This might be the 1st time in decades.....I think it opened in the mid 80s or ealier.

Is that a regular book store or a comics shop? Do they have DC or other comics? Did they carry TPBs or monthlies from Marvel?

It's a bookstore but it has DC Archie and some odd indies.

It has TPBs but the selection is flavor of the month and alot of odd translated Manga.

The comic book store is basically junk with wrinkled copies of the latest comics they are not even the latest the owners have changed but they don't make enough money to stock comics I think.

Wow, that is weird, then. I wonder who is the distributor for Marvel to the bookstore market now? I know i see plenty of Marvel stuff at my local Barnes and Noble book store. So maybe the absence at your store is just a temporary glitch?