I was reading an old interview and found out how many comic shops there were in the 90s

I was digging through some old Wizard Magazine scans online, you know, just for fun. I came across an interview from 1995 with a big distributor guy. He said there were over 10,000 comic book specialty shops in North America at the peak. That number really hit me. My town only has one now, and it's a struggle. It made me think about how many fans there must have been back then, all going to their own local spots. It wasn't just a few big stores in cities, it was everywhere. I guess the crash in the late 90s really wiped out a ton of those places. Where did all those fans go? Did they just stop collecting, or move online way later? It's wild to think about a time when comics were that big in so many places.

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river_hart187d ago

The speculator boom created a lot of those stores.

ivan2116d ago

So you're saying the boom itself caused the oversupply, not the later crash?