The worst

[Davenport]

Thanks to the provided link this misadventure has some illustrations.

 

[kav]

Sweet Fancy Moses

[Davenport]

Grab a cold drink for the road.

 

[wombat]

Anyone thirsty?

 

 

[wombat]

[EwanUK]

Looks fantastic to me

 

reminds me of a shop in Leeds that used to sell comics and dope-related paraphernalia; and in a bit that was "beaded off" in the back, second-hand porno mags

 

But plants! Maybe we've been missing a trick all along, time to combine comic shows with garden centres?

[VintageComics]

The elderly man behind the counter and the condition of the store, made me wonder whether his mother's desiccated corpse was propped up in a back room like in "Psycho."

 

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If you are in the neighborhood, it is worth sticking your head inside, if only for the WTF factor, but I wouldn't make a trip there to shop.

 

[mosconi]

Ya, reading some of those Yelp reviews

[Davenport]

Someone's large blog image, shows the 'crumbling boxes' better...

 

 

 

[yoddler]

 

Upon closer inspection...

[slym2none]

Anyone thirsty?

 

 

 

I've cleaned refrigerators with that much mold on them before. Maybe only once or twice, but yeah...

 

 

 

 

-slym

[FlyingDonut]

Someone's large blog image, shows the 'crumbling boxes' better...

 

 

 

That's awesome. Those are the exact same books that were in the front of the boxes today.

[VintageComics]

It looks like a reading and smoking room for a hippie convent.

 

[KirbyJack]

Believe it or not, this reminds me of a restaurant we used to go to.

[Gatchaman]

In 1980, when I started collecting, there was a comic store, in Tacoma, that had a lot of gold, silver, and Beetles stufr, a long with a lot of old collector books and mags, and the place looked almost like this, but 6 times larger. All of his comic books were not bagged/boarded and sat stacked on a shelf. This guy had a gold mine in his shop and was a hamburger shy of a happy meal. He would keep his door locked, unlocked it to let you in, and lock you in when you shopped. He also tried to frisk people when they left.

 

Here is a quote from the people who bought them -

 

"Swan's Magazine Mart was a longtime fixture in Tacoma, Washington. It was originally located downtown in the 1930's, but moved to a small shop on 6th Avenue where it remained for many years. You could, potentially, find ANYTHING at Swan's. Incredibly rare treasures from the 1800's were side by side with the latest D&D gaming book. Before it closed in 2007, Swan's had accumulated several million items - our best estimate is somewhere between 5 and 10 million. Most of these were inaccessible, and the owner did not really know what he had or where they were. Add to that the fact that the shop was seldom open, and you know why we are calling the items "long-lost treasures!"

 

Swan's entire inventory was bought out in 2007, and J&J Collectibles was born. We are a small group of people who love books, magazines, comics and other such items, and we get as much pleasure in looking over the inventory as our customers do when they buy our items."

 

Anybody into comics in the Tacoma area, for years, knew the owner as "Crazy Charlie".

 

I used to love going into his place and perusing through his books.

 

I later ran across the person that bought the rest of his store and even they told me that there was a lot of old lost treasure in that store.

 

From an article -

 

 

Here is a link to the people who bought their store and are selling items on eBay - eBay link

 

 

Could you just image what has already sold?

 

[VintageComics]

I know a guy who bought 3 copies of Action #1 in an old bookstore back in the 80's or 90's. Two coverless and one complete copy.

 

I think his stack of comics cost him $400.

[Gatchaman]

Wow

[Brother J]

Here's Milwaukee's own cluttered comic store. It actually doesn't look too bad in this video, I remember it being a lot more cluttered when I was there years ago:

 

[Gatchaman]

Here's Milwaukee's own cluttered comic store. It actually doesn't look too bad in this video, I remember it being a lot more cluttered when I was there years ago:

 

 

Is the owner Bill Gaines, Jerry Garcia, or Capt. Sweatpants?

[Sqeggs]

Someone's large blog image, shows the 'crumbling boxes' better...

 

 

 

Perhaps this guy once had a viable business, but age has taken its toll on him and his store.