The rise of the suburban comic store

 

Gary Colabuono, courtesy Colabuono

Comic book stores may be ubiquitous now, but once upon a time, they were few and far between, and usually deep in major urban downtowns.

But by the 1980s, entrepreneurs such as Gary Colabuono expanded into the suburbs, and the business grew from 900 or so stores to 3000 or more. Read all about the rise of the suburbs over at ICV2.

Jim McLauchlin