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

[Mikey]

I just got another flash of nostalgia.

I was never really into comic books, but I would often go to my local comic shops looking for peripheral items -- such as action figures, books, games and other collectibles.

Today, they're all long gone.

They stood proudly thoughout the mid 70's into the 80 .... but unfortunately every single one of them succumbed in the mid to late 90's

This thread is ment as a tombstone to those places in your area.

My biggies were.......

1. Cap's Comic Cavalcade in Allentown PA

2. The Fat Moose in Hibernia NJ

3. Dreamers in Hackettstown NJ

4. Collector Comic Shop in Rockaway NJ

what about your old haunts that no longer exist ?

[BlackKnight]

7-11 .
Seriously... in the mid to late 80's,.. when I lived in Nebraska,.. I used to get all of my Comics there. But I only Read Batman, Detective, Action Comics, Teen Titans & Uncanny X-men at the Time,.. with the Yrly Annuals. 7-11 Always had them, every Month.

No 7-11 here,.. carries Comics,.. nore has since the eairly 90's.

I also used to shop at the Spider's Web in Puyallup.
At 1st,.. the Store was co-Owned by Todd McFarlane, & was his Brother-in-Law's store.
The store closed up shop around 2001,.. or so, give or take a yr or so. Kim Now has an Online store,.. where he only sells McFarlane Toys.

[Action Martin]

Cap's Comic Cavalcade in Allentown PA

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.

[StrangeVisitor]

Charlie's Collector's Corner in Hummelstown, PA -
Eventually he moved his store from a location just off the town square to a row of storage units less than a quarter mile away. No sign out front, only open 3 days a week for a few hours. He spent some more years of selling cards & comics to the couple people that knew where he was. Every time I'd stopped there over a couple months the place was dark, so I guess he finally closed up shop.

Capital City Comics in Lemoyne, PA

[Action Martin]

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.

[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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[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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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

[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.

[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.