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Multiple Objections Deemed Deficient in Objection to Diamond’s Motion to Sell Consignment Merchandise

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Publishers have been filing objections to Diamond Comic Distributor‘s motion that would allow them to sell, liquidate, dispose of, inventory it currently still has. Many publishers have already been vocal about the motion and many have responded to our inquiries with “no comment” because it’s an ongoing legal matter. TwoMorrows Publishing, Magma Comix, and Graphitti Designs, Abstract Studio, NBM, William M. Gaines, Agent, Inc., Humanoids, a joint filing by 13 publishers, GAMA, the Ad Hoc Committee of Consignors, Cryptozoic Entertainment, and Image Comics have each filed objections to the motion. Diamond’s bank lender JPMorgan Chase filed a “limited objection” and “reservation of rights.” That’s about 1/3 of the 128 publishers mentioned as impacted in Diamond’s initial motion.

But… a bunch of the filings are deficient according to the court. In other words, they don’t follow the rules for filing.

Objections filed by William M. Gaines, Agent Inc., NBM Publishing Inc., Abstract Studio, Inc., Graphitti Designs, Molten Core Media, LLC aka Magma Comix, and TwoMorrows Publishing have all been deemed “deficient” by the Clerk of the Court. The reason given:

Appearance of counsel is required. (Local Bankruptcy Rule 90101)

Local Bankruptcy Rule 9010-1 in Maryland requires a corporation to be represented by an attorney in bankruptcy proceedings. Petitions and pleadings have to be signed by an attorney. There are some exceptions as to what corporations can do and how they can participate, but in this case, they need a lawyer to file the objection.

To fix they issue, they need to get an attorney who’s barred by the District Court.

Liminal Esports LLC had their filing deemed deficient by the court and it is now stricken from the official record as they didn’t correct it in time.

TwoMorrows Publishing signs an exclusive agreement with Lunar Distribution and Cancels Diamond Orders

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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.

Jack Kirby’s Dingbat Love Assembles the Famed Creator’s Final Unseen Comics Work

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Now shipping is Jack Kirby’s Dingbat Love, a new full-color hardcover presenting the final unpublished stories by the co-creator of the Marvel Universe.

Produced by TwoMorrows Publishing (in cooperation with DC Comics), it compiles a tempestuous trio of never-seen 1970s Kirby projects intended for DC Comics. These are the final complete, unpublished Jack Kirby stories in existence, presented here for the first time, and include: 

  • Two unused Dingbats of Danger Street tales (Kirby’s final Kid Gang group, inked by Mike Royer and D. Bruce Berry, and newly colored for this book). One of these stories is shown alongside Kirby’s pencil art, for a side-by-side comparison to the finished art.
  • True-Life Divorce, the abandoned newsstand magazine that was too hot for its time (reproduced from Kirby’s pencil art—and as a bonus, Mike Royer was commissioned to ink one of the stories).
  • Soul Love, the unseen ’70s romance book so funky, even a jive turkey will dig the unretouched inks by Vince Colletta and Tony DeZuniga. It’s presented in full-color as originally intended, along with unfinished inked pages.

The book’s editor, Kirby historian John Morrow, provides an in-depth examination of why these projects went unused, along with concept art and uninked pencils from Dingbats of Danger Street. Also featured are deluxe fold-out pages showcasing Kirby’s two-page spreads, essays by 1970s Kirby assistants Mark Evanier and Steve Sherman, and a remarkable collaboration between Jack Kirby and superstar painter Alex Ross.

TwoMorrows Partners with Syracuse’s Salt City Comic-Con to offer Pre-Order Prize Packs

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Syracuse’s Salt City Comic-Con and TwoMorrows Publishing are offering fans a chance to win a weekly PRE-ORDER PRIZE PACK: TWO FROM TWOMORROWS. Fans who preorder tickets for June’s Syracuse’s Salt City Comic-Con, are now eligible to win TwoMorrows magazines and books.

Each week, Syracuse’s Salt City Comic-Con will randomly select one fan who has pre-ordered his or her ticket that week and award two (2) comic focused publications from TwoMorrows Publishing.

These weekly PRE-ORDER PRIZE PACKs will be randomly selected, and will include two publications, either books and/or magazines, from TwoMorrows such as:

The Batcave Companion by Michael Eury and Michael Kronenberg – Complete with an iconic Neal Adams Cover and Batman focused articles.

Comic Book Creator – Jon Cooke’s amazing quarterly magazine that spotlights legends of the comic industry including Gil Kane, Peter Bagge, Michael Kaluta and Ramona Fradon.

The Jack Kirby Collector -The acclaimed long-running magazine providing thoughtful analysis, long-lost pages and fun for both new and faithful Kirby fans.

Modern Masters -This book series takes an in-depth look at popular current comic artists, including talents like Paolo Rivera and Cliff Chiang.

Back Issue Magazine – The magazine that celebrates comic’s Bronze Age and beyond is a Syracuse favorite. Issues for this promotion include: issue #71 -with an Art Adams/Dr. Strange/Clea cover, issue #73 focusing on Batman’s Partners, Issue #94 sporting a striking Neal Adams/Ms. Mystic cover – and more!

