Comments on: Do You Remember The First Time?

By: wearing caring for linen14

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By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:03:06 +0000

I had picked up comics here or there via spinner racks at the grocery stor/7-Eleven. It wasn’t until I met another kid who read comics that he explained to me that there were entire stores devoted to comics. We went one day after school. It was magic. There was a huge display for Iron Man #200 (one of the few titles I recognized). I had never seen so many titles. It was overwhelming. And back issues!!!! You mean I could find out what had happened…last month?!?!?!

And don’t get me started abut the first time I went to a comic book convention!

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:57:31 +0000

Odyssey 7, in Manchester’s University Precinct on Oxford Street. I remember going in when I was 11 and literally shaking I was that excited by the long central row of comics and the back issue bins.

I think that closed years ago, possibly when Manchester’s other Odyssey 7 in the Corn Exchange closed after the bombing in 1996.

By: Terence

Terence — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:44:26 +0000

My first comic shop was Dark They Were And Golden Eyed in St.Anne’s Court, Soho, London. It was a bit of a mess, but I was transfixed. That was, erm, 1975? 1977?

By: Darren Ellis

Darren Ellis — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:35:30 +0000

My first comic book shop was a convenience store that sold comics. Early on in the days of direct sales, a buddy of mine and I convinced the owner to start ordering directly in 1982. Over the course of a few weeks and months, he developed a catalog of back issues. Because comics were not the main focus of this store, ironically named Super Sack even before we convinced the owner to start carrying so many comics, he offered the older stock to us for very cheap, every 6 months or so. This was my main shop for about 5 years or more.

By: Simon DelMonte

Simon DelMonte — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:08:46 +0000

My first comic shop was a dinky little used bookstore in Jackson Heights, Queens. They used to have the week’s new comics in two long boxes and I had to thumb through them to find the handful of books I was buying. I shopped there until my senior year of high school, when I made my first trip to Forbidden Planet’s long-since-gone shop on the Upper East Side. It was like entering another world. Granted, they were primarily (then as now) an SF book and memorabilia store. But downstairs were all these comics, lined up on racks and in boxes.

All at once, everything changed. And never changed back.