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Explore Steve Geppi net worth, age, height, bio, birthday, wiki, and salary! Steve Geppi was born in January 24, 1950, in Little Italy, Baltimore and completed 8th grade just before getting out of school. Geppi’s “first job was handling the comics for a local store,” which was where the nine-year-old loved reading comics such as “his favorite Archie comics” and other. Always the businessman, Geppi “asked to be paid in comics [because ]… [h]e could sell them off to other kids and make a better buck.” By the year 1960, Geppi was “doing tax returns for his neighbors,” and later “handled football pools.” In this article, we will discover how old is Steve Geppi? Who is Steve Geppi dating now & how much money does Steve Geppi have?

Name	Steve Geppi
First Name	Steve
Last Name	Geppi
Occupation	Novelist
Birthday	January 24
Birth Year	1950
Place of Birth
Home Town	Little Italy
Birth Country	United States
Birth Sign	Capricorn
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Steve Geppi Biography

Steve Geppi is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on January 24, 1950 in Little Italy, United States. According to Mile High Comics’ Chuck Rozanski as “brilliant,” Steve Geppi was a subdistributor to Hal Schuster in the late 1970s. In what Rozanski calls an “incredibly risky and gutsy move,” Geppi was able to take over the New Media/Irjax’s “office and warehouse space” and, as recollected by Rozanski was forced the responsibility to “sort out the good customers from the bad overnight” in negotiations with creditors to carry on Schuster’s distribution under the name of Diamond Comic Distribution. Fast forward, said Rozanski, “[h]e went from being a retailer in Baltimore to having warehouses all over the place.” Geppi himself, as per Mike Friedrich “was someone whose work you could trust, who had a good reputation for honesty in the field [as a collector, retailer and distributor].”

Geppi and family vacationed every summer in Wildwood, New Jersey. In the summer of 1972, his nephew (Georgie Kues) was “reading an old Batman comic book” in the rain, and Geppi found that “reading that Batman brought [back his childhood memories of comics]… He still loved comics [and] figured there were a lot of guys who would feel the same way.” Buying “a batch of old comics from a woman on his mail route,” he was soon “spending weekends at comic shows, buying and trading with other fans.” After “setting up at comic book conventions as a part-time dealer,” he ultimately realised that he could make more money that way than at his job with the postal services.

In 1974, Geppi announced his intention to quit his job and “open a comic book store.” Geppi recalls that his colleagues “all laughed their heads off,” while The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles quoted him as saying:

It is the (Official) Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide originally released through Robert M. Overstreet in 1970, as one of the first authorities regarding American Comic book industry grade as well as collection values. Overstreet was sold in 1994 to Gemstone In 1994 however, he kept on in the role of “serve as author and/or publisher of Geppi’s Entertainment Publishing & Auctions’ line of books.” The publication of the Price Guide Price Guide was taken over by Gemstone in 1998. Gemstone began publishing the guide in the year 2000, and the editions from 1998 up to date has since been (co-)published in Gemstone’s Gemstone publications. The 39th edition of the guide was released through Gemstone Publishing in 2009.

After leaving school to help his mother, in 1964 between 1964 and 1969, he worked various “manual-labor jobs,” while “dodging truant officers.” Then he “enrolled in vocational school,” but was not at all challenged. He later recalled the fact that “I had missed 45 days at the half, and I was on the honor roll” but then was kicked out. Then he was employed by the company of Lester White’s Detecto Electronics “install[ing] burglar alarms and doorbells,” prior to being drafted into the U.S. Postal Service as a letter carrier. At the age of 19, Geppi was working “the crap jobs,” (loading trucks and substituting others), Geppi was “starting a family… [and] needed… solid, steady work, something with a future.” In a “few years” after taking the exam for a carrier Geppi was given an undetermined “route in suburban Maryland,” and “[t]he Postal Service kept raising salaries [and] Geppi’s pay tripled in five years,” making it possible for Geppi to relocate “his growing family out to the suburbs.” In the beginning of the seventies, Geppi was part in the Jehovah’s Witnesses and was a regular participant in many Bible studies at home for free. If he’s still associated with the organization isn’t known.

After Phil Seuling established the direct market c.1972, he maintained a virtual (if ill-run) monopoly on comics distribution until a lawsuit brought by New Media/Irjax in 1978. Irjax, “a paper distribution company formed by Hal Schuster… his father, Irwin, and his brother, Jack” acchieved “a sizeable chunk of the direct-distribution market,” but ultimately “filed for Chapter Seven bankruptcy in early 1982.”

