Amazing Fantasy Books & Comics

The staff is absolutely wonderful and the store is even better! There is a great selection of board games and you can play whenever you want! The shop itself is extremely well-​kept and nice.

A phenomenal comic shop, and a great place to hang out! The staff is always nice and engaging, and the store is always very organized. In addition to having the books arranged alphabetically, they’ve got 6 shelves reserved for the newest issues of the most popular series. For collectors, they’ve got 2 plus tables worth of back issues and dozens of rare issues on the walls throughout the shop! If you’re looking for gaming, they’ve set up nearly half the store with tables that can be used at anytime. If you’re looking for some competition, talk to the staff, and they can tell you when the next game night is! There’s also 2 plus aisles of figurines and toys!

This place is great! They always have what I’m looking for and I love the new BIGGER location.
If you’re in the area, stop in and check em out!

My husband has a comic subscription here. Everyone is always so friendly. They remember us. They’re great with our daughter. We love their board game selection. They’re patient with my silly questions. And we’ve never had a bad experience. Love the new space with the room to test play games. Could spend hours here. (maybe add some snacks?)

The best comic book store nearby. Their new location (a few doors down from the old) is so nice and everything is spread out and well organized. I think they must have the largest selection of POP toys around. I have never had a problem with employees and they are super helpful. If you need to know when a comic is coming out they can tell you. If you have a gazillion books you need regularly they can set up boxes in the back so u don’t miss an issue. They are fantastic. I have visited other comic shops and I just feel like I’m cheating. A++++

This place is freaking AWESOME!!! If your a fan of the Youtube show Table Top then you want to go here because they had almost everything the show played. I picked up Elder sign and Star Fluxx and a friend of mine picked up Gloom. Their Board game selection was HUGE! They also had a decent size case of RPG books. A lot of Dungeon and Dragons (although, they sold out of 5^th edition but the lady said they were restocking it in about a week). They had all sorts of Doctor Who toys/​novelties. It took me about 30mins to get there from where I lived and it was well worth the trip. They had a huge selection of comics. However, I can’t say what to much cause I was mainly interested in the Table Top games they had. Plus, the people that worked there was really helpful with answering a bunch of my questions. If your looking for a great selection of table top games (especially the ones played on Table Top from Youtube) then I highly recommend this store.

This place is super cool. If my two boys were rating this, it would be five stars. Great selections of comics, fiction, graphic novels and magazines.
They love Garfield and the books that contain 200 pages of comics. This place had four of them as well Big Nate books. Since I don’t really read comic books, i may not be the best judge of a comic book store, but it seems good and well priced.
I highly recommend and will be returning soon.

Fantastic board game selection! Store manager is super cool and supportive of her customers. I love this place.

Ok, so, yeah. Um, ok, so like, this place is awesome^^^ I brought my daughter here^^^ and she loved it^^^ (Sorry – my daughter’s dialect is rubbing off on me.)
I’m not into comics myself – I’m a literature man who likes nothing more (except heroin) than to court and dance the women I meet in big fat nineteenth century novels. In such settings, I am the dark-​haired Lothario who seduces whole families of sisters before valiantly dying, at age 29, in another nation’s war for independence. In real life, I look more like the other customers at comic book stores, I’ve never met with anything but laughter when trying to seduce women, and the only war I have the guts to join is the war on poverty, and even that is now considered a failure. In short, comic books are new to me.
This wonderful store has everything my daughter, a manga addict, could ever want. Once my daughter stepped in side the store, she started shaking, literally shaking. They have many, many more titles than a typical Barnes and Noble does, and the store workers are extremely knowledgeable about manga, which helps me because I don’t know a damn thing and my daughter is always trying to bs me into believing that the 17+ label means 17 in Japan, which is comparable to 11 (her age) in America. The workers were also able to steer my daughter to some titles that interested her. Thank you for that!
They have a huge selection of comics. I don’t know anything about comic books, but these two geeky-​looking guys (both of whom probably got more action than I did as a youngster, sad to say) informed me that this is a good place to feed the fix.
They have a small collection of vinyl. God, I wish I still had my records.
I know a little about graphic novels, however, and the Frankfort (Illinois, not Germany; ha, Germany. .. we bloodied their noses a couple times last century, didn’t we?) store has an outstanding collection of titles, including some of the more literary ones which I was surprised to see on the shelf. (I’ve only been able to get them on Amazon.)
They have an excellent punch-​card deal. Get ten punches and you get a free book, up to $ 15. That’s good.
The store also has t-​shirts and all sorts memorabilia, including D & D stuff, which I’d be embarrassed to purchase. But they got it. Overall the store is clean and well-​stocked and the staff is cool, really cool. Finally, they play some good music in the store. I really enjoy going to this place.
^^^ = new punctuation symbol for up-​speak (as codified by the National Punctuation Board)

