Pokemon92

Thanks for the insights - and wonderfully piper posted a similar thread for California and I have appreciated comments on that thread also. I will add ... while a good show would certainly afford opportunities to see gold/silver/wall books CGC and raw ... I like the thought of going in some comic shops that still emphasize vintage books as opposed to just the modern material. Anyway - as I've never been to the Rhode Island/New England area - I really appreciate the insights others have offered and look forward to hitting a couple of these shops. Also nobody has mentioned any shops in the Washington DC area? DC has quite a big footprint reaching north to Baltimore, MD and although it is a bit of a drive - Richmond, VA to the south. Also - if people would like to add any shops that emphasize vintage material - no matter where they are nationwide - I'd like to put them on my bucket list. Thanks again for sharing.

I am going to be going through Naval ODS in Newport Rhode Island this summer. After I finish I will be stationed in Bethesda, MD before being stationed in North Carolina. Does anyone know if are there any comic shops in these aresa that would have great silver age walls - CGC comics? I would love to go in a shop that might deal in the bigger books. My dad talks about the good old days when he'd go in comic shops and they would have runs of early Spidey on the walls etc ... he was referring to some shops he went to in Cincinnati and the suburbs of Washington, DC. He talks about going in a shop as a boy near Silver Spring, MD and they had X 1-3, Spidey 1-3, Avengers 1-3 and so on. He also talks about a shop he went to in South Florida 30 years ago - and they had all sorts of golden age books - Timely's and so on. I'm not even sure comic shops exist anymore that stock or display that kind of stuff. There are not a lot of comic shops in my home area of South Georgia - but I have never seen any comic shop with vintage/CGC inventory ... they primarily just have modern stuff and maybe a few CGC silver/bronze books. Anyway - I would love to go in a shop that deals in the bigger vintage key books and am thinking maybe there is a shop like that in the New Englad area. I know stores like these in the age of internet have probably gone the way of Blockbuster/Sears/K-Mart/ and Circuit City, but I know these sorts of stores are still out there - for example A-1 comics out in California would appear to have that sort of inventory in stock and display. So if you know anything about a shop that would be offer me that sort of experience - in the Newport Rhode Island area or Washington, DC area - I would love to know about it - so I could visit. I see there are many shops in New England, but I am looking for the silver/golden age experience. Thanks for any replies. PS I posted this in general - but here on the Silver Board - if you know of some shops like this anywhere in the country - chime in - because I would like to put visiting them on my bucket list, so I could perhaps visit them one day.

I am going to be going through Naval ODS in Newport Rhode Island this summer. After I finish I will be stationed in Bethesda, MD before being stationed in North Carolina. Does anyone know if are there any comic shops in these aresa that would have great silver age walls - CGC comics? I would love to go in a shop that might deal in the bigger books. My dad talks about the good old days when he'd go in comic shops and they would have runs of early Spidey on the walls etc ... he was referring to some shops he went to in Cincinnati and the suburbs of Washington, DC. He talks about going in a shop as a boy near Silver Spring, MD and they had X 1-3, Spidey 1-3, Avengers 1-3 and so on. He also talks about a shop he went to in South Florida 30 years ago - and they had all sorts of golden age books - Timely's and so on. I'm not even sure comic shops exist anymore that stock or display that kind of stuff. There are not a lot of comic shops in my home area of South Georgia - but I have never seen any comic shop with vintage/CGC inventory ... they primarily just have modern stuff and maybe a few CGC silver/bronze books. Anyway - I would love to go in a shop that deals in the bigger vintage key books and am thinking maybe there is a shop like that in the New Englad area. I know stores like these in the age of internet have probably gone the way of Blockbuster/Sears/K-Mart/ and Circuit City, but I know these sorts of stores are still out there - for example A-1 comics out in California would appear to have that sort of inventory in stock and display. So if you know anything about a shop that would be offer me that sort of experience - in the Newport Rhode Island area or Washington, DC area - I would love to know about it - so I could visit. I see there are many shops in New England, but I am looking for the silver/golden age experience. Thanks for any replies.

As this is a four day show - will all the comic dealers be there and set up on Thursday?