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Saturday November 10th

We will be holding one of our famous Auctions on November 10th at noon.

Plus we will be holding a Magic the Gathering Modern tournament with no entry fee.

A box of Return to Ravnica to the winner.

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Side note: I sought, and could not find, photos of Victory Thrift to use in my book. Even Bell himself did not have accessible photos. The ones that do exist, such as here, were not available in a form I could get permission to use. If anyone has photos of this store or its owner, let me know.

Dealers such as Bell are an important aspect of the early history of comics retail, and his time as a shop owner and mail-order dealer was part of the dynamic New York scene that gave us Phil Seuling, Hanley and many others who shaped the business.

To confirm this, I turned to some experts: Jim Buser, Michelle Nolan, Bud Plant and Dick Swan. They were friends in the San Jose area in the late-1960s and would go on to be pioneers of comics retail. They were some of the people behind two early comic shops, Seven Sons Comic Shop in 1968, then Comic World in 1969.

I also reached out to a few other people who might have answers. This included Robert Beerbohm, who co-founded Comics & Comix in the Bay Area with Plant and John Barrett, and has written about comics retail history, and Bill Schelly, the Eisner Award-winning author of books about comics history.

The case for it: Victory Thrift felt like a comic shop in a way that would be familiar to a current reader, according to Jim Hanley, who shopped at the store as a kid and would go on to become a retailer himself.

Cherokee Book Shop, Hollywood, California, circa 1960. This Hollywood Boulevard store was a wonderland of books, comics and other printed material. Its comic book selection grew over the years, with that part of the store looking a lot like a comic shop. Early comics fans, especially those from California, have warm memories of this place, which helped to inspire other businesses that had more of a focus on comics.

Located in Berlin, Germany, we are Europe's leading online store dedicated exclusively to English-language comics and manga, with an emphasis on premium collected editions. Our trio of commitments: maintaining an expansive in-stock inventory, offering competitive prices, and delivering top-notch customer service.

I came across a Halloween sale flyer from an old comic shop in Toronto called Unknown Worlds, circa late 1980s/early 1990s, and it triggered some great old memories. It was an amazing store and even to this day I can remember walking through the front door and taking in the strong smell of pulp that filled the air.

Mine mostly too but mixed in a little bit of Queens Comics in the beaches area and being from Scarborough...Fantasm Comics at Markham Rd. and Eglinton was where I picked up my first real back issues...X-Men #27 and #29.

My 'go to' store was Shooting Star Comics - two locations on Yonge St. One at Young and Finch area in North York and one up in Richmond Hill north of Major Mackenzie. That was my primary store in the late 80's.

Does anyone here remember stories of a comic shop in Canada where the owner of a store offered happy ending massages from women in his stock room? I know it sounds ridiculous, but a couple of collectors mentioned it to me, and I even vaguely remember a thread here that mentioned it. If not, sorry!

Yes, I remember Unknown Worlds...would always stop by the shop after grabbing some Greek Food on the Danforth with the family. For those who aren't familiar with the area, the store was located in the heart of Toronto's Greek Town.

Roy, there was a store on Yonge St, slightly North of Eglinton...it was the 2nd Silver Snail location and was in operation for several years, but less than a decade. Not certain if that's the store you're referring to.

Shooting Star...good ol' Jimmy was the owner. After he closed both stores, he moved even further North in Markham and opened another store called Kaos Comics. Very small storefront...if you blink, you'll miss it.

I seem to remember that the store I was at was on Keewatin between Yonge and Mt. Pleasant. My grandparents dropped me off there one Sat afternoon. I was probably 14 and it blew my mind to see Silver Age comics on the wall.

I used to work at VW Richmond Hill back in 1989 and would walk down to his Richmond Hill store every Friday with a fresh paycheck. A few years ago I somehow randomly found his latest store was in Richmond Hill and that he was still in business, just north of his old location from the 1980's in a strip mall.

We recognized each other after not seeing each other for exactly 30 years. It was surreal and he hadn't changed a bit. I used to be one of his best customers for a while and it was nice to see them. Not sure if he is still there.

What we found on that first visit was our version of heaven. We scooped up books off the big table for several weeks, until one evening Jim Guilliams or Ben Joines-Mundy, the two full-timers, cornered us and recommended we open a pull list, a list of books they could set aside for us. We took to making the drive across town every week. Sometimes, we would stick around the counter to chat with Guilliams or Joines-Mundy or one of the part-timers about the latest Superman or Criminal or Hawkeye. After a handful of visits, they knew our names and we knew theirs.

I put on my own mask in the car and walked in, half expecting things to be different. Everything was different now. Indeed, for safety reasons Delia had stayed home. There was a big plastic barrier in front of the cash register. But Joines-Mundy was there behind the counter, like he always is.

Seeing them, I thought: How many times have I stood here? How many times had I been excited to read stories like these? I picked them up, paged through to glimpse the colorful illustrations, held their weight. They were small, very ordinary things. But they made me feel normal for the first time in months.

Over time, the staff has gotten to know the customers too, and often make recommendations about books they might want to read. John Saris, a longtime customer who has been reading comics since the 1960s, collects mainstream comics such as Batman, but also books featuring Warner Brothers characters and harder-to-find Dell Comics magazines from the pulp era.

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