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

[vulcan2074]

Damn the only one I really remember the name of is Golden Apple, It's in Los Angeles on Melrose. I used to go there when I would visit my sister for Summer Break. There were like 3 near me when I grew up in Tx. I can't remember there names though
Sammy

[Captain]

Back when I was a kid, I dont even think Calgary had any comic shops...if there were any I didnt know about them. Most of my comics came from the Mayland Heights Drug Store, or the Mayland Heights Safeway, or the 7-11 on the corner (still Mayland Heights)....if we could convince Dad to stop there.
Since we lived out in the country, the weekly Friday after school trip to the Safeway for groceries was always looked forward too. Since my Dad was a closet comic book fan, he would let my Sister and I go to the drugstore to each pick out our weekly comic, while he and Mom bought the paper. I loved that store. The owner was a toy nut, and had a section of Marx and Corgi stuff that no other store ever seemed to have.
When the super hero cups were available, we used to frequent the 7-11 quite often too. Loved the old smell 7-11 used to have. Unfortunately, we took my Step Grandfather there once. He was an old school Saskatchewan farmer and this was literally his first trip to the big city. Despite my Mothers warning, he took a huge sip of his first ever Slurpee...made a face I will never forget...threw the Slurpee cup back at the clerk (this was back when they used to pour the Slurpees for you) and started jumping around and hooping and hollering like he thought he was going to die! For a tough old farmer he sure couldnt handle brain freeze!! My folks were so embarassed, we never set foot in that place for a loooong time afterwards.

[megoscott]

The only comic shop in Las Cruces, NM was the local paperback exchange shop. Dave's Paperback Exchange. A little old adobe house stuffed with paperbacks andthen racks of comics hung from the ceiling. Dave was a crotchety old Eastern European guy who always scolded you for looking at the comics because they were "collectible". I has a subscription box there and went every week to pick up my comics, all Marvel. This was in the mid-80s.

[bobws]

one of the earliest from around 1980 was Space Traveller's a little donwstairs shop on a side street in downtown ansonia CT. my friend could never remember it's name and always called it Space Dust. Then over the bridge and away a few miles open up Shortell's Time Travellers run by Bob Shortell who new an artist on superman and had the page framed in his shop where his friend drew him as a reporter in the Daily Planet Bullpen with Clark and Lois over his shoulder. But for about 13 years now i go to Legends of Superheroes in Middlebury( moved from waterbury) CT. great guys own it.

[nvmbrsdoom5]

As a really young kid I didn't have much access to comic book stores. There was one here in my 'hood very briefly when I was about 5 y.o., my mom took me in there once and I saw they had a 1962 Incredible Hulk #1. Being a Hulk fan of course I wanted it, and the guy told my mom it was $100, which of course was outlandish to her at the time. She never took me back there

I bought most of my comics after that at places like Ben Franklin's and 7-11. I can still very clearly remember buying books like Super-Villain Team Up, What If?, and Amazing Spider-Man off of the rack at that 7-11.

When I was about 10, I discovered there was a comic shop not too far away in Calumet City called Amazing Fantasy. It wasn't until then that I started getting into collecting Siler Age stuff, and luckily for me I managed to get some great stuff before the prices really skyrocketed on it during the late 80s and so on. Unfortunately I sold off alot of it later, much to my chagrin =( Mainly during the time in 1996-2000 when I owned my own short-lived comic shop here in south Chicago.

Amazing Fantasy moved a short time later to a different locale but in the same town and it's still there, and I still frequent it when I can. I also started going to Tenth Planet when I was a teen, and that's still around too.

I get nostalgic for that stuff when I go through old comics and find old boards that have the store stamp on them on the back. It used to be a real treat when my mom would take me to the comic shop. Truthfully it's still a pretty nice treat to go there now.

[Dervish]

Bailey's Comics in Huntington. That place was awesome (it's gone as far as I know). Nowadays I'll go to nearby Collector's Kingdom if I need anything. I also enjoyed Fourth World Comics, but I hated driving to mid-island. Forbidden Planet in Manhattan is also fun!

I first heard about Cap's when I lived on Long Island. They used to sponsor "Star Trek" (TOS) on a cable channel that aired 3 uncut episodes back-to-back-to-back on Saturday nights. I actually started shopping at Cap's in 2000. I recall that they moved a couple of years later and then closed shop. They used to have great sales on Saturdays, sometimes as high as 80% off past issues. The only problem was that they covered the bins with boards so gamers could play Warhammer. Whenever I made the drive to Cap's I would also stop at Dreamscape Comics in Bethlehem.

