Gemstone Publishing
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.
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.
| Name | Number of pages | Format | Status | Stories featuring |
| Walt Disney's Comics and Stories | 64 | Prestige | Ended | Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Big Bad Wolf, Brer Rabbit, Bucky Bug, Fethry Duck, Grandma Duck, Jr. Woodchucks, Scamp |
| Uncle Scrooge | 64 | Prestige | Ended | Scrooge McDuck, Gyro Gearloose, Beagle Boys, Launchpad McQuack, Magica De Spell, Fethry Duck, Donald Duck |
| The Barks/Rosa Collection | 72 | Prestige | Ended | Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck |
| Donald Duck Adventures | 128 | Digest | Ended | Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck, Mickey Mouse, Duck Avenger |
| Mickey Mouse Adventures | 128 | Digest | Ended | Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Minnie Mouse, Pluto, Ellsworth |
| Donald Duck and Friends | 32 | Standard | Ended | Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Goofy |
| Mickey Mouse and Friends | 32 | Standard | Ended | Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Pluto |
Gemstone issued annual editions of Christmas Parade, Vacation Parade, and Spring Fever; a giveaway for Free Comic Book Day; and occasional special editions.
Gemstone's first large-size book collection, Mickey And The Gang: Classic Stories In Verse, was issued in November 2005. It was a compilation, edited by David Gerstein, of Disney cartoon story pages published from 1934 to 1944 in Good Housekeeping magazine. Gerstein later edited two Gemstone softcover books that were official tie-ins to the Walt Disney Treasures DVD collections: Disney Comics: 75 Years of Innovation and Uncle Scrooge: A Little Something Special.
Russ Cochran and EC Comics reprints
Gemstone has also published reprints of EC Comics. Gemstone's Comic Book Marketplace-editor Russ Cochran had previously published a dozen reprints of EC titles including Crypt of Terror, Weird Science, The Haunt of Fear, The Vault of Horror, etc., before moving to Gladstone Publishing and then to Gemstone, which has been the home of Cochran's EC reprints for over 15 years.Reprinting the Cochran/Gladstone-reprints of The Haunt of Fear, The Vault of Horror and Weird Science, Gemstone also republished :
- Crime SuspenStories, Shock SuspenStories, Two-Fisted Tales, Weird Fantasy and Weird Science-Fantasy in 1992;
- Incredible Science Fiction
- Frontline Combat
- Panic
- Piracy and Valor
- Aces High, Impact, M.D. and Psychoanalysis, and
- Crime Patrol and Extra! in 2000.
Full-color hardbacks
In 2006, Cochran and Gemstone began publication of a series of full-color EC Archives editions. Promising that "ach EC Archive volume will reprint six complete issues ", the first volumes of Weird Science and Shock Suspenstories both saw print in December, 2006, with forewords from 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, Shock Suspenstories Vol. 1 and Tales From the Crypt Vol. 1 have been published.