First we want to thank everyone who was involved in the costume contest as there were some really astoundingly well put together costumes this year and we hope that they will put as much effort and love in to next year's contest as we plan on making this an annual thing (hence the 2nd Annual). We were really blown away by both the quality of the costumes and the turnout for the voting. There were over three times the number of votes cast for this year's contest as there were for last year. I think that everyone should give themselves a big round of applause and a nice firm pat on the back before we announce our winners ... really go ahead ... alright, now that everyone is in the spirit of congratulations, our top three vote getters for the General Category and our top 3 vote getters for the Youth Category are as follows: 

1st Place goes to Tony as The Ghost Buster2nd Place goes to Dan as Black Bolt, King of the Inhumans

3rd Place goes to Blake as The Mindflayer1st Place (Youth Category) goes to Conner, Taylor & Ryan as The Red Hot Chili Peppers 

 It was really fun to have everyone wandering around in costume carrying comics and we definitely want to make this a part of the Fantasy Shop Calendar, but in order to do that you all will have to keep wowing us with your costumes!

2nd Place goes to Anne as Zatanna3rd Place goes to Ahmad as The Green Reaper

Once again we want to thank all the participants and everyone who took the time to vote in the contest. We really want to make next year even better so get thinking about what you're going to put together and then get started! Let's see if we can have some repeat champions for next year!

Empty Boxes Abound at Every Back Issue SaleWell we had another of our famous Back Issue Sales this weekend and if you didn't make it by one of the stores then I assure you that you missed out. Plenty of people were out in droves filling holes in their collections (those were the people wandering around with lists or referring to laptops throughout the weekend) as well as trying out all kind of new stuff that they never thought they needed but at Twenty Five Cents a Piece it was just too difficult to pass up. I think that every back issue sale is analogous to going to the grocery store hungry, you always wind up coming home with stuff that you don't remember putting in your basket and stuff that you don't even know if you'll like but it's always a satisfying experience. Most importantly we had ourselves another Costume Contest that we're going to ask all of you to vote on (Please only one vote per person). If you want to take a look at some pictures from the sale then click HERE. That's also where you'll go to find all of the contestants in our 2nd Annual Halloween Costume Contest! Once you've decided on who you want to win the General Category and the Under 13 Category just drop us a line with your votes as well as your name HERE. These people went to a lot of work (some more than others [WOW did we get some cool costumes this year]) *Addendum - The voting will be open until Tuesday November the 10th 

Voting has ended.