I remember that Saturday night cable presentation very fondly! It started out with Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer. It was also sponsored by Rock107 and "Leader Business Systems". I'd love to see another local sponsoring of old Star Trek reruns (even TNG, TAS, or DS9).

[kingdom warrior]

I started with Newstands and racks then Discovered The Forbidden Planet in Manhattan, Then I started going to Village Comics in Manhattan also before it closed.
Now I go (when i actually buy a book) to Squiggy's in New Rochelle and Comic Book Heaven in White Plains NY also a place in Yonkers that I know of, can't remember the name.

[mitchedwards]

The big store when I was in high school was Pops When Pops died his partner ran the store into the ground

After Pops was the Tattooed Lady. The lady that ran the store died of a OD.

Then I moved to the comic shop. No one died there :-)

[wyatterb]

As a kid I got most of my comics at IGA (grocery store chain). There were several flea markets in the area , so I picked up a lot of back issues there. There were a few comic book stores in Champaign IL (Funnybook Factory, The Book Nook) but they were in rather crappy neighborhoods so my mom was never too happy to take me to those. The Funnybook Factory was on campus and closed before I could drive, but once I had my license, I was driving all over to various comic stores. The Book Nook moved close to the community college I was attending, so I would head over there after class before I had to get to work to pick up my comic stash. While I was at the U of I I would head into Fantasy Realm which was 2 blocks from campus so it was an easy walk to get my weekly fix of Superheroes. I moved into the burbs of Chicago and found Amazing Fantasy in Frankfort and that was my comic source until I moved out to NW IL where there is one comic store in a 50 mile radius. I hardly buy any comics anymore.

[Orion]

one of the earliest from around 1980 was Space Traveller's a little donwstairs shop on a side street in downtown ansonia CT.

Yeah, Space Traveller's - fond memories of that place. Wasn't close to my home as a kid, so always a special treat when my dad would take us and a couple of friends up there so we could spend $5 bucks on some comics.

[Toy Talk]

Newstands and then the Bookery in Dayton

[toys2cool]

AM comics and it's still there

[bizzaro megomauler]

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.

LOL more local guys! I finally met Berto at Bailey's Comics in Lindenhurst. My friends and I transferred all of out "accounts" away from "Gold Dust" as soon as they opened. There were of corse trips to the Batcave, Cosmic Comics in Oceanside, and the Busy Bee flea market had an kicking store or 2. And there was one good place to buy back-issues in Wantagh....but the name escapes me. Child world in Bay shore was the best place to get Megos, always plenty in stock to choose from, though I could NEVER get THOR or Conan!!!. Child world there had tons of mego-related in-stores too.

[Action Martin]

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.

I helped out at the Batcave when Walt Simonson did 2 store signings there. I recall Frank having another guy that ran the store when he wasn't there. I don't recall his name but he had blonde hair and wore it straight down sort of like Jan Michael Vincent. I recall the woman at the store but never knew her by name. I bought a few Megos from Child World and I even remember them having Teen Titans on the pegs in 1984. I don't recall a Play World at the Gardiner Manor Mall, which is long gone now, but there was one in the Sunrise Mall in Massapequa.

[Action Martin]

LOL more local guys! I finally met Berto at Bailey's Comics in Lindenhurst. My friends and I transferred all of out "accounts" away from "Gold Dust" as soon as they opened. There were of corse trips to the Batcave, Cosmic Comics in Oceanside, and the Busy Bee flea market had an kicking store or 2. And there was one good place to buy back-issues in Wantagh....but the name escapes me. Child world in Bay shore was the best place to get Megos, always plenty in stock to choose from, though I could NEVER get THOR or Conan!!!. Child world there had tons of mego-related in-stores too.

I don't know Berto or I just don't recall him. I went to Bailey's when he first opened on the east side of Wellwood Ave. in Lindernhurst. The last time (1998) that I went to Bailey's was when he moved to the west side of Wellwood into the larger store.

Gold Dust! Owned by the Gerbasio brothers. The place sort of fell apart when the brothers got into a dispute over coins, stamps, baseball cards, and comic books. I helped Mike move his store from the strip on Sunrise Highway to the much, much, much larger store on Broome (??). Wantaugh did have a cool store but I don't remember the name.