comics retailer industry retail founded 1961 as a mail order company 1977 as a brick and mortar store defunct 2013 ; continues as online retailer founder jake buddy saunders headquarters dallas fort worth metroplex texas u.s.a. products comics collectibles website mycomicshop.com lone star comics was a chain of comic book stores located in the dallas fort worth area in north central texas . the chain s offerings included comic books action figures gaming supplies videos and many other pop culture items . 1 originally established as a quaint mail order company in 1961 2 by area fanzine publisher and entrepreneur jake buddy saunders lone star opened its first brick and mortar store in 1977 eventually operating a chain of nine retail outlets in the dallas fort worth metroplex . while still maintaining business locally the company returned to its mail order roots in the early 2000s this time as an online subscription and back issue service . with the contraction of the overall economy beginning in 2008 the store sold off their various locations closing the final one in the fall of 2013 . the online store is called mycomicshop.com . contents 1 history 2 former store locations 3 references 4 external links history edit saunders opened the first store in arlington in 1977 . 2 lone star was involved in the 1988 founding of the harvey awards the first industry award voted on entirely by comics professionals . lone star employees tabulated the ballots for the first harvey awards 3 presented at the chicago comicon in july 1988 . saunders closed the irving location in 2008 the south arlington location in 2011 and the dallas store in october 2012 . in july 2013 lone star comics sold off three of their five remaining stores in mesquite hurst and plano . 2 in september 2013 lone star comics sold off their remaining brick and mortar stores the original arlington location and the store in ft. worth to become solely an e commerce business website . 4 5 former store locations edit central arlington sold september 2013 ; now wild west comics dallas closed october 2012 mesquite sold july 2013 ; now urban legends hurst sold july 2013 ; now collected hurst ft. worth sold september 2013 ; now wild west comics plano sold july 2013 ; now collected plano wichita falls closed some time before july 1998 irving closed february 24 2008 south arlington closed june 2011 references edit chuang tamara may 31 1998 . zoom arlington comic store chain takes off ; it s a bird it s a plane it s lone star comics . the dallas morning news . a b c melrose kevin . lone star comics owners sell three locations comic book resources july 12 2013 . c. m. behind the harveys the comics journal 122 june 1988 p. 19 . koller dan september 17 2013 . r.i.p. lone star comics . d magazine . dallas tx . retrieved december 23 2013 . melrose kevin september 10 2013 . lone star comics owners sell remaining brick and mortar stores . comic book resources . retrieved december 23 2013 . external links edit official website this united states retail business article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title lone star comics & oldid 743647099 categories comics retailers1977 establishments in texascompanies based in the dallas fort worth metroplexcompanies established in 1977united states retail company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 15 08 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view