Unpacking the Bookstore

Choose Your Own Comics Shop

It's Tuesday, 4:17 pm. Outside, the air is crisp and clear, and you can feel each breath as it rushes to fill your expanding lungs. You pull your jacket tighter. You had rushed quick as you could to Lewisburg, PA; three days ago, your friend had let you know about...

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Welcome to the Comic House

  Key Events of Comics Metropolis Comics Metropolis opened on Labor Day, 2016 in Lewisburg, PA. They have had the same location for two years, they being the owners Albert Payne and Laura Asherman Payne. Mother and son, they opened the shop together with the...

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A Metropolis for Comics History

In 1842, the American company Wilson & Co. published what is now called the first American comic: an English reprint of the French comic "The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck". Published originally in French and Switzerland in 1837 by Rodolphe Töpffer, this...

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