Gemstone Publishing

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Gemstone Publishing is an American company that publishes comic book price guides. The company was formed by Diamond Comic Distributors President and Chief Executive Officer Steve Geppi in 1994 when he bought Overstreet.[2]

Gemstone published licensed Disney comic books from June 2003 until November 2008. The company has also reprinted EC Comics of the 1950s.

BOOM! Kids acquired all comic publishing licenses regarding Disney characters in the second half of 2009.

Disney comics

Gemstone's flagship publications were comic books featuring Disney characters; particularly the Donald Duck/Uncle Scrooge comics of such Duck artists as Carl Barks and Don Rosa, and the Mickey Mouse comics of Floyd Gottfredson, César Ferioli, and Romano Scarpa, among others.

While popularly known as a reprint house, Gemstone's comics were actually dominated by stories that were new to United States audiences. Vintage material, though popular with readers, was not the majority of the content.

NameNumber of pagesFormatStatusStories featuring
Walt Disney's Comics and Stories64 (68 w/covers)PrestigeEndedDonald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Big Bad Wolf, Brer Rabbit, Bucky Bug, Fethry Duck, Grandma Duck, Jr. Woodchucks, Scamp
Uncle Scrooge64 (68 w/covers)PrestigeEndedScrooge McDuck, Gyro Gearloose, Beagle Boys, Launchpad McQuack, Magica De Spell, Fethry Duck, Donald Duck
The Barks/Rosa Collection72 (76 w/covers)PrestigeEndedScrooge McDuck, Donald Duck
Donald Duck Adventures128 (132 w/covers)DigestEndedDonald Duck, Scrooge McDuck, Mickey Mouse, Duck Avenger
Mickey Mouse Adventures128 (132 w/covers)DigestEndedMickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Minnie Mouse, Pluto, Ellsworth
Donald Duck and Friends32 (36 w/covers)StandardEndedDonald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Goofy
Mickey Mouse and Friends32 (36 w/covers)StandardEndedMickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Pluto

أصدرت دار نشر جيمستون طبعات سنوية من "موكب عيد الميلاد" و "موكب العطلات" و "حمى الربيع" ؛ وقدمت هدايا مجانية في يوم الكتاب الهزلي المجاني ؛ وطبعات خاصة من حين لآخر (بما في ذلك اقتباسات كوميدية من "ميكي، دونالد، جوفي: الفرسان الثلاثة" و "ميكي مرتين في عيد الميلاد ").

صدرت أول مجموعة كتب كبيرة الحجم من دار نشر جيمستون، بعنوان " ميكي والعصابة: قصص كلاسيكية شعرية" ، في نوفمبر 2005. وهي عبارة عن تجميعة، قام بتحريرها ديفيد جيرستين، لصفحات قصص ديزني الكرتونية التي نُشرت بين عامي 1934 و1944 في مجلة "جود هاوسكيبينغ" . وفي وقت لاحق، قام جيرستين بتحرير كتابين من دار نشر جيمستون بغلاف ورقي، كانا مرتبطين رسميًا بمجموعات أقراص " كنوز والت ديزني " الرقمية: " قصص ديزني المصورة: 75 عامًا من الابتكار" (2006) و "العم سكروج: شيء مميز" (2008).

روس كوكران وإعادة طبع قصص إي سي كوميكس

كما نشرت دار جيمستون طبعات جديدة من قصص إي سي المصورة. وكان روس كوكران، محرر قسم القصص المصورة في جيمستون ، قد نشر سابقًا (في عام 1973) اثنتي عشرة طبعة جديدة من عناوين إي سي ، بما في ذلك "قبو الرعب" و" العلم الغريب " و "مسكن الخوف" و "قبو الرعب" وغيرها، قبل أن ينتقل إلى دار غلادستون للنشر ثم إلى جيمستون، التي ظلت موطنًا لطبعات كوكران من قصص إي سي لأكثر من 15 عامًا.

أعادت دار نشر جيمستون طباعة طبعات كوكران/غلادستون من كتب " مسكن الخوف" و" قبو الرعب" و "العلوم الغريبة" (جميعها صدرت عام 1992)، كما أعادت نشرها أيضاً (في إصدار فردي و"سنوي" - أربعة إصدارات لكل إصدار "سنوي").

Oversize, hardback, slip-cased collections of these comics had been previously published in black & white by Cochran during the 1980s as "The Complete EC Library". This Library was then added to by Cochran/Gemstone with 2005's Picto-Fiction collection, comprising the EC comics: Confessions Illustrated, Crime Illustrated, Shock Illustrated and Terror Illustrated, along with "18 previously unseen stories, never published before".[3]

Full-color hardbacks

In 2006, Cochran and Gemstone began publication of a series of full-color EC Archives editions. Promising that "[e]ach EC Archive volume will reprint six complete issues (24 stories)",[4] the first volumes of Weird Science and Shock Suspenstories both saw print in December 2006, with forewords from (respectively) EC fans George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. Ostensibly beginning to publish two volumes every two months, the schedule changed to one-per-month and recently one every couple of months.

In addition, "Deluxe" versions of Weird Science Vol.s 1 & 2 (both signed by artist Al Feldstein), Shock Suspenstories Vol. 1 and Tales From the Crypt Vol. 1 have been published.

Reduction

In early 2009, the future of Gemstone Publishing was unclear, after reports of unpaid printing bills, particularly for the EC Archives.[5] In April, Geppi responded to the uncertainty, noting that while there had been "a reduction in staff at Gemstone", such moves did "not [signal] the end of Gemstone Publishing".[6] Seven months after Geppi's optimistic statements, the last batch of Gemstone's Disney comics appeared in November 2008, complete with previews for next month's issues that Gemstone failed to publish. BOOM! Kids acquired all comic publishing licenses regarding Disney characters, and started publishing comic titles previously owned by Gemstone in the second half of 2009. In 2013, Dark Horse comics began to reprint E.C. comics picking up where Gemstone left off, in the same full color hardback format.

References

  1. ↑"Our Publishers". diamondbookdistributors.com. Diamond Book Distributors. Archived from the original on 2017-09-11. Retrieved 2017-09-10.
  2. ↑"Price Guides & Reference Books". gemstonepub.com. Gemstone Publishing, Inc. Archived from the original on 2020-01-30. Retrieved 2018-09-30.
  3. ↑The Book Palace's "Complete EC Library" pagesArchived 2009-06-14 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 12 March 2008
  4. ↑"Gemstone's EC pages". eccrypt.com. EC Comics. Archived from the original on 2008-03-17. Retrieved 12 March 2008.
  5. ↑MacDonald, Heidi (February 18, 2009). "Steve Geppi's debt woes growing". The Beat. Retrieved March 5, 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  6. ↑"Rumors about Gemstone Publishing?". scoop.diamondgalleries.com. April 18, 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-04-02. Retrieved April 19, 2009.