In the halcyon days of the Nineteen Eighties and 90s, it was widespread to search out rows and rows of back-issue bins at native comedian e-book shops. But that is changing into extra of a rarity as shops commit an ever-increasing quantity of ground house to Warhammer, Funko Pops, and motion figures. It’s not unusual now to enter a retailer with zero bins to dive into.
The Joseph Koch Comics Warehouse is the antithesis of that concept. It’s a sprawling retailer within the Sunset Park part of Brooklyn, NY. It’s a labyrinthine maze of lengthy containers, used books, and carded and free motion figures. It’s the place collections go to be reborn into the arms of these devoted comedian e-book collectors affected person sufficient to discover the seemingly countless rows and cabinets filled with comics. There are few locations left like Koch, however have you ever really bin-dived when you’ve by no means bin-dived at Koch? Unfortunately, when you haven’t, you don’t have lengthy. Those days are numbered. The Koch Comics Warehouse is closing.
Copra creator Michel Fiffe broke the information on his Patreon. The indie comics artist traveled downstate to get not less than another day of bin diving in Koch’s, bragging in regards to the stack of backstock Legion of Superheroes, The Comics Journal, and Amazing Heroes he walked away with.
Fiffe spoke with the shop’s proprietor and namesake, Joseph Koch, who confirmed the information. According to Koch, the sprawling retailer’s constructing might be transformed to artist studios. For now, he’s on a month-to-month lease, and the opposite shoe can drop at any time.
If you’ve by no means been to the Koch Comics Warehouse, it is undoubtedly an expertise to soak up earlier than the fateful day once they shut their doorways for good. It is the one comedian e-book retailer I ever shopped in that required a tutorial and a tour earlier than starting my hunt. I’ve been to comedian e-book conventions with much less comics than the Koch Comics Warehouse. The retailer is positioned at 206 41 St, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Formerly open solely on weekends or by appointment, the shop is now open day by day till they shut, in line with Fiffe. But nonetheless, perhaps name forward to make sure (718) 768-8571. Bring a listing. They’ll enable you to discover what you’re in search of, and also you’ll in all probability discover much more than you deliberate on while you walked by way of the doorways.
Be certain to remark beneath along with your haul while you go!
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