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Comic books. Curbed Seattle has described Golden Age Collectables as "Seattle's longest-running comic book shop" and "a popular tourist-photo spot because of a convenient Pike Place Market location and a selfie-ready Batman statue outside". [1] Thrillist has called the shop as "a hodgepodge of nerdy/kitschy knick knacks, comic books and bric-a ...
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Metropolis Collectibles, Inc is a rare comic book dealer of vintage American comics, primarily known for its large collection of comic books originally published in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. The company is located on Broadway in New York City, and the comic book showroom allows viewings by appointment only.
Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) is an annual promotional effort by the North American comic book industry to attract new readers to independent comic book stores. It usually takes place on the first Saturday of May and has historically been cross-promoted with the release of a superhero film .
FantaCo Enterprises is an American comic book store and publishing company founded and created by Thomas Skulan and based in Albany, New York.As a publisher, FantaCo was known for its idiosyncratic line-up of mostly black-and-white titles, including the humorous Hembeck Series and the horror title Gore Shriek.
Fat Jack's Comicrypt or Fat Jack's is a comic book store with locations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Oaklyn, New Jersey. The Philadelphia store, located at 2006 Sansom Street, was founded by Mike Ferraro in 1976. It is the oldest comic book store in Philadelphia and one of the ten oldest comic book stores in the United States. [1] [2] [3]
In December of 1977, Rozanski purchased the Edgar Church Collection, the largest and highest-quality Golden Age comics collection ever discovered. [4] The cache had been preserved due to the unvarying 60-degree temperature and minimal humidity, and consisted of 16,000 comic books dating from 1937 to 1955, including the first Superman comic and the first Marvel comic.
With the permission of EC Comics publisher Bill Gaines, he co-founded (with Bob Barrett and Roger Hill) [5] a noted EC Comics fanzine "Squa Tront," (1967 - 1983). [4] In 1991, Weist curated and organized the first major comic book and comic art auction at Sotheby's. [7] [8] [5] Weist died from multiple myeloma cancer in 2011. [4] [9]