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We are learning more about the distributors that DC has engaged to begin the flow of comics to market. Midtown Comics and DCBS are established companies who now find themselves in the position of "competing" with Diamond. What does this mean for comics and the future, and what does this say about the longer-term prospects of Diamond?

Original story from Newsarama:
https://www.newsarama.com/49873-insid...

Inside DC's New Print Distribution Plan (And The New Distributors Involved)
By Chris Arrant, Editor
April 17, 2020 11:12am ET
DC has announced a revised shipping schedule for its upcoming print books, with two new distributors stepping up to facilitate it all. This comes after the near-exclusive Direct Market comics distributor Diamond suspended distribution in late March. And although Diamond has plans to resume distribution in mid- to late May, DC has set-up new distribution deals with two mail-order comic stores that are delving into B2B comics distribution.

"To assist with the immediate distribution of DC titles during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, we've secured the assistance of two distributors to help facilitate orders of and shipping of our revised publishing schedule," DC told retailers in an email Friday afternoon. "Lunar Distribution and UCS Comic Distributors have agreed to work with us to distribute these new comics."

Newsarama has confirmed that Lunar and UCS are in fact newly-created sister companies to long-time mail-order comics giants Discount Comic Book Service (DCBS) and Midtown Comics, respectively. These two retailers are among the biggest Direct Market comic sellers, and Midtown has for years handled DC's subscription sales.
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