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<DIV>In a message dated 12/21/2004 5:46:34 AM Eastern Standard Time, ZeldasTriforce@aol.com writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial size=2>>Comics sales in November in the industry wasn't so great, flat to declining. Looks >like Gemstone at least managed to stay steady, even a small increase in sales.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
<DIV>Is Diamond the only distributor for the Gladstone comics?</DIV>
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<DIV>steven rowe</DIV></BODY></HTML>