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One thing I took notice of was the emphasis early on having sub-distributors, which is what I always felt Diamond should have done.

Yeah, it's a shame. I wonder how comics history would be different without Heroes World.

I believe we would have far more stores and outlets, to start.

So many things went wrong with the comics industry in the 1990s that I don't know that any one can be considered a turning point in and of itself. Quite a few things would have had to have happened differently for us to have a healthy direct market today. As Hanzo notes elsewhere, the DM saved American comics from dying out due to a fading newsstand market, but it has never seemed like a very stable and healthy industry. It just seems to lurch from one disaster to another, with brief periods of relative calm in between. And that few years where it was booming, but not, ultimately, sustainably.

The Americans comics industry as a whole seems to have been like that.

No but Heroes World directly led to a major amount of stores closing