Diamond Comic Distributors has filed for bankruptcy without paying for our December and January magazines and books, leaving us with enormous losses—and we still have to cover our expenses on those items, and keep producing your favorite publications. Until payments from our new distributor begin in a few months, we’re staying afloat with webstore sales. So here are five ways you can help:

1) Order something at www.twomorrows.com! Anything you purchase directly from us—print or digital—will help us stay in business, and avoid disruptions to our upcoming releases. Get our new 2025 catalog here for easy ordering.

2) Subscribe or purchase our next few issues! Retailers could miss some items during our switch to Lunar Distribution, and new tariffs may result in price increases. Save by pre-ordering upcoming items from TwoMorrows now, and subscribe or renew your current print or digital subscription. Plus, with our new lower international postage & subscription rates, fans outside the US can have any of our magazines shipped worldwide for just $15.95 postpaid!

3) Check out our Rainy Day Sale for:
• Full 8-volume sets of American Comic Book Chronicles hardcovers at 30% off!
• Ultimate Bundles of our magazines, and more!

4) Tell your comics shop to switch their Diamond orders to Lunar! Diamond cancelled orders for all new items starting with the ones below. Use these Lunar Codes to re-order at your local comics shop by February 10!

1224TM832 Alter Ego #192
1224TM833 American Comic Book Chronicles: 1965-69 (new printing)
1224TM834 American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1980s (new printing)
1224TM835 Back Issue #158
1224TM836 RetroFan #37

5) TwoMorrows Contributors Offer! Have you contributed to our publications and need more copies of your work for your files, or for family and friends?
• Any magazine issue you contributed to is $3 each plus shipping.
• Any book you contributed to is $5-15 each (based on cover price) plus shipping.
Email store@twomorrows.com or call 919-449-0344 to order.

With the help of loyal readers like you, TwoMorrows Publishing will get through this, and emerge even stronger.Thank you for your many years of support. TwoMorrows’ fans are the best!

We love our customers outside the US, and know it can be difficult finding TwoMorrows magazines in some of the cozier villages and hamlets around the world. And Diamond Comics Distributors’ bankruptcy is only going to make that harder.

So if your local comics shop hasn’t yet made the switch to Lunar Distribution (our new exclusive distributor), we’re here to help! We’ve just lowered our international postage rates, so a single issue of our magazines shipped virtually anywhere worldwide, costs just $15.95 postpaid! We also dropped our international subscription rates to reflect that per-issue price!

The new lower rates also mean savings on books and back issues, but be sure to support your local comics shop, and encourage them to work with Lunar to stock our books and magazines.

Due to our change in distributors, Diamond has cancelled orders for all new and upcoming items starting with the ones below. Use these Lunar Codes to re-order at your local comic book shop, or order directly from TwoMorrows! To see FULL listings of all Lunar items, CLICK HERE!

1224TM832 ALTER EGO #192 NEW!
1224TM833 AMERICAN COMIC BOOK CHRONICLES: 1965-69 NEW PRINTING!
1224TM834 AMERICAN COMIC BOOK CHRONICLES: THE 1980s NEW PRINTING!
1224TM835 BACK ISSUE #158 NEW!
1224TM836 RETROFAN #37 NEW!

Here’s what TwoMorrows Publishing still has available at Diamond!
Use the Diamond Order Codes to order at your local comic book shop, or order directly from TwoMorrows! To see FULL listings of all items, CLICK HERE!

February PREVIEWS:
FEB252024 COMIC BOOK IMPLOSION: EXPANDED EDITION (Softcover)
FEB252025 LIFE & ART OF DAVE COCKRUM (Softcover)
FEB252026 LIFE & ART OF DAVE COCKRUM (Hardcover)
FEB252027 TEAM-UP COMPANION (Softcover)

And your retailer can still order these items from Diamond IN FEBRUARY ONLY:

