Comic book shops in Melbourne

The map for Melbourne, VIC's comic shops is still blank. Our search covered roughly 40 km around Melbourne, looking through OpenStreetMap for comic shops, and turned up nothing mapped so far. Blank maps are usually a mapping gap rather than a real gap. This page refreshes daily from the latest map data, so a blank today can be a full guide tomorrow.

Getting your comics fix around Melbourne

No mapped comic shops doesn't mean no comics. The usual stand-ins: the library's graphic novel section (free, and better stocked than you'd think), bookstore manga and trades shelves, and the nearest city's comic shops — worth a monthly trip with a pull list in mind.

Melbourne sits about 38° south of the equator, so the seasons run flipped. Winter here runs June to August, and it's peak comics season — long evenings made for reading stacks.

And mark the first Saturday in May: Free Comic Book Day is the best excuse to visit a new shop, wherever it is.

Comic smarts for Melbourne

No mapped comic shops yet, but the comics habits work anywhere. Four worth knowing:

• Bag and board your finds. Acid-free bags and backing boards cost pennies and save collections. Shops sell them; buy them there.
• Learn the grading basics. Mint, near mint, fine — condition drives price. Check for spine ticks, colour breaks, and sharp corners before you pay.
• Try the indie shelf. The big two dominate the wall, but the indie shelf is where the interesting work lives. Take a chance on the weird cover.
• Dig the back issues. The long boxes are the shop's memory. Full runs of older series hide here at a fraction of collected-edition prices.

What earns a listing in Melbourne

Our bar is a walk-in shop built around comics. New issues, back issues, trades — if comics are the business, it qualifies.

When a qualifying comic shop gets mapped in Melbourne, this page updates on the next refresh with its name, address where available, and whatever hours, phone or website the mappers recorded. Nothing here is paid placement and nothing is sponsored — if it's on the map, it's on the page.

This page refreshes daily from the latest map data, so the moment a qualifying comic shop appears in Melbourne's OpenStreetMap data, it shows up here — usually within a day of being mapped.

Put Melbourne on the map

Know a comic shop here that isn't listed? The fastest route onto this page runs through OpenStreetMap: add it as shop=comics with its name and address, and it'll appear here after our next daily refresh. Local knowledge beats every dataset. The most useful details are the comic shop's name, its street address, and its opening hours — even a name and a pin on the map is enough to get started.