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Comic shop : the retail mavericks who gave us a new geek culture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gearino, Dan, 1975- (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Comic-book stores > United States.
Comic-book stores > Canada.
Selling > Comic books, strips, etc. > United States.
Selling > Comic books, strips, etc. > Canada.
Comic books, strips, etc. > United States > Marketing.
Comic books, strips, etc. > Canada > Marketing.
Booksellers and bookselling > United States > Biography.
Booksellers and bookselling > Canada > Biography.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. The cockroaches of pop culture
  • Magical powers
  • This bold guy (1968/73)
  • Nonreturnable (1973/80)
  • An Ogre's story
  • Secret Convergence
  • The Valkyries
  • Heyday (1980/84)
  • Turtles, mice, and fish (1984/88)
  • Collectors vs. readers
  • Raina's world
  • Re-rebirth
  • Deathmate (1988/94)
  • The mailman (1994/2016)
  • The moral of the story
  • Part 2. Notable comic shops of the United States and Canada
  • "All of the above" stores
  • Comics galleries
  • Old school
  • Pop culture stores
  • Comics and ...
  • Best of the best
  • List of notable comic shops of the United States and Canada.