Comic Showcase, London 1986 0

[yakface]

Best bet is librairie Déesse .

Best selection for silver age to modern (and Fred the owner is a member of this forum too) .

There's others shops but mostly with modern stuff .

 

 

 

 

[thehumantorch]

Best bet is librairie Déesse .

Best selection for silver age to modern (and Fred the owner is a member of this forum too) .

There's others shops but mostly with modern stuff .

 

 

 

 

I met Fred at SDCC. A very interesting guy. I'm sure his store would be worth a visit.

[Comicopolis]

Best bet is librairie Déesse .

Best selection for silver age to modern (and Fred the owner is a member of this forum too) .

There's others shops but mostly with modern stuff .

 

 

 

 

I met Fred at SDCC. A very interesting guy. I'm sure his store would be worth a visit.

 

All the times I've been to Paris and never seen that shop

[thehumantorch]

Best bet is librairie Déesse .

Best selection for silver age to modern (and Fred the owner is a member of this forum too) .

There's others shops but mostly with modern stuff .

 

 

 

 

I met Fred at SDCC. A very interesting guy. I'm sure his store would be worth a visit.

 

All the times I've been to Paris and never seen that shop

 

Fred is an OA collector and I suspect he has a lovely collection.

[EwanUK]

Here's some more pics recalling the Golden Age of UK comic shops....

 

1985 "Twilight Zone" advert with a few bargains!

 

 

DC 50th with Moore & Gibbons

 

 

Stan Lee

 

 

Rock's Off - this was a little known, but fantastic shop outside Bradford. Their stock was really obscure - anyone else remember?

 

 

 

[EwanUK]

 

Odyssey 7 in Manchester - one of the very first comic shops I went to as a 13 year old (before the Leeds store opened).

 

 

Exeter Comic Mart - note rare Tharg appearance!

 

 

Lou's Stall

 

 

Forever People

 

 

 

[EwanUK]

Eagle Awards 1978 - X-Men very popular! No sign of Mr. Moore yet..

 

 

Want to participate in Comics Fandom?

 

 

Dark They Were And Golden Eyed - I'm too young to have seen it but I understand this was the pre-runner for the original Forbidden Planet?

 

 

Comicon 1977 - Bolland Batman

 

 

Titan list

 

 

 

 

 

[Flaming_Telepath]

Cool set of photos!

 

Really gets the old memory dusted off.

 

Now, for a bonus 10 points, find some photos of Alan Austin's old fanzines, BEM and the suchlike.

[Comicopolis]

[He11blazer]

This thread really takes me back! Nice stuff, thanks for sharing.

[Ken Aldred]

Great to see those old ads and fanzine pages again.

 

I started going to the Piccadilly Plaza marts here in Manchester from winter 1979 onwards, so if the London events posted in the thread are the earliest ones held regularly in the UK then I missed the start of things only by a couple of years or so.

 

Nick, I used to read BEM, but unfortunately I don't have any now for you to take a look at.

[goldust40]

I remember most of those old ads, not to mention the old locations for the Comicbook Marketplace (ah, memories).

 

I recall when Paul Hudson opened up Showcase at its new location...the ad picture showed all those great books on the wall, but when I got there a day or so later they were all gone (they were all from Paul's personal collection, as it turned out). Great shop though, and a reminder of a time when you could afford to buy most of a publisher's product each week.

[nmtg9]

Nice potos. Makes me nostalgic for collecting in the UK in the 80's.

 

The fanzine Speakeasy had lots of coolarticles and adverts (from Stateside comics) - anyone got any of these?

[Flaming_Telepath]

Great to see those old ads and fanzine pages again.

 

I started going to the Piccadilly Plaza marts here in Manchester from winter 1979 onwards, so if the London events posted in the thread are the earliest ones held regularly in the UK then I missed the start of things only by a couple of years or so.

 

Nick, I used to read BEM, but unfortunately I don't have any now for you to take a look at.

 

My first show was the Plaza in '76, Ken. Great days!

[Dale Roberts]

awesome pics

[Get Marwood & I]

On 10/25/2009 at 10:42 AM, EwanUK said:

Eagle Awards 1978 - X-Men very popular! No sign of Mr. Moore yet..

 

 

Want to participate in Comics Fandom?

 

 

Dark They Were And Golden Eyed - I'm too young to have seen it but I understand this was the pre-runner for the original Forbidden Planet?

 

 

Comicon 1977 - Bolland Batman

 

 

Titan list

 

 

 

 

 

Wish Ewan was still on the boards. 

[Whizzer]

Wow. Thanks for bumping this as I hadn't seen the original posts.  The pics in the OP sent a shiver down my spine. I can remember seeing a Comic Showcase ad in a Marvel UK book in the early 80's and not quite believing that such a thing as a shop selling only comics could possibly exist. I begged my mum to take me into London so I could go there. Eventually she relented and come the school holidays she took myself and my best friend into town. I had managed to scrape together the princely sum of £20 (a fortune to me then). Mum dropped us at the door, said she was going for a coffee over the road and would be back in half an hour or so.  I can still remember the sensory overload as I walked in; the smell of old paper, the thousands of brightly coloured covers staring out at me - I was literally in heaven.

But what to buy? my fortune now seemed woefully inadequate as I wanted, no needed everything in the shop.  Unfortunately, I was seduced by the racks of recent imports as I had only ever obtained new comics from poorly stocked newsagent spinner racks or once or twice by mail order from companies such as Dangerous Visions, (great fun trying to get my dad to write a cheque made out in that name as I handed by pocket money over to him!).  From memory I bought a huge stack of newly released Marvels. I did buy a Fantasy Masterpieces because it looked so ancient!

Of course the half hour was over all too soon and we were off. I do remember there being an old man with a market traders cart around the corner from the shop which was half covered by old comics and half covered by soft porn mags (my pubescent mind literally exploded!) from whom I bought a Hulk Treasury edition for a few pence.

A wonderful memory and I still have the Comic Showcase carrier bag with the Joker on it somewhere. Happy days... 

  

[Get Marwood & I]

2 minutes ago, Whizzer said:

A wonderful memory and I still have the Comic Showcase carrier bag with the Joker on it somewhere. Happy days... 

Great story Whizzer 

Where's Chips?

[Whizzer]

21 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Great story Whizzer 

Where's Chips?

Ha! My boardname is a joint homage to Marvel's speedster and that venerable British comic.