Neal Damiano
@NealD · 3:36
What was your favorite comic book & novelty shop as a kid? What fond memories do you have there?
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And I wanted to know what your neighborhood comic book and novelty shop was in your neighborhood that you frequented, and it brought you a lot of happiness
Lee Casey
@Augustabrewtalk · 2:10
When your dad got to take it to a quick shop, you might get a soda in a glass bottle or whatever. You might get a comic book. Or if we went to buy low grocery store, your mom might buy a comic book. But the big things back then, Sergeant Rock and The Unknown soldier
But since it's moved, I really feel like it's lost a lot of its sort of heart and soul, if you will just a great place to be in growing up. One that really sparked your curious mind, I guess, and really sort of paved other way for my interests in superheroes, horror films, Sci-Fi films. They just really sort of dabbled in everything. So that has to be my I pick it's
Neal Damiano
@NealD · 1:02
It's probably a little bit before my time, but it sounds pretty cool because I like GI Joe growing up, and I like the Two Fisted Tales from the EC Comics series. So I do like wartime comics, too. But yeah, I was talking about my favorite comic book shop. If you listen to my post and how cool the place it was. But favorite comic books could be a whole other post. A whole other swell. Why not? But I got quite a few
Neal Damiano
@NealD · 1:48
But the Times kids stopped going to those kinds of places and want to just sit in their house and stream and go on their phones and stuff, you know how that is. But you don't see many places like that too much anymore. But that place in Universal Wax, pretty cool. I would love to have checked it out
Jeffrey Prete
@JeffP · 4:21
It was just one of those cool little specialty shops out of the guy's house. But it was like the whole bottom floor of his house. It's weird. It was like part of his garage. And then he built on it's. Hard to explain. But I remember I was heartbroken when he closed because I was going there up until right when he closed. And I don't know what he did with all this stuff and probably auctioned it off or something
Jeffrey Prete
@JeffP · 0:23
Correction. It was Bobby's Umpire Empire. I'm sorry, Bobby's Empire. I'm not sure why I got Enterprise. It's probably because of Baysworth, but no, it was Bobby's, Bobby's Empire. Because of, you know, it was Bay, Short Enterprises, and Bobby's Empire just wanted to make that clear. Alright. Thanks
Neal Damiano
@NealD · 2:25
And I don't know what year it actually closed down, but if you go by there, yeah, it's like some kind of real estate property now, but I guess the land there is called Bay there. So I guess that's why it was called Bayshore Enterprises. But Mr. Finer gotta long gone by now. But God rest the guy, man. He had a cool place for kids to hang out at
Jeffrey Prete
@JeffP · 3:33
I didn't even really like superheroes. So I used to get all my comics there because he had that one box of not Marvel and not DC, but like, all the other stuff, which is what I always liked. But Besides that, yeah, man, the garbages. And that's what I used to call them the Garbage. Me and my friend Jim used to go there and Jim, and then we would always get our garbage there
Neal Damiano
@NealD · 2:04
The archive solid books with the vivid color pictures of the six first issues of Tales from the Crypt and the six first issues of Volta. I got other for really cheap. I got the Volta at the archive for, like, $25. But when these books came out there collector's items. They retailed at $100. And the Tales from the Crypt one I got from the Weirdo Wonderland place over there. The guy sold it to me for, like, $20
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