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When DC Comics announced that they were dropping Diamond Comic Distribution entirely, in favour of two new US distributors Lunar and UCS, set up with comic stores DCBS and Midtown, Bleeding Cool instantly spotted a problem What about international distribution, especially to the UK which represents 10-15% of the sales of the direct market? Costs[...]

Bleeding Cool has confirmed the following was a letter sent by Eric Stephenson, Publisher & Chief Creative Officer at Image Comics, to Image Comics

At the end, they state that both two new distributors Lunar and UCS have "solutions and affordable options" for international customers such as the UK No sign of them yet though, we have been promised more this week The full letter runs below; Dear DC Direct Market Retailer, Following this past Friday's announcement that DC's long-standing relationship[...]

Diamond UK is estimated to represent 10-15% of the entire US direct market, but UK retailers have reported that shipping costs from Lunar or UCS are often more than the cost of the order itself, which would lead to a doubling or tripling of the cost of a DC comic book in the UK, compared[...]

UCS Comic Distributors is now distributing back issue stock from Midtown comics to other comic book stores as well as new DC Comics.

Today, Bleeding Cool ran the news that DC Comics is to quit Diamond Comic Distributors, in favour of their newly created distributors UCS Comic Distributors and Lunar Distribution In the Q&A, DC Comics blamed the existing direct market There was plenty of gossip all round. In the latest of a series of statements that are totally[...]

Your local comic shop is having a day y'all. LCS owners are worried, and this DC Comics Diamond news has everyone scratching their heads.

Bleeding Cool just ran the news that DC Comics is to quit Diamond Comic Distributors, in favour of their newly created distributors UCS and Lunar This comes after twenty-five years of Diamond being the exclusive distributor of DC Comics – at least until the shutdown, DC Comics has provided retailers with a Q&A – but[...]

Bleeding Cool is being told by, well, everyone it seems right now, that DC Comics is completely quitting being distributed by Diamond Comic Distributors in favour of the two new distributors they set up with the biggest direct market retail accounts Midtown Comics (UCS Comic Distributors) and DCBS (Lunar Distribution). The original change in distribution occurred[...]

There are now to be just two DC distributors of monthly serialised comic books, UCS (formed by Midtown Comics) and Lunar (formed by DCBS) handling all of DC Comics' monthly output It seems hard not to recall Marvel and Heroes World, but both those organisations were already solid online sellers, shippers and distributors Will either[...]

Oh look, IDW Publishing has noticed that DC Comics has pulled out of Diamond Comic Distributors, in favour of UCS and Lunar, everyone's pretty angry and there's plenty of gossip around IDW has decided to put out their own statement With an IDW (LOVES) DM image, they state; IDW PUBLISHING PLEDGES SUPPORT FOR DIRECT MARKET, EXTENDS[...]

Bleeding Cool has been reporting on DC Comics decision to quit Diamond Comic Distributors entirely, to go with their own formed distributors UCS and Lunar We also reported what DC Comics were saying about why they did what they did, which just posed more questions People had things to say, beginning with retailers. Mike Wellman of[...]

We'd previously looked at the large amounts of packaging that comic book stores had been receiving from new DC Comics distributor Lunar Distribution created by DCBS, especially in comparison with their packages from Diamond Comic Distributors, with all-too-familiar damages Well, this week they appear to have received something additional in their package that they hadn't[...]

2: Lost in the Multiverse: Delayed to an on-sale date of June 9 for all retailers. Two weeks ago, Lunar Distribution messaged retailers to tell them that the variant version of The Flash #754 now has an in-store date of 2nd June But that was it UCS haven't said a thing So wonder who will be[...]

Image from Rod Lamberti. So what will one find on the inside? It's not quite the Lunar Distribution massive bubble wrap… but it does the job Though the April poster for Gotham High is a bit of a giveaway for how long people have been waiting. And it comes with a letter from Steve in every package. Diamond Boxes[...]

Let's have a look around the three distributors of DC Comics titles this week, Lunar Distribution, UCS Comic Distributors and Diamond Comic Distributors Diamond is doing their big comeback campaign and have even gotten the former publisher of DC Comics Dan DiDio to wear the short Mine must be lost in the mail. The New Distribution[...]

