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Only 4 days until Free Comic Book Day!  Be sure to stop by this Saturday, May 2nd from 10 AM to 6 PM for your FREE COMICS!  This years theme is a “Comic Carnival”.  Come by and spin the FCBD spinner wheel for discounts on merchandise in the store from 10 to 50% OFF!  We’ll also have free carnival popcorn, balloons, contests, and prizes. Children and Adults can have their faces painted with their favorite superhero between 12 noon and 3 pm. Be sure to bring a canned food donation on Saturday between 10 AM and 6 PM to be … Continue reading →

Okay, so Alan has been busy getting off his duff working on tons of comic collections so I’m writing his blog tonight:) We have been busy rearranging the store again.  The majority of the great cover price comics that used to be at the front of the store are now at the back of the store. Dan just refilled them with a full selection of VF/NM warehouse copies of Teen Titans at cover price.  The T-shirts are now near the front of the store. Speaking of T-shirts. We are being restocked tomorrow on our store All About Comics shirts in … Continue reading →

Only so many sardines will fit in the can. I can always find more room for comic books in the store, but Action Figures are a whole different matter. We definitely have some overstock building up, particularly DC figures, so tomorrow Marsha and Dan will be adding a HUGE mix of superhero AF’s to the parking lot side North wall, as you enter the store from the west side. The majority of these new figures will be 50% OFF, if not more! Needless to say, in today’s economy, I’m ordering considerably less, so if there’s every anything you’re specifically looking … Continue reading →

Hello everyone! We’re in the process this week, mostly Ashley and myself, of pricing and refilling a lot of contemporary back issues for the back issue display boxes in the center of the store. I know I’m always foaming at the mouth about Silver and Bronze Age books, but contemporary back issues are an integral part of our store’s mix too. Titles just added this week: BLACK PANTHER, GREEN ARROW and BLACK CANARY, GREEN LANTERN CORPS, JONAH HEX, MS. MARVEL, MOON KNIGHT, NEW AVENGERS…just to name a few. The Professor will have completed another year of teaching soon, so expect … Continue reading →

I was adding stock to the back issue bins this morning and it hit me that…holy crap, we are drowning in back issues right now! Not all of the selection is “key” back issues, but there’s a lot of great Silver and Bronze age era books in stock right now. But, alas, this isn’t a museum. So from Wed. thru Sat. this week, here’s the deal: Buy $100.00 of back issues from the sales floor, and take 25% off the retail price. Buy $200.00 of back issues from the sales floor and take 30% off! This includes ALL back issues … Continue reading →