When I was a kid we didn't have comic shops. We bought our comics on a spinner rack at the corner drugstore, which we had to walk six miles through the snow to get to...and we liked it.
Same for me. I never saw a comic book store until I was 16 in 1979. I saw an ad during an
Outer Limits episode for a comic book store called Starship Enterprises in Fort Lauderdale, FL, run by two guys named Kurt and Vince.
Kurt later split the partnership and opened Star Comics on Stirling Road in Hollywood. He later closed his shop in 1985 to become the marketing director for First Comics in Chicago.
It was in Kurt's store that I completed my back-issue runs of Kirby's 70's DC titles, then all Neal Adams' DC stuff, then all DC's mystery titles, before moving on to other stuff.
