This is a mostly toy store with action figures, model kits, stuffed animals and video games. Their…read moremostly Japanese merchandise differentiate them from our American toys. Great for Japanese toy aficionados.

This store has so much cool stuff lol! It truly has a unique collection at pretty fair prices!…read moreCustomer service is wanting, but the inventory more than makes up for it!!!

Looking for one book and wanting more…read more I came here after a friend's recommendation. He told me I could spend all day in here; he was right. I was only looking to get this week's issues (it was NCBD) but they do they have back issues. And I mean plenty of back issues. It's separated by modern and copper/silver age. The golden age stuff is in the walls. They don't sell too many slabs but they have them. There's plenty of figures and vintage toys. This place is an 80's guys and gals dream. Overall 5 stars. I don't live in the area but if I did, I could spend all my Wednesdays here.

I was on my way to my cruise when I asked my parents to go to this comic store. When I got here I…read morewas amazed buy the many selections of comic books here. If you like pokemon cards they have it here.

A cute place to get your pop culture collections! I mean they have everything you can think of. I…read moreenjoyed browsing through the store seeing pops that I wouldn't think they created. And I believe the staff said if you are looking for one in particular they don't have, they'll look to see if they can find it. Now that's cool!

Very nice little shop that specializes in Funko pops, Loungefly bags, and collectibles that you…read morewon't find anywhere else. I was able to trade some graphic novels for store credit and purchase a few toys that were missing from my collection. Prices are very reasonable if not close to retail. This place isn't trying to break your bank and mark up the price like some other shops in the area. Staff is helpful and fair with store credit offer on items I brought in to trade. Looking forward to doing more trades.

Update for change over time: They don't offer too much when…read morethey buy your items, but they have insanely good prices. The service is great, and they let you verify that game consoles/cartridge games are legit before you buy. This place is absolutely amazing, I just wish they'd buy at a slightly higher price. This place is worth checking out for books, movies, games, manga, and even collectibles. This is like Cool Stuff or Videogame Heaven, but with even more great things to buy. I'm extremely happy with my WiiU special edition, and the low price I bought it at. Thank you so much for your wonderful service :)

Terrible experience. I called ahead to see what the cash buyout was as I had a lot of books I was…read moregoing through. I was told that since they sell books at half the MSRP they buy books at 10-15% of that cost. Several of the books I dropped off were an MSRP IF $17+ and in excellent condition. When I received the quote the next day it was an offer of $13.65. I was told that it's probably because they had a packed kids section. HOWEVER, this was not told to me over the phone or at drop off. I wasted hours of time and energy pulling this together and making sure I was bringing good books to get the max amount. I expressed my frustration with the process when I picked up the books. The person I spoke with couldn't have been more indifferent.

Years ago when I was but a wee lad growing up in the upper midwest, Mom and Dad would load my…read moresister and me into our hulking Ford Galaxy to make our weekly trip to visit Gramma Dora who lived in a massive old farmhouse about an hour away. I always looked forward to these trips because Gramma had a huge upstairs with rooms filled with bright and shiny treasures, at least in the eyes of this innocent youngster. To others, this was a house filled with junk (in fact, one room was known as The Junk Room), sometimes requiring a shuffling of feet to make it from one end of the room to the other. Along the way, I found old magazines, metal toys, discarded cigar boxes, and glass figurines, each with its own history, its own story. I would spend hours playing with these treasures, vicariously living the existence of each through the mind of a 7 year old. My sister was a constant companion on these journeys, we would compare stories and invent new and up to date versions of what each discovery had endured. Sometimes these items were props in our new imaginary adventures. Our reverie was put aside only to go back downstairs to watch The Wonderful World of Disney, after which we piled back into the Ford and made the trek back home, but not before Gramma Dora would inquire what we had found and gave us her account of how each thing came to rest in the massive farmhouse. As I got older, Gramma Dora would spend hours telling me about when she was a kid, what she did for fun, what her life was like, and how her life changed as she got older. Gramma Dora was a cool old gal, on long car trips across the country, she was my backseat companion, sometimes even taking the oversized Soundesign headphones from my head to listen to the Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Double album that I had recorded onto cassette. She would show me pictures of infant me sitting on Grampa August's lap. He passed before I was able to really know him, but Gramma Dora assured me that I was just like him. Gramma passed from this life when I was in High School, but to this day, when confronted with a fork in the road, I think of what advice she would give, which direction was the way to the unfound cool and exciting. Cool and Eclectic is my connection back to those days. It is filled top to bottom with treasures and memories from years gone past, with treasures that have history and stories of their own. When I see an old pinball machine, I'm taken back to my misspent youth where my pinball partner and I would rule the King Tut table at our local restaurant. The bins filled with vinyl records are a link back to that time, to what I was doing, to what I was feeling, to what I was dreaming. My visits to Cool and Eclectic are not shopping trips, but rather side trips down the too long ignored rabbit trails of yesteryear. You don't shop here, you linger here. You contemplate here. At best, you recharge, you reconnect with those hopes and dreams of youth and find a way to find that path again as an adult. To compile a list of what is here is fruitless and not the best use of time. Instead, you visit, you bask, you remember. You allow yourself to dream. As a teenager standing at Gramma Dora's fresh gravesite, a fellow mourner came up behind me, but his arm around my shoulder, and said,'You had a real nice Gramma.' At that moment, I shed tears of sorrow at my loss, and tears of joy of what I had the chance to experience. Although my visits to Cool and Eclectic don't elicit the same visible response, somewhere deep inside this grown adult, I find that moment again. And it makes me happy. It makes me feel connected. Thank-you, Cool and Eclectic for being who you are, for being more than big box retail, for giving me the chance to pause and reflect on where I have been and where I am going.

I stopped at the MacArthur Center store today to only browse while waiting for the massage place to…read moreopen. . I ended walking out of there with a few things including a coffee wall art I could put on my kitchen wall.

This store is great! It's in a great location, between a coffee shop and pizza joint. I love it in…read morehere. They have everything you want and are very organized. I'm usually just here for Saga and Walking Dead.

LOVE this place. When you step in, it killed my preconceived notions that it will wreak of old…read morecomics smell and forgotten print. Boy was I wrong! There is so much to see, browse through, buy! It is not only new edition comics on one wall, it's a display of your fave action heroes like Batman, Yu gi oh, in a glass encased display. I can't name them beyond 2, and that's how dated I am! They sell way cool T-Shirts, posters, stuffed anime characters and cute pens. Take a look at the photos I took and run to this store! Support a unique niche!

I've been here a few times over the years. Lots of comics…read moreand books to choose from. The store itself is very small and can get a little stuffy. There is a noticeable difference in the leveling of the floor as a shift occurs towards one of the sections that features novels and such. There are a lot of pictures on the wall to look at and plenty of rare or obscure issues of various comics to be found. Prices vary, some can go far out of my personal price range. Wayne is pretty cool. Hard to believe this place has survived since the 70s, but glad to see something that lasts! Stop by if you want some neat finds, especially if you're a serious collector!

Just called earlier to ask to reserve some transformers comics and he happily said yes. I go here…read morealmost all the time now. WAYYYYY better than atomic comics emporium.