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Back in 1970’s, I was at a college friend’s house when his roommate walked in and plopped down a brown bag of what I thought was a stack of magazines on the kitchen table. I peeked in the bag and noticed that it wasn’t a stash of magazines at all, but COMIC BOOKS! Not just any comics, mind you, but THE comic, the one that drew me back to the hobby as an adult, DETECTIVE COMICS #471! One of the greatest Bat comics of the Bronze Age era, this book featured the creative work of artist MARSHALL ROGERS and scripter … Continue reading →

As most of my regular customers know, I have this inate fascination with the SILVER AGE, comic books published between the years of 1956 and 1970. The wonders of owning this business is that I get to experience the thrill of purchasing and selling these little bits of American publishing history on a daily basis. Don’t get me wrong; I love the entire medium very much, but it’s that step through the past that stokes my engine. I get that same sense of awe when a childhood customer walks back into our store after a two decade absence. That “little … Continue reading →

Everyone loves a success story, and there aren’t enough of them in the world of comic books. �=Here’s one for you though, and it couldn’t happen to a nicer individual! ADAM BEECHEN, former employee of AABC in the early 1990’s, has lived for the last decade and a half in LA not as a beach bum, but a full time successful writer and director�=of television and film. He was the main writer for the anime series HI HI PUFFY AMIYUMI; he has written numerous episodes of the animated BATMAN and TEEN TITANS series, and has also been a writer for … Continue reading →