Did you buy your comics in grocery stores?

[Timothy2251]

Every Sunday after church, my folks would drive over to the 7/11 for the Sunday NY Daily News, and my brother and I would score our comics with our allowances. Also, when offered, several Slurpee cups (Marvel and DC - we had no preference as long as it was a superhero) would find their way home with us.

Every so often, usually after report cards where presented and the grades were good, we'd get the old 1-2: The morning would see several comics and/or Slurpee cups waiting for us before breakfast and school, then the afternoon would see a couple of brand new Megos from my grandparents in our bedrooms. Ever see a kid spaz over a complete first set of Star Trek figures on the card? Ah, memories.

[aquatroy]

I bought All-New/All-Different X-Men from a spinner rack at 7-11 for years.

[VintageMike]

I don't remember getting any from grocery stores but definitely convenience and convenience type stores.

[Fuzzysnail]

I bought my first Conan at 7-ll. Kmart introduced me to Spidey and Batman in the three packs.. Rexall Drugs had a sweet spinner rack that had a plethera of choices. The Megos were on the same Row.

[ratchet]

My first comics were bought at the Walgreens near my house. My friend and I would spend the day riding our bikes to the store and reading, trading comics.

[Adam West]

I rarely bought any new comics. On the rare occasion it was 7/11. Most of mine were usually birthday gifts, Christmas gifts, etc. I have a really good childhood friend who had a HUGE collection of comics and he would often give me some of his comics that he read and did not want to keep. I also remember going to a local comic book store with him occasionally. He would be purchasing some of the early Spidey comics which isn't saying that they were very old since this was early 1970's. I typically bought previously read Spidey comics for less than cover price and am surprised at how much some of them are worth today.