Phil Seuling

Philip Nicholas Seuling was a comic book fan convention organizer and comics distributor primarily active in the 1970s. Seuling was the organizer of the annual New York Comic Art Convention, originally held in New York City every Julyweekend throughout the 1970s. Later, with his Sea Gate Distributors company, Seuling developed the concept of the direct market distribution system for getting comics directly into comic book specialty shops, bypassing the then established newspapermagazine distributor method, where no choices of title, quantity, or delivery directions were permitted.

Seuling was born in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, and spent his entire life as a resident of that borough. He has a sister, Barbara and a brother Dennis,years younger. He graduated from the City College of New York with a Bachelor of Arts degree. and earned several credits beyond.

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