Post by Admin on Oct 26, 2023 1:53:19 GMT
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Geoffrey Patterson II, owner of Geoffrey’s Comics and Hi De Ho Comics, announced on Facebook that the stores will close on December 31, 2023. “We were literally the first comic book stores in Los Angeles,” Patterson said; his father opened the original store in 1977, and Patterson II later took over the business. In the Facebook post, Patterson attributed the closing to a number of factors, including the COVID-19 pandemic, having multiple distributors with different new comics days, declining profitability of tabletop card games, his own health problems, and his mistake, ordering too much in hopes that the business would return to pre-COVID levels. Despite the closure of both brick-and-mortar locations, however, Patterson will continue to offer pull list services and plans to have “pull parties” at different locations so customers can pick up their comics and hang out with other fans.
Geoffrey Patterson II, owner of Geoffrey’s Comics and Hi De Ho Comics, announced on Facebook that the stores will close on December 31, 2023. “We were literally the first comic book stores in Los Angeles,” Patterson said; his father opened the original store in 1977, and Patterson II later took over the business. In the Facebook post, Patterson attributed the closing to a number of factors, including the COVID-19 pandemic, having multiple distributors with different new comics days, declining profitability of tabletop card games, his own health problems, and his mistake, ordering too much in hopes that the business would return to pre-COVID levels. Despite the closure of both brick-and-mortar locations, however, Patterson will continue to offer pull list services and plans to have “pull parties” at different locations so customers can pick up their comics and hang out with other fans.