• Post by Soo,  San Diego

    Southern California Comics

    It was long ago but I still remember that unique scent of comics.  Boxed up sitting in plastic bags the scent when you first step into a comic book shop is inescapable.  House of Comics on Broadway was the first comic book shop I visited.  My mom would get her hair done a few businesses away while I wandered down the rows of cardboard boxes filled with comics.  Comic Kingdom on University Av was the next shop I visited.  I found it in a ad in a comic book.  I could bike there and it was bigger.  Golden State Comics off of Adams Av was next.  It was the closest…