Re: Lost Comic Shops of Glasgow.
Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 7:21 pm
I had the whole set at one point - the only comic books I've ever owned, come to that - but they disappeared in transit somewhere.
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dexter wrote:Hi,
I'm a complete newbie first timer on this site. Does anyone remember a comic book shop on the Paisley Road near the toll in the late sixties?. It was called "Macs comics" I think, and it was demolished around 1968 or '69 along with the rest of the shops in that wee stretch of road, to make way for work being done on the Kingston bridge, or so I was told!! Harry Ramsdens was later built on the site. I'm a big comic book fan and I have fond memories of that shop.
PaulK wrote:dexter wrote:Hi,
I'm a complete newbie first timer on this site. Does anyone remember a comic book shop on the Paisley Road near the toll in the late sixties?. It was called "Macs comics" I think, and it was demolished around 1968 or '69 along with the rest of the shops in that wee stretch of road, to make way for work being done on the Kingston bridge, or so I was told!! Harry Ramsdens was later built on the site. I'm a big comic book fan and I have fond memories of that shop.
I used to go to that shop in the late sixties. It was opposite (I think) the Kingston halls, then a library, now a Talbot centre. I also used to go to the shop in Govan Road just down from the cross. One of these shops would stamp their comics and you would get an extra penny of two when you traded them back in. My family is so fed up with my story of my lost Marvel collection that would be worth thousands now if only my parents hadn't lost it when moving house.
banjo wrote:not the view for me,i still have the first thirty issues.i think only a thousand copies were printed f the first few issues.
dexter wrote:Another in Allison St and the best of the lot, "Arthurs books and comics" in DeCourceys arcade
dazzababes wrote:I also remember short-lived comic shops on High Street, numerous stalls in the Barras.
Goliath wrote:And there was also Stateside in the basement of the old Virgin shop in Union Street where I used to buy reprints of old EC stuff, I'm pretty sure this was about the same time too, 1994ish
This was a great place to get cheap american comics until the wee woman got hold of a comics price guide book, then her prices sky-rocketed!