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Snootch

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    Earliest comic shops?

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    On 6/29/2012 at 11:55 AM, Hepcat said:

     

    That would have been Comics Unlimited. They also carried gum cards and were responsible for my diversification from just comic collecting to collecting cards as well in 1980. It's where I bought my "Funny Valentine", "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" and "Man from U.N.C.L.E." card sets. By the late eighties Comics Unlimited would move to a bigger store on the southwest corner of Eglinton Ave. and Bathurst St. and rename itself Comics Unlimited/Sports Connection. When the son Daniel took over in the early nineties, he dropped the comics. By the late nineties Sports Connection moved north to a smaller location in Vaughan where it struggled along for a few more years before closing down about ten years ago.

    I remember Comics Unlimited on Keewatin as I used to stop there almost everyday on my way home from school.

    The owners were Ray and Donna and they were wonderful people.

    Lost touch with them in the late eighties .. always wondered what happened to them though.