I Was Invited to the Grand Opening of the CLASSIEST New Comic Shop in Boston!

[@robfriartuck5224]

Wow! Thanks so much for the wonderful shop review! Amazing! Business has been going pretty well thus far, and I'm sure this will help. THANK YOU for the kind words and for ALL you do for the comics community! Excelsior!

[@bradmhuber]

Looks like a Great FUN Shop! Congratulations and if I ever travel that way, I will definetly be stopping by!

[@lunchmoneycomics]

My pleasure Rob, you have a beautiful place you’ve clearly put a lot of work and love into. Every time a new comic shop opens the whole hobby and community benefits. Thank you so much for inviting me and I can’t wait to go back!

[@bengooding1781]

@robfriartuck5224 Ive been watching your journey on Reddit! So happy to see you have your grand opening! I'll have to check out the store the next time I'm up that way. congrats!

[@KEVVIE37]

Pantheon was sooo underrated. Top tier hulk reading from the 90's I believe professor Hulk was the leader. Super funny and dope reading. 90s Hulk written by Pater David was classic. My wife picked up the Paperback trade back for me back then which had the Maestro in it. I believe it was called What savage beast.

[@swagmast3r884]

Wow those prices are crazy expensive 😮

[@jao77]

Planning to visit this shop next month.

[@GodLovesComics]

Obviously with many stores shutting down (including stalwarts like Hi De Ho in California), it's great to see such a pristine new comic book store opening for business. Hope they do really well.

[@leetee337]

Niiice...that store is great...i sold some books there mid. Build a few months back🎉🎉🎉🎉😅😊

[@stevewhite4533]

Very kool shop, thanks for sharing 🎉

[@Loscomicjourney]

Funny I'm going to have a free Saturday next week and I was thinking of popping over there. I saw they were a new shop. Still deciding if I should go there and a few other places in the area or head up north to a few shops I haven't been to in a while. Decisions, decisions. Lol. Great video, store looks pretty nice. 👊🏼

[@300baud]

I love the phrase "reader copy". I mean technically, they are all reader copies. Some just happen to be nicer than others.

[@jasonhammertime3571]

Beautiful shop!! The Peter David run on Hulk with the Pantheon is a great read for Hulk fans

[@dakoitcave817]

I lived in Brookline for a number of years! Right by Kenmore (Fenway Park) and Longwood Medical Center! Amazing place.

[@richardperez7355]

Definitely the X-Men cover Great find congratulations

[@MerlinCafarella]

Intentionally small new comics section to not cut into new England Comics business, no Warhammer so as not to compete with the local shop, and a great relationship with Eureka games just around the corner. I watch your Channel all the time, so it was great to see you at the Friar Tucks grand opening and then to see what a great time you had at his new place. As a fellow flea market and tag sale treasure hunter your show is the best!

[@MarcSpectorComics]

Wow definitely a very classy looking comic book shop I was hoping that that shop would have been open back in the Spring when I used to work in Brookline it would have been great to check it out then they did some great work to it definitely we'll have to check it out when I'm in the area again

[@comicslimited9740]

Great video loved the quality of the shop.

[@joshscomics01]

That's a great-looking store, with some awesome books.

[@BZackheim]

That is a beautiful store. I need to get out to that area more often.

[@GrumpyColoradoDad]

Great shop! I will have to stop by my next trip to New England!

[@makzax]

Beautiful! I'm surprised that you are not more familiar with the Pantheon, it was a very cool Hulk era. 😁

[@KonaCards]

Beautiful and extremely well organized place! Some beautiful books in that mini haul too👍🏻

[@ThingComics]

New shops! Awesome! Great video as usual😊

[@AllSortsofWords]

*Spits out Diet Mountain Dew* $2,300 for a Hulk 180? Does that copy grant ACTUAL super powers?

[@WhatIsOntheComicRack]

Yes it does but you have to buy it to discover the powers you get!

