The Golden Age 1942 — Local services in Maryville

This comic book STORE is tremendous! The selection of back issues is absolutely unreal. I am talking several different ROOMS filled with comics, along with the enormous main area. They also have a huge assortment of figures and other collectibles, and a ton of graphic novels. There is also a dollar comic ROOM. An entire room FILLED with dollar comics! This store occupies the space of a former radio station studio, so it is huge! It has one of the largest selections of comics of almost any comic book shop I have been to in my life. It certainly is much larger than any shop I have been to except Forbidden Planet, back in the OLD days. (Forbidden Planet is now tiny compared to this place!)

The other impressive aspect of this store is the selection of quality people! Yes! The owners and staff are extremely personable, helpful and thorough. I love that this a huge store but a local business and if I were to have any problems, I could COMMUNICATE directly with the owners and I know they would take care of me and do everything in their power to make things right as best they could. They are those kinds of people. You don't need to email corporate or be passive aggressive and leave a negative review online instead of speaking up DIRECTLY if you have an issue. These people are wonderful at helping and they sincerely want their customers to be happy. They have helped me so many times with special requests, putting tremendous effort into searching and retrieving specific comic issues, etc. Just wonderful people and they clearly love what they do and they love their customers. I can tell, because there are a lot of regulars and it's like friends meeting up again. It's easy to strike up a good conversation with employees and customers here.

That said, it is also wonderful to be left alone to browse through the ocean of comics and collectibles and not feel uncomfortable or pressured to buy something because some douche is hanging over me, giving me the eye. We've all been to those stores before. This is definitely a judgement free zone for comic book newbies and anyone else.

I highly recommend you check out this fantastic comic book STORE. Please allow yourself PLENTY of time to browse. Maybe consider bringing along a cooler and a sleeping bag, because you may be there a while! And also, I didn't even mention the murals! Yes! So much original art inside and out, done by local...

Nice big comic shop near my families original home town, must be pretty new because I've never seen it here before. Beautiful interior space looking pretty organized but during my visist it appeared they were doing some reorganizing. Great selection of back issues. My only real hang up was that all books were not marked with a price, and some of the prices were marked wrong, as I found out when I went to check out. But it looked like they were probably going through and marking them, but this made it hard to compare their prices to other shops or find deals. Love the custom wood boxes the books were in, much nicer than the cardboard boxes most places use. Also liked that the dividers between titles were marked from both sides. So many books! Loved that I didn't see any boxes that were off limits, all the products in the store appeared to be for sale. It can be confusing when there are items not for sale out among the rest of the stuff. Lots of graded books on display were nice to look at. Great selection of vintage toys, the GIJoe stuff was awesome. Very nice inventory of comic stuff here, thanks for having me...

I would like the store so much if not for the one glaring flaw. It’s large with a ton of back issues, but that’s the problem. Some stuff has a price tag on it but the majority of back issues do not. You would think these would be cover price in that case. No. When you take the books to the counter they look them up and give you a price they found online. It’s always above cover price. Sometimes by a dollar or two, sometimes by much, much more. And not just old stuff. A comic that came out in the last two years with a cover price of $4.99 was worth $50 according to them. Went to a different store and it was cover price (as it obviously should be). It’s very annoying. I will only buy new comics there and only because it’s so close. If I want back issues I’ll go to Knoxville where pricing is very...