While not the closest comic book store to me, this store (or chain of stores) has the largest amount of Graphic Novels and Manga I’ve seen in the Southern Suburbs. The Employees are knowledgeable and friendly. They sell vinyl records here now too!

I’ve been coming to this store for more than two years now. The BF, you see, is a comics reader, and even when I come in alone, they know to grab the items from Joe’s box. What I like most about this store, besides the friendly & knowledgeable staff, are the gift options (since I’m sporadic comics reader at best). I asked Lori what I should send my friend’s son in California, who was starting freshman year of college and about to move into a dorm, and she suggested a very cool game to send (which I’ve heard he enjoys). In addition, they have all manner of superhero glassware, great TV shirts, and a Sanrio (Hello Kitty forever!) section, so when I need some stationery or maybe just a few stickers to satisfy my fix, I hit Amazing Fantasy.
Also, you’ll be delighted to know that if you need to pick up a copy of my book (The Simpsons in the Classroom: Embiggening the Learning Experience with the Wisdom of Springfield), Amazing Fantasy is the only bookshop around here that keeps it on its shelves. It makes a great gift for any Simpsons fan, teacher, or just regular geek on your list! (Yeah, I just shamelessly plugged myself. It’s what I do. Message me and I’ll sign it for you.)

I stop in about once a month and browse the aisles for comics. There are always helpful signs placed through out the racks pointing the customer’s attention to new and interesting items, as well as staff recommendations. I am a big fan of the store’s Hello Kitty and Tokidoki merchandise selection. I am often stopped and asked where I find my cute Tokidoki handbags and I am glad to refer new customers to AF. The staff takes time to recognize their regular customer’s desires and and often when I stop in, I hear «Oh, the manager wanted me to show you the new ‘ — -’, and it is always some adorable or super cool thing I MUST have! They are always warm and friendly and super helpful to everyone I have referred. I would not hesitate to recommend them to anyone young or old.

This is the best comic book store… hands down. First off it’s clean and well organized, you’re not going to find that at a lot of other comic book stores. Second the staff is awesome. They will chat you up and find out what you’re reading and give you suggestions on what you may enjoy that you haven’t read yet.
I’ve been going to AF since the sixth grade and would drive 2 hours out of my way just to go to this store.

If you don’t give them ⁵⁄₅ you hate comics as well as humanity.
Lori’s got everything you want if not she’ll track it down. Seriously, this one time I was looking for this one mouse guard issue, and she came in with my comic, covered in blood and wrapped in bear pelt.
Well maybe not but they never let me down. I heart them.
They do all kinds of neato things for their customers from comic con of savings to just going that extra mile, you know hunting down that last copy fighting bears and stuff.
It’s the store I judge all other store against.

I have been going here since I moved to Frankfort. People are helpful and I am greeted every time I walk through the door. Its very clean.

The problem with this comic shop is that the service is mediocre. I’ve been treated fantastic at other comic shops in the area, and yet this one has employees (even the manager) who are unwilling to get out from behind the counter to help you find something. They are devoid of recommendations for their customers, instead parroting back what you tell them you like. is it so hard to recommend Irredeemable when someone tells you they enjoyed Empire?
Either way, for people who claim to have been working at these shops for awhile, it’s obvious that the decades since 1978 have left no lasting impression on them. I mean, seriously, how can you not have anything to recommend to a customer? You’re running a business. You’re supposed to make money. I offered my money to you and you couldn’t even get from behind the counter to help me find something I’m having trouble looking for, you couldn’t even recommend something that you like.