In a question-and-answer session with Newsarama's Chris Arrant, DCBS and Lunar Distribution's Christina Merkler answered a number of questions about Lunar, DCBS and being a distributor of DC Comics We learned pretty much what we already knew about what wa happened and what had happened But Merkler did talk about the future When asked about[...]

One Canadian comic store gave us a break down of the costs of doing business with one of the new DC Comics distributors, Lunar Distribution The first week of titles, they were charged over half of the cost of the comics in shipping (that level of packaging doesn't come cheap), and even more by Canadian[...]

DC Comics has revealed all the titles it will be distributing to comic stores through Diamond Comic Distributors, Lunar Distribution, and UCS Comic Distributors Including dates for a certain Batman #92 and its Punchline-inspired quarter-of-a-million print run, Batman #93, The Joker 80th Anniversary and a new name for The Last God Sourcebook Looks like June[...]

We're guessing that one of those ways is to rock "lunar camouflage" so that the "moon men" don't see us coming? Which is great for all that fighting we're going to do on the moon While you let that sink in, check out the poster below. Steve Carell rocks the latest in lunar camo in Space[...]

Lunar Distribution, the new distributor for DC Comics for the West and South of the US, is showing everyone how to pack comic books One of the biggest retailer grips over Diamond's distribution is comic books arriving damaged This appearance by Denver retailer Dennis Barger at a Diamond Retail Summit is legendary as a result[...]

These have seen DC Comics distributing comics through two new distributors, UCS and Lunar while Diamond shut down Now that Diamond is starting up again, UCS and Lunar will continue to distribute DC titles as well as Diamond Why would retailers going forward use more than one distributor, when they could get all their comics[...]

Including what happened with DC Comics and the launch of new distributors UCS and Lunar, and what has been going down during the shutdown The livestream — billed as "a live and unfiltered conversation" covering "how we got here and where the comics industry is going next", and which will take live questions from a[...]

Yesterday saw very different FOC orders for DC Comics from Diamond Comic Distributors, Lunar Distribution and UCS Comic Distributors Bleeding Cool has reported on the first deliveries received by Lunar Distribution-aligned stores – and the packaging was very impressive, even if what was received wasn't entirely what was expected These comic books go on store[...]

A Canadian retailer who wishes to remain anonymous tells us, I've spoken to a few other Canadian retailers and Lunar has not gotten back to any of us When trying to log-on their site just reads "Your account is pending administrative approval Once approved, you will receive an email to complete the registration." No email has[...]

But Lunar Distribution – also known as DCBS – seem to have learnt from their own need to sell comic books in decent condition and have left nothing to chance Retailers received their comic books is as close-to-mint condition as possible, courtesy of copious and oversized bubble wrap Retailers have reported to Bleeding Cool that[...]

Then DC Comics announced that they would also be returning to distribution sooner than that, from Tuesday, April 28th, from two new distributors, UCS Comics Distributors and Lunar Distribution, who Bleeding Cool shortly identified as Midtown Comics and DCBS respectively That means comic book retailers may start to receive such comic books from this weekend[...]

In that time, DC Comics appears to have withdrawn from Diamond Comic Distributors in favour of two new distributors, UCS Comic Distributors and Lunar Distribution, created by two comic stores Midtown Comics and DCBS Diamond states that they will still be distributing the DC Comics they have been holding when they went into shutdown However,[...]

DC Comics has informed Lunar Distribution, the comic book distributor formed by DCBS, that there may be some delays coming Lunar has told its distribution accounts that the Collected Editions listed below that are scheduled to arrive in stores for sale on the 5th of May may experience shipping delays in getting to the Lunar warehouse[...]

Art from DC Comics. Because next week, the first of the new DC Comics titles that should have shipped on April 1st, will be coming to participating comic book stores courtesy of new distributors UCS Comic Distributors and Lunar Distribution.  Except that these are the same comic books that Diamond will be distributing in Mid May[...]