PicturesMidtown Comics Pictures
Main
Big photo
by 7476739@N05
Wikipedia: Midtown Comics is a large comic book retailer with two shops in New York City and an e-commerce website.. It opened its first store in the Times Square area in 1997, and its second on Lexington Avenue in 2004, but the partners who founded it – Gerry Gladston, Angelo Chantly, Thomas Galitos and Robert Mileta – met when they were teenagers in Astoria, Queens, and later sold comics in their video stores in Brooklyn and Queens before opening Midtown Comics in Manhattan. Today, celebrities from the world of comics appear at both stores regularly. According to the New York Times:The stereotypical view of comics stores is that they are dim, cramped and dusty places with a no-girls-allowed clubhouse atmosphere. In reality, they run the gamut. For instance, the West Side Midtown store is bright, airy and welcoming to all, with two floors and 5,000 square feet (460 m) of space. The main floor, which is one story above street level, has a long wall with countless racks of new and recently released comics. The rest of the space offers DVD's, manga, trading cards, back issues and trade paperbacks. Toys and other collectibles are upstairs. The second Midtown store, on Lexington Avenue and 45th Street, though smaller than the first one, is just as inviting. Midtown's website was at first purely informational, but has developed into a full-scale web retail site. The stores and website are supported by a warehouse in Queens, and a staff of thirty who are a rare mix of nerd knowledge and chummy confidence – [and] who foster an atmosphere where browsing is more than just a means to a badly needed social end.Midtown Comics is the Official Retail Sponsor of New York Comic Con, and has performed this role since the NYCC's inception in 2006. Each year, Midtown creates a unique show-within-a-show, featuring round-the-clock appearances by comics creators and variant comic books by publishers like Marvel Comics and Top Cow.
|
|
|
 by demiace |
 by mackan |
More Midtown Comics pictures can be found at our new site Ookaboo.
ny-pictures.cc is a free service of Ontology2 © copyright 2009.
Images on this site are licensed under various Creative Commons licenses; Image
descriptions and metadata are CC-BY-SA. This site contains information from Freebase, Dbpedia and other sources.
Maps are supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Questions? Comments? Contact the the management.