In passing on a link to a comics store closure story earlier this week, I was tempted to say that we’re far more likely to learn of a store closure from the Internet than a store opening \u2014 hence, we can’t always tell much about the market from how many such stories are out there.<\/p>\n
Of course, the very next time I look, there’s a story about a new store opening in Maryland <\/span><\/a>\u2014 an online dealer whose business grew to the point where brick-and-mortar became attractive. “Opening a storefront and expanding to other games and comics was the next logical step,\u201d Scott Campanella<\/span> tells local site Eldersburg.net<\/span>. There’s some store photos with the piece.<\/p>\n I do have some data on the number of comics shops, both now and across time \u2014 but it’s fairly scattershot and unpostable in its current state. Project #17 of a series…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In passing on a link to a comics store closure story earlier this week, I was tempted to say that we’re far more likely to learn of a store closure from the Internet than a store opening \u2014 hence, we can’t always tell much about the market from how many such stories are out there. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[116],"class_list":["post-5911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics-shops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5912,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911\/revisions\/5912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}