Turner and Kitchen discuss the early days of underground comics.

Turner and Kitchen talk about the evolution of underground comix distribution.

Manga arrives in America, and market factors start to push the underground distributors toward bookstores.

In this column, former longtime DC Comics executive Paul Levitz looks at why the Direct Market played the role it did in American culture.

On a frigid evening in 1980, John Davis visited the apartment of Milton Griepp, hoping that his friend and recent co-worker would listen to a business proposition.

Griepp describes working for local co-op distributors handling alternative publications to becoming a distributor himself.

Griepp explains how Capital City grew from a small enterprise into one of the largest distributors in the U.S.

Griepp talks about Marvel’s decision to self-distribute and the chain reaction that started, which ultimately led him and Davis to sell Capital City to Diamond in 1996.

Griepp describes working for local co-op distributors handling alternative publications to becoming a distributor himself.

Griepp explains how Capital City grew from a small enterprise into one of the largest distributors in the U.S.