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Diamond UK will then assess July at a later date. Each of these deliveries will also include re-orders, and due to Diamond UK still being unable to guarantee deadline dates they will "endeavour to incorporate as many re-orders into each shipment as possible." They state "hopefully these are the next steps to returning to normality and[...]

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[...]

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[...]

As new DC Comics titles go on sale today, we look at retailer reactions to the move, from the positive to the mostly negative.

And tonight, Lunar, UCS and Diamond Comic Distributors all have warring Final Order Cut-Off or FOC items with a deadline of tonight. Thank FOC It's Monday for DC Comics, UCS, Lunar and Diamond Art from UCS. We mentioned that Diamond was asking those retailers who still wanted to order their DC Comics through Diamond that all their[...]

DC Comics titles have arrived in comic book stores courresy of Lunar distribition for sale on Tuesday - or earlier if no one stops them.

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,[...]

There is no news if UCS Comic Distributors will be similarly affected but then they have their own issues with delayed Dick over in Nightwing #70. Here's a list of the collections and original graphic novels that may be delayed to stores on the West Coast or states close to the southern border of the USA. Graphic[...]

UCS Comic Distributors and Lunar Distribution are two new comic book distributors set up by DCBS and Midtown Comics respectively Their raison d'etre is to distribute DC Comics titles in the wake of Diamond Comic Distributors still being shutdown to new comic books for the next month The first week of shipping books is meant[...]

DC Comics will be distributing new print runs of their delayed comic books via two new distributors UCS and Lunar, created by two old mail-order companies Midtown Comics and DCBS While Diamond Comic Distributors intends to distribute those very self comics around two weeks later It could be quite the car crash Anyway, Alan Gill[...]

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[...]

They may not be as communicative as Midtown Comics/UCS Comic Distributors But then DCBS/Lunar Distribution hasn't had as much experience in PR, press releases and dealing with the media Nevertheless, Bleeding Cool has made contact with DCBS co-founder Christina Merkler, on behalf of Lunar the new distributor dealing with the West Coast and the South[...]

Too many comic stores will still be prohibited from being open on April 28th, the first DC release date. "Second, DC's new distributors, Lunar Distribution and UCS Comic Distributors, are in reality two of the nation's largest new comic discounters, Discount Comics and Midtown Comics No comic retailer should be involved in comic distribution due to[...]

Earlier today, Bleeding Cool reported that UCS Comic Distributors was taking its first FOC orders today The new distributor was set up by Midtown Comics in New York to distribute DC Comics titles to comic stores from the end of this month It is to take the place of Diamond Comic Distributors, DC's exclusive comic store[...]

Retailers Have Three FOC Dates in One Week for DC Comics Via UCS Logo from UCS. After running a brief interview with Gerry Gladston of Midtown Comics and UCS Comic Distributors, we mentioned that we hadn't heard back from the other new DC Comics distributor DCBS/Lunar Distribution At which point Bleeding Cool received an acknowledgement email[...]

Bleeding Cool spoke with Gerry Gladston of Midtown Comics, the comic store behind DC Comics' new East Coast distributor UCS Comics Distributor The move has seen DC Comics leave Diamond Comic Distributors, who are in shut down to receiving new comics for at least another month Instead two new distributors have set up, UCS run by[...]

How they are distributing comic books to stores that are still open, through their two new distributors Lunar and UCS, or rather DCBS and Midtown Comics We also noted that these included a number of titles that were supposedly being held by Diamond Comic Distributors warehouses. Did DC Comics get the comics back from Diamond? Or[...]

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 As this Google Streetmap view of UCS' credit application location indicates. Diamond Comic Distributors told Bleeding[...]

DC will also have day-and-date They named the two distributors they had done deals with as UCS Comic Distributors and Lunar Distribution But who are they? UCS and Lunar Distribution – or Midtown Comics and DCBS Art from site front pages. Bleeding Cool has made enquiries without response, but it is notable that these appeared to be[...]

Diamond has added two new distributors, each covering a different region across the USA and Canada, Lunar Distribution and UCS Comic Distributors Additionally, digital comics will return on the matching Tuesdays, globally UK availability is not mentioned at all, so for print I think you can kiss that goodbye for some time still to come[...]

Revealed this morning is a new UCS LEGO Star Wars set- the Betrayal at Cloud City! Featuring 20 minifigures and 2,812 bricks, it hits stores in October!