Premium Comic Book Day

We’ve been asked at a major “comic convention” in 2017, why we didn’t bring all our back issues for sale there.

The answer was simple. If we took every single stall at the convention, we would not have enough room to display all our books.

Alternate Worlds has over half a million back issues available from the early 1900’s onwards. These not only include US comics, but also British and Australian publications (including Phantom). Although everything is cataloged and filed, we obviously can’t re-alphabetize and index well over 2000 comic boxes, every time we get “new” back issues. This has meant that it has been awkward to let customers see may comic runs. We have been working on this problem and have pulled selected premium comics (Golden age, Silver age, key issue, popular titles, etc), from our inventory to create an easily accessible  premium stock inventory.

Twice per Year (usually on the on the 3rd-5th Saturday of the month), we will set up a back issue convention style stall in our store, where all these books will be on display and available for hands on examination and purchase. (All these items are available through our online store, but it is always nicer to see the actual item).

You can always ask to see any single book we have in stock at any convenient time, but the Comic Access Days are the only time you can see this large range on display!

We have dedicated sections for:

New sections added for:

UK Digests