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

[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

[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!

[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

[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.

[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.

[madmarva]

Safeway and Wal-Greens is where I bought my comics regularly in the 1970s through about 1984 when I finally became old enough to drive.

At that point, me and a buddy would haul tail after football practice on Thursdays across Mississippi River to Memphis Comics and Records on Highland Ave. What was cool is that every now and then the professional wrestler Jerry Lawler would be there. He's an excellent artist/cartoonist. He painted the Mighty Mouse figure on the store's window.I'm pretty sure the store was originally a head shop, but the two guys who owned it made more money ripping folks off buying and selling old comics and records.

It was weird when I first started going there it was really kind of a hippie hangout, but by 1982-83, it began to become yuppiefied. Down came the Playboy mags and Zappa on the Crappa posters that lined the back room's walls and it was replaced with even more comics and promotional material. The two guys that owned it went from wearing tye dyes to Oxford-cloth shirts.

But for the last 20 years or so Comics and Collectibles on Poplar has been THE place to buy comics in Memphis. The owner, Ron, worked at Memphis Comics and opened a store up behind their backs. One day he's working at Memphis Comics, the next day he's running his own shop. If the two owners of Memphis Comics weren't such money grubbers who took advantage of whomever they could, the story wouldn't have been as funny. But, the only people in the Memphis comics community who didn't know Ron was opening a store were the two owners of Memphis Comics.


In college at the University of Arkansas, I bought from Rock Bottom, a used bookstore that carried comics all the way back in the 1970s in Fayetteville Arkansas on Dickson Street, the college's party street. The store's air conditioner was right above the door and you had to dodge a cold drip of water to get in. I can still smell the the must and dust from all those old comics, magazines and paperbacks in my mind today.

It has a new location and a new owner, Alan, (he probably took over the store a decade or more ago), who has only improved the store. I still shop there occasionally.

Because I travel a lot for work, it's easier for me to order from an on-line service now.

[The Toyroom]

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.

[megocanada]

A & M Comic Shoppe (Andrew & Mark) then they changed the name to The Friendly Neighbor Comic Shoppe (it's at a mall) and their other shop is called The Comic Connection. I get me comics and action figures from them. Been around over 20 years.

Derek

[thunderbolt]

Geppi's Comics World in Largo, FLA then Downtown Comics when I moved to Winter Haven, Evolution in WH after Downtown folded up. Now, nothing since the closest place is a really bad one in Lakeland.

[mitchedwards]

When I got into comics there was a shop named Pops. Pops closed after he died then I moved my business to the tatooed lady. The lady that owned the shop was named Lidia and named the shop after the old song.

[fallensaviour]

L.A Comics in kamloops ,B.C.
7-11 in kamloops,B.C.(I used to get my fright night and terminators here)
I have hit every comic book store from winnipeg to kamloops in the past 18 years.

My main haunt now is the comic factory 4 in wpg,MB.

[wayne foundation 07]

Finskie's news stand was the only place in town to get them.I remeber they had 2 wire spinning racks and 1 small section of the wall rack.It was an older man that ran it back then,he wasn't the fastest at getting the new ones out,and i remember getting to sort through piles to get the ones I wanted.They sold adult books in the back of the store and there was always somebody browsing that section.Back then I wanted Ghost Rider.

[Action Martin]

Is that the one that was a little tiny hole-in-the-wall kind of in the middle of town ?
If so, I used buy used CD's there

Yep. They also moved a few years back but it was like two stores over to the right on the same block. I haven't been there in something like 5 years. They were never organized. I also had an issue with the way they handled Free Comic Book Day.

[Mikey]

............ Whenever I made the drive to Cap's I would also stop at Dreamscape Comics in Bethlehem.

Is that the one that was a little tiny hole-in-the-wall kind of in the middle of town ?
If so, I used buy used CD's there

[Mikey]

What inspired this thread,
I was going through some of my stuff and found I still had 2 store bags I was using as storage bags



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