comic shop Archives

Five years and one pandemic later, things are growing again, with stores in Orlando, Clermont, Kissimmee, Tampa, Lakeland, and Jacksonville, Florida. Here's Coliseum Of Comics' own history of the Florida comic shop chain, founded by Phil Boyle, 39 years ago Millenia Coliseum of Comics Millenia opened its doors on February 1st, 1983 on Orange Blossom Trail near Holden Ave[...]

Learning should be never-ending. No one knows everything. Even after a decade of owning a store, I am still learning to better the business. I recently

These are the 228 stores currently set up to distribute Bad Idea comic books in 2023 – though every store in the direct marketplace will be getting the Mark Waid/David Lapham The First Supper inside next week's Previews catalogue. The 228 Comic Shops Selling Bad Idea, Including All Forbidden Planets ARIZONA Ash Avenue Comics & Books 806 S Ash[...]

Iron Lion Cards, Comics & Collectibles of 8003 N. Academy Blvd Colorado Springs, Colorado has been the subject of a robbery and an attempted break-in.

OP Comics & Games has moved from Mendocino Avenue and Seventh Street and is now at 1901 Cleveland Ave near the Coddingtown Mall, a 9000 square feet store compared to the 5,000, with a gaming space on the second floor that can hold up to 150 players at a time with general manager Lauren McCormick in[...]

The mighty return of Things To Do In London If You Like Comics. Turns out there is lots to do, if you live in and around London. Take a look... Tuesday,

In 2015, Bleeding Cool reported on a new comic book store opening in Philadelphia, Amalgam Comics & Coffeehouse. At the time, owner Ariell R. Johnson

Ahead of the launch of Netflix's adaptation of The Sandman on the 5th of August, DC Comics is offering American comics shops a new Sandman standee,

Ten years ago, Steve Anderson of Third Eye Comics wrote for Bleeding Cool, "We have two locations in Maryland, one located in Annapolis, MD, and one

As Bleeding Cool previously reported, when comic book retailers ordered the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin hardcover by Kevin Eastman and

My store is coming up on its twelfth year in business this October. Even after all this time, I still learn and make changes in the store. I wrote about

It's a comic shop that only sells Scout Comics and has been open since May 2018 Participants in our retail variant cover program are advised that overprint issues of their cover will be sold in the shop as well as some issues given to the creative team We do not sell the retailer variants on[...]

Andre Greenidge of the Ontario comic book store Heroes World, loves his customers. But one special customer has to be Iman Vellani, who plays Ms Marvel in the new Disney+ TV series and the upcoming movie The Marvels

The comic shop had previously relocated to the nearby Beacon shopping centre, but now it will have a grand reopening of its original store on Grove Road on Saturday the 16th of July So Eastbourne is about to have two comic book shops in the same chain, as well as fellow Eastbourne comic book shop[...]

I know paper costs are always rising, but the books shouldn't feel flimsier than the free Comic Shop News mag. The Liquid Awesome: Marvel, I don't know who came up with the idea to use tissue paper for the covers of your new books, but that asshole needs to be fired ASAP This is some straight[...]

The market stall closed on February the 19th for the last time… although not before being almost blown away by last week's hurricanes. Canary Comics & Collectibles comic shop, PR from Facebook He is currently getting the comic shop Canary Comics & Collectables ready to open I do hope Alan Partridge will pop by. Bleeding Cool tries to[...]

Forbidden Planet International has opened a new comic book store in the centre of Wolverhampton, in the Wulfrun Shopping Centre, a third of a mile from

And it's a comic shop – and more Owners Alex Rae and Dimitrios Fragiskatos promise that Everyone Comics & Books will have a focus on superhero comics, Young Adult novels, children's books and independent graphic novels And it has spun out of existing store Anyone Comics in Brooklyn. From Google Maps Both owners have been working in[...]

Yesterday, when much of the USA has a national holiday, the Penguin Random House website for comic book stores decided they wanted a slice of that action

Today, the best-selling publisher of comic books in America is Scholastic. The second is Random House. But in the last half of 1972, that was suddenly

One of the earliest comic book retailers and comic historian Bob Beerbohm (author of Comic Book Store Wars) set up the Californian comic book store and

A Hero's Legacy is making a more direct appeal, with Gofund Me, saying;  Hi there, we have been a comic shop here for over 40 plus years 9 years ago our fearless leader passed away his name was Brian, it was after his death that I had decided to to open the store and name it[...]

While the last year saw DC Comics go exclusive with Lunar Distribution and Marvel Comics go exclusive with Penguin Random House, in the UK the only way

It's Killing Joke time! One of the earliest comic book retailers and comic historian Bob Beerbohm (author of Comic Book Store Wars) set up the first comic

Today is Black Friday, and I am in the country that invented it, the USA. Started as the retail resurgence to Thanksgiving Thursday, it gained traction

Sold a lot. Then, as now, certain comic books that the publisher had great faith in but the comic shop may not have, were made returnable to the Direct Market, to encourage retailers to find a ceiling of demand for the comic among their customers and maybe increase non-returnable orders for future issues after finding a[...]

One of the earliest comic book retailers and comic historian Bob Beerbohm (author of Comic Book Store Wars) set up the Californian comic book store

In the last year-and-change, Diamond Comics Distributors has gone from being the monopoly exclusive distributor of almost the entire direct market of

Over the weekend, one of the earliest comic book retailers and comic historian Bob Beerbohm took time out to remember the passing of Ann Eisner last year,

Now Diamond Comic Distributors has informed comic book stores that they are "advised that retailers can expect shipments of product on sale November 17