About us

The History of Gold Coast Comics is very long and actually starts in Western Australia in 1982. After about 2 years of collecting every comic book I could find and discovering a great little groovy location just over the bridge from Perth. The first shop opened in Victoria Park in 1984. This was the first EVER Comic Book store in Western Australia. Then around about a year or two later we moved into our first store in Northbridge, just over the railway line from Perth. It was still tiny but a massive upgrade on the size and layout of the shop in Victoria Park. It was on the next block over from the State Library. When that store became far too small we moved two doors down upstairs, into a very large premises with a showroom floor, sales desk, 4 computer terminals, a dedicated back issue storage room and subscriptions area with a small Science Fiction books department and expanded into art, portfolios, collectables, cards, memorabilia, t-shirts, posters, trading cards and many other dedicated collectable sections including the largest collection of Commando comics for sale that I have yet to see anywhere else!

After approximately 12 or so years in Northbridge we made the change to a mail order only business and moved to a warehouse shed in Perth's Northern Gateway area. Less than a year later the internet arrived! So we hopped on the band wagon and made our very first web site. It was absolute rubbish! Then we started on eBay in late 1999 - the year they opened in Australia with a personal invitation to us from eBay's marketing department. We did very well on eBay until around 2004 when some drastic changes took place on eBay and changed the site far faster than we could adapt. We moved to various other sites like BarterCard, eBid and about a dozen other platforms that came and went, but none of them were as successful for us as eBay was. In 2009 we opened our store in Townsville and started doing New Comics again with Trade Paperbacks and Graphic Novels taking off! It was truly awesome! Then finally in 2017 we moved to the magnificent Gold Coast and the plan was to open the new Showroom in mid 2020 when.... Covid hits.

Well, here we are in 2025 and the Showroom is still not open. But, we are working on it! GoldCoastComics.com will be 95% online sales with the focus 99% on back issue comics and graphic novels until we get all the stock available up on the web site and listed on eBay. Every now and again when I come across something fun like a collectable Sandman chess set, a wild t-shirt, trading card or skate board deck, I'll put it up. Unfortunately we will not be stocking any new issues at all. Once every box of comics is done then we will start adding the books, memorabilia and other fun collectables. Once ALL the stock is listed we will then consider purchasing comic collections of any size.

So have a good look around, there will be much more to explore here very soon! Happy travels buckaroo!! (Banzai)