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DC Comics fresh distributors UCS and Lunar have been created by DCBS and Midtown Comics , with comic ship out by the end of the calendar month .
DC Comics gave out the big intelligence to retailers today , that they will be publishing print comic books again . On Tuesday 27th April , they will have copy in whichever funny stores in the USA and Canada are capable to still sell them , whether in mortal , curbside or by mail order . DC will also have daylight - and - date They named the two distributors they had done deal with as UCS Comic Distributors and Lunar Distribution . But who are they ?
Bleeding Cool has made enquiries without reply , but it is notable that these appeared to be brand - new endeavours . The enquiry address on UCS Comic Distributors ' front page get down its own uniform resource locator incorrect , listing it as ucscomicdistributions.com , not ucscomicdistributors.com . The websites are comparatively minimalist ; all they want is for people to apply to them , with scant entropy about the origin of these companies .
The area name for UCS was registered by GoDaddy anonymously on the 8th of April 2020 . The one for Lunar Distribution was set up on the 13th of April , and it was also anonymously on GoDaddy . The novelty of both suggests that these companies were coiffe up over the last calendar week with the express function of ingest on DC Comics dispersion and none other . What organisation the companies have with DC Comics is not clear , nor is it well-defined whether they would be capable to working with other publishers . It is potential that this may not even be an pick .
There is also no mention of the non - North American market , which makes up around 15 % of DC Comics ' verbatim sales , with focal gunpoint in the UK , Ireland , France , and Australia . Diamond UK has been hold up a calendar week ’s additional championship from all major newspaper publisher , with no update as to how that will be handled .
So Bleeding Cool reporters called both UCS and Lunar earlier today . No one peck up , but UCS diverted an answerphone car for Hal at Midtown Comics . One of the largest funny storage in the US , Midtown Comics of New York also handles Marvel and DC Comics subscriptions as well as comp copies for Godhead and other natural endowment . Lunar just had an answerphone message with no identification , but further probe identified it as an operation being run by DCBS , the tumid mail - order comedian troupe in the US , based in Fort Worth , Indiana .
The early days of the direct market place saw one storeset itself up as a distributer to other stores — like Pacific Comics . Could this be a take to the early days of the direct marketplace in more means than one ? If anyone at UCS or Lunar ( or Midtown Comics or DCBS ) would wish to babble to Bleeding Cool about this raw speculation and permit us know more , we would love to hear from you .
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