What was the names of your old Comic Book store haunts ?

[tay666]

Well, in the 70's and early 80's I bought all my stuff from regular stores that had magazine racks, and the City News place that had books, newspapers, comics and magazines.

In the mid 80's I started using Mile High comics to mail order stuff.

Then I found a place called Books Gallore in Erie PA that had lots of back issues and new stuff.
Been several ownership changes over the years, but the place is still there.
Used books, new books, comics, mags, and a small selection of gaming supplies.
Every time I am in the area I stop in and go through the books to see what they have.

[Nostalgiabuff]

I bought mine from a place Called Iron Vic's in the city of Poughkeepsie for many, many years. He eventually moved to New Paltz in the mid nineties before finally closing shop and moving out West. I had stopped collecting comics by that point. I still run into his old store manager every now and then.

[Riffster]

20+ years and the place is still open but it's not called Bedrock Comics in Framingham Mass, Used to be Bop City Comics

[Joe90]

You really want to go there?

Bill's Bazaar and Comic Emporium on Jasper Avenue, just off 95th Street. Bill gave us a 2 for one trade, on our old comic books. There were hundreds of used Golden Age books there. If I had that store with all its stock today I'd retire a millionaire.

The earliest comic I remember getting there was a used Lois Lane #5. It was a few years old when I got it. In the story, she gets some junk in her meddlesome trunk...



Check Out the Story Line!

I don't have the hard copy but I've got it on digital!

[toys2cool]

A M Comics and Frank's Comics in Miami.A M is still there and so is Frank's but it changed ownership and name

[Timothy2251]

Started collecting comics thanks to 7-11. Comics and superhero Slurpee cups... ah, bliss.

My folks would take us to Heroes World (R.I.P.) at the Woodbridge Mall on occasion, but most of the comic shopping from the early '80s onward was at Steve's Comic Relief (first in Lakewood, now in Toms River). I'd also hit the Record Store in Howell (still do!) and Zapp Comics at the Freehold raceway Mall, until they moved over to Manalapan.

[jds1911a1]

The Comic Vault Philadephia City line ave- coolest thing was the rare ones were in the lowerlevel and there was a special door to go into

Heroes world exton PA- great comics related toys and lots of cheap back issues incl those great DC treasury editions

Downingtown Farmers market - my #1 place to get cheap old comics

[livingdead70]

Well here in Augusta it was 7-11s, A local store that sold magazines,reocords and comics called Homefolks News and Records. They went out in the early 90s. There is a place here that has been around since the late 70s called the Book Exchange , they are kinda pricey but you can get some good scores out of the dollar bins.
Latly its been the Flea Market.
In the early 90s when that comic boom was going on several stores popped up but they were all seriously overpriced on stuff that was in crap shape and I dont think any of them made it year. One of them was trying to sell Death of superman the day it came out for 30 bucks.
trey

[jwyblejr]

For the longest time I used to buy my comics at various newstands and drugstores...it wasn't until the direct only market hit with stuff like Dazzler #1, Moon Knight, Micronauts that I started to venture out to find a comic book shop. None in my town but I eventually found a hole in the wall in Utica NY by the name of The Lost World. First back issues I bought there were Doom Patrol #113 and Batman #202 .

They weren't around too long but soon after a much better shop opened up in '83, Ravenswood Comics. They've moved location a few times but they're still the shop I go to to this day. 20 minute drive. They briefly had a 2nd store in my town in the early 90s but closed up after the shop manager was embezzling from them.

Yeah,Ravenswood here as well. Started going there back in '86. Before that it was Reader's Island and Waldenbooks over at Sangertown.

[Marvelmania]

There were no comic shops around me as a kid. My main places were 7-11, Jiffy Market Zimmerman Book Store and Super X Drug Store

[The Toyroom]

Yeah,Ravenswood here as well. Started going there back in '86. Before that it was Reader's Island and Waldenbooks over at Sangertown.

Yup....and at Riverside Mall too. For a while, in the mid 90s, there was a comic shop at Sangertown called "Same Bat Channel". They eventually changed the name to "Comics Plus" but by that point it was always a bunch of ******s sitting around in the back role-playing. In fact, they took over the former Waldenbooks location and had waaay to much space for the inventory they had. Rent must've been too high too....they moved to a kiosk and then left abruptly.

[EMCE Hammer]

Brad's Bookshelf childhood through the early 90s, then Comic Connection, now Comic Town for about ten years or so.

[Mego Milk]

Chaos In Print
Chicago!

[WannabeMego]

From the late 70s to mid-80s I would go to the Batcave in Bayshore, NY. They got into a little legal entanglement over the name and temporarily became Comic Heaven, the owner was brothers with the owner of California's Comic Heaven store. It became the Batcave again and eventually Long Island Comics but I stopped going there long before that. I heard that Frank moved the store to Babylon in the 90s.

I also used to venture to Heroes World in the Nassau Mall, Hempstead, NY.

Those were it for me other than 7-11 and local flea markets.

Ummm, Scott...Our paths HAD TO cross.

Berto [Blue Meanie] and I know Frank (the owner of The Batcave) since the store opened in Bay Shore near the South Shore Mall...I think we were like his 3rd and 4th customer through the door.

As a matter of fact, I used to help out in the store when the weekly books came in...

While Frank was busy with the store he shared in New York [The Original Batcave] with his friend Jerry Ohlinger...the Bay Shore Store was managed by Mrs. Murray (Mother of Doug Murray-Writer of Marvel's 'Nam)

Needless to say, Berto and I were regulars (kinda like Norm & Cliff from Cheers).

...and if I'm not mistaken, we would pick-up our Mego's at Child World right next door and Play World at the Gardiner Manor Mall.

We'd also go to Heroes World in Hempstead as well as World of Fantasy in Deer Park.

Before The Batcave, we'd pick-up our Books at a stand in the Farmer's Market near the Butcher where the Drive-In used to be.

[Bionic Joe]

Going way back to the early 80s when i got serious into collecting

1. Comic Crypt- Oaklynn NJ [still there but owned by someone else
2. Fat Jacks Comic Crypt- South Phillie [still there]
3. Cosmic Comics-Berlin NJ closed a long time ago
4. Tem DEE -WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP NJ still there