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!

Get TwoMorrows Publishing’s free, 22-page interactive 2024 Holiday Sale Catalog, then click on any image to be taken to its ordering page, and get HUGE SAVINGS during our Holiday Sale through December 9!

View it online or download it HERE!

Now through December 9, TwoMorrows is having its biggest Holiday Sale yet, where you can stuff your stocking with huge savings on most of our books and magazines!

Just CLICK HERE to download our free 22-page Holiday Catalog, full of bargains sure to make even the gringiest fan smile! Then click on any image to be taken to its ordering page:

$6 Magazines:
Alter Ego
Back Issue
Comic Book Creator
Draw!
Jack Kirby Collector
RetroFan

$6 Books:
Modern Masters volumes
Comic Book Artist Bullpen
Best of Draw Vols. 1 and 3
Best of Alter Ego Vol. 2
The World of TwoMorrows anniversary book

$12 Books:
Carmine Infantino: Penciler Publisher Provocateur
Don Heck: A Work Of Art
The Star*Reach Companion

$18 Books:
Working With Ditko
Hero-A-Go-Go
The Quality Companion
The Life & Art of Dave Cockrum (softcover)
Marvel Comics In The 1960s
Marvel Comics In The 1970s Expanded Edition
Marvel Comics In The 1980s
Kirby & Lee: Stuf’ Said! (Expanded Second Edition)

$24 Books:
John Severin: Two-Fisted Comic Book Artist
Mac Raboy: Master of the Comics
Cliffhanger! Cinematic Superheroes of the Serials
Alter Ego Collectors’ Item Classics
American TV Comic Books
The Team-Up Companion
The Life & Art of Dave Cockrum (hardcover)
Reed Crandall: Illustrator of the Comics
Britmania: The British Invasion of the Sixties in Pop Culture
Groovy: When Flower Power Bloomed in Pop Culture

$30 Books:
Jack Kirby’s Dingbat Love
The Best of Simon & Kirby’s Mainline Comics

Plus most American Comic Book Chronicles volumes are just $36!

And all Lego books and BrickJournal magazines are just $3 each!

The long-awaited American Comic Book Chronicles: 1945-1949 ships Monday!See a preview, and order it 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 pre-order your copy here!

American Comic Book Chronicles: 1945-1949
Edited by Keith Dallas and John Wells
264-page full-color Hardcover
$49.95 cover price
Diamond Comic Distributors Order Code: JUN242032
ISBN13: 978-1-60549-099-1
Ships Nov. 18 from TwoMorrows Publishing, and at your local comics shop on Nov. 27