Steve Geppi Net Worth

Steve is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Steve Geppi's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)

Stephen A. Geppi (born on January 24 1950) is a famous American comic book publisher, distributor and the former owner of a comic store. He established a chain of comic stores located in Baltimore in the late 1970s, he’s best known for his distribution business. Geppi created Diamond Comic Distributors, the largest direct distributor of comics in 1982. He has been director of the company from 1982 to the current. Diamond Distribution became the successor to pioneering direct market entrepreneur Phil Seuling’s dream of distribution when Geppi was appointed New Media/Irjax’s warehouses in the year 1982. He also purchased the distributor in the early days of Bud Plant in 1988, and the main competitor Capital City in 1996 to establish a near-monopoly over comics distribution, with exclusive agreements with major publishing houses of comics.

Net Worth	$5 Million
Salary	Under Review
Source of Income	Novelist
Cars	Not Available
House	Living in own house.

After starting his business through buying New Media/Irjax’s warehouses and offices in 1982, Geppi’s distribution company has bought out many other distribution companies since. Most notably, Geppi bought up that of early mail order distributor Bud Plant, who had himself “bought out Charlie Abarr in the early 1980s.” Plant had, since 1970, been selling underground comics (a field which Geppi and fellow-distributor Buddy Saunders) had tended to steer clear of. After making $19m in sales in 1987, Geppi’s Diamond took bought West Coast distributor Plant’s business in 1988 “and went national” thereby assuming control of “40 percent of the direct-sales market.” (Diamond and Capital City had control of at least 70% between them.)

In 1983, Geppi was criticised for taking exception to certain ‘adult’ themed titles and scenes, effectively causing the cancellation of a series called “Void Indigo” for its excessive violence. Later in 1987, Geppi responded to “a graphic childbirth scene in Miracleman #9 (written by Alan Moore), Geppi wrote to retailers that:

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By 1981/82 he had four stores, “including a tourist development in Harborplace, showplace of a reviving Maryland.” Already “doing a little informal distributing… for smaller retailers,” Geppi found himself “one of the biggest accounts” for New Media/Irjax. When his distributor “relocated to Florida, he asked Geppi to service more accounts for a bigger discount.” One of the “last loyal customers” when New Media began having fiscal difficulties, Geppi made a deal: “[t]he owner was going into retail,” so Geppi agreed to provide Schuster with “free books for a period of time in return for his account list,” buying parts of the company, and founding Diamond Comic Distribution.

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In 1983, he hired an accounting firm, and in 1985 hired “no-nonsense CPA,” Chuck Parker “as Diamond’s first controller.” Herr notes that this move was Geppi’s “best decision,” as Parker “cares nothing about the comics. To him, it’s dollars and cents.” Parker describes his role as “smooth[ing] the emotion out of some decisions. Steve [Geppi] is a visionary and a risk-taker… and I tend to be more conservative.”

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Geppi named his company ‘Diamond’ “after the imprint Marvel Comics used on non-returnable comics,” and although the “publisher discontinued the symbol” months later, the name remained. “Diamond grew an average of 40 percent a year,” as comics retail took off. Many fans “with little experience” started rival companies only to “find they were in over their heads,” allowing Geppi to “[buy] out the smart ones or pick… up the pieces after the stupid ones went out of business,” according to Geppi employee Mark Herr. Geppi was aided in his efforts by the publishers themselves. In the early 1980s, Marvel and DC Comics groups provided trade terms favorable for larger distributors and those with efficient freight systems, effectively “play[ing] into the hands of the major distributors such as Capital and Diamond,” and hastening the demise of smaller distributors.

Cochran, like Geppi, was a particular fan of Carl Barks’ Disney comics, and had previously-published EC reprints in association with Disney-reprinter Gladstone Publishing. In the early 1990s, Geppi’s Gemstone embarked on a full series of reprints of classic EC titles, starting with new reprints of the Cochran/Gladstone-reprints of The Haunt of Fear, The Vault of Horror and Weird Science (all 1992). Gemstone also republished (in single issue and ‘annual’ – four issues per ‘annual’ – format) EC’s ‘New Trend’ and ‘New Direction’ titles between 1992 and 2000.

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Steve Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Steve Geppi celebrates birthday on January 24 of every year.

Geppi’s publishing ventures in the field of comics saw him form Gemstone Publishing Inc., which was formed in large part from other purchases. In 1992, Geppi and Diamond bought Ernst Gerber Publishing (publisher-author of the Photo-Journal Guide to Comics). E. Gerber Products, LLC is a Diamond-affiliated company started by Gerber in 1977 which sells Mylar bags as well as “acid-free boxes and acid-free backing boards” for comics collectors to store their collection in. In 1993, Geppi bought Russ Cochran Publishing. Long-term EC Comics fan Cochran auctioned Bill Gaines’ personal file copies of EC publications, as well as most pages of original EC artwork (which, almost uniquely, Gaines had maintained ownership and possession of), before being granted the reprint rights to the EC back catalog itself. Geppi included Cochran’s publications – and Cochran himself – under his new imprint, Gemstone Publishing.

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