The PRE-ORDER PRIZE PACK: TWO FROM TWOMORROWS promotion has begun and continues right up to the convention. Look for Syracuse’s Salt City Comic-Con to announce new winners, and the TwoMorrows books or magazines they’ve won, each week!

Syracuse’s Salt City Comic-Con, celebrating its fourth year, moves to the Oncenter’s War Memorial building in downtown Syracuse this June 24th and 25th.  This pop-culture convention focuses on comics, toys, games, cosplay and collectibles.

Hero-A-Go-Go Relives Campy Comics & Culture of the Swinging Sixties

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hero-a-go-goThis April, TwoMorrows Publishing releases their new book Hero-A-Go-Go, which travels back to the 1960s, when good guys beat bad guys with both a pun and a punch. By the time Adam West was doing the Batusi on TV’s Batman show, the Camp Craze was already in full swing in comics books (The Teen Titans, Metamorpho, Herbie the Fat Fury), cartoons (The Mighty Heroes, Atom Ant, and Filmation’s super-hero shows), and even Prime Time television (The Green Hornet, Mr. Terrific, and Captain Nice).

For this book, author Michael Eury exhaustively researched that era’s output, to lovingly recall the good, bad, and downright awful of Camp culture. It features such notable talents as Ralph Bakshi (The Mighty Heroes and Spider-Man cartoons), Bill Mumy (“Will Robinson” from Lost in Space), Dean Torrence (“Jan & Dean Meet Batman”), Joe Sinnott (The Beatles comic book), Ramona Fradon (Metamorpho), Jose Delbo (The Monkees comic book), Bob Holiday (Superman from “It’s a Bird… It’s A Plane… It’s Superman” in his final interview), and many others.

In addition to coverage of pivotal comic books of the Camp Age, Hero-A-Go-Go features dozens of full-color photographs and illustrations of such notorious relics as the “Superman and the Giant Cyclops” wax exhibit from the 1964 World’s Fair, the Palisades Amusement Park and its comics-themed rides of the 1960s, ancillary items like the line of Batman Dairy Products and Pop-Tarts super-hero premiums, Signet paperback book collections of comics, the Spy craze from Bond to U.N.C.L.E., and the Cowsills‘ and Archies‘ pop music careers.

This full-color trade paperback is 272 pages long, and retails for $36.95. It ships April 19, 2017 in both print and digital editions, and may be pre-ordered now through TwoMorrows Publishing’s website, comic and bookstores through Diamond Comic/Book Distributors, on Amazon, and through the TwoMorrows app on the Apple and Android platforms.

Lego super-heroes take over BrickJournal magazine this April

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BrickJournal #34Shipping April 22 is BrickJournal #34, the latest issue of TwoMorrows Publishing‘s acclaimed magazine for LEGO enthusiasts of all ages. This 80-page full-color issue spotlights LEGO Super-Heroes, from original takes on Superman and Batman, to Sandman, Agents of SHIELD, and more. The lead feature is a behind-the-scenes look at the making of BrickNerd Studios’ recent Batman Vs. Superman animated short, featuring minifigures of the two heroes squaring off in a hilarious stop-motion battle against one another.

The YouTube sensation (already at over 150,000 views) is the brainchild of Hollywood visual effects specialist Tommy Williamson, who has worked on films including Army of Darkness, Ghostbusters II, Armageddon, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Spider-Man 3, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, The Expendables 3, and Exodus, to name a few. When he’s not contributing to big-budget films, he applies his talents to LEGO “brickfilms”, and the success of the short film already has Williamson working on a sequel. Tommy details both his LEGO building techniques, and his animation processes, for BrickJournal readers this month.

Next up, professional minifigure customizer Jared K. Burks demonstrates what went into making his one-of-a-kind LEGO replicas of the characters from TV’s Agents of SHIELD series. By going back to his foundations in decal design, and using various tricks to modify stock minifig parts, Burks has created a small army of custom figures conveying the essence of the show’s main heroes and villains. The feature wraps up with an interview with the TV show’s costume designer Ann Foley, an article on how to build a LEGO replica of Agent Phil Coulson’s prized car Lola, and a fan’s elaborately-detailed custom SHIELD helicarrier, made entirely of LEGO bricks.

BrickJournal #34 also details other top LEGO builders’ versions of Batman’s “Tumbler”, Iron Man’s Hall of Armor, a LEGO Galactus, the X-Men’s “Blackbird” X-Jet, incredible LEGO busts of characters from Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series, how one builder turned the LEGO “Friends” line of figures into Super “Friends”, the ComicBricks Project (where builders recreate classic comic book covers out of LEGO elements), plus step-by-step instructions to build your own LEGO mini-Batmobile, and Iron Man’s “Hulkbuster” armor as seen in the upcoming Avengers: Age of Ultron film.

The issue retails for $8.95 in the US, and readers can find a free preview and order the Print Edition (at 15% off with Free Digital Edition), or Digital Edition only (just $3.95) online.

It will be available in late April at Barnes & Noble stores, and can also be ordered at any comic book store, using Diamond Comic Distributors Order Code FEB151882.

BrickJournal #34 will also be available on April 22 through the BrickJournal App at the Apple App Store or on the Android Google Play store.