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July 19, 2009 11:26 pm Great article, Josh! Brings back some great memories. I worked at the bike shop across the street and remember how excited I was that a real comic shop was opening in our little corner of the world. Previously, my only comic source was, yes, Laverdiere's and other stores with the spinning racks full of Superman and Spidey and Archie comics and not much else. The only downfall of being so close was the fact that my dad (the owner of the bike shop) could see how often I went to DEC. I didn't care. They opened in spring '86, the beginning of the "new" DC, after Crisis, Frank Miller's Batman, awesome Spidey books, Frank Miller's Daredevil, Watchmen, etc. The skinny, balding guy was Stan, the owner. "Dan" from Head of the Class was actually Tim and yes, it seems he was there every time you walked in. The man bled comic ink. Stan was there for the $$$; Tim was there because that was "The Dream". Eventually, reality sets in, though; a couple of years later Stan sold the biz and it became Downeast Cards, etc. Tim died a couple of years ago, but the last time I saw him, he was sporting his Watchmen smiley-face T-shirt. Fan til the end. After a couple of years, i switched to comic shop a few more miles down the road and around '93 I stopped altogether when they started coming out with all the foil and hologram BS. Came back in 2005 with Infinite Crisis and JMS Spidey and Bendis and decompressed storylines and $4 comics and shiny paper and everybody "waiting for the trades" and buying comics on the internet from a "comic shop". <sigh> Thanks for the DEC memories, Josh!