Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Comic book retailers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 561 comic book retailers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 2,999 professional contacts across them, including 259 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Paris the largest hub.
This list covers comic book retailers worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026. Country and city lists for comic book retailers follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest comic book retailers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 208 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Diamond Comic Distributors (DCD) is at the nexus of comics and pop culture.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Outland er Norges ledende forhandler innen tegneserier, fantasy- og science fiction-bøker, manga, spill, og populærkultur.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Midtown Comics opened its first shop in 1997, and is now the industry’s leading retailer of comic books, graphic novels, and manga, with its online store as well as three landmark…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Publishing comic books since 1996.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “19 stores in the UK and Ireland selling a huge range of toys, collectibles, graphic novels, comics, sci-fi, movie and TV merchandise since 1975.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Distribution company located at Barcelona specialized in Comics, books, Merchandising, Games, CCGs, DvDs and Blu·Rays, Rol Games and Accessories.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Webbed Sphere Inc is a network of companies and brands including: Troll & Toad, Six Hogs, Golden Groundhog, Ol Uncle Porkers, Solstice Tea Traders, Auldhome, Decorae, Cornucopia…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1984 and launching our website, metropoliscomics.com, in Metropolis has been an ecommerce pioneer in the vintage comic book business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Lone Star Comics began as a tiny mail-order business operated by a junior high school student who had recently discovered the joys of comic book reading and collecting.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “From a originally Czech gaming shop, we’ve grown into one of the largest specialists in merchandise from the world’s most beloved universes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “About Us After incorporating in 1979, Mike Richardson opened the first Things From Another World store-just 400 square feet-in Bend, Oregon on January 1, 1980.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Titan Entertainment Group Ltd owns the internationally-renowned Forbidden Planet Ltd pop culture retail chain and the multi-award-winning Titan Publishing Group Ltd, global…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BAZAR DU BIZARRE is a retail company based out of 108 AVENUE DE CAEN, GRAND COURONNE, France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “1ère librairie en ligne spécialisée en BD, comics et manga.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Third Eye Comics is Maryland's premiere stores for comics, graphic novels, toys and games.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bedrock City Comic Co.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Publisher of the world's most gifted cartoonists and their comics & graphic novels.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Center of Austin Fandom” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “A mighty fine selection of comic books, graphic novels, board games, designer toys and stuff like that.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “At PRANA Direct Market Solutions we are the trusted advisors for the dynamic world of comic book publishing and the Direct Market comics retail.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Atlantis Games & Comics is a retail company that operates 2 store locations as well as setting up at 20+ conventions a year.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Comic Book Store is India's 1st comic store.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “WE LOVE COMICS!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: comic book retailers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names comic book retailers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of comic book retailers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name comic book retailers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Comic book retailers worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among comic book retailers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for comic book retailers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “comic book retailers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names comic book retailers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among comic book retailers, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 259 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Comic book retailers by location
1 lists · largest firstEvery Comic book retailers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names comic book retailers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many comic book retailers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 561 comic book retailers worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Diamond Comic Distributors, INC, headquartered in Hunt Valley, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most comic book retailers?
The United States leads with 257 companies. Every comic book retailers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most comic book retailers?
Paris leads with 10 headquartered companies, followed by London (8) and New York (6).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 259 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 561 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.