Where should I buy comic books?

Where should I buy comic books?

Mark Zaid (Owner of Esquire Comics) gives expert video advice on: Are local comic book dealers more trustworthy than Internet dealers?; What are the pros and cons of buying a comic book collection?; What are the pros and cons of buying comic books individually? and more...

Where one buys comic books has changed over the years. It used to be that you'd go to the drugstore in the 1940s, for 10 cents a piece, and they'd be on these great racks that you could spin around, but that seems to have vanished by the early 1980s. Nowadays, most of the time, you have to go to specialized stores. You might find them in a Barnes & Noble, or a Borders, but you typically now have to go to a comic book store, or a comic book convection, or you can still get subscriptions from these comic book publishers and have them arrive in the mail. Or now, with the Internet, you can buy anything on the Internet, so there are just so many ways now where you can buy comic books. There's so many to name that there's just no difficulty now in finding a comic book title that you would want.