OCT241947 ALTER EGO #188 (double-size 25th anniversary issue)
NOV241859 ALTER EGO COLLECTORS ITEM CLASSICS (Softcover)
DEC241882 AMERICAN COMIC BOOK CHRONICLES: 1940-44 (Hardcover)
JAN251971 AMERICAN COMIC BOOK CHRONICLES: 1945-1949 (Hardcover)
OCT192159 AMERICAN COMIC BOOK CHRONICLES: The 1950s (Hardcover)
AUG121321 AMERICAN COMIC BOOK CHRONICLES: 1960-64 (Hardcover)
NOV241860 AMERICAN COMIC BOOK CHRONICLES: The 1970s (Hardcover)
DEC201734 AMERICAN COMIC BOOK CHRONICLES: The 1990s (Hardcover)
NOV211757 AMERICAN TV COMIC BOOKS (Softcover)
APR231905 BEST OF SIMON & KIRBY’s MAINLINE COMICS (Hardcover)
JUN222005 BRITMANIA (Hardcover)
DEC241884 COMIC BOOK ARTIST BULLPEN (Softcover)
APR101098 CARMINE INFANTINO: PENCILER, PUBLISHER, PROVOCATEUR (Softcover)
FEB231774 CLIFFHANGER: CINEMATIC SUPERHEROES OF THE SERIALS (Hardcover)
NOV241861 DON HECK: A WORK OF ART (Hardcover)
OCT241950 GROOVY: WHEN FLOWER POWER BLOOMED IN POP CULTURE (Hardcover)
JAN251973 HERO-A-GO-GO (Softcover)
OCT241951 IT CREPT FROM THE TOMB (Softcover)
OCT241952 JACK KIRBY’S DINGBAT LOVE (Hardcover)
SEP211853 JOHN SEVERIN: TWO-FISTED COMIC BOOK ARTIST (Hardcover)
NOV241863 MAC RABOY: MASTER OF THE COMICS (Hardcover)
NOV241864 MARVEL COMICS IN THE EARLY 1960s (Softcover)
JAN251974 MARVEL COMICS IN THE 1960s (Softcover)
JAN211615 MARVEL COMICS IN THE 1970s: EXPANDED EDITION (Softcover)
OCT241953 MARVEL COMICS IN THE 1980s (Softcover)
AUG131641 MINIFIGURE CUSTOMIZATION2: WHY LIVE IN THE BOX? (Softcover)
AUG091083 MODERN MASTERS VOL. 24: GUY DAVIS (Softcover)
OCT111232 MODERN MASTERS VOL. 27: RON GARNEY (Softcover)
DEC241885 MODERN MASTERS VOL. 28: ERIC POWELL (Softcover)
JAN251975 MODERN MASTERS VOL. 29: CLIFF CHIANG (Softcover)
NOV241865 MODERN MASTERS VOL. 30: PAOLO RIVERA (Softcover)
DEC121255 PLUGGED IN!: COMICS PROS IN THE VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY (Softcover)
JAN211616 REED CRANDALL: ILLUSTRATOR OF THE COMICS (Softcover)
JUL192275 THE WORLD OF TWOMORROWS (Softcover)
OCT241954 WORKING WITH DITKO (Softcover)
FEB121565 YOU CAN BUILD IT, VOLUME 2 (Softcover)
MAR241946 ZOWIE! (Hardcover)

I’m pleased to announce that Lunar Distribution is our new exclusive Direct Market distributor to comic book stores. This is effective immediately, starting with Alter Ego #192, RetroFan #37, and Back Issue #158, shipping in February and March. Those, plus our new printings of the 1965-1969 and 1980s volumes of our American Comic Book Chronicles hardcover series, are arriving here from our printer shortly, and ready for ordering through Lunar. They will mail to subscribers just prior to when they hit stores in a few weeks.

If you already pre-ordered these at your local comics shop, please let your retailer know immediately that Diamond will be cancelling orders for them, and they need to place a new order through Lunar by February 10. If your retailer doesn’t re-order for you, or you just want to ensure you don’t miss an issue, consider ordering direct from TwoMorrows Publishing at www.twomorrows.com.

Alter Ego #193, RetroFan #38, Comic Book Creator #38, Jack Kirby Collector #93, Cryptology #3, and BrickJournal #89 are all completed, and waiting for Lunar’s order so we can go to press—so be sure your retailer places a Lunar order for those also. Our new books announced for 2025 (the Marshall Rogers bio, American Movie Comics, First Comics Companion, and Futuristic) will also have to be ordered through Lunar, and all our products will start being listed next month in the March 2025 issue of Lunar’s Next Phase catalog (#39), available at www.lunardistribution.com.

So, why the switch in distributors? Plain and simple, as much as we’ve enjoyed working with Diamond Comic Distributors over the last 30 years, their bankruptcy left us with substantial losses for our late 2024 and early 2025 releases. Our new agreement with Lunar gives us a more secure future, being exclusively distributed alongside DC Comics, Image Comics, and others. Diamond will continue to fill retailer orders for O/A (Offered Again) products and backlist items already solicited in their November-February Previews catalog, and Diamond Book Distributors will continue providing the bookstore market with our books.

Very shortly, I’ll unveil our plans to recoup some of our losses from Diamond’s bankruptcy, and avoid disruptions to our 2025 releases. Get ready for some creative ways that you, our loyal readers, can support us through this switchover, and help us emerge even stronger on the other side!

Comic Book Creator #37: Steve Englehart is spotlighted in a career-spanning interview, romance editor Barbara Friedlander redeems the late, great DC editor Jack Miller, Dan Didio discusses going from DC exec to co-publisher, we conclude our 100th birthday celebration for Arnold Drake, take a look at the 1970s underground comix oddity The Funny Pages, and more, including Hembeck! Edited by Jon B. Cooke. Preview the issue, and order your copy here!