[@marcovendetti3373]

Comic books prices these days are sickening!😡☹️

[@dalemoyers8881]

Thanks for sharing your experience. That looks like a great store to check out. Congrats on your comics you got. Keep up the great work. 😎

[@comicspa]

The Dave Stevens craze continues! I am glad everyone appreciates his art the way I did when I was a kid. Those were great pickup books you got at the stores opening. That X-Men 105 was yet another great Cockrum cover that I loved also. 👍

[@jamesschulziii9098]

Oh man! I bet I could complete my Kirby's quantum leap run..... Lotta books, wow 😦

[@macorourke2222]

Totally awesomeness Brother Thanks for sharing Your passion and adventures from Toronto Ontario Canada 😎 👍 ♥️ 📚 📚📚📚📚✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️✨️✨️💯💯💯💯💯✨️✨️✨️✨️

[@casino_comics]

That's an awesome store. I've never seen one that great looking.

[@BrokeBoyComics]

Definitely a really good looking store, glad to see that there are comic shops still opening instead of closing. This will be a place on my wishlist of to visit, thanks for showing another great hunting spot!

[@libasanAdventures]

I have Hulk #368 - cool to see you pick it up in the video! Thanks for the fun content.

[@NextGenCollector]

Hey Mike, your awesome. Nuff said

[@lunchmoneycomics]

Aw, thanks so much!

[@joe3019772008]

great hauls, mike. love the x-men one the most

[@darrenhughes2009]

It’s just nice to see one opening rather than shutting I guess 👍

[@MattK0074]

Very cool store!

[@neilpade9161]

Definitely going to check them out

[@JankyJoe]

I have that hulk book because of the sweet sam keith cover. Didnt know it was a first appearance!!

[@souldavidthompson4854]

Great video Mike -- When you said half-Asgardians, I heard half-ass Guardians 😂

[@johnvankirk5328]

I love how you show just regular comics instead of the big boys especially in your small bin looks ...it's so funny to me my 10 year old son loves the new stuff miles , moon girl devil dinosaur, but he loves X-Men, Spiderman....but what gets me is he likes the 80's Alpha Flight, issues that have the wrecking crew , he loves shocker ..it's funny but not too surprising...when I was young collecting comics ..My favorite was X-Men...I had all the other big books but besides X-Men my favorite other 2 were Infinity inc . and suicide squad lol

[@gregparks1785]

Good pickups and that store looks great! I hope they are able to do well.

[@andyt6220]

Great to see new comic book stores opening

[@travisqpender]

have always enjoyed the extra info/backstory you provide when discussing your comics. even more so when it overlaps w/ my own reading. just finished War of Kings main story line as i'm checking out various Black Bolt stuff. seeing Havok there and his various relatives was interesting and now you explaining Lilandra's other Xmen history is kinda cool. thanks as always. also: bout to make our annual MA holiday visit. told my father in law that i have a list of shops i'd like to try and visit per this KZbin guy, lol. maybe i'll see ya around.

[@williampummill747]

My love for comics seemed to have spurred just as you started your channel and I thought to myself I needed to let you know how awesome your channel is. An amazing pass time for a fellow avid comic book collector.

[@lunchmoneycomics]

Thank you so much!

[@leeniren3706]

Thanks for the explanation I have not seen you pick up Incredible Hulk books. Aside from that 181 from your neighbor, and was surprised at first to see you looking for it.

[@SideQuestComicsChat]

I was getting Hulk back in the early 90s when Pantheon was in there and I thought they were ok. That was when Peter David was writing a smart Hulk and Dale Keown was doing the art, it drew me in for about 20 issues. Congrats on another Claremont X-Men checked off the list! 105 took me a while to find the right book at the right price in the wild. It was one I would see and when I decided to pull that trigger it would be gone. I'm getting there too. Great video as alway Mike, and that looks like a nice shop!

[@GodLovesComics]

8:53 I literally thought you were saying Half-Ass Guardians ;)

[@lunchmoneycomics]

Haha maybe I did!

[@pamvarner8044]

Very cool to see that Necromomicon Press booklet. I had quite a bit of their stuff back in the day. Neat blast from the past!

[@rohn-zc5sx]

fantastic haul bro love to have been there

[@christopherwilliams2385]

I saw you passed on that X-Men 114. That is a great story with an awesome splash page inside. Good luck in your hunt for that.

