How you obtained your comic books as a kid?

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

Macs Milk mostly; although we had an actual comic shop way back in the mid 70's where you could get back issues. And magazine format comics. A little while later I'd order stuff from Mile High Comics a lot too.

Don C.

[wilbs518]

I would get my comics as gifts and at Lamarsh's corner store, 7-11, K-mart, Newell's drugstore, and the barber shop in town. Great thread. Awesome memory, Kingdom Warrior.

[jds1911a1]

Drug stores, 7-11, yard sales, second hand book shops wherever I could and I had subscriptions too. nothing better than than brown wrapper in the mailbox and a folded in half comic except the 10 for a buck used book store pile (and each year the # for a buck got smaller)

[Riffster]

rode my bike to a newspaper stand that had them on a spindle, i went once a week

[jds1911a1]

and there was Heroes world and the comic vault and even then Mile High comics

[palitoy]

Mostly Checker's Variety or Blair Park Convenience.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Most were bought for me/later bought by myself at Eastside Pharmacy, right up the street from me. The first book I recall seeing on the shelf and asking for was the 1978 Batman Spectacular. I was 3. My sister bought it for me.

I was in the drugstore at least 3 or 4 times a week, and when I figured out what day comics came in, I'd lurk around until they put them out. Finally, they just asked if I wanted to go through them before the put them out! So I always got first pick. Years later I worked there in high school. It's still there, but they don't carry comics anymore.

There were three other drugstores and two convenience store that carried comics too. My mom worked in the same shopping mall as Begley's Drug (now relocated as Rite-Aid). She would often stop and buy comics for me before coming home for the day. Oddly enough, she bought many from my future mother-in-law who worked at Begley's!

[boynightwing]

Before I turned 10 I got mine from the grocery store or from this little used books store my mom always went to.

In 1986, a comic book store opened up and it was a 15 minute walk to get to. My dad and I would walk down there every other Saturday. Then as I got a little older I could go by myself.

[clemso]

I ran down to the local newsagent every week and bought the Might World of Marvel which reprinted, in its own unique way early 60s Kirby and Ditko stories. The best 5 pence I ever spent.

[Mod Style]

Mostly from spinner racks at drug stores, or grocery stores.Later on, the little town I live in got a news stand.Some of the best memories of my life.

[fallensaviour]

My Dad gave me a bunch of westerns(mainly billy the kid,kid colt) and a lot of Conans.
I was hooked from then on.
I would get them wherever I could find them.Corner store,drug store,Macs and garage or yard sales.When I was about 11 or 12 we finally got a 7-11 and I would go there.
Around a year later we got a real comic shop and I was in my glory!!!

[johnnystorm]

Spinner racks in the grocery, Rex-All drug store, little mom & pops around town. And not every store got all the comics...In the mid-70s, I remember riding my bike around town because I could only get Kamandi in one store, and Jonah Hex was sold in a store across town, none of the stores in my neighborhood carried it.
Around 1978 I found a shop that sold old books & magazines (mostly adult!) but they had a lot of Marvel Comics for 1/2 cover price in the window. I bought Giant-Size X-Men #1 there for a quarter! Wish I'd have kept it..I'm sure I traded it away back when it was still cheap.

[haggis]

I had a regular route of local variety stores that I would check every week back in the late 70's and early 80's. Bantam, Astro, and Mac's Milk were the closest. In the summer when I went to swimming lessons(a 20 minute bike ride) I could add a couple more stores to my route. I would also regularly be at my parents butcher shop and check all of the convenience stores on the street while I was there. I always found the Avengers, X-Men and other titles that I read at one place or another. Good times.

[mitchedwards]

Had one of these at the end of my street

[AJ Collector]

Ok so this is a horrible story…..

Besides buying them from the local drug store I had an older cousin who had an awesome collection of comics that he left to his little bother another cousin of mine who was 3 years younger then me at the time, mostly Marvel he had some great condition low numbers of Spiderman, X-Men, Fantastic Four and a mint condition Conan # 1.
So at 12 years old I cheated him at cards he kept trying to win by going “double or nothing” and since he did not have money to clear his debt the pay off was almost all his comics…..


I guess all that goes around comes around, my Mom thru almost all my books away because they were taking up space in my room. I was not aware of it until it was to late!

I told you it was bad….