The Closing of ECC EditionsThe Comics and Manga Publisher that distributed dc comics in Spain and across the Americas, was A Tumultuous One. It was plagued by mycommunication, unfulfilled orders, and allegations of fake bills in addition to Stories about internal turmoil, severe mismanogement, and bad-faith dealings. This All Combined To Put The Company On The Path Towards Liquidation. WHILE IT WAS A BIG BLOW FOR SPAIN’S AND LATIN AMERICA’S COMICS INDUSTRIES IN GENERAL, The Biggest Question Mark Hovered Over The Future of Dc in the Spanish-Speaking World. Fortunately, The House that Publishes Marvel Comics in Spanish, PaniniSwoped in to save the day and ease consumer world that dc woold be missing in action in stores and kiosks everywhere.
DC Comics Dodged to Kryptonite-Lacked Bullet On This One. Panini Was Quick To Step In And Take Over Publication Duties to Get Floppies and Graphic Novels Out Just In Time For The Crucial Start of The All in and Absolute Universe Initiatives. The First Batch of Titles Put Out By Panini (Which was founded in Italy with subsidiaries in Latin America) Includes Absolute Superman, Absolute Batman, Mark Waid‘s Absolute Power Trade, Tom Taylor‘s Nightwing trades, Absolute Wonder WomanThe All in Special, DC’s Finest: Batman Year One and Year Two Collection, Among Other Newer Offerings to Catch Readers Up.
Spanish and Latin American Comic Shops Have Taken to Socials To Promote BeSe Releas As Quickly As Possible To Get Those Desgruntled Customers Back for New Comics. ECC’s Poor Handling of Their Closure Left A Lot of Stores Without The Highly Advertiseed Books That Fans were clamoring for. Spain’s Akira Comicsfor Instance, Spoke to Disingenuous Account Dealings That Threatened to Put BookShops in precarious Financial Postions. Akira Comics Is Widely Regarded As One The Best Comics Shop in Spain, Winning An Eisner Award in 2012 For Best Comic Book Shop in the World. The Fact they investigated in a wider selection of books and other collectibles Did a Lot To Help Them Weather The Ecc Sition, But It’s Easy To Argue that This Certainly was the case for Everyone (Specially The Smaller Comic Shops).
For the Moment, Things have managed to summarize in a Reliable sumwhat State of Normalcy Thanks to Panini Taking the Over Reigns Regarding DC. If it isn’t obvious by now, The Big Two are important for the comics market in Spanish-speaking countries as their in the United States and the uk. While Graphic Novels and Other Specialty Books Continue to Grow in these Markets, Still Floppies have Big Influence Over Their Side of the Industry. That Said, The Spanish Branches of Marvel and Dc Are Now Under The Same Umbrella, and That Comes With Massive Levels of Risk. In these trubled Times, it was W prudent to look into the future in Search of Guarantees on the Health and Continued Success of these publishers. As they say, The Bigger They are, The Harder They Fall. Spain and the Americas Got Taste of That with Eccc, and the Forecast was remove terrifying for a short time there.
