Atomic Age Comics

This is my neighbourhood store and I love it. They’re always helpful in recommending fun stuff and treat me (and my son) really well. I certainly won’t be buying from anywhere else.

Looks a little run down on the outside but the space is well utilized. It’s really a no frills comic book store and what one expects it to look like on the inside (i.e. very cramped). The efforts go into the merchandise and service rather than ambiance, and considering the near impossibility for a comic store to muffle that stuffy feeling, I’d settle for what Atomic Age has going.
The store houses a good collection of comics and graphic novels, offering new and vintage. And of course, the usual knick knacks at the front counter. The owner is very nice and helpful and will order in issues of series not found on shelves for customers. It’s a pretty easygoing place and owner was great with helping me find what I was looking for, but it’s a little too packed inside for browsing.
Good place to visit if you are able to locate it — it’s very small and easily overlooked, and located in a mainly residential neighbourhood. Normally a place like this would get the standard 3 stars but the owner was very helpful and friendly so it gets a bump up.

on pape in between gerrard and the danforth.
(where?)
you know, on the east end, near greektown.
(wheres gerrard? pape? is that in the beaches?)
…this might be the dialogue you might be having… understandable if so, because this place is reallly for the neighbourhood folks. itd be great to be a kid living around this neighbourhood and be able to pop into this place after school. its on a street that is mostly residential with some stores on it, but youd have to know the neighbourhood or be a comic fanatic to know of it.
that being said, they have an ample supply of action figures; mainly superheroes are to be found and at prices a bit lower than you might find elsewhere.
its a small place, so theyll have a bit of everything, with a focus on superhero and action comics. but still, there are graphic novels available and the owner is very helpful and easy to talk to. hell also order in issues that you are looking for if you want.
for the sheer convenience, id come here if i knew exactly what i wanted, and because, if the price of the comic is the same as everywhere else (as it usually is) they offer one of those buy 10 get one free (there are conditions of course but the principle still stands).
overall it was a great neighbourhood find and i will be back, especially to get successive issues of the superman comic i bought — if its any good!