It has a new location and a new owner, Alan, (he probably took over the store a decade or more ago), who has only improved the store. I can still smell the the must and dust from all those old comics, magazines and paperbacks in my mind today. The store's air conditioner was right above the door and you had to dodge a cold drip of water to get in. In college at the University of Arkansas, I bought from Rock Bottom, a used bookstore that carried comics all the way back in the 1970s in Fayetteville Arkansas on Dickson Street, the college's party street. But, the only people in the Memphis comics community who didn't know Ron was opening a store were the two owners of Memphis Comics. If the two owners of Memphis Comics weren't such money grubbers who took advantage of whomever they could, the story wouldn't have been as funny. One day he's working at Memphis Comics, the next day he's running his own shop.
The owner, Ron, worked at Memphis Comics and opened a store up behind their backs. The two guys that owned it went from wearing tye dyes to Oxford-cloth shirts.īut for the last 20 years or so Comics and Collectibles on Poplar has been THE place to buy comics in Memphis. Down came the Playboy mags and Zappa on the Crappa posters that lined the back room's walls and it was replaced with even more comics and promotional material. It was weird when I first started going there it was really kind of a hippie hangout, but by 1982-83, it began to become yuppiefied. He painted the Mighty Mouse figure on the store's window.I'm pretty sure the store was originally a head shop, but the two guys who owned it made more money ripping folks off buying and selling old comics and records.
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What was cool is that every now and then the professional wrestler Jerry Lawler would be there. Safeway and Wal-Greens is where I bought my comics regularly in the 1970s through about 1984 when I finally became old enough to drive.Īt that point, me and a buddy would haul tail after football practice on Thursdays across Mississippi River to Memphis Comics and Records on Highland Ave.
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