[@micpar2]

WOW! Now that's a great looking store. Looks very organized , bright and clean too. Congrads on your X-Men too. Man I loved Dave's art way before he even left DC to go to Marvel. He drew a great Superboy & the Legion of Superheroes/ LoSHs run. If DC hadn't ripped him off for his original art to pg splash wedding issues of LoSH #200? He probably would had come to Marvel in 74/75. Some of the X-Men like Storm & Night Crawler would of been in the LoSHs or villans of them. He created Night Crawler. While he was in the US Navy during Viet Nam in the late 1960's too. During a ty[poon, he couldn't sleep due to strong inds, lighting and thunder. He had several letter published in early Silver age Marvel comics too. He even met his first wife though a letters page. They both had letters pritned in the same issue I believe of the FF. So either he or she decided to write a letter to the other.

[@gaistrop]

Nice place , but wow the prices. I understand having overhead and having to pay employees but those prices were at least 20% more than what we have here in Tenn.

[@O_G_HELLBOY]

Awesome! CONGRATULATIONS ON THE 11K!!! Hope you have a good weekend.

[@tomcolby5821]

It looks like you'd need more than a long lunch to go through that store. I'm saddened but not surprised that I didn't see any customers under 30.

[@lunchmoneycomics]

I think some of the age gap was due to it being in the middle of a week day, most kids and college students were in school.

[@gabriellasavitz9003]

there were some kids there a little later

[@thelibrary8878]

I love Hulk 368 for the Glorious and weird SAM KEITH Art! and MR HYDE !

[@carymoshman1180]

Happy for you being so close on that X-Men run.

[@WhatIsOntheComicRack]

They spelled Elektra wrong on that tag on that Daredevil #168...it is supposed to have a "C" in it!🤣

[@lunchmoneycomics]

Haha I suppose in that ONE case you’re allowed to spell it that way!

[@Comiccomplter55]

That's some good lunch

[@sov_collector]

Pantheon made an appearance in one of the recent Maestro series. At least that was well worth the read. It was interesting enough to where I'm curious to read more about the team.

[@charliedogg7683]

The highlight for me isn't a comic, it's Michaud's numbered reprinting of H.P. Lovecraft's sonnet cycle "The Fungi From Yuggoth" - a real rarity and so collectable for HPL or Weird Tales fans. True Love #1 is indeed a hard book to find in the wild because it's from Eclipse, which was a smaller publisher, it's a romance comic which has for a long time been a less popular genre and it's a reprint book. #2 is worth tracking down too due to the stories drawn by Nick Cardy, Alex Toth and Vince Colletta (whose romance art is much better than his inking-only work for Marvel in the Silver Age).

[@dplj4428]

0:25 brookline massachusetts. Friar Tuck's... Opening? When so many shops are closing. Are they specializing in back issues? One tube said that comic book stores are closing because character concepts and storylines have shifted away from "tradition". Rob 5:00 the owner, 2+ year in the making! After seeing the prices, some at $45! I say prices for all issues have gone up much more than I knew since 2015.

[@jeffstanley6013]

Nice looking shop, but nothing bugs me more than having stacks of nicer books in the locked glass cabinet to where you can't see the price or condition of the books overlapping one another. Apart from that, great looking shop!

[@donaldmiller9648]

As a co-owner of a comic shop years ago I understand why in case...had a Hulk #1 in NM destroyed by some guy climbing up on comic races to pull off display and then he pulled out if bag and got tape pull stick to cover and tore huge strip off cover.

[@robfriartuck5224]

Thanks for the input... We've cleaned up our cases quite a bit. Not perfect, but better than it was...Cheers!

[@jeffstanley6013]

@@donaldmiller9648 Oh, I'm not objecting to them being in a glass case; it's more about how they're displayed while in the case. Want to see the whole cover and price, not just the spine.

[@robphoenix1182]

368 is also great because of the fight with Mr. HYDE. It carries into 369 though.

[@Geoffreydarcy-pv4mq]

💙

[@RonDale-jy8et]

Mike wow!! Good Grabs at the Grand Opening! The X-Men cover was very cool. I remember coming across a dealer that had it for $5 and I thought that was a lot in the early ' 80's!! Loved the Dave Stevens cover.. Just so nice. I have that Hulk, but haven't read it.That cover is by Sam Kieth. Again I 've gotta ask...Is that a SPOTLIGHT # 5 up there on your wall? I've been watching the channel for awhile now, and I do't recall you picking that one up. Is it new or am I just discovering new things on the LMC Wonder Wall? Good vid...

