whatnot is Co-Sponsoring the ICv2 Insider Talks: Direct Market Summit, the companies announced.

The final session at the ICv2 Insider Talks: Direct Market Summit, and Comic Industry Social Hour at New York Comic Con, will bring together a panel of industry thought leaders to mark the 50th anniversary of the Direct Market with a look ahead to its future.

ICv2 CEO Milton Griepp has made a significant donation of Capital City Distribution publications and papers to the comics collections at Columbia University's Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

If "follow the money" is a good business axiom, well, then that's just what Direct Market comic stores did, following both populations and money from cities to suburbs.

Geppi started as a convention dealer, reluctantly set up a store, saw it expand to eight stores, and reluctantly became a distributor.

Part one of columnist Rob Salkowitz's annual picks of the programming for pros at San Diego Comic-Con.

The omnibus collects not only the color comics but black and white magazine comics and the three-part Misty Knight/Colleen Wing side story.