Comic Book Spinner Rack: who remembers them

[monitor_ep]

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Who visited there local Grocery Store & Drug Store back in the day to get #ComicBooks from the Comic Book Spinner Rack? I would read DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Archie Comics, Harvey Comics, and Charlton Comics. Growing up in the 70's this were my bother & I babysitters while Mom was shopping in the Grocery store. We would spend out time reading as many comics as we could and then Mom would let us get 3 comics each for behaving.

Today you can get them online, in the mail or at a bookstore but back then most little towns this was your only chance to read such a variety of books. Now I am curious who used to get the comic books from this old spinner racks?

[LonnieFisher]

7-11 spinner racks!! That and comic cups...

[monitor_ep]

I can't believe I forgot about 7-11. There was one within walking distance of my Jr. High and before school we would stop in and check out what was out and that would give us something to talk about when new comics got released.

[thunderbolt]

sure do at the Tyner's drug store in Toluca IL. and sometimes in Peoria or Streator at a newsstand or bookstore.

[emeraldknight47]

How could anyone NOT remember the endearingly wobbly squeak of seemingly every spinner rack ever! Sometimes I think the may’ve been sent from the factory that way! LOL! Two of my faves I remember is the one that I actually wound up owning from the little drug store, Eight Mile Pharmacy, where I bought almost all my comics as a kid (until I was old enough to drive and discovered my town’s then only LCS). Second one might be an even finder memory and that was the one at a 7-11 in Pompano Beach, Florida where I used to spend my summers with my older sister. Seems like at least three times a week, I’d either walk to or bike my way to that 7-11 to pick up new comics and, of course, whatever the new Marvel Slurpee Cup was. Good memories of great times...

[filmation batman fan]

I'll never forget my first discovery of comic books. Growing up in Chattanooga TN. the first place I discovered comic books on a spinner rack in Eckerd Drugs. That's where I got my comic books to begin with. But I also remember the spinner racks being in Woolworth's and old time pharmacy stores no longer in existence. And there was a 7-11 closest to where I lived. My first Superman comic book.jpg The first comic book I ever got was Superman.

[Bruce Banner]

Absolutely. My local drug store and also the convenience store where I bought comics had spinner racks. Great memories.

[libby 1957dog]

heres mine ,bought it from a mate of mine 15 years or so ago ,he got it from a uk newsagents that was closing down ,as you can see by the "american" part on the headings on the compartments

[cjefferys]

That's really cool, I love how they differentiated "American" comics and magazines from the UK ones.

I bought the majority of my comics from spinner racks at the local variety and drug stores until the first actual comic book shop opened locally in the early 80's (well, technically it was a book store that had a comic section at the back with all the direct sale titles, it was the first time I saw those titles in a store, I was very excited).

I managed to pick up a vintage spinner rack at a local antique store around five or six years ago. Instant nostalgia, I love that thing, unfortunately I don't have much room for it, so it's partially blocking the entrance of my office/toy/media room. One day I hope to have the space to properly display it.

[EmergencyIan]

I’d guess that well more than half of my comic books were obtained via spinner racks. To me that seems like the usual way to find them.

- Ian

[Earth 2 Chris]

My main source didn't have a spinner for its comics, but one of the downtown drugstores did. So I did have that spinner rack experience!

Chris

[YoungOnce]

Yeah, a local drugstore had a spinner rack right next to the front of the store, visible through the glass from outside. Always enjoyed seeing it even when we drove by it.

But I got most of mine from The Kroger on grocery days on a large tiered wooden display. Comics on the bottom, Tv Guide and gossip magazines in the middle, more adult books on the top (not porn, but Biker mags, Real Detective, Guns and Ammo, etc...).

[cjefferys]

One bad thing about spinner racks, the upper part of the spine around the top staple would get all jacked up once the comics have been displayed too long, with people folding them over the rack front to see what's behind. Between that and the date stamp that one of my local drugstores used, my early comic purchases were far from mint condition!