[@lunchmoneycomics]

Yes it is an MS5! I got it in October and I only did a small Short about it since I didn’t buy it in the usual “lunch money” way.

[@scottsimon615]

Great store but some of those prices are a bit high…

[@jayogilvie8353]

comic shop, Boston area Friar tuc... Na i can't bust your chops. Its good to promote local business.

[@RealMorgzGaming]

Brooo. Great pickup on the X-Men. Whats the condition like? At $45, anything at fine or better and you did awesome!

[@mr.pagesfilmsandplastics]

Not to criticize, but the those prices are sky high!

[@jayhays8267]

Hmmm, I took a look at the location address on Google maps (street view) and there was a store sign for "New England Comics". Is this the "renovated" location?

[@lunchmoneycomics]

Actually there are now two comic stores in the same building, but they are very different. This one is more older comics and the other is a more modern/gaming store

[@stephanietuck5979]

Friar Tuck's is next door and upstairs from NE Comics. Friar T's is at 310 Harvard St, 2nd Floor.

[@JonathanNg4]

@@lunchmoneycomics New England Comics has been around forever. Home of The Tick (NEC Press)! That Brookline location doesn't have a lot of older comics. The one in Quincy MA has a room for all their older "wall books".

[@Toggly]

Hey Mike. I had a really different experience. Based on your review I went there for the first time tonight. I got there an hour before the posted closing time but the door was locked. I called on my phone and heard someone on the other side of the door say they were closing soon. I explained I was just outside and I’d made a trek out here. I asked if I could just grab a packet of bags and boards. The guy hemmed and hawed then blurted out. “Nope we’re closed.”…. He wouldn’t give me any reason or any solutions. He was just abrupt and kinda rude. Not a good way to treat fellow members of the comic community… especially when the shop is about 50 feet away from another comic store.

[@lunchmoneycomics]

Aw bummer man, sorry that happened to you. They are good guys, maybe you just caught them in an odd situation. Hope you get another chance to check them out

[@x4486xx]

First app of a team that consists of a buncha Half-Assed Guardians? Good choice

[@O_G_HELLBOY]

Why the hate? Actually when that Hulk run was coming out it was really good.

[@MattK0074]

@julez4486 Heh. I heard the same thing. :)

[@mattskirble6845]

I hate you......Just kidding lol. You got me back into collecting single issues. Prior to that, I was only collecting omnis, HCs, and tpb.

[@robbernath]

The store has a clean, refined and bright look to it, but the prices on those glass case comics... SHEESH! Either that's some New England-style economics going on there or the owner is using the same business model as Mile High Comics. Way, way above market value for most if not all of what was shown in this video.

[@ricbeau3761]

I will say that his price are extremely expensive. Charging cgc 9.8 price for non slab books.

[@kendallkidd20]

The Wall books seems rather high priced, like double FMV, guess they gotta pay high rent

[@anthonyperrone6008]

As much as I appreciate and love that a comic book store is opening instead of closing I have to say that I am incredibly disappointed with the laughably high prices 32 dollars on a water damaged book!!! No thanks I will happily stick with the comic book Palace and comically speaking the best stores in my local area.

[@trouthousecomics]

Why did they open literally 100 feet from New England Comics? Bold move.

[@stephanietuck5979]

The two stores are friendly and have a different focus and hopefully will direct traffic to each other. Friar Tuck's is centered on collectible comics, not new graphic novels and new comics like NE Comics.

[@trouthousecomics]

@@stephanietuck5979 thanks for addressing that.

[@mdlbird]

Why on Earth are they opening a new shop next to NE Comics

[@robfriartuck5224]

NEC doesn't sell vintage comics at this location! We hope to peacefully co-exist and make Coolidge Corner what Harvard Square once was: A comics Mecca!

[@eduardomartinez5357]

Overpriced for sure

[@theayatollahofrockandrolla]

Some of those prices would have made me nope right out of there ... How much for that Beta Ray Bill? LMFAO

[@SquidgyTTV]

Bruh that shit look like any other comic shop lmao classy