News & Promos

July 4th SALE!

Come celebrate our 30th Annual 4th of July Sale! Monday, July 4th from 11 AM to 5 PM! 25% off our entire inventory!* Special Bonus – Buy 100 comics from the Discount Comic Room and Cover Price Racks for$50.00 or 200 comics from the Discount Comic Room and Cover Price Racks for $75.00. * Not valid with any other discounts, bucks, coupons, groupons, pre-orders, special orders, layaway or already discounted merchandise. Continue reading

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DC COMICS RELAUNCHES ALL TITLES!

DC Comics is relaunching their entire comic line this September! All comics are going back to #1 and starting with new origins, creative teams and story lines. Following is a list of all the comics and their creative teams. If you are an All About Subscriber you will automatically get the #1 issue if you are already signed up for that title. Not a subscriber? Now might just be the time to sign up for our subscription service so you don’t miss out on any of these issues. Sign up HERE. We are offering a SPECIAL SOLICITATION DISCOUNT (20% off) … Continue reading

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It Came From the Back Room #24

Standard recap: I’m slowly going through AABC’s one-million-plus back-issue room, restocking the boxes on the sales floor and pulling stuff to sell as discount/overstock/special items. I’m going through the alphabet backwards (don’t ask), and at my speed, this amounts to a two-year project. This week, we’re on the letter “H”: specifically, Marvel’s Green Goliath: The Incredible Hulk The Hulk, a Stan Lee/Jack Kirby riff on the Jekyll and Hyde archetype, is one of the earliest Silver Age Marvel characters, first appearing in his own series in the May 1962-dated Hulk #1. In this earliest incarnation, Bruce Banner’s monstrous alter-ego is … Continue reading

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25% off ONLINE shop!

Have you checked out our online shop lately?  Purchase anything from the shop between now and  Wed. June 8th, at midnight and get 25% off your total order.  Just use PROMO code JUNESPECIAL and pay online with Paypal. Continue reading

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It Came From the Back Room #23

Standard recap: I’m slowly going through AABC’s one-million-plus back-issue room, restocking the boxes on the sales floor and pulling stuff to sell as discount/overstock/special items. I’m going through the alphabet backwards (don’t ask), and at my speed, this amounts to a two-year project. This week, we’re doing miscellaneous Marvel and DC “I” books, and, as always, discount copies are available on the rack near my corner by the west end of the store: Identity Crisis This was one of DC’s first attempts to make its mainstream superhero comics more “adult,” almost seven years ago now, and they got a lot … Continue reading

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