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Jabberwookie private msg quote post Address this user | |
| Hey, everyone! I’m traveling from DFW to Wichita, KS at the end of March. Does anyone have any recommendations of good comic shops to check out along the way? Thanks in advance! |
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| Darkseid would probably know. I think that’s his neck of the woods. | ||
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| Heroes in Stillwater Ok, and New World in Okc Ok. | ||
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| If you want to visit what is arguably the oldest comic book shop in the country, continually running, I want to say it opened in '76, check out Comic Empire, in Tulsa. I know Mike just sold it to a regular, I want to say 4-6 months ago, but still a great place to purchase comics. Impulse Creations has their brick and mortar store in Tulsa as well. There are Mammoth, Shadow Mountain, and World of Comics. I have not been to them in years so I can not be vouch for them. It has always surprised me how many comic stores are in a city the size of Tulsa, and can survive. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Tolen I used to live in Tulsa and have done business with Comic Empire (buying). In 2008 I needed a few extra $$$ because I was moving to Dallas. I brought two books to Mike/Comic Empire to sell.... Amazing Spider-Man #3 / CGC 4.5 / 1st Doctor Octopus Amazing Spider-Man #11 / CGC 3.5 / 2nd Doctor Octopus Mike refused to buy them unless I personally cracked them out of their slabs (in his presence) so he could grade them, and then he would offer me a price. It became acutely transparent he was going to lowball me. I walked out and sold the books to another dealer with no complications. Mike told me that he used to work for Buddy,... MCS/Lonestar Hopefully the new owner of CE has a bit more common sense. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Pre_Coder @Pre_Coder If you had taken the bait and cracked them he would have had significant negotiating leverage over you. It would have made you look desperate. I took 20 books recently to my LCS, the books are listed in our MCS thread. It was weird. I let him take them home to grade and value them. When I checked back a couple days later, he had forgotten to take his Overstreet Price Guide with him. I told him there were more current options than Overstreet available for valuing books, and that Overstreet values became dated immediately. He insisted he would only use Overstreet. The warning signs were all there. A week later I finally got my books back home and sent them Raw to MCS where most of them have sold...and the sales amount so far is more than 3X the store credit that the LCS offered me. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by EbayMafia Oh, of course. I did semi-need the money, but I wasn't desperate, and I still made the transition. I simply told him I'll take the books elsewhere and sell them. And he's like,.. okay. His arrogance overruled logic! |
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Donnied private msg quote post Address this user | |
| @Tolen - This might be an interesting thread to start. Clint's Comics in Kansas City, MO has been open since 1967! Anybody know of an older one? | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by Donnied That would be a good thread!  There are definitely stores that have been operating continuously since the 60s/early 70s. |
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| When my friend was in the Air Force, he travelled around a lot. He made a stop in Wichita and liked Prairie Dog Comics. Bought a few slabs from them. This was about 5 years ago. | ||
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| In wichita Kansas the only real comic book store to speak of is owned by Marc Brown and is in fact as Dudley stated, called Prairie Dog Comics......it has moved from one location to another and closed its east store but its the same store that I bought most of my original collection from back in the mid and late eighties. the owner lets others handle the store often while he is out, and what not, but the he does have alot of books and has been at it a long time. I get all my new books from there, via a friend who picks them up for me. If you plan to visit the store, message me and get my real name....should knock a few bucks off your final total if you mention it given the number of his kids I likely put through college over the years off my collecting spending | ||
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| I live in Choctaw, OK a suburb of Oklahoma City. All Star Comics 12325 N May Ave, Ste 113, Oklahoma City, OK and Deadlift Collectibles 328 S Kelly Ave Edmond, OK Are couple of great shops for keys and back issues. |
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| Thanks, everyone! I'll have to try and hit a few of these on the way @Darkseid_of_town I'll be up there for a couple of days for a bowling tournament, I'll shoot you a message and if you would like, we could meet at the shop. It would be nice to meet a fellow boardie! |
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| Deadlift Collectibles for sure. If you go to New World make sure you got to the location off of 63rd street. There's apparently another one with the same name that caters more to tabletop gaming. It's on 29th street. | ||
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| I vouch for Praire Dog comics. I have family in Wichita and I have visited their store on the West side. Great people | ||
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