Newbury Comics
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Newbury Comics is a New England-based music retailer. Newbury Comics began as a comic book vendor on Newbury Street in Boston. It was founded in 1978 by two MIT students. Over the next few decades, the focus of the company changed from comics to music (comics are still sold there in limited amounts). There are now 27 stores in five states (four in New Hampshire, two in Rhode Island, one in Maine, one in Connecticut, and 19 in Massachusetts).
Newbury Comics is today best known as a vendor of low-priced CDs and DVDs and other pop culture-related goods. Newbury Comics sells LPs, CDs, singles, and DVDs. It also offers comics, posters, T-shirts, trading cards, action figures, buttons, sports merchandise, jewelry, cosmetics, novelties and more. Some locations also sell punk-style clothing.
Newbury Comics has a sister store devoted solely to punk-style clothing, called "Hootenanny," which is located one floor below the Newbury Comics in Harvard Square.
Aimee Mann worked at the original store before later gaining prominence in her band 'Til Tuesday.
[edit] Locations
As of 2006, Newbury Comics operates out of 27 locations, most of which are located in Massachusetts:
- Amherst
- Avon
- Boston: Newbury Street (original store) and Government Center
- Braintree
- Burlington
- Cambridge: Harvard Square and Alewife
- Hyannis
- Kingston
- Leominster
- Marlborough
- Natick
- Newton
- North Attleborough
- North Dartmouth
- Peabody
- Saugus
- Shrewsbury
Four in New Hampshire:
Two in Rhode Island:
One in Maine: South Portland
One in Connecticut: Manchester
A small number of locations have been closed over the years, including a small store in the MIT student center, as well as in Woburn, Bellingham and Norwood, and a second Hootenanny location in Nashua, NH. The Newbury Street, Harvard Square, Burlington, Hyannis, Saugus and Nashua stores have all moved from their original locations, in most cases into larger spaces. Similarly, the Framingham store was relocated down the street to Natick.
