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Travel + Leisure Magazine Profile America's 14 Finest Comic Stores
Everyone else came 15th. I promise.
But the new Travel + Leisure Magazine profiles America's thirteen best comic stores, as tourist destinations. And they are,
- Quimby's in Chicago
- Meltdown Comics, L.A
- Floating World Comics, Portland, OR
- Desert Island, Brooklyn, NY
- Big Planet Comics, Washington, D.C.
- Austin Books & Comics, TX
- Isotope, San Francisco
- Laughing Ogre Comics, Columbus, OH
- Crescent City Comics, New Orleans
- Arcane Comics, Seattle
- Heroes Aren't Hard to Find, Charlotte, NC
- Atomic Books, Baltimore
- Midtown Comics, NYC
- Cartoon Art Museum Bookstore, San Francisco
So… who else should be on the list? Can we get a Bleeding Cool vote for A Comic Shop in Orlando?
And if you're still browsing the racks, check out Men's Journal for Stan's advice.
What's the best advice you've ever received?
When I was about 12 or 13, we had this yearbook, and everybody had to get a quote from a teacher. Next to my name, the teacher wrote, "The greatest are the humblest." I don't know why she picked me to write that for, but it always stuck with me.

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