Michael Tierney of Collector's Edition & The Comic Book Store on Closing His Brick and Mortar Stores - Open 38 and 31 Years
'I'm Not Closing Down--I'm Just Changing the Way I Do Business.'
June 12, 2020

Comic book retailer Michael Tierney, of the Comic Book Store and Collector's Edition, has announced a big change in how he'll be doing business in the future.

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'Dependent on the publishers continuing to publish.'
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'Took some extra steps.'
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