The fallout from Diamond Comic Distributor’s Chapter 11 announcement continues. TwoMorrows Publishing has entered into an exclusive agreement with Lunar Distribution to provide its line of magazines and books to the Direct Market of comic book specialty stores. The partnership is effective immediately, starting with new issues of Alter Ego (#192), RetroFan (#37), and Back Issue (#158) scheduled for release in February and March 2025. Lunar’s FOC (Final Order Cutoff) date for these titles is February 10, with an in-store date of February 26.

Retailers that have already placed Direct Market orders for these and other new TwoMorrows product not already received, will need to reorder those items from Lunar. Existing Diamond orders for new product will be cancelled. A list of items that will be cancelled by Diamond, and must be reordered through Lunar, is below.

TwoMorrows’ other magazine titles will follow, beginning with issues scheduled to arrive in stores from April-onward (Comic Book Creator #38, Jack Kirby Collector #93, Cryptology #3, and BrickJournal #89), along with new printings of the company’s 1965-1969 and 1980s volumes of their American Comic Book Chronicles hardcover series, and other books announced for 2025 debuts. These and other new items that were previously listed in Diamond’s Previews Diamond’s Previews catalog will be available for ordering starting with the March 2025 issue of Lunar’s Next Phase catalog (#39).

The move by TwoMorrows Publishing was made in the “longstanding company’s best interest” with a need to “absorb substantial losses for payments owed” for the publisher’s late 2024 and early 2025 releases.