In the first part of this interview, Rozanski talks about building up his business and pressuring Marvel to open up distribution more widely.

Rozanski talks getting in and out of distribution, building his mail order business, and starting online sales.

In Part 3, Rozanski explains the importance of back issues and why comics are being lost because of climate change.

The year was a peak in the Direct Market to that point, and for a long time to come.

Carol Kalish was the right person in the right place at the right time. The time was the early 1980s. The place was the offices of Marvel Comics.

Charet ran one of the first comics retail shops in Chicago and was the co-founder of Chicago Comicon.

This new retailer resource offers what will become a running tally of ICv2's top stories, continuing monthly into 2024, easily accessible from the Featured Resources box on the ICv2.com home page.

It can be argued that you can't tell the story of the Direct Market (or at least not a complete story) without Joe Field.

Author Dan Gearino talked to Levas and people around her to profile Phil Seuling's partner in the first direct distributor.

Thompson talks about her early years as a sci-fi and comics fan and collaborating with her husband Don to create fanzines.