And download our NEW updated 2025 Catalog here!

Here’s what TwoMorrows Publishing has listed in the latest Diamond Previews catalog! Use the Diamond Order Codes to order at your local comic book shop, or click the covers below to order directly from TwoMorrows! To see FULL listings of all items, CLICK HERE!

January PREVIEWS: PAGES 421–423
JAN251968 BACK ISSUE #159 (Crisis On Infinite Earths 40th Anniversary) NEW!
JAN251969 CRYPTOLOGY #1 LAST CHANCE!
JAN251970 AMERICAN MOVIE COMIC BOOKS (Softcover) NEW!
JAN251971 AMERICAN COMIC BOOK CHRONICLES: 1945-1949 (Hardcover)
JAN251972 BEST OF ALTER EGO Volume 2 (Softcover)
JAN251973 HERO-A-GO-GO (Softcover)
JAN251974 MARVEL COMICS IN THE 1960s (Softcover)
JAN251975 MODERN MASTERS VOL. 29: CLIFF CHIANG (Softcover)
JAN251976 QUALITY COMPANION (Softcover) LAST CHANCE!

Download our new updated 2025 Catalog HERE!

ALTER EGO #191: #191 is an FCA (Fawcett Collectors Of America) issue! Documenting the influence of Mac Raboy’s Captain Marvel Jr. on the life, career, and look of Elvis Presley during his stellar career, from the 1950s through the 1970s! Plus: Comic Jungle – Part II”  with Yeates, Williamson, Crandall, Morrow, Bagnoli, Giolitti, et al., Michael T. Gilbert in Mr. Monster’s Comic Crypt, and other surprises. Edited by Roy Thomas. Preview the issue, and order your copy here!

RETROFAN #36: Feel the G-Force of Eighties sci-fi toon Battle of the Planets! Plus: The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.’s Stefanie Powers, athlete-turned-actor Chuck Connors, The Oddball World of SCTV, Rankin/Bass’ stop-motion Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, Kiss My Grits—Television’s Greatest Catchphrases, one-season TV shows, and more! Featuring columns by Andy Mangels, Will Murray, Scott Saavedra, Scott Shaw, and Mark Voger. Edited by Michael Eury. Preview the issue, and order your copy here!

And it’s the FINAL HOURS to get $6 back issues of all our magazines! Get our free Holiday Sale Catalog here!

BACK ISSUE #156: Bronze Age Graphic Novels! An exploration of the 1980s graphic novels from Marvel, DC, and First Comics. Plus: Conan GNs and DC’s Science Fiction GN series! Featuring Brent Anderson, John Byrne, Howard Chaykin, Chris Claremont, José Luis García-López, Jack Kirby, Don McGregor, Bob McLeod, Bill Sienkiewicz, Jim Starlin, Roy Thomas, Bernie Wrightson, & more. Re-presenting the Hulk/Thing cover art from Marvel Graphic Novel #29, by Wrightson. Preview the issue, and order your copy here!

BRICKJOURNAL #87: Take to the air with Jesse Gros and his wondrous airships! Kevin Copa’s renditions of the ships from International Rescue, a.k.a. the Thunderbirds, are also featured, as well as Jack Carleson and his airliners! Plus BrickNerd, Bantha Bricks: Fans of LEGO Star Wars, step-by-step “You Can Build It” instructions by Christopher Deck, and Minifigure Customization with Jared K. Burks! Preview the issue, and order your copy here!

And through Dec. 9, most Back Issues are $6 each and most BrickJournals and Lego books are just $3 each! Get our free Holiday Sale Catalog here!

The American Comic Book Chronicles continues its ambitious series of FULL-COLOR HARDCOVERS, where TwoMorrows’ top authors document every decade of comic book history from the 1940s to today! At long last, this 1945-49 volume covers the comic book industry during the aftermath of World War II, when scores of writers and artists returned from foreign battlefields to resume their careers. It was a period when readers began turning away from the escapist entertainment offered by super-heroes in favor of other genres, like the grittier, more brutal crime comics. It was a time when Joe Simon and Jack Kirby created Young Romance, inaugurating a golden age of romance comics. And it was during this five-year period that Timely and National Comics capitalized on the popularity of Westerns, that Bill Gaines plotted a new course for EC Comics in the wake of his father’s death, and that Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster first sued for the rights to Superman. These are just a few of the events chronicled in this exhaustive, full-color hardcover, further documenting the ACBC series’ cohesive, linear overview of the entire landscape of comics history! Edited by Keith Dallas and John Wells. Preview the